I want to see how many of you would be down with telling the Chronicle to rid this town of Richard Justice. He's made himself a public figure. I think he's a cancer to our local teams. He often calls on other players to be fired or let go, why not him?
Man, this I do not understand. Justice is a little blunt, but in my mind, that makes him better than the average columnist in this town. My problem with the local media is that they usually suck up to the team and the players because they know that their jobs depend on their access to the people they're covering - in short, you don't play nice, you get no quotes, no inside info, nothing. But here you have a writer with a little backbone who's willing to speak his mind, and all you do is criticize him for it. Hey, you may not like Richard Justice and that's fine, but when you say he's a cancer on our teams, you lose all credibility. Whether the teams succeed or not, I guarantee you it has nothing to do with a sports columnist - he's just not that important. Caphorn, I guess you must be a big fan of Channel 13's coverage of the Texans and all the sack-lapping that goes on there.
I like Justice but sometimes he whines/complains a bit much. It's great to call it as it is (i.e. with the 'stros) but to nitpick about everything is a bit much.
I rarely see the columnists in this town do much beyond but paint gray clouds each day. It's like they feel obligated to be wet blankets at all costs. I rarely bother to read them anymore. Evan
If Richard Justice has the right to his opinion of the firing of random people, then it only makes sense that random people should have their right to their opinion of the firing of Richard Justice.
I can guaranty that the attitude of a team's fanbase effects alot, and from many fans that attitude is born from the type of information they are given. As a player, how do you think it feels when as your moving into town, haven't played an ounce of ball for your new team, and some moron has a front page sports article drudging crap out from your past (when you were all of 20 YO or something). Fans are ready to boo your ass at the drop of a hat because a dork like this is given credibility by his position with the Houston Chronicle. Not exactly a fresh start. I might have been OK with some of this in and around the time of the trade. But today. What in hell was it doing in my paper now?
See, this is why you have no credibility. Do you really think T-Mac reads Richard Justice? And if he did, do you really think it affects him one way or the other? As a public figure, I'm sure he's used to far worse and has learned to deal with it appropriately. And do you really think that fans will boo T-Mac "at the drop of a hat" because of something Richard Justice wrote? These statements of yours just aren't credible.
Enough with the credibility deal - nobody on the Internet has a great deal of it if you haven't noticed. Taking a shot at T-Mac is not warranted right now. He's not demanding money. He's doing everything humanly possible to assure us he's on board with JVG and the Rockets and wants to win a championship. I beat he hears about this kind of crap from Justice. Athletes are probably more vain than they are anything else. I'm not saying never take a shot at someone. When it's deserved that's your job. But the unwarranted need to stir up crap. I don't advocate violence, but somebody needs to pull a Dan Pastorini on this guy!!
first they should fire justice then they should fire whoever let him write about basketball. i swear his articles seem like they're written by a guy who just got out of his first day of class in NBA 101. oh, so these are the big stories in the nba, and these are some good cliches, and these are some broad generalizations i can write about, ooooh and there are some common misconceptions that i can slide through with no substantiation. sweet.
I disagree. I have credibility and value it to a great degree. There are also many other members of this board who present credible points of view - you, however, are not one of them. Saying that T-Mac will get upset about Justice's column is the equivalent of running around screaming "The sky is falling!" after a tiny acorn has dropped on your head.
exactly. the dude is working out right now and you're going to take a shot at him? I'll just excuse Justice because it's probably that time of the month for him again.
Your real credible by the way Furious Jam. I don't know why everyone doesn't just agree with you? Remember Dan Pastorini, Jim Everett, Lance Armstrong? They were all affected by negative press. It may not have filtered into their play (or in some cases had a positive effect) but there is no doubt that athletes read this stuff and get pissed about it.
I've only read Justice's articles on basketball because it's the only sport I have any interest in. He has no business writing articles about basketball. He knows next to nothing about it.
Seriously (as hard as it is to be serious posting in a column about Justice), why in the hell is the Chronicle's coverage so piss-poor regarding the Rockets? They have won the only 2 major championships in Houston history (not counting the Oilers winning the first 2 AFL championships, which I count and which most people don't. ), have a long and storied history in Houston... coming here from San Diego less than 10 years after the Astros made their debut, and a hell of a lot longer than the Texans, and yet they get dribs and drabs, here and there, during the season and during the offseason. It ticks me off that hacks like Justice can even get a sniff at a Rockets column. Feigen does a fine job, and Megan Manfull is a nice addition, but the overall coverage smells as bad as the Ship Channel.
