Florida Times-Union sports columnist Gene Frenette provides weekly content for jacksonville.com This is his entry for Friday July 11.
You'd think I'd be able to take a two-day vacation to Fenway Park in Boston with my son for his 16th birthday without the Jaguars dominating the "breaking news" bulletins before boarding the plane on my return flight.
I know the team is disappointed on how season-ticket sales are going, but having a first-round draft pick arrested for cocaine possession, plus a newspaper report about a new owner possibly buying the team and moving it to Los Angeles, isn't exactly a way to get customers to rush to the ticket window.
Nothing the Jaguars can do now about receiver Matt Jones' stupidity other than cut their losses and move on. If they don't release him before training camp, it's simply going to create a distraction that the team doesn't need when they're in position to seriously challenge the Indianapolis Colts for AFC South supremacy.
As for the Philadelphia Daily News report that New Jersey billionaire C. Dean Metropoulos is negotiating with Weaver to purchase the team, we only have Weaver's denials against the newspaper's view that they stand by their story. My take is Weaver will sell this team sometime in the next 3-6 years and try to make sure the next owner keeps the team in Jacksonville, but he can make no guarantee with 100 percent certainty that it will happen.
When I returned to Jacksonville Thursday afternoon, which was supposed to be a vacation day, the feel-good experience of taking my son to see his beloved Red Sox (I grew up a New York Yankees fan) had to be temporarily put aside to focus on writing about the Jaguar developments.
It's two weeks before training camp. Couldn't we have at least gotten a break from Jaguar talk until it becomes almost 24/7 teal-and-black discussion? Guess not.
Anyway, be sure to check out my Sunday column in the Times-Union about the father-son memory of going to Fenway Park together for the first time. If you like home runs and Neil Diamond, it'll be right in your wheelhouse.
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16 comments:
Man you are a loser Frenete. It's writers like you that prevent this team from being 100% endorsed by the city. If you don't like writing about our team - then quit. MOve to Boston, New York, or where ever you "fantasy" job is. You won't be missed here as no one likes you anyway. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
John
Congrats, Frenete, You win piss-poor-faggot-father of the year award. I hope your sone gets raped by a rabid moose.
Just another pessimistic article from the Florida Times Union. As much as I love the Jaguars and look forward to renewing my season tickets every year, a small part of me wishes they will move one day. For the only reason of watching all the FTU writers gathered around the water cooler wondering what happened and now were out of a job. The ONLY thing that is keeping this city from becoming the hick town it once was is the Jaguars.
I can tell you how to get a break from Jaguar talk, get the hell out of jacksonville, we dont want you here anyway.
It's the dead zone. It certainly would be nice if this WAS NOT the type of news being reported on the team. If I was a reporter, I'd rather have nothing to to discuss than to be put into a position where I had to report on nothing but bad news about the franchise.
Gene Frenete, Vito Stilino, and the entire Times Union building can burn in hell for all I care. Everyone is sick of your negativity. No one like you. Not even your own mothers.
Anonymous: "If I was a reporter, I'd rather have nothing to to discuss than to be put into a position where I had to report on nothing but bad news about the franchise."
Maybe in general, but this particular reporter loves nothing more than bad news about the franchise, or so it appears.
Incidentally, Gene Frenette receives a weekly wage from the Colts to spread doom and gloom about Jacksonville's team, and has been doing for the last three years at least. If he denies it, then we've only got his denials against my word that I stand by my story.
See how laughable that one is, Gene?
(Obviously he doesn't receive a weekly wage from the Colts really - apparently they only hire professionals...)
Stay in Boston. They are used to Aholes like you up there.
God forbid you have to do your job Gene. Why don't you move your sorry ass to Boston, as no one in Jacksonville would miss you.
If you are tired of doing your job, QUIT. Get out of town and make your home in Boston. The TU sucks with their day late and dollar short coverage anyway so why not pack your bags and get the hell out of town. The fact that you have the stones to call yourself a writer is obnoxious and offensive. Leave the journalism to the pros, Gene and maybe you can get a job hawking hot dogs at Fenway.
Ditto to what the majority of the posters said.
I will add though that when you (Frenette) are offered another gig to fill in for Prisco, please just deny it. You are horrible on the radio. Talking over people, not knowing how to carry a topic, etc., etc. Just pass, please.
Sometimes the truth hurts. Was anything in the article false? You Ask Vic groupies need the truth sometimes.
Yes something in the article was false.
He mentioned he felt the need for less Jags talk. I think the majority of psorts fans in town would highly disagree.
It the only talk that is Jag related is negative, I'll take no talk any day.
Perhaps you should have gotten a 1 way ticket to Boston? We certainly wouldn't have missed you!
Who is Gene Frenette? TU Sports writers suck. I will never ever buy TU again. Losers!!! Jacksonville.com is dead for me too.
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