Pablo Torre

Liam Cohen.

And so everybody was responding, if I may be so bold as to speak for people who work in sports journalism, as I think journalism is technically defined.

They're referring to what it means to celebrate this as an example of reporting, as a reporter asking a question or saying anything at a presser and reporting.

It's interesting, right?

Like, I am old enough to remember that Bill Simmons is a Red Sox fan.

I'm old enough to remember that everybody who works in sports grew up probably rooting for a team.

The question is, when you do one of these specific jobs of showing up at a press conference to ask questions, are you serving something resembling...

truth and fact finding or the public interest or are you there because you are a fan?

And for Lynn Jones, by the way, who's been truly and I get it unapologetic about this because her view is I'm from Jacksonville.

This is my community.

I serve my community.

I want to say something nice to this guy.

And in that way, like I understand it.

The problem is

Does that become what people think of when they use the word reporter?

Yes.

And guys, all reporters have, all journalists have is vocabulary, unfortunately.

You know, all we can do, and let me explain what I mean by that.

All we can do is express.

We are holding ourselves up to a higher degree of difficulty, a higher standard in which we will torture ourselves trying to get this story right, because our boss in the end is the public interest.