Daily competition....

I have two newspapers to choose from to get my Defenders news; The New London Day and the Norwich Bulletin. The best coverage between the two is the Bulletin. The Bulletin sticks to one beat writer, Will Hernandez, while the Day assigns several writers who will handle the reporting. The result I see is that Will is around the team and players all the time and is able to get closer to them, get some trust going and is able to produce better player profiles and info. He's also closer in age to these guys and played some ball in college. He'll also throw in some little things that hard core fans like; for instance Defender RP Jeff Peterson got called up by Frenso yesterday. That item was not reported in the Day. (Side note: the Defenders website shows an updated roster w/o Peterson--an update that would not of happened as fast last year; good job up there.)
Will has a blog going on the Bulletin web site and he reveals stuff about himself and the team that you won't read in the print version of the Bulletin. The Bulletin.com site also has a nice multi-media section of Defender video clips, pictures and links.
I had hopes the Day was going to step it up this season given Defenders manager's Dave Machemer's spring training blog in the Day.com but it was discontinued when the Double A season started. Also Defenders' GM Jim Beaudoin's preseason on-line chat at the Day.com site was a first. Those efforts are a remarkable change from previous seasons when sometimes all you got was a box score the day after a home game and maybe an AP paragraph. The Day's coverage good, bad or otherwise will have an effect on team attendance with causual fans from the New London/Groton/Stonington and Westerly areas. I realize, of course, the Day is not a PR branch of the Defenders and they have the right to run their business as they see fit.
I'm interested if anyone from the two papers will cover the "road" games with New Britian this year.