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No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« on: January 12, 2010, 02:17:22 pm »
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 02:28:21 pm »
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 02:30:32 pm »
Ortiz delegated to MLS.   Awesomeness.   Well unless you are a Dynamo fan, if so my condolences.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 02:32:11 pm »
was the new guy good on the Dynamo beat?  Not like he can be any worse than Ortiz, just wanted to know from any soccer fans out there.  If he was good one place chances are he will be good another.  Also, will be intrigued to see how Ortiz takes his demotion.  This is a pretty big demotion, right?
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 02:34:28 pm »
Well, at least we know he wasn't on any performance enhancing drugs.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2010, 02:35:10 pm »
Quote from: sporadic on January 12, 2010, 02:32:11 pm
was the new guy good on the Dynamo beat?  Not like he can be any worse than Ortiz, just wanted to know from any soccer fans out there.  If he was good one place chances are he will be good another.  Also, will be intrigued to see how Ortiz takes his demotion.  This is a pretty big demotion, right?

Don't care.  They could double his salary and bring him tea and dumplings every day.  I'm just glad he is off the Astros.  
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2010, 02:38:59 pm »
Quote from: sporadic on January 12, 2010, 02:32:11 pm
was the new guy good on the Dynamo beat?  Not like he can be any worse than Ortiz, just wanted to know from any soccer fans out there.  If he was good one place chances are he will be good another.  Also, will be intrigued to see how Ortiz takes his demotion.  This is a pretty big demotion, right?

He hasn't written and article or made a blog post in almost a month.   I wouldn't be surprised to see him move elsewhere,if he was able to find another job.   

Fallas helped with the most recent Astros article on Drayton and selling the team and I believe Fallas was at the Myers PC today.
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No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2010, 02:45:32 pm »
So the unfortunately named Mr. Fallas will be the Astros beat writer going forward? 
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2010, 03:03:38 pm »
Jesus, that John Royal is awful.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 03:23:44 pm »
Hot damn.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 04:23:32 pm »
This is great news....my only disappointment is the potential of Brett Myers calling Ortiz a 'retard' is pretty much out the window
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2010, 04:29:32 pm »
Quote from: Hornstros on January 12, 2010, 04:23:32 pm
This is great news....my only disappointment is the potential of Brett Myers calling Ortiz a 'retard' is pretty much out the window

Please. He almost certainly would have called him a 'gimp'.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2010, 08:24:15 pm »
Quote from: geezerdonk on January 12, 2010, 02:45:32 pm
So the unfortunately named Mr. Fallas will be the Astros beat writer going forward? 

That's what my source says.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2010, 08:56:55 pm »
Wahoo! Fuck off and stay fucked off, JDJO!

By the way, we never, ever cared about you. We cared about the Astros and that is the only reason we ever read or responded to your shitty, poorly-written, agenda-driven dreck, in the misguided hopes of gaining some new info about the Houston Astros.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2010, 06:49:31 am »
I thought that fat fuck was getting fired, not demoted. I'm disappointed. I was hoping he'd become a stay at home dad with his kids in Kingwood while his wife brings home the paycheck writing about Rice field hockey.

I wonder who the hell the goons who run the paper will bring in to be the new sports editor and I wonder if he'll be worth a shit unlike the last two.

I really hoped they'd send Duarte up to cover the Astros.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2010, 03:03:01 pm »
confirmed

(Fallas) "I have been assigned to cover the Astros effective this week, ... Jesus Ortiz, is taking over this (futbol) beat.

http://blogs.chron.com/soccer/archives/2010/01/a_thanks_and_an.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+houstonchronicle%2Fsoccer+%28Soccer+y+Futbol%29
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2010, 03:45:14 pm »
What happened to Levine? He was pretty good doing fill-in Astros duty.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2010, 04:16:15 pm »
Quote from: BUWebguy on January 13, 2010, 03:45:14 pm
What happened to Levine? He was pretty good doing fill-in Astros duty.

Levine will continue to provide Astros coverage as he did when JdJO was the beat writer. I don't believe his status has changed.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2010, 08:16:37 am »
Not to beat a dead horse, but can you imagine how much bullshit would've been in [urlhttp://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bb/6816776.html]this article[/url] if Ortiz had written it?  It's...my gawd it's just refreshing.

Link for the mobile types: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bb/6816776.html
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2010, 02:30:17 pm »
This Fallas fellow is a much-needed breath of fresh air for the Chron's Astros coverage. Kudos to the editors for finally giving its Astros readership a competent journalist covering the team.

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« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2010, 02:32:52 pm »
Quote from: matadorph on January 27, 2010, 02:30:17 pm
This Fallas fellow is a much-needed breath of fresh air for the Chron's Astros coverage. Kudos to the editors for finally giving its Astros readership a competent journalist covering the team.



Racist.

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« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2010, 02:34:20 pm »
Quote from: matadorph on January 27, 2010, 02:30:17 pm
This Fallas fellow is a much-needed breath of fresh air for the Chron's Astros coverage. Kudos to the editors for finally giving its Astros readership a competent journalist covering the team.



Fallas seems like a stand up guy.  Hopefully he'll generate a lot of pull around the sports section without stepping into too many sticky situations.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #22 on: January 27, 2010, 03:23:45 pm »
Quote from: Bench on January 27, 2010, 02:32:52 pm
Racist.

/Ortiz'd

Why.  Isn't Fallas a Mexican as well?  But I guess he wasnt hit by a car, so I see...I guess.

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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2010, 03:34:06 pm »
Mexican is a race?
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #24 on: January 27, 2010, 03:36:09 pm »
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Mexican is a race?

Maybe.  I have heard Mexican-American from some.

Is African-American a race?

What came first Chicken or the Egg?
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« Reply #25 on: January 27, 2010, 03:54:42 pm »
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Mexican is a race?

If Mexican were a race than Speedy Gonzalez should win.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #26 on: January 27, 2010, 03:56:57 pm »
Quote from: Astroholic on January 27, 2010, 03:36:09 pm
Is African-American a race?

Hardly.  African wins by a mile.

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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #27 on: January 27, 2010, 05:32:01 pm »
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If Mexican were a race than Speedy Gonzalez should win.

And his cousin, Slow Poke Rodriguez, would still smoke'em...
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #28 on: January 27, 2010, 06:20:42 pm »
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Is African-American a race?

No.

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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #29 on: January 28, 2010, 10:07:36 am »
Quote from: Bench on January 27, 2010, 02:34:20 pm
Fallas seems like a stand up guy.  Hopefully he'll generate a lot of pull around the sports section without stepping into too many sticky situations.

He has a firm grip of the subject matter at hand.  I look forward to more penetrating insight.
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2010, 12:25:57 pm »
Why the sexual innuendos about this guy?  Does he have a hidden past in porn or something?
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« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2010, 12:37:26 pm »
Quote from: Gizzmonic on January 28, 2010, 12:25:57 pm
Why the sexual innuendos about this guy?  Does he have a hidden past in porn or something?

Not that has been revealed on this thread.  I'm sure he's quite the upright citizen.
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« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2010, 12:48:50 pm »
Penis!
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« Reply #33 on: January 28, 2010, 01:22:26 pm »
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #34 on: January 28, 2010, 02:41:24 pm »
Oh wait...Fallas=phallus!

Now I get it.  I guess I didn't have enough hot coffee this morning.
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« Reply #35 on: January 28, 2010, 02:42:43 pm »
Quote from: Gizzmonic on January 28, 2010, 02:41:24 pm
Oh wait...Fallas=phallus!

Now I get it.  I guess I didn't have enough hot coffee this morning.

Pssst...the other guy's name is Richard.  Tee Hee.
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« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2010, 03:41:33 pm »
Quote from: AtascAstro on January 28, 2010, 02:42:43 pm
Pssst...the other guy's name is Richard.  Tee Hee.

We also have Pedro Feliz at 3B.  Think about that for a while.
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« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2010, 03:55:04 pm »
Quote from: Limey on January 28, 2010, 03:41:33 pm
We also have Pedro Feliz at 3B.  Think about that for a while.

Throw in a guy name Lance at 1B, the second sacker's medical history and you are probably heading toward some awkward combination of who's on 1st and this.

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« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2010, 04:31:13 pm »
Quote from: Gizzmonic on January 28, 2010, 02:41:24 pm
Oh wait...Fallas=phallus!


That's the thrust of it.
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« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2010, 04:50:53 pm »
Quote from: Limey on January 28, 2010, 03:41:33 pm
We also have Pedro Feliz at 3B.  Think about that for a while.

You've seen the O's Bros, the Little Pumas, and the Caballitos.  New for 2010...the Pedrophiles!
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« Reply #40 on: January 28, 2010, 05:04:29 pm »
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You've seen the O's Bros, the Little Pumas, and the Caballitos.  New for 2010...the Pedrophiles!

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« Reply #41 on: January 29, 2010, 09:53:55 am »
Quote from: AtascAstro on January 28, 2010, 03:55:04 pm
Throw in a guy name Lance at 1B, the second sacker's medical history and you are probably heading toward some awkward combination of who's on 1st and this.



New slogan:

"The 2010 Astros give you a b***r"
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« Reply #42 on: January 29, 2010, 10:07:49 am »
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New slogan:

"The 2010 Astros give you a b***r"

Will Pam approve?
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« Reply #43 on: January 29, 2010, 10:17:37 am »
Quote from: juliogotay on January 29, 2010, 10:07:49 am
Will Pam approve?

Get out of here, Pammy!  You don't want no part of this shit.
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« Reply #44 on: January 29, 2010, 10:26:15 am »
Quote from: juliogotay on January 29, 2010, 10:07:49 am
Will Pam approve?

Only if the 2010 attendance gives her a b***r.
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« Reply #45 on: January 29, 2010, 10:29:52 am »
Quote from: Limey on January 29, 2010, 09:53:55 am
New slogan:

"The 2010 Astros give you a b***r"

Wait...are we talking about a marketing slogan or the sign over the door to the visitor's clubhouse?
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #46 on: February 03, 2010, 02:47:03 pm »
Quote from: Gizzmonic on January 28, 2010, 02:41:24 pm
Oh wait...Fallas=phallus!

Now I get it.  I guess I didn't have enough hot coffee this morning.

You need hot coffee to wake it up so you can get phallus?
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Re: No more Ortiz covering the Astros.
« Reply #47 on: February 03, 2010, 08:42:26 pm »
Quote from: 94CougarGrad on February 03, 2010, 02:47:03 pm
You need hot coffee to wake it up so you can get phallus?

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