If you've ever stopped at a railway crossing and the signals are flashing and you don't

see the train or it looks like it's moving slow and you're thinking maybe you could get

across the tracks before the train comes, think about this.

In 2018 alone 270 people were killed at railroad crossings, 270.

Pressbox listeners, listen up.

Stop because trains can't.

David, this week a writer named William Binnetson tweeted that your standard sports writer earns

$150,000 per year.

What I want to know is, does this describe any sports writers you actually know?

No.

I mean, I feel like that tweet should be followed by why I joined the athletic and I'm

also selling used cars on the side by William Binnetson, Patrons.

It's pretty spectacular, Miss Fire.

I don't, I don't, I'd never just say why that would be like a hypothetical number that

you would get to unless you only hung out with like legacy columnists from the Boston area.

I mean, maybe that's the case, but that's, that is a, unless the sports writer in question

is reading multiple ad reads on a weekly podcast, I'm guessing that that number is probably

not anything close to the truth.

Now did he claim in the replies that it was a gag that like the standard sports writer

was he is sort of running bit or something?

Keith Law said how is this tweet even still up and the original tweet I replied, it has

been a running joke for some time about the standard sports writer been a big fan of

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