Jim Reeves is retiring
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 1, 2009 10:08 AM CST
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PrintLongtime Fort Worth Star-Telegram writer and columnist Jim Reeves is retiring.
Ray Buck has the story up at the S-T.
It isn't clear when Reeves' retirement date is effective, but regardless, we've got one less long-time sports voice out there in D/FW.
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He was better than Grandpa Urine.
Back in the day Revo was a good writer.
2009 Texas Rangers: Why The Hell Not Us?--ghtd36 on May 13, 2009
In the interest of quicker games Ron should just tell the ump he's pulling the Feliz card and the ump should rule the inning over.--Sherman McCoy on Sept. 4, 2009
Gil LeBreton
is the best columnist over at the startlegram.
Favorite bumper sticker of all time, seen on a VW bus:
"Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody rides for free"
that's not saying alot
when you look at his competition
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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boy, I hope you guys can weather the storm from the youngster when you get old in your job. Like the woman that was shopping for chickens and she would hold them up and sniff the arm pits and legs of the chicken and pronounce them not fresh. After doing that for about 4 chickens and all failing, the butcher asked her if she could pass that same test.
I soloed in the Mile High Club!
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There are effusive writers who don’t accept the notion that their work (or opinions) are subject to sniff tests.
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Nov 1, 2009 2:50 PM CST up reply actions
True
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 1, 2009 10:15 PM CST up reply actions
Well, bye.
Look at the comments under Jeff Wilson's blog post on dallasnews.com. What a bunch of rocket scientists.- Keith Law
Don't let the door
hit you on the ass on the way out.
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if both D/FW papers got rid of all their columnists, and just employed beat writers.
"I don't condone steroids or any other type of growth hormones or anything else, but I could care less, and, for the most part, I don't think the fans give a (bleep). The people that care about it are the people that probably don't like baseball," - Jim Leyland
i thought he mailed it in a couple years ago really. seemed all he had been doing were fluff pieces
Nobody is perfect, i am nobody, therefore, i am perfect
by 34express on Nov 1, 2009 1:55 PM CST via mobile reply actions
You're thinking of TR
Reeves still likes to incite occasional shitstorms. Like the whole “MLB is running the Rangers” thing, for example.
"...he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers." - NYTXFAN
by LSJ on Nov 1, 2009 5:04 PM CST up reply actions
My first reaction was "too bad it's not Galloway instead"
But thinking about it, Reeves can be just as whacked as Grandpa Urine sometimes, but thanks to the fact that he’s not that way all the time, he has a tiny bit of credibility left, unlike RG. Which means it’s harder to figure out what’s fiction and what has an inkling of truth when reading him.
So maybe this is better than Galloway retiring.
"...he wasn’t a good hitter, just a good middle of the order bat that hit a lot of homers." - NYTXFAN
I feel the same way
most of you do about the pot stirring tendancies that Reeves exhibitied. Concerning his low profile and oft-times light subject matter, he’s had very bad health problems in the last few years, curtailing his ability to actively follow the teams. Like multiple bypasses, each being at least quadruple.
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