Garrett out at floswimming

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orca1946 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:34:21 GMT

I hope that he gets back into it soon so he can give us more of the same good stuff.

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ande — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:22:17 GMT

Garrett McCaffrey is now the producer of the Morning Swim Show his first one was Sept. 2, 2009 Not sure what's going to happen with SwimPulse.net now.

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MAC swimmer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:47:49 GMT

Garrett was just awesome. I am sorry that FLoreani made a big mistake but hey it might be for the best. Now he has to find a person who is: a. an ex-D1 swimmer b. Who has the chops to interview great athletes and coaches. c. who is respected by the community of athletes d. who can stay up all night at a high school meet to interview an up and comer. e. who can inspire both age groupers and masters...and olympians. He just killed the golden goose.

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Frank Thompson — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:06:04 GMT

I just got back to Michigan from being in Indy since Tuesday for the World Championship trials and I heard about this from all sorts of people at the meet. I agree with everyone's comments about Garrett and I believe something will come his way. I think a great fit for him would be to get involved with the Swim Network. He would compliment Mel Stewart well and would add a different dimension to the interviews and projects that they do for Swimming.

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knelson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:06:23 GMT

I loved when he would be in the reporter's pool, with everyone bellowing inane questions at some poor dripping swimmer who had just emerged from the pool. He always asked the swimming related question you wanted the answer to. Great point, Bill. I remember many interviews where the swimmers looked totally bored by answering the same inane questions, then their eyes would light up when Garrett actually asked something that would resonate with a swimmer.

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BillS — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:02:15 GMT

I don't know anything about the politics and reasons behind this move. I do know that I first saw Garrett in person at Austin covering our SCY Nationals. It surprised me a little that floswimming and Garrett cared enough to be there. He captured some great interviews and racing. I was amazed by the coverage he put together this year at Clovis. Flo had every heat in every age group uploaded within hours, all free, all downloadable, with knowledgeable commentary delivered on the spot in the hot sun on some very long days. All for us, a bunch of flabby, tech suit wearing, hyper-competitive, blogging, vanity-shot-posting, non-former-elite-and-taking-it-all-too-seriously masters. How cool was that? I got a chance to shake his hand and thank him for all his hard work at Clovis, and I'm glad I did. I also know that flo has, hands down, the best internet platform of any swimming site I visit, including this one. The videos are easily accessible, generally work perfectly, and the site just seems so streamlined and fresh compared to the other clunkier sites. I wish there was something USMS could offer to do for Garrett, but I'm sure he will be on to bigger and better swimming related things. His interviews were consistently interesting. I loved when he would be in the reporter's pool, with everyone bellowing inane questions at some poor dripping swimmer who had just emerged from the pool. He always asked the swimming related question you wanted the answer to. Watching the Mark Floreani interview and reading some of the posts about his style did nothing to endear him to me. I'll keep an eye on the flo site, but I hope another outlet can pick up on flo's strengths and content, and that Garrett, Chris DeSantis, and the others who are moving on end up in a good place.

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Former Member — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:25:20 GMT

Garrett is a great guy, and I think he's the best swimming journalist around. So much depth and so much personal commitment. This sucks.

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rtodd — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:51:12 GMT

He was awesome.

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Former Member — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:35:46 GMT

what a shame, he really did a wonderful job!!!

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pwolf66 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:35:09 GMT

And yet not a surprising development for another 'Flo' resource. Sad, very sad.

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mctrusty — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:08:27 GMT

Apparently Garrett and Mark Floreani didn't see eye to eye. Some more of the story: www.floswimming.org/.../192110-floswimming-moving-forward

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ande — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:27:22 GMT

what a shocker, Garrett's a great guy, he worked his butt off & did an awesome job with the site

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knelson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:54:41 GMT

I think Garrett was hired to start floswimming, but there are other "flo" sports such as track.

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Patrick W. Brundage — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:46:09 GMT

I don't get this as I thought this was his gig (see www.floswimming.org/.../about). Also, what happened at WCT? Were they shut out of coverage?