This blog’s favorite NBA writer, Peter Vecsey, nominates himself for the Chutzpah Award with an attack on TNT’s David Aldridge, who is both ten times the reporter and a hundred times the class act Vecsey is.
Citing no evidence at all, America’s Worst Sports Columnist accuses Aldridge of stealing his scoops over the years. This is pretty pathetic, especially since Vecsey fails to mention that Aldridge’s gig- TNT’s main analyst/reporter- used to be HIS gig.
But then again, who is Vecsey to bash DA’s trade-deadline reporting performance, when he himself went ahead with two “exclusives” of his own that turned out to be dead wrong? Peter would’ve written more, but he had to head to a Lakers practice, to interview Peja Stojakovic and Carlos Boozer.
I’m with blogger Tondar, who rips Vecsey for “trying to write like the Sports Guy, except with an extra chromosome.”
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 2, 2005 05:54 PMYou should see Vecsey's daughter's work. She is absolutely terrible for the Baltimore Sun (http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports). Most of what she writes is absolute worthless drivel, and the rest is just a bit worse. She's got a loyal following in Baltimore of people who hate her work, and believe that there are two reasons she's still employed - her last name, and gender.
Posted by: MattyD at March 3, 2005 09:56 AM