Richard Justice leaving the Chron

by bv on Dec 5, 2011 1:58 PM CST

MarkBermanFox26: Congratulations to Richard Justice, new columnist for MLB.com. Richard has left the Chronicle after 11 years on the job.

Wow. I never saw this coming. No more Little Dickie Justice columns or blogs to get riled up over, even though I have to say has really mellowed towards the Texans lately. I don't suppose there will be many (any?) tears shed in the Texans community. How many ways can he work VY into a baseball column?

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Good for all parties involved

Back in history, Justice was an at least average MLB columnist…before his alter-ego took over and he started writing about football.

If the Treasury Secretary doesn't have to pay taxes, then why do I?

by Shake on Dec 5, 2011 2:21 PM CST reply actions

There won't be any

real baseball in Houston after next year and he isn’t that good about writing about anything else so it makes sense that he move on.

by Bobbythegreat on Dec 5, 2011 2:36 PM CST reply actions

careful

If Peter King can work the Red Sox into his football column every single week…….

there is no reason LDJA8 can’t find a way to flirt with VY in a baseball column.

by grungedave on Dec 5, 2011 3:02 PM CST reply actions

Justice is a great baseball writer

Yes, great. He just has no business talking about any other sport.

Baseball is his first love and what he’s good at. The rest he just does for web hits.

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by UofTOrange on Dec 5, 2011 3:09 PM CST reply actions

Not many know this, but he's also one of the top experts at reporting on Zorb Balling

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by Rip Jersey on Dec 5, 2011 3:29 PM CST up reply actions

Agreed 100%.

He has a solid understanding of baseball (from the front office stand-point, in particular), good sources, and plenty of entertaining anecdotes that make his columns very readable during baseball season. Even when the team completely sucks, he still manages to bring up a few points that warrant optimism.

Then football season comes along, and he starts writing sourceless, vindictive articles lashing out against players and coaches who refused to do interviews with him. And of course, the tone set in his articles and columns inspires numerous Houston-area morons to grace the comments section with their banal vitriol.

This move is good for everybody. I’ll actually miss reading his work during baseball season, but maybe we’ll get a genuinely good football writer to replace him.

by Nashmeister on Dec 5, 2011 3:40 PM CST up reply actions

Can't rec from a mobile,

But consider this recced for “grace the comments section with their banal vitriol.” Best description of chron commentors I’ve seen.

by JBal on Dec 6, 2011 12:04 PM CST via mobile up reply actions

I hate his baseball opinion writing

He knows almost nothing about advanced statistics or scouting, flip flops constantly, and uses a mixture of sensationalism and not-remotely-funny sarcasm to draw pageviews.

He does somehow manage to have good sources from time to time (I don’t know why anyone is still willing to give him the time of day when one day he says they suck and the next he’s singing their praises).

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by OremLK on Dec 6, 2011 6:23 AM CST up reply actions

Good riddance.

by Karsh on Dec 5, 2011 4:12 PM CST reply actions

Indeed.

I barely follow MLB and I sure as hell don’t read about it, so I may never have to see his name in print again. There IS a Durga.

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by WhiskeyR on Dec 5, 2011 4:25 PM CST up reply actions

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by Barryfromtexas on Dec 6, 2011 9:50 AM CST reply actions