The Yankees conduct what we might call a Media Review Day during Spring Training of each season. Needless to say, these sessions used to be far less complicated and time-consuming than they are today. And that is because “the media” now includes far more than newspaper, television, and radio interviews and exchanges with the team’s beat reporters.
Traditionally, players were more likely to be on the defense in the sense that they were the ones asked the questions, and their comments were mostly limited to answering these issues. Today, it’s a who new ballgame, whereby players can take the offense on any one of several social media accounts to broadcast their own views 24/7.