Blog rips Cubs Fans (Journalism at its finest)

[C.C.]

As a journalist!

 

 

BOOOOO!!!!!

[rawaction]

I wonder how many Astros players actually make their homes in Houston. The whole, leave their families behind bullhowry is stupid, and probably 75% inaccurate.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

As a journalist!

 

 

BOOOOO!!!!!

 

Boo to you, consumer of news. Where you guys aren't imagining problems that aren't there with journalism, you are creating them with your horrible news taste.

[jersey cubs fan]

I would have preferred they didn't boo, and there should have been some acknowledgement of the hurricane victims.

 

 

But as I've said before, this was on McClane first and foremost. People knew what was coming. They could have easily gotten out of Houston with their families. They didn't need to fly in last second.

 

Plan ahead next time and don't cry when fans of one team boo your team.

[C.C.]

As a journalist!

 

 

BOOOOO!!!!!

 

Boo to you, consumer of news. Where you guys aren't imagining problems that aren't there with journalism, you are creating them with your horrible news taste.

 

 

It was a joke and what?

[Cubfanintheknow]

Try putting yourselves in Astros fans shoes. If Chicago was hit by a tornado and hundreds died would you like it if the next game being played in Dallas versus Astros that the Cubs were booed for taking the field?

 

Not to split hairs here, but a tornado and a hurricane are two totally different weather events. Astro's management had at least three days advance warning to move the players--and their families-- to play the games in a safer venue. They chose not to. It's where the real blame for this fiasco lies. And while I wasn't there to poll the fans who were in attendance Sunday night, I think that's where the booing, if there was any, was directed at.

 

There's no forecast tool that I know of that will give people even a general idea of when or where a tornado will strike with three days warning. With a good warning system in place, NWS-issued tornado warning can give you up to 30 minutes notice of impending danger.

 

IMHO, there's a huge difference between the scenarios.

[Guest]

As a journalist, I'd like to formally request this thread's title be changed.

 

It's bad enough we get lumped in with talking heads and TV commentators, now we're responsible for opinion blogs too?

 

It's a blog alright, but it's an entry by the lead sports writer for the Houston Chronicle on the Chronicle's web site.

[kujay]

Not to split hairs here, but a tornado and a hurricane are two totally different weather events. Astro's management had at least three days advance warning to move the players--and their families-- to play the games in a safer venue. They chose not to. It's where the real blame for this fiasco lies. And while I wasn't there to poll the fans who were in attendance Sunday night, I think that's where the booing, if there was any, was directed at.

 

When I heard the booing, I took it like the fans were having fun. Like, "Let's boo them at their home game." I didn't take it as mean at all, though I can understand how it could have been misconstrued.

 

Either way, like I said before, this writer is a hack.

[Mizzou]

I hate hearing about how they were concerned about their families. They're millionaires. I think they can afford to get their families out of there. Such a stupid thing to bitch about.

[SouthSideRyan]

MLB did allow them to bring their families with which isn't the norm. I heard either 10 people brought their families, or 10 family members came with.

[rrudd2]

I wonder how many Astros players actually make their homes in Houston. The whole, leave their families behind bullhowry is stupid, and probably 75% inaccurate.

 

BINGO!

 

I'm pretty sure I read that Derek Lee took advantage of the two unscheduled off days to go home to his family in California. And when Aramis was off earlier in the year for the birth of his child, he flew "home" to be with his family.

 

Houston may be different, since it's a warm-weather city, but I sincerely doubt that the majority of the Astros make their homes in Houston. As for those players that do, they had sufficient warning and have sufficient funds to get their families out of harms way. To not do so would have been irresponsible.

[loukycub]

i put this in rants, but it applies here too.

 

i am surprised about the amount of venom thrown at cubs fans for having the audacity to BOO their players coming out of the dugouts to play the outfield at the beginning of both games, allegedly astro "home" games.

 

really.

 

i'm not going to waste my time registering for these places to straighten them out but really. what did they expect, the 40,000 cubs fans who went to both games to cheer for the astros and boo their own team?

 

forget the circumstances- fans boo. i'm sure the cubs fans who would have made it down in houston would have done so but be drowned out by the astro fans. i know that cubs fans booed the tampa devil rays when they came out on the field and they booed dusty baker's reds when they came out on the field. i do not buy for a fact that they wouldn't boo the cubs when they came out on the field. not only do i not buy it, i would expect them to boo them when they came out on the field.

 

i don't just limit it to cubs fans. when uofl plays cincinnati, west virginia, marquette, and most assuredly the state's more-equal-than-others university 80 miles down the road, we boo. i'm a colorado avalanche fan. we boo detroit, vancouver, and any team aquitted felon todd bertuzzi plays on. do these people expect fans of other teams to cheer their team and then quietly sit on their hands when the other team is on offense?

[Derwood]

If they had agreed to move the series right away, it would've gone to Tampa.

 

 

where Tropicana Field would have had 20,000 Cubs fans booing the Astros

[CubbieBum]

If they had agreed to move the series right away, it would've gone to Tampa.

 

 

where Tropicana Field would have had 20,000 Cubs fans booing the Astros

 

aka more than attend Rays games

[Derwood]

If they had agreed to move the series right away, it would've gone to Tampa.

 

 

where Tropicana Field would have had 20,000 Cubs fans booing the Astros

 

aka more than attend Rays games

 

yes, but the point is, ANY "neutral" field for this series (outside of, maybe, Arlington) would be at least 80% Cubs fans if not more

[loukycub]

If they had agreed to move the series right away, it would've gone to Tampa.

 

 

where Tropicana Field would have had 20,000 Cubs fans booing the Astros

 

aka more than attend Rays games

 

yes, but the point is, ANY "neutral" field for this series (outside of, maybe, Arlington) would be at least 80% Cubs fans if not more

 

how DARE you inject logic into this arguement!

[Hairyducked Idiot]

"It was a joke and what?"

 

Dead serious. There are two ways to *guarantee* any story will be among the most-clicked each day.

 

Put the word "sex" in the headline (even if it's something like "Police release sex of unidentified corpse").

 

Or

 

Put a reference to a crime in it, the more violent the word the better.

[imb]

this is too good not to mention

 

im at work and i have the rangers' game on FSN on in the background

 

they're doing that "faces in the crowd" segment, and i hear "we've got some houston fans here that aren't too happy with the cubs", so turn around to watch and this lady (not too bad looking, i dont think. tv is kind of blurry though) has a sign that says "CUBS FANS BLOW LIKE IKE" and she says "we're very disappointed with how the cubs fans treated our astros, blah blah blah."

 

get over it, babies.

[GoCubsGo1679625768]

says "CUBS FANS BLOW LIKE IKE" and .

 

I take that as a complement.

[Shilzzz]

So, let me get this straight: the Cubs haven't won in 100 years as a result of bad karma for booing the Astros 100 years AFTER the last time they won a world series?

 

http://forum.alsacreations.com/upload/2043-fail-camera.jpg

[BigbadB]

Hey, I didn't boo anyone.

[SouthSideRyan]

says "CUBS FANS BLOW LIKE IKE" and .

 

I take that as a complement.

 

I can't imagine the Houston reaction if we had a sign like that.

[Little Slide Rooter]

When all is said and done, is it really "classy" or whatever to use a storm that killed many and left many more homeless as an excuse for losing a few baseball games?

[rynefan]

FYI blogs in 99.9% of cases is not journalism.

 

You beat me to this statement. Blogs are overdone and in 99.9% of the cases, worthless.

[photoguy9883]

FYI blogs in 99.9% of cases is not journalism.

 

You beat me to this statement. Blogs are overdone and in 99.9% of the cases, worthless.

 

Yeah but as Raisin pointed out this one is on the Houston Chronicle website and is written by the papers's Astros beat writer. I don't know about the rest of the journalists on this site but I know at my paper and throughout our entire corporation (and odds are pretty good you've read one of our papers/websites before) the standards for blog writing are pretty much the same as for a story you'd write for the print product or website.