Hey look, Justice wrote another "Drayton sucks" article

So, it's Drayton's fault that MLB said he couldn't sign for that? Makes perfect sense.

If Justice wasn't a joke before, he sure is now.

 

Not only Justice, but the entire Houston Chronicle sports department. Remember the June 1st Astros tombstone and how they said the year is already over for them?

Now the Astros are surging and the Chronicle is starting to jump on the bandwagon. What a bunch of r****ds.

After the Chronicle printed that tombstone trash the Astros players should have voted to not conduct any interviews with any Chronicle reporters for the rest of the year.

 

It does? Why does it amaze you? He gets a reaction from his readers...thats his job. Whether you agree or disagree with his opinions is completely irrelevant.

According to you, you haven't liked anything he has written in a while but you keep reading....that pretty much sums it up as to why he is still employed.

 

I've said it beofre and I'll say it again.

Richard Justice speaks without thinking. He only talks, because he likes the sound of his own voice. He can't even stick his foot in his mouth properly.

Richard Justice needs to take a 1 way trip to Japan in a Cessna.

 

On Hornfans, the article is getting the opposite reaction. Everyone is patting Justice on the back.

 

I can name much better players who failed to sign when they were drafted out of high school.... Mark Prior with the Yankees, and Roger Clemens with the Mets just to name two.

Hell... those guys have actually been huge stars in the MLB... lets wait till Stubbs sees an all-star game before we decide to go on the "man... the Astros really blew this one" road.

If he wants to talk about "missing the big one," he should write an article about how Hunsicker, Drayton, etc. thought Richard Hidalgo was going to be a much better player than Bobby Abreu. Oh wait... that article wouldn't be strictly about Drayton's cheap spending (since we overpayed Hidalgo)... thus he won't write it.

 

I read that article today, bleh....

 

Looks to me that there are 2 main points in the article.

1. Drayton gets involved too much. Just like when he decided to not pick up Kent's option and then tried to resign him for MORE than the option.

2. Pressure from the commissioner. Baseball finances are screwed up, so it looks like the commish is trying to pressure teams into being cheaper. Here it isn't Drayton's fault, but baseball's screwed up finances. "...When the Astros wanted to sign Stubbs for second-round money, the phone call came. Stubbs, McLane was told, should be paid $450,000. " That sucks if true.

 

So, the Chronicle is a tabloid?

 

I'm guessing you all know how I feel about this!

His articles are a joke. He changes positions on the Astros weekly. I hope like hell the Astros come back and make a real race of it for the Wild Card so they can eat crap about their tombstone story. The same way they did last year when Justice was ready to trade off the entire team....before going to the NLCS, that is. What a clown.

 

Kent's option was for $9,000,000. The Astros did NOT try to sign him for more than that.

 

It was reported last week that the Astros were preparing to make a six- or seven-year offer worth $13.5 million annually.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/bb/astros/2937748

 

That was for Beltran, not Kent.

 

reading through that article, i think the offer you posted above was the one made to Beltran at the time.

 

Oh jeez I really gotta get some reading glasses

My bad.

 

I had to look because that would have made kent 44 at the end of the contract making 13.5 million.

 

I though I read that they did try to resign him. It wasn't widely reported, more like a blurb somewhere.