Sports blogging, Chronicle style
The Chronicle has quietly added another blog to its lineup, Lopez @ Large from sports columnist John Lopez. We'll have to encourage him to break up those column-like entries into true blog posts in time, but for now, welcome to the Houston blogging community, Mr. Lopez!
On his own blog today, the Chronicle's Richard Justice responds to a reader's question about his latest column on Drayton McLane, and covers some really interesting ground on the process of gathering sports news from sports figures who are well aware of every word written about them:
Last year I wrote some tough stuff about the Astros, and I heard about it. Drayton McLane usually makes a telephone call and is very polite. Sometimes he'll call your boss to complain, but he's always civil.
When Jimy Williams was fired, I wrote critically of three Astros: Jeff Bagwell, Brad Ausmus and Morgan Ensberg.
I'm in the clubhouse the day the column appears -- you should show your face after you write something critically -- and Bagwell and Ausmus called me over and let me know with some humor that they'd read what I wrote. They didn't seem especially mad, but were letting me know they were aware.
The funny thing was that Ensberg hadn't read the paper, but they screamed across the clubhouse: "He got you, too, Morgan!"
I yelled back: "Don't ruin his day."
The whole post is worth a read.
Incidentally, since we called attention to Jose de Jesus Ortiz's fawning over Drayton McLane a few days ago, it's only fair to point to Justice's more critical column that ran Tuesday.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 05/19/05 04:00 PM | Print |
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