Ray Melick says So Long

If you want some keen insight into the Bammer Nation, read the comments section after Ray's goodbye blog on al.com. Stay classy, Tide fans.

One guy says it's good riddance he's leaving because Ray wrote something about Nick Saban not being a good fit for Alabama - just a bit outside on that one, Ray - THREE YEARS AGO. More than a handful want him to take lead columnist Kevin Scarbinsky with him.

Got news for you, mullets. Less Melick = More Scarbinsky on the pages of The News.

 

Sorry to see Ray go. Met him way back when, in the USFL days, when he covered the Birmingham Stallions. That was a great group of newspaper guys, with Ray and Jimmy Bryan.

 

Or, as some knew him, Super JB.

Bammer Nation can read? Or did Melick provide crayon drawings for them?

 

Ray's a good, classy guy. And he'll be missed.

 

Best wishes to Ray Melick and prayers for Mike Raita. Raita's ambush of Dennis Franchione in the College Station Airport when he flew to Texas A&M was a classic moment. The look on Fran's face was almost as good as the one when Oklahoma hung a 70-spot on them. Talk about shock and awe.

 

I understand putting food on the table, but hate to see this kind of career twist.

http://blog.al.com/archiblog/2010/06/archibald_dizzied_by_the_bp_sp.html

 

Boy, the message board posters on that farewell blog. Wow.

 

Color me confused. Melick's final blog is today and the blog post about Melick working for BP is also today. So, has Melick been working for BP while still at the paper? Is that the reason why Ray didn't mention his "next gig" in his farewell blog?

 

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