Richard Justice: Elegant Aggie Provocateur

by Scipio Tex on Jul 24, 2009 5:51 PM CDT

I'm just sayin'

This is his latest attempt to mail-in on his job wherein he proposes that Texas A&M join Conference USA. How droll. He's like a humid Jonathan Swift.

And why should they join Conference USA?

Because they suck! And, are also dumb! And quite rural, you see.

Oh he got you good, Aggies!

Justice, if you don't know his modus operandi, is the glinty foreheaded Houston Chronicle hack and UT graduate who can't write, and likes to play the role of ham-handed provocateur, a sort of poor man's Skip Bayless. He's fun to toy with though, in the way that it's enjoyable to feint throwing a tennis ball to a beagle.

He even uses his down-home prose voice in this column - "guvment" - a special treat - which is fancy clever and something he and Kirk Bohls do a lot to spice up their column for you, the reader. Common touch, what!

I'm a fan of mocking Aggies in general as it is any Texan's birthright, but Justice's effort is particularly weak. Try again, Richard.

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Yeah, it was a truly terrible piece all the way around.

Or maybe he’s setting up more evidence for his theory that bloggers suck and that’s why all his blog entries suck.

by Huckleberry on Jul 24, 2009 6:09 PM CDT reply actions

Justice can’t say the word baseball without mentioning Peter Gammons or Bud Selig in the same sentence. He ruins a good radio station.

by Captain Obvious on Jul 24, 2009 6:43 PM CDT reply actions

Justice’s writing isn’t criminal. He’s just not very smart.

by Parlin Hall on Jul 24, 2009 7:09 PM CDT reply actions

Reading the column was sort of like reading a thread on orangebloods.

by HornsHornsHorns on Jul 24, 2009 7:35 PM CDT reply actions

Torbush wow.

Was that an attempt at humor? Was he paid to write that? Does eveyone now understand why print media is dying?

Poor man’s Skip Bayless? More like a rich man’s Tim.

by Ag_in_TX on Jul 24, 2009 9:32 PM CDT reply actions

So does Justice ghost write for Ketch or Ketch ghost write for him?

by Captain Obvious on Jul 24, 2009 9:55 PM CDT reply actions

Sounds to me like he’s trying to piss off his boss. Probably on the verge of losing his job.

by Reality on Jul 25, 2009 11:03 AM CDT reply actions

Weak attempt at smack. Maybe he’ll resign to spend more time with his family like Sarah Palin.

by KilgoreTrout on Jul 25, 2009 5:04 PM CDT reply actions

That’s actually one of the better Justice columns I’ve read in a while. Not sure if it’s just me, or what…but aggy to C-USA makes a lot of sense. Not that they’d win it for the first few years…Cougar High, Rice, Tulsa, Southern ‘Ole Miss, maybe SMU would handle them pretty easy, but I don’t think they’d finish dead last. (Would they? Huh? Huh?)

This isn’t to defend Justice…he’s a great sportswriter, if you’re the Texarkana newspaper. But you’ve gotta give props where they’re due, and I’d say he’s right that the Bear ain’t coming back. Captain Jackie, well…he’s back, sorta, blogging about aggy.

by coolhorn on Jul 25, 2009 5:38 PM CDT reply actions

Who’s in charge of the sports page for the chronicle? What an asinine article.

by phishpac on Jul 26, 2009 4:14 AM CDT reply actions

I saw Justice molesting the Evony girl while she was passed out at that Temptations concert.

by Las Pistolas on Jul 27, 2009 12:43 PM CDT reply actions

of course, we could be in arkansas.

here’s a piece from a story from yesterday’s arkansas times:

More court proceedings today for Curtis Lavelle Vance, charged with killing KATV’s Anne Pressly. Our news partners at Fox 16 will be on hand (presumably without a microphone in court) to keep us up to date. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Vance apparently is still unhappy with his public defenders. He may be competent to stand trial in the legal sense, but it doesn’t mean he’s broken out with smarts.

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