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McClain hatchet job



Has anyone else seen McClains Mario article? I mean did he become Dickie Justice 2 overnight?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/fb/texansfront/6706327.html

I am seriously starting to believe that the Comical's idea of an editor is a 12 yr old girl.

This article has no purpose or facts. Its not even a mean spirited argument its just dumb and everyday the chronicle loses readers is because of articles like this and the VY man love articles that Dickie the original puts out, I cannot wait for the day a real viable alternative to the chronicle comes out.

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I stopped going to the chronicle pretty much immediately after I found this blog.

by nolander on Nov 6, 2009 10:43 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Same here.

You are banned from Music City Miracles.
Happy Now Tits?
You are banned from Blogging The Boys.

by CFHTim on Nov 8, 2009 7:27 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Super Mario

You know, I’ve been thinking for a while now that Mario’s shoulder injury might be a whole lot worse than anyone’s letting on.

Looking forward to a day when being a Texans fan doesn't mean that April is the highlight of my season...

by Tim on Nov 7, 2009 10:02 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

I didn't have a problem with this piece until:
Williams and coach Gary Kubiak won’t talk about his injury other than the usual party line, so we don’t know what’s wrong or how much it affects him. I do know this: Players play with injuries. If they’re able to be on the field, the best players manage to produce when they’re hurting.

Yeah, tell that to Antonio Cromartie last year or Shawne Merriman this year. The macho culture makes you nut up and play injured, the team has every motivation to conceal your injury to the fullest extent that you can, and then the beat writers poo all over you for playing bad.

Mario hasn’t been great this year, no. But the fact that he’s been gutting it up despite whatever ailment he’s running with should earn him a lot more respect than “WELL DWIGHT FREENEY DOES IT!!!!” Injury severity differs! Facts…entering lexicon! BUT I’M A BEAT WRITER! MUST HAVE CONTROVERSIAL YET BLAND OPINION! keeps writing

- Rivers McCown, From Mom's Basement | Twitter

by riversmccown on Nov 7, 2009 11:50 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

I don't have a problem with writers who have never played football

But I do have a problems with writers who are intellectually lazy and don’t want to take the time to think about what they write. And I also have a problems with writers who pass on this macho bullshit.

When I'm on the mic, I'm like global warming, you can't ignore me.

by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 7, 2009 11:56 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I don't know how else to put this...

I’d like to be eloquent and give you a laundry list of reasons that McClain is a terrible journalist, but I just don’t feel like going into the obvious. He’s simply bad at his job. In press conferences and interviews, he asks painfully obvious questions that can only lead to cliche answers. His writing lacks any semblance of wit or substance to it. His knowledge of football is about on par with Anna-Megan Raley’s. Not once have I seen him write an article that a casual fan with a press-pass wouldn’t be capable of writing.

In short, he should retire from sports journalism and instead become Wilford Brimley’s stunt double, then Lance Z. or somebody else with some real football insight should be given a front-page column.

The Texans are 5-3 right now. They’ve played some excellent football this year and held it together despite a couple of heart-breakers. Yet I guarantee you if we go into the half on Sunday down 10+ points, his live blog will read something along the lines of: “The Texans are an embarrassment to the planet earth. Tar and feather Kubiak and Schaub, etc.”.

Pardon my drunk venting, but I’m royally pissed off that he actually gets paid to spout short-sighted drivel.

by Nashmeister on Nov 7, 2009 12:35 PM CST reply actions   1 recs

My biggest grip

With McClain is the press conferences of the Texans, why does he get 12 stupid questions and no one else gets more that 2 and his are the worst questions of all of them.

You can't fix Dumb

by Texans-Brocos on Nov 7, 2009 6:37 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

This is *exactly* how I feel about almost every sportswriter at the Chron

In fact, it pretty much sums up how I feel about virtually every sportswriter. They write at a tenth grade level and they produce very little insight. Might as well hire a bunch of tenth graders. They’d be cheaper.

When I'm on the mic, I'm like global warming, you can't ignore me.

by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 8, 2009 12:19 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

To be a good sport, I will list the writers at the chron that

for one reason or another don’t fall into that category.

—Lance Z
—Steph
—Solomon (who at least has the balls to be contrarian some of the time, and he generally doesn’t overreact)
—Dale Robertson (stylistically, I like him. Informationally, he so-so.)
—uhm, that’s about it.

When I'm on the mic, I'm like global warming, you can't ignore me.

by tehGrindCrusher on Nov 8, 2009 12:21 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Lance Z

is only reason I ever check out the comicle anymore.

You are banned from Music City Miracles.
Happy Now Tits?
You are banned from Blogging The Boys.

by CFHTim on Nov 8, 2009 7:28 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

-10 for a redundant title :-)

McClain is only when talking about the history of the franchise. Otherwise, he’s basically the stenographer for the team. It’s when he ventures into pundit territory where he fails, as in this article.

Little Dickie Justice, age 12, reads like a bitter junior high girl making entries into a diary.

And these are the two starts of the Comicle.

Note to self: Insert something witty here.

by bigfatdrunk on Nov 8, 2009 6:38 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

Ya I think McClains value is his historial perspective and anecdotes.

I could care less for his analysis. But I actually enjoy his anecdotes about the players and his broad knowledge of the games history.

"An open mind is like a fortress with it's gates unbarred and unguarded."

The ROSENFAIL : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKAKE-uq-8&feature=related

by TexansForever on Nov 8, 2009 7:35 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

HistoriCal*

"An open mind is like a fortress with it's gates unbarred and unguarded."

The ROSENFAIL : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKAKE-uq-8&feature=related

by TexansForever on Nov 8, 2009 7:35 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs


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