CHRON BASEBALL WRITER JESUS ORTIZ had this odd graf in a recent blog post:
A lot has happened since my last blog, and I have even been told by a loyal reader that somebody spread some wrong information about what actually happened when I broke the story about the Astros firing Jose Cruz as first base coach and demoting him. I checked with Ed Wade at the time to ask if he was the one giving the misleading information to the communications department’s blogger, and he said he didn’t and that I should check with the public relations department to get that corrected. When I got that text back, I felt vindicated and decided against pushing the issue because I would never blame a public relations or spokesman for blogging something. Their job is to make the club look good, and there’s no shame in doing that.
It’s sometimes difficult to discern all that much difference in Ortiz’s reporting and Astros PR.
