The amount of information one can learn from a smartphone is truly amazing. The combination of this device, twitter, broadband telecommunications, and the internet have turned the sports media industry on its ear over the past decade. What we will learn about the Atlanta Braves off-season will be learned in mere minutes instead of hours or days as a direct result.
It has become something of a feeding frenzy, though. The process of ‘developing trusted sources’ for information has seemingly devolved into different levels of rumor sources… things like somebody who heard a player make an off-handed comment at an airport or a manager chatting up a fellow customer at the Honey-Baked Ham store.