Say it ain't so, Joe: Posnanski Leaving KC Star for SI?

I always really enjoyed Poz, and Flanny before him. At least we still have Babb and Covitz.

Best of luck at SI, Poz. Don’t forget to promote the Chiefs at SI!

My hope :)
Not many do the research any more, and less have the resources to do it :(
Congrats, Joe on the new Gig!

The amount of not just writing, but quality writing, in there is insane.

He has a kid’s enthusiasm and optimism about sports and his work doesn’t have any of that nasty, sneering sarcastic crap that so many in the sports media seem to have (I think we has SportsCenter to thank for that). Joe understands that athletes aren’t born, they are made through thousands of hours of practice and hard work. Most sports reporters seem to think that athletes are just more gifted than the rest of us and that hard work and dedication and passion for the game don’t enter into the equation at all.

This is a major blow to the Star — the just lost their best writer.

I’m glad to see such a good guy and great journalist get this kind of recognition. And I’m not surprised either… the Star is not very well run… and what passes for real journalism there would not pass muster at most weeklies in small towns. Even though they’re really the only game in town in a major metropolitan area, the KC Star is run with a jerk-water mentality. Joe sez he will continue to write for the Star as well as SI, but I predict his talent will swift take him up the ranks at SI because they have an editorial staff in place there that not only recognizes great journalism, they go out of their way to encourage it. Eventually Joe will be too busy to continue with the Star, and Joe will go the way of many, many other writers over the years who cut their teeth in KC, but were too long unrewarded and taken for granted by a newspaper who lacks the skill to even post high resolution pictures on their website – much less run spell check before they publish articles online,

I love Pos’ work…his softer sell approach makes a great counterbalance to Whitlock’s harder edged commentary and it’s definitely a loss. I can understand why he’d want to jump elsewhere, especially with the newspaper industry in the state it’s in (even the Star, from what I understand). Hopefully it’s not a sign of more departures from their sports department.

….but now there is room to bring J. Flanagan back! Yeah (not).

But really happy someone is able to land their dream job. Love seeing people improving and moving on up, but will certainly miss having this kind of talent locally. Well, at least he will still be local so maybe he will retain the good midwest values.

I can’t think of one article he wrote that was not first class. Always informative, usually heartfelt & sometimes humorous. Always, Always, enjoyable.
I will miss him, at least on the local level.
Congratulations Joe! What took them so long?