Every week I hear from longtime readers and Indians fans who are beside themselves because the score from the previous night’s game is not in The Plain Dealer.
Some register their dismay by noting the times the games ended. They can’t believe our deadlines are that early.
If we are late in the season, they sometimes note that we had a Browns score in the paper even though the game ended much later than an Indians game earlier in the week, for which the score was not in the paper.
Some go so far as to question our motive, wondering whether we slight the Indians because of the political incorrectness of the team name.
There’s no conspiracy here. The answer is about deadlines. They are earlier today than they were years ago. And because of production schedules, we don’t have the same deadline every night.
I guarantee you this, though: If the Indians game ends before our deadline that…
