Chance, you are all good, and always have been for as long as I have been member on this bbs.... I still kind of waiting to hear a response from Lance.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when Chance got the news that Lance had gone off on Clutchfans. I can imagine the steam coming out of his ears.
Damn. That was very good. Time to write Kids books. Everybody, if you want to fight Chance, do it in a civil manner. Have a slapping contest. Sports Radio 610, and Clutchfans.net present Slap Off '06 presented by Memorial Hermann, Southwest Airlines, and AIG.
Chance is making me choose between my paren...er...the BBS or the Radio.... I'll email lance and tease him a bit tomorrow morning, lets see if he doesn't chew my head off.
what is the reach of 610 vs clutchfans? number of listeners vs unique logins perhaps? why the hissy fit? (perhaps because 610 has a local reach where clutchfans has a global reach? the population on clutchfans is more diverse & more knowledgeable?) if 610 felt the rumor was untrue, lance could have just said, 'in some circles, there's been so-and-so talk, but it has been discounted" and moved on -- why the need to take a jab at clutchfans, except to keep the story alive and increase ratings? hasn't clutchfans broken some stories in the past without getting credit? it's a private message board -- if you don't like it, don't read it.
Let's get the bottom line here. It was all about ratings and Lance trying to put himself in a better position with a star player and come off looking good in the process. He saw a Chance to help himself out and he went for it. That's the problem. Lance is supposedly outraged that Clutch allowed people to pass on what they'd heard about the cause of McGrady's mysterious problems. That was offensive to Lance somehow, yet how many times a week does his morning show put Gilbert on the air for their own benefit? Seems that it's ok to set Gilbert up to be laughed at if it helps the ratings. That may seem inconsistent compared to his views on the McGrady rumors, but the common thread is ratings and what's good for Lance. Simple as that, nothing more. (for those out of towners who don't know who Gilbert is, I won't bother to go into details, but it's nothing more than a rip off of old Howard Stern stuff )
Well its not like the Texans are drafting Vince anyway. Since I moved from Houston, I have actually missed 610 radio. Except Jim Rome.
I don't fault Clutch nor Chance. I do fault people being too darned politically correct. I am sure it all has to do with religion !! MOVE IT TO THE D&D baby ! Clutch runs the best site on the planet, and Chance is a brother. Nuff said ! DD
Meanwhile, Lance the professional hides while Chance the professional has to explain this to the rest of us. I want to hear from The Man himself.
I'm at Clutchfans as much as possible, I listen to 610 You do great, keep it up, thanks for posting. Matt and Adam are awesome. Mark V. is good, the rest are not doing well as far as sports talk. I miss Jerry Trupiano, guess I am just too old.
well I think 610 pissed me off more yesterday than ever. during the rockets post game show, matt and adam wanted to do a tournament selection show. I'm like, with the playoffs coming up, them just playing the spurs, and the mcgrady situation, they decide to do a ncaa show. someone suggested in this thread earlier I believe, if they don't want to talk rockets basketball, let them go ahead and move that down the dial, and they 610 should take the astros back, since that's all grenato likes to talk about.
you cry babies should go live in Dallas for a little while and see what passes for "sports radio" in that and other cities ... I listen to 610 all the time and I post on the CF BBS... it's time to turn the page !
For this to truly be over we need a post from Lance himself explaining what happened. Is there anyone in here that wouldn't like to hear his take?
why? why would a grown man feel the need to explain his side of the story to a group of people on the internet? why would you feel like you need and explanation from him? this is all a bit overboard imo.
Why? Because he is a grown man who said some things that made true fans of the Clutchfans and 610 radio upset. What better way to bury the hatchet than for him to come on and say some positive things as Chance has done. This is like when Bill Simmons disses Houston except for the fact that we can't call Simmons out.
For the same reason that the "grown man" wanted Clutch or sjackson0 to come on the radio and explain themselves about the T-Mac rumor. I think Lance does need to explain himself if he comes on this BBS to get a pulse on the Rockets and see what real fans of teh team are talking about and using it on his show, only to turn around and bad mouth it.
