It's also grist for some good smack talk.
But yes, I do love these. The streaks, stats, records, connections, how the team was built, backgrounds, bios -- it's all there in great depth.
When I was in high school my dad somehow got me on the press list and I received a yellow envelope every Thursday from the club with the press release.
They were typed, a lot less pages, but awesome for the pre internet days.