Whitlock dumped from The Undefeated

Charlie Weis

 

Dennis Green.

 

Larry Brown blushes.

 

Larry Brown has actually won something.

 

Funny. I was going to see Gene Shue at first.

 

Soon as I look up from reading my first The Undefeated story I'll make sure to look out for Gene, and ask him about the Heineken.

 

Early 90s. I was covering the CBA Finals in Rapid City, S.D. This game was moved to a big high school because the circus bumped it from the civic center. It was on ESPN-69 or whatever; Gene Shue was doing color commentary. After filing my story and sidebars and packing up, it was after midnight. The only people left were cleaning crew, a few boozing ESPN crew people, and me. The cab company told me it would be more than an hour for pickup. I walked outside and saw a town car in the parking lot. The driver said "Are you Mr. Shue?" I grinned and said "yes, I am" and got a lift back to the Hilton.

 

Whitlock is disliked, I imagine, because, as the second Deadspin story suggested, he's a demeaning, patronizing, paternalistic manager who thinks the news room is a high school football locker room. Professional adults tend to object to such treatment.

 

Excellent take. My addendum to that is I don't know the man but it is pretty apparent he is very very talented and very very lazy. Which is fine. He needs to park himself in Los Angeles or New York and write a daily column for somebody. He doesn't even have to go to games if he doesn't want. Just be like Royko was. An observer and a talented writer. He won't have to deal with people in this day and age. There are no copy editors anymore so this extremely talented person should just write, file the column and enjoy life doing whatever a lazy person does.