Nationality American Education Duke University Role Writer | Name Barry Svrluga Genre non-fiction | |
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Books The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season Profiles | ||
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Barry Svrluga is the national baseball writer for The Washington Post, and WashingtonPost.com.
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He was previously the beat reporter for the Washington Nationals and later covered the Washington Redskins. While on the Nationals beat, he blogged at the Nationals Journal. The blog dissects and analyzes all things Nationals several times daily.
As beat writer, Svrluga was present the night Barry Bonds hit is 756th home run and wrote the companion piece from the perspective of Nationals starting pitcher Mike Bacsik to Washington Post reporter Dave Sheinin's account of the record breaking home run.
Svrluga attended Duke University.
In a recent Washington Post article, Svrluga implored conservative NFL team owners to give Colin Kapernick a position on their team. This is due to Colin's superb record following his 12-4 2013 season, where he went 8-8 and then 2-6, ultimately losing his job due to performance. If Svrluga was so worried about unemployed quarterbacks being hired on stats alone, and not race, then he would vehemently advocate for Tony Romo to have a back-up job or practice squad position. The fact remains that Mr. Svrluga is historically a baseball writer and decided to jump on the bandwagon for this current hot-button issue to maybe boost his ratings? To be frank, Kapernick was an average quarterback who's performance took a downward turn and now can't find a job because the NFL is a business and you don't hire someone that isn't value-adding to a company- liberal or conservative- that's just business sense as Svrluga would probably agree.