***Official Houston Astros 2023-24 Offseason Thread*** [Staff Warning - OP]

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9:56a, 12/14/23
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If I'm in the industry at all, it's just never a good idea to trash another organization.

There's only a few hiring each year so you most likely will work for an organization you're not a fan of
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9:57a, 12/14/23
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Altuve is a class act so he will likely forgive this moron but hopefully the rest of the organization gives her the cold shoulder.

Nothing but one word answers at all times. That is if she doesn't do the right thing and resign first.
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In reply to Beat40 • 10:00a, 12/14/23
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It's less about the paper and more about the online presence.

This.

It's basically just become a place to blog. That's why I used quotations when calling it a newspaper.

My mom used to work for the Chronicle and the incompetence she experienced was mind boggling.
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10:04a, 12/14/23
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10:06a, 12/14/23
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As a journalist -- you must be super careful with what you post on your social media channels.

You should not air out your personal opinions when you are a reporter -- regardless if it's your personal account or not. It calls everything you write into question.

This reporter needs some coaching on social media use.

When I worked in media, I had to undergo background checks and social media checks. I don't know what the policy is at the Chron, but background check was likely part of it. In this day and age, social check was probably also part of it. They may have noticed it, asked her about it and were satisfied with her response.

There is a real shortage of good, quality writers for real journalism. It's now all infotainment and who can get the most engagements.

Good or bad, this will get the Chron engagements and clicks. But I digress....
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In reply to EastCoastAgNc • 10:06a, 12/14/23
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owned by the same, operate in the same building, cover the same city....enough said she should resign and whoever hired her should probably be fired for being an idiot
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10:07a, 12/14/23
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I'm not sure what's worse. Her blatant homerism before or her blatant crawfishing now trying to save her ass.

Whatever the answer is it's hilarious. I feel for her having to learn this lesson that being a public figure taking stances has consequences.

Well, no I don't. She needs to learn this lesson. She's not a reporter, she's a social media wh*re. I use that word because it's the only word I know. She sold herself for clicks. If you say something controversial because you believe it you need to be big enough to stand behind your words. If you say something controversial because you want clicks on your social media and it later bites you in your ass because you have no convictions, well that's on you.
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In reply to Beat40 • 10:08a, 12/14/23
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Isn't being careless the same as not caring? I'm not defending her by any stretch. Not sure how I came across as that. I've heard a lot of really bad things about her as a professional.
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In reply to EastCoastAgNc • 10:08a, 12/14/23
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Wow. What a cluster.

Sometimes it takes something in life like this to realize what you say doesn't just effect yourself, it effects those around you too.

All the she had to do was apologize and say she's going to work hard to win everyone's trust. That's it.
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In reply to tjack16 • 10:10a, 12/14/23
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tjack16 said:
If I'm in the industry at all, it's just never a good idea to trash another organization.

There's only a few hiring each year so you most likely will work for an organization you're not a fan of
This. I interviewed with a place in Austin that covered Texas. Do I love the Longhorns? No. But it's business.

They originally didn't want to interview me because I went to A&M. Luckily I had connections who went to bat and the reason they gave me an interview was.. guess what.. they looked at my Twitter and didn't see me ragging on t.u. like they had expected.

It says a lot about someone in this business if they're really that dumb about what they post.
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In reply to texasaggie2015 • 10:15a, 12/14/23
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so did you sell out you aggie character and cover the sips?
are you really Ketch after all?
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:19a, 12/14/23
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Haha. Never got the job but who wants to live in Austin anyway?

Ended up moving to South Carolina where I worked at a Fox Sports affiliate for a while until COVID happened and I got laid off. Decided that was my sign to move on and find a job that actually pays decently.

It's a brutal industry. I don't miss it at all, but I did get to experience a lot of really cool things.
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10:21a, 12/14/23
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what is this 'chron' yall keep talking about?
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In reply to texasaggie2015 • 10:22a, 12/14/23
texasaggie2015 said:
Isn't being careless the same as not caring? I'm not defending her by any stretch. Not sure how I came across as that. I've heard a lot of really bad things about her as a professional.
I'm not saying you're defending her - never got that from your post. I was just adding on and offering my view on the situation.

When I think of careless, I think of someone who has good intentions but makes an honest mistake. When I think of someone who doesn't care, I think of someone who knows exactly what they are doing and does it anyway. I think there is a difference in being careless and not caring.

In the first interaction I saw of her last night, the original post she responded to in Oct'23 was something along the lines of appreciating Altuve's greatness. She responded with "no." Someone else responded with something along the lines of is that really the stance you want to take or something along those lines. Then she responded with the I don't recognize cheaters or however she worded. All of that's ok…if you don't cover sports.

She knew what she was doing. She knew she made that post. She knows she covers sports and got hired to help cover the Astros. She didn't delete the post. If she didn't remember making that post, she at the very least, knows she doesn't really care for the Astros, Altuve, and I'm guessing Bregman, didn't even care to go back TWO months to see if she had an disparaging comments agains the team she's going to cover.

Again, this is just sports, so, in the grand scheme, it's not a big deal. It definitely shouldn't get personal with her.

I'm not going to let one incident color her entire person, but she definitely didn't care enough in this situation.
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:22a, 12/14/23
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:
so did you sell out you aggie character and cover the sips?
are you really Ketch after all?
It's not about selling out. It's about business.

I worked in San Antonio for a few years while the Spurs were winning their championships. I helped cover their championship runs and parades -- yet I was a huge Rockets fan.

You put your fandom on the backburner if someone is going to pay you to do the job.
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In reply to agproducer • 10:24a, 12/14/23
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agproducer said:
Lonestar_Ag09 said:
so did you sell out you aggie character and cover the sips?
are you really Ketch after all?
It's not about selling out. It's about business.

I worked in San Antonio for a few years while the Spurs were winning their championships. I helped cover their championship runs and parades -- yet I was a huge Rockets fan.

You put your fandom on the backburner if someone is going to pay you to do the job.
Sounds like something a sell out would say....
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In reply to agproducer • 10:25a, 12/14/23
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And honestly as a sports fan working in sports.. it was cool seeing different atmospheres and venues even if I wasn't a fan of that specific team.

I got to meet people from rival teams who I learned to absolutely love as human beings. Mack Brown and Mike Leach were extremely kind. Jeff Bannister was a lot of fun to talk to and very nice in our interactions.

I was fortunate enough to get to know Joe West and he was one of the most personable, generous people I ever came across in the business.
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In reply to agproducer • 10:29a, 12/14/23
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agproducer said:
Lonestar_Ag09 said:
so did you sell out you aggie character and cover the sips?
are you really Ketch after all?
It's not about selling out. It's about business.

I worked in San Antonio for a few years while the Spurs were winning their championships. I helped cover their championship runs and parades -- yet I was a huge Rockets fan.

You put your fandom on the backburner if someone is going to pay you to do the job.
I get what you are saying...I just disagree. There is no one in new york media that is directly covering the yankees who are major fans of other teams. Sure a news anchor might not really matter but the sports reporter or beat reporter should not be dire rivals with that team and the person who hires people shouldnt hire someone in that position.

So what he was saying about them being hesitant to even interview him but allowed it because he had nothing showing they shouldnt...if it came down to 4 people for the position and one is an aggie and the other three consist of 2 texas grads and a uconn grad...the aggie should absolutely not be hired.
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In reply to EastCoastAgNc • 10:30a, 12/14/23
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Wow - damage control trying to protect the chronicle
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In reply to texasaggie2015 • 10:30a, 12/14/23
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Mack Brown is fabulous. If he was younger I would have been elated if he was considered for our opening
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:32a, 12/14/23
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:
agproducer said:
Lonestar_Ag09 said:
so did you sell out you aggie character and cover the sips?
are you really Ketch after all?
It's not about selling out. It's about business.

I worked in San Antonio for a few years while the Spurs were winning their championships. I helped cover their championship runs and parades -- yet I was a huge Rockets fan.

You put your fandom on the backburner if someone is going to pay you to do the job.
I get what you are saying...I just disagree. There is no one in new york media that is directly covering the yankees who are major fans of other teams. Sure a news anchor might not really matter but the sports reporter or beat reporter should not be dire rivals with that team and the person who hires people shouldnt hire someone in that position.

So what he was saying about them being hesitant to even interview him but allowed it because he had nothing showing they shouldnt...if it came down to 4 people for the position and one is an aggie and the other three consist of 2 texas grads and a uconn grad...the aggie should absolutely not be hired.
Yeah, trust me, you're wrong on this one. I came across plenty of folks who went to school A who covered rival school B for a living.. and did it very well too. It happens way more often than people think.
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In reply to texasaggie2015 • 10:34a, 12/14/23
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Youre telling me the are adimant Astros and RedSox fans working and directly covering the Yankees? or working as a frontline personality on the YES network?
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10:35a, 12/14/23
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I was an Aggie Athletics intern on campus from 2014-2017. I'm a 3rd generation Aggie so of course my fandom bled into the "professionalism" all the time. Got to work sidelines for football, baseball and basketball.

But man I got lit into by a higher up one time because I posted on Twitter after the 2016 Texas Bowl loss. Now granted I was a senior so another 8-5 was frustrating. But I basically posted a tweet about how we let another 5-0 or 6-0 start turn into 8-5 and "when is enough enough". It was my personal account but it got 350 retweets so the office lit into me pretty good and that was my "one warning" about social media.
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:36a, 12/14/23
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So you're talking specifically about the YES Network? Or media in general? Either way- it wouldn't surprise me. Professionals are professionals and are able to do a very good job regardless of who they cover. Most times you would never know who they're a fan of because they keep that stuff off their Twitter account.
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:38a, 12/14/23
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:
Mack Brown is fabulous. If he was younger I would have been elated if he was considered for our opening
He really was the nicest man. I've pulled for him at UNC ever since.
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In reply to texasaggie2015 • 10:38a, 12/14/23
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texasaggie2015 said:
Lonestar_Ag09 said:
agproducer said:
Lonestar_Ag09 said:
so did you sell out you aggie character and cover the sips?
are you really Ketch after all?
It's not about selling out. It's about business.

I worked in San Antonio for a few years while the Spurs were winning their championships. I helped cover their championship runs and parades -- yet I was a huge Rockets fan.

You put your fandom on the backburner if someone is going to pay you to do the job.
I get what you are saying...I just disagree. There is no one in new york media that is directly covering the yankees who are major fans of other teams. Sure a news anchor might not really matter but the sports reporter or beat reporter should not be dire rivals with that team and the person who hires people shouldnt hire someone in that position.

So what he was saying about them being hesitant to even interview him but allowed it because he had nothing showing they shouldnt...if it came down to 4 people for the position and one is an aggie and the other three consist of 2 texas grads and a uconn grad...the aggie should absolutely not be hired.
Yeah, trust me, you're wrong on this one. I came across plenty of folks who went to school A who covered rival school B for a living.. and did it very well too. It happens way more often than people think.
2015 is completely right on this. I worked with a Baylor Bear who covered the Ags and did it well. He's now working at t.u. in their sports dept.

It's business. You get paid to do the job and be objective.

If you can't separate that, you shouldn't be doing it.

And, this reporter, she should have known better.

Tjack learned about it with his misstep. She should have learned about it after her LSU incident.
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In reply to texasaggie2015 • 10:39a, 12/14/23
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texasaggie2015 said:
So you're talking specifically about the YES Network? Or media in general? Either way- it wouldn't surprise me. Professionals are professionals and are able to do a very good job regardless of who they cover. Most times you would never know who they're a fan of because they keep that stuff off their Twitter account.
No im saying specifics. TexAgs doesnt hire longhorn grads. ORangeblooods doesnt hire aggies. Yes network or CBS newyork isnt hiring a red sox sports reporter,

Im not talking about an anchor in new york covering the news, or a reporter for fox or espn etc.
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:40a, 12/14/23
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:
Youre telling me the are adimant Astros and RedSox fans working and directly covering the Yankees? or working as a frontline personality on the YES network?
Also, a good follow is RoFlo.

The dude is an Astros fan, Rockets fan, Texans and UH fan. He posts positives about them. He also posts positives about other teams.

Hannah Storm is another. She loves her H-Town teams -- but she's fair to everyone else.

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In reply to texasaggie2015 • 10:40a, 12/14/23
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Or you adopt the team you cover. How many Syracuse grads moved down here and became fans of Houston teams? I feel like a ton over the years in radio.
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:41a, 12/14/23
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:
Youre telling me the are adimant Astros and RedSox fans working and directly covering the Yankees? or working as a frontline personality on the YES network?
I mean, the Mets do exist. Our own radio guy is a New Yorker and Mets fan. There are only 30 spots if you want to call pro ball. Obviously there are more spots for other media and beat writers, etc, but the point is it's not some industry with thousands of jobs. The number of opportunities is pretty small in comparison to many other typical industries.
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10:41a, 12/14/23
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T&P to the daytime lunch crew who are seeing all these new responses thinking something worthwhile happened this morning.
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In reply to agproducer • 10:42a, 12/14/23
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And thus where Im saying specific rivals. No offense but no one cares about Baylor, no one cares about tech, no one cares about UH, SMU etc etc etc. But its not the same for: A&M/texas, OU/texas, Bama/Auburn, USC/UCLS, Mich/MSU, Yankees/Sox, Astros/Ynkees, Astros/Rangers
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:42a, 12/14/23
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Lonestar_Ag09 said:
texasaggie2015 said:
So you're talking specifically about the YES Network? Or media in general? Either way- it wouldn't surprise me. Professionals are professionals and are able to do a very good job regardless of who they cover. Most times you would never know who they're a fan of because they keep that stuff off their Twitter account.
No im saying specifics. TexAgs doesnt hire longhorn grads. ORangeblooods doesnt hire aggies. Yes network or CBS newyork isnt hiring a red sox sports reporter,

Im not talking about an anchor in new york covering the news, or a reporter for fox or espn etc.
Why wouldn't they? You hire the best candidate for the job.

TexAgs and Orangebloods are more fan service than they are media.

YES and CBS NY -- they'd be hiring the best reporter available -- regardless of allegiance.
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In reply to Lonestar_Ag09 • 10:42a, 12/14/23
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Unless it's changed since 2020, that certainly wasn't the case when I was in the business as I saw grads of rival schools cover teams quite often. I knew a big South Carolina fan (and grad) who covered Clemson and did a fantastic job. These places don't care what team you root for when you're watching the game at home. They care about if you can do a good job.
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10:45a, 12/14/23
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A little different, but a Bama grad, and big fan, is a rep/contact at the 12th man foundation for big donors.
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