Realist wrote:Ok...DK lost another employee this week. Is he hard to work for? Is it just bad luck?
Lots of turnover so far.
Thoughts? I'm not the biggest fan of his political views that sneak into his writing from time to time (i.e. Tomlin haters have racist elements, etc), but overall the site is good.
I do know (and have email evidence) that he has a HUGE ego. My friend (a subscriber), was debating a point on one of his articles in the comments section. DK emailed him (with the email that he registered on the site with), to continue the discussion and basically told my bud he's an idiot. Very strange thing to do....
Realist wrote:I love DK's article this morning explaining how he was right all along about his predictions for the Pens/Caps series, even though he didn't specifically state those specific things.
The man has an ego a mile wide...
FLPensFan wrote:I've been a big DK fan over the years, when he was with the PG and the Trib. While I have subscribed the last 2 years, and probably will again this year, his true colors seem to mesh with the generalization I hear.....that he can be a real jack@ss and a control freak.
You can't deny the success he has had with his site. It seems to be a really good model if you have a pre-existing base of followers. But he seems to have a very big my way or the highway type of attitude towards his employees, and will spin some major **** to make him look good. Some examples:
--From what I recall, one of his first photographers, Dave DiCello, left because DK wanted complete control and ownership of his photos. Not sure if that is common, or what the full story is, but DiCello has his own studio and sells a lot of his other works. That seemed to conflict with what DK wanted. Dave has since returned in a limited photographer role to DK's site.
--Jason Mackey has always covered hockey to the best of my knowledge. When he left the Trib to DK's site, he covered hockey. IIRC, Yohe didn't come until after Mackey was already there......and then came a DK spin after Yohe arrived that Mackey was shifting to his "true passion," Steelers football. DK always liked and wanted Yohe, and was quick to push Mackey aside once Yohe was on board. Mackey left DK's site to go back to hockey @ the PG. While Mackey has said he had no hard feelings, I believe he left rather abruptly which didn't sit well with DK.
--Dustin Dopriak, to the best of my knowledge, was hired to cover Steelers football after Mackey left. But then, along came Mark Kaboly, who again, seems to be DK's buddies or favorites.....so Dopriak got pushed off onto Pirates coverage.
--Matt Gajtka was hired as a stats guy and a baseball guy. But, Kaboly comes in, Dopriak shifts to baseball....and a tweet tonight from Gajtka seems to indicate he will be doing more hockey than baseball moving forward.
--I really like Yohe. I know he is going through a rough divorce (has commented on it once or twice in Q&A), and not sure how long things in his personal life have been not well. But for as much as I like the guys reporting, he always seemed to be late to the game (figuratively and literally). I called DK out on this one time, who during Pens training camp Molinari, Mackey, and Bombulie are all tweeting out lineups, vids of practice, drills going on.......and dead silence from DK site. He ranted about how Twitter isn't where the money is at, and I fired back that he needed to have some method to report on this stuff. They started doing the morning skate/camp reports, but they aren't true live blogs and are dreadfully slow to update.
I've also been unhappy with the amount of times things like the Friday Insider and Tuesday Takes (the more off-the-record stuff) just disappears, because with a staff of 20 they feel too busy to bother.
I still think it is the best site for Penguins content right now, but I also see enough issues with how DK runs things that I can't commit to giving the guy a 3 year or lifetime subscription.
Sigwolf wrote:FLPensFan wrote:I've been a big DK fan over the years, when he was with the PG and the Trib. While I have subscribed the last 2 years, and probably will again this year, his true colors seem to mesh with the generalization I hear.....that he can be a real jack@ss and a control freak.
You can't deny the success he has had with his site. It seems to be a really good model if you have a pre-existing base of followers. But he seems to have a very big my way or the highway type of attitude towards his employees, and will spin some major **** to make him look good. Some examples:
--From what I recall, one of his first photographers, Dave DiCello, left because DK wanted complete control and ownership of his photos. Not sure if that is common, or what the full story is, but DiCello has his own studio and sells a lot of his other works. That seemed to conflict with what DK wanted. Dave has since returned in a limited photographer role to DK's site.
--Jason Mackey has always covered hockey to the best of my knowledge. When he left the Trib to DK's site, he covered hockey. IIRC, Yohe didn't come until after Mackey was already there......and then came a DK spin after Yohe arrived that Mackey was shifting to his "true passion," Steelers football. DK always liked and wanted Yohe, and was quick to push Mackey aside once Yohe was on board. Mackey left DK's site to go back to hockey @ the PG. While Mackey has said he had no hard feelings, I believe he left rather abruptly which didn't sit well with DK.
--Dustin Dopriak, to the best of my knowledge, was hired to cover Steelers football after Mackey left. But then, along came Mark Kaboly, who again, seems to be DK's buddies or favorites.....so Dopriak got pushed off onto Pirates coverage.
--Matt Gajtka was hired as a stats guy and a baseball guy. But, Kaboly comes in, Dopriak shifts to baseball....and a tweet tonight from Gajtka seems to indicate he will be doing more hockey than baseball moving forward.
--I really like Yohe. I know he is going through a rough divorce (has commented on it once or twice in Q&A), and not sure how long things in his personal life have been not well. But for as much as I like the guys reporting, he always seemed to be late to the game (figuratively and literally). I called DK out on this one time, who during Pens training camp Molinari, Mackey, and Bombulie are all tweeting out lineups, vids of practice, drills going on.......and dead silence from DK site. He ranted about how Twitter isn't where the money is at, and I fired back that he needed to have some method to report on this stuff. They started doing the morning skate/camp reports, but they aren't true live blogs and are dreadfully slow to update.
I've also been unhappy with the amount of times things like the Friday Insider and Tuesday Takes (the more off-the-record stuff) just disappears, because with a staff of 20 they feel too busy to bother.
I still think it is the best site for Penguins content right now, but I also see enough issues with how DK runs things that I can't commit to giving the guy a 3 year or lifetime subscription.
I don't understand people that say the are DK fans, or Madden fans. Even "fans" acknowledge these guys are complete tools, and list the reasons why, yet profess to be fans? Pay money for it? Best source in Pittsburgh? There's a thing called the internet that can get you all the information you desire without paying these self-serving tools. Stop supporting these parasites and they will crawl back under the floorboards where they belong.
FLPensFan wrote:I've been a big DK fan over the years, when he was with the PG and the Trib. While I have subscribed the last 2 years, and probably will again this year, his true colors seem to mesh with the generalization I hear.....that he can be a real jack@ss and a control freak.
You can't deny the success he has had with his site. It seems to be a really good model if you have a pre-existing base of followers. But he seems to have a very big my way or the highway type of attitude towards his employees, and will spin some major **** to make him look good. Some examples:
--From what I recall, one of his first photographers, Dave DiCello, left because DK wanted complete control and ownership of his photos. Not sure if that is common, or what the full story is, but DiCello has his own studio and sells a lot of his other works. That seemed to conflict with what DK wanted. Dave has since returned in a limited photographer role to DK's site.
--Jason Mackey has always covered hockey to the best of my knowledge. When he left the Trib to DK's site, he covered hockey. IIRC, Yohe didn't come until after Mackey was already there......and then came a DK spin after Yohe arrived that Mackey was shifting to his "true passion," Steelers football. DK always liked and wanted Yohe, and was quick to push Mackey aside once Yohe was on board. Mackey left DK's site to go back to hockey @ the PG. While Mackey has said he had no hard feelings, I believe he left rather abruptly which didn't sit well with DK.
--Dustin Dopriak, to the best of my knowledge, was hired to cover Steelers football after Mackey left. But then, along came Mark Kaboly, who again, seems to be DK's buddies or favorites.....so Dopriak got pushed off onto Pirates coverage.
--Matt Gajtka was hired as a stats guy and a baseball guy. But, Kaboly comes in, Dopriak shifts to baseball....and a tweet tonight from Gajtka seems to indicate he will be doing more hockey than baseball moving forward.
--I really like Yohe. I know he is going through a rough divorce (has commented on it once or twice in Q&A), and not sure how long things in his personal life have been not well. But for as much as I like the guys reporting, he always seemed to be late to the game (figuratively and literally). I called DK out on this one time, who during Pens training camp Molinari, Mackey, and Bombulie are all tweeting out lineups, vids of practice, drills going on.......and dead silence from DK site. He ranted about how Twitter isn't where the money is at, and I fired back that he needed to have some method to report on this stuff. They started doing the morning skate/camp reports, but they aren't true live blogs and are dreadfully slow to update.
I've also been unhappy with the amount of times things like the Friday Insider and Tuesday Takes (the more off-the-record stuff) just disappears, because with a staff of 20 they feel too busy to bother.
I still think it is the best site for Penguins content right now, but I also see enough issues with how DK runs things that I can't commit to giving the guy a 3 year or lifetime subscription.
netwolf wrote:Yeah, Josh Yohe was their first full-time hire:
https://www.dkpittsburghsports.com/2015 ... -reporter/
That was the beginning of things ramping up from being a one-man show of sorts to the staff of ~20 he has now.
Realist wrote:And now they hired a Pirates Beat Writer with as much experience at writing baseball as me....LOL.
Realist wrote:Realist wrote:And now they hired a Pirates Beat Writer with as much experience at writing baseball as me....LOL.
And now I see she is getting into twitter wars since she retweets a lot of anti-Trump stuff. Will she last a year on this beat? Lol
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