Por (Dan Alatorre) on January 22, 2010 (Suggest removal)

So I read the whole tedious article provided by the link in your story. The ombudsman equivocated. ESPN blew it, and it was obvious if you watched any of their coverage and not just that football game. He said that it wasn’t balanced, but that ESPN thinks it was fair and that it’s disturbing ....AND? And nothing. “Yeah they blew it but they don’t think so and they aren’t going to do anything about it.” Okay, that just confirms what I already thought.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on January 22, 2010 (Suggest removal)

And I happened to catch the coach’s interview - he didn’t pull any punches, so when you finally hear his side, you really think ESPN stinks because there was more to it and ESPN didn’t appear balanced, so you figure that in stories like this ESPN will pick sides and play favorites, and in the future I won’t trust them to tell the truth or the whole story. I’ll hear their side and look elsewhere for the other side, feeling I can’t trust them to tell me the whole deal. And their reaction to their ombudsman tells me I’m right to believe this. pretty arrogaant of them, like CNN used to be. People figure these things out, they just don’t articulate why they prefer one station over another.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on January 22, 2010 (Suggest removal)

Finally, there will be very little coverage when the school and Leach settle out of court, but if they WENT to court, it would have been a lot of fun for leach’s attorney to provide the phone records where ESPN’s analyst was constantly blowing up the coaches phones. If true, James the elder would be disgraced, ESPN would be ambarrassed, and the coach gets a hige check from the school and laughs defiantly all the way to the bank. And from the way leach spoke with such contempt about James, it sure sounded true. A real Little League Dad gone way, way bad. I hope that stuff comes out one day. it’ll be fun to see what James says then.

Por (Dan Alatorre) on January 22, 2010 (Suggest removal)

To be clear, the reason I’m going on about all this is just what many of you would think: it bears to close a resemblance to USF’s recent history with former head coach Jim leavitt. Our local media, especially one afternoon radio guy and the print writers, really went overboard with one side of the story and ran our coach out of town. USF should have just let Leavitt go and settled on a payout because he couldn’t get the team to the next level. In the end, I will be surprised if he doesn’t get a check from USF, but I doubt that will be disclosed with the fever that these other stories have been.

Por (High Tech Bull) on January 22, 2010 (Suggest removal)

@Dan Alatorre - could you have droned on any longer?

Anyway, interesting read.