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2007 Weekly local football review
(AP photo; previous weekly reviews here) Texans 42 Jaguars 28 The Texans (8-8) beat the Jaguars (11-5) junior varsity team to achieve their first non-losing season in the team's six year history. The difference in this one was two kickoff...
The Chronicle's vacuum of baseball analysis
It may be football season, but that doesn't stop Chronicle sports columnists from continuing to bludgeon us with their seemingly insatiable capacity to analyze the Stros and matters relating to Major League Baseball badly. First, there is this blog post...
A great ambassador for baseball?
We already know that Chronicle baseball reporter Jose de Jesus Ortiz does not bother to engage in even elementary levels of research before writing his articles. However, the following blurb in a recent column reflects atrocious research by even Ortiz's...
Does Jose de Jesus Ortiz research anything?
Is shooting from the hip a Houston Chronicle requirement for covering the Stros? As noted in earlier posts here, here, here, here, here and here, the Chronicle's Stros beat writer -- Jose de Jesus Ortiz -- incongruously struggles with analyzing...
Damaged goods?
Don't you know that an eyebrow or two was raised around town with the following disclosure deep within Jose de Jesus Ortiz's Chronicle article today on the return of the Stros off-season acquisition Jason Jennings from a bout of tendonitis...
Pitching well?
Jose de Jesus Ortiz is the Chronicle's beat writer for the Stros, but curiously, the newspaper allows Ortiz to provide subjective blather about the club and its players rather than objective analysis. Get a load of Ortiz's latest on the...
Playing well?
As noted here last year, the Chronicle's beat writer for the Stros, Jose de Jesus Ortiz, regularly reveals that he doesn't really understand the game even after covering it for 10 years and writing a book on the subject. Here...
Is Jose de Jesus Ortiz Brad Ausmus' press agent?
We already know that the Chronicle's beat writer for the Stros -- Jose de Jesus Ortiz -- is not very good at evaluating baseball players. But this puff piece out of the box this year on the Stros' chronic albatross...
Jose de Jesus Ortiz said what?
As the Stros playoff hopes fade with each passing loss, the Chronicle's Stros beat writer -- Jose de Jesus Ortiz -- continues to show that he does not truly understand baseball and, as a result, has become a conduit of...
Missing the point on Preston Wilson
The Stros mercifully waived Preston Wilson over the weekend, who has been one of the worst-producing regularly-playing outfielders in the National League this season (Wilson's .714 OPS was 79th in the National League among regular players). The news would not...
Update on the Bagwell disability claim
The Chronicle's Stros beat writer, Jose de Jesus Ortiz, reports today that the insurer of the Stros disability insurance policy on slugger Jeff Bagwell has denied the Stros' claim that Bagwell's arthritic right shoulder has rendered him disabled under the...
"Slugger"?
As the Stros continue to troll the used car lot of free agent hitters during this off-season, Chronicle Stros beat writer Jose de Jesus Ortiz reminds us that he relies on Stros press releases rather than objective research in this...
A snarky week in Strosland
Kevin Whited and I have been shaking our heads this week over the barbs that have been being flying to and from the Stros' front office. The Stros' front office hasn't been involved in this kind of flame war since...
More on former Stros General Managers
Blogging is a big light today as I make some blog site upgrades, but I wanted to pass along a couple of interesting items on former Stros general managers. In this remarkably frank article, Chronicle Stros beat reporter Jose de...
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