Jim Moore Is Angry
October 28th, 2012 by terrybenishIt was late Saturday afternoon. After taking a quick lead against Stanford, the same story once again unfolded and the Cougars lost. Jim is a very talented writer who doubles as the Gracie to to Kevin Calabro’s George Burns daily on 710ESPN radio. What was a duo, now has Jim talking to empty chairs and stand ins as the disappearance of Calabro stretches out to months.
Jim previously wrote for the Seattle PI and had an earlier persona called the “drill” that was Hunter Thompson-like and chronicled a hard drinking gambler, sort of a fear and loathing in Seattle kind of thing, that went over the heads of most people that read, which probably included his editors, however, if there ever was a home for a great writer it was the PI as opposed to the Times whose true colors have recently been revealed as a pseudo-journalistic enterprise like Fox. As a beat guy he covered the Sonics too.
So with the demise of the PI Jim has continued to write and write well as this frustrated Cougar-rooter, not sure about the roto-connections, whose heart bleeds all over the page with each screw up, week after week by the Cougars. The Cougars buoyed by conference TV money and an ex-Oregon Athletic Director in Bill Moos, hired an out of work coach that would not be touched by any other program in America due to his history of physically and verbally abusing players in his program. Craig James an ESPN analyst and former player, something Leach is not, stood up for his son and has been vilified for doing it. Leach was fired.
None of that bothered Moos, who learned his slithery ways at the feet of Phil Knight, Moos then lied to the previous coach Paul Wulff and traveled to the Florida Keys and threw millions at Leach. So far, the team seems to have regressed and week to week Leach’s old persona is being revealed. He’s called the team empty corpses, then called his receivers un-tough, wimps in other words. Then yesterday, he benched his All-American receiver Marquess Wilson for Domique Williams who he said played better.
Most of the reporters in Seattle and Spokane are Cougar grads and seem unwilling to write anything critical of Leach or the Cougars. Jim is no exception.
WSU has two wins and a bunch of losses. They beat Eastern Washington which is a DII school and UNLV which technically is a DI team. The thing that better qualifies the win against UNLV is that the Running Rebels is that their record is 1-9 so far, give or take a loss or two.
Rather than remark about the accumulating evidence that WSU might be better off in the Big Sky conference as a D-IAA school Jim pours himself a shot and writes stuff about the Huskies and how much he hates them. He grew up in Redmond and I suspect that he was not admitted by UW and instead went to WSU, but I can’t confirm that.
His vitriol explodes virtually in every media outlet that you can think possible. There is Twitter, Facebook, the new cyber PI, the Kitsap Sun, ESPN710′s blogs. He will talk about it too, on the radio and ask him to come to a Tavern near you and he will come and have fun and tell stories and attract people. Truth be told, he’s dying inside as each week goes by.
Last night he was actively wishing for a Beaver win and was in high dungeon when the UW won and its exuberant fans stormed the field after the victory. Sniffing as if such behavior was inappropriate of how fans of a program should behave.
Really?
How would he know? The cougars have won once in a while over their history, but that has to be ascribed to statistical randomness. The worst program in the history of PAC-12 or PAC-10.
Appropriate behavior at WSU games is not passing out or throwing
up on yourself until the game
is over.
Jim’s a cougar and hates the Huskies. When the new super
marketeer Larry Scott signs up Baylor and Tulane and drops WSU and
OSU and the Cougars join the Big Sky, let’s see who he is angry
at.
http://jimmoorethego2guy.com/2012/10/dawgs-luck-out-against-beavers/
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October 29th, 2012 at 6:08 am
Did you do any serious research for this article at all? Your ignorance is shining through just as it was in your last article. Why the Kitsap Sun allows you to post on here is beyond me. Get your facts straight.
… Ask any Texas Tech fan their opinion of the Adam James story and most will tell you Adam James was a spoiled daddy’s boy who refused to put in the hard work and got his butt benched.
And what’s wrong with calling your team out? There isn’t a coach in the Pac-12 (including Sark saying that QB K. Price doesn’t trust him) that hasn’t called his players out becaused they showed poor effort.
….garbage etc.
October 29th, 2012 at 8:53 am
So how’s this work? You get a reply to your ignorant blog post and you refuse to publish?
October 29th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Beautiful description of a man lost in the dream of a program that will never be relevant. Sure, like Haley’s Comet they’ll have a great year when the other programs slip or don’t perform and the Cougs can pick up pieces. Like the Leaf or Gesser clubs. But then they default again to who they really are and then dreamers like Moore think it should be a year in year out deal. Keep dreaming.
As Denny Grenn so aptly put it,…….. (the Cougs) ‘are what we thought they were’ and that is a school that takes up space at the bottom of the standings year in and year out.
Live with it Jimmy, if anyone should be used to looking up from the bottom it should be you.
P.S. I’m not as eloquent as the writer above. He had outted a dreamer of outlandish proportions. He is the pied-piper of a generation of losers that is, has been, and will always be the doormats of the PAC12.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
George, thanks for writing! Gosh and gee, was it high school or community college that you graduated from in 1965?
And thanks for reading! Softy Who? KIRO is no more except TV. I suspect you think Jim is funny, is that spot on?
OSU is worse than the Cougars? Really? In what sport? Can’t be football. Are you really sure about that?
Did you by any chance graduate from WSU in 1965? Who was the coach over there then? Bert Clark? Jim Sutherland?
I don’t think you know your hat from a mudflap what it’s like to play college sports. I’d hate like hell to have a
kid playing for Leach. Craig James and his kid, jointly or in turn would stand you up straight.
If there was a shot at those other schools Leach would have gone there.
Once again thanks for reading.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I’m sorry George it took a while to clean up all your mis-spelled words from your previous post. Thanks
for writing, go read Jim Moore, you’ll feel good.
October 29th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Thanks for writing. Glad you liked it.
October 30th, 2012 at 5:37 am
Peabody! Always entertaining to read your posts. Watchout, George used to hand out towels in P.E. class so he has the qualifactions of a expert!
October 30th, 2012 at 8:17 am
Thanks Zeke! Always good to hear from you!
October 30th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
I don’t know about the rest of you, but it’s hard for me to choose between the typos, grammatical errors and factual inaccuracies in this piece as my favorite part. So many options …
October 30th, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Jeff, thanks for writing! What’s your over and under on the whack a player contest?
It is a free form kind of thing days, weeks, months, games, years or seasons on when
Leach comes unglued and slaps some kid around.
As a journalist and all would you report on that, or would your cougar thing get in the way of that?
Can you be a journalist and root? Or if you root, does that make you a fan-boy?
Peace, out!
October 30th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Great commentary!
Bleacher Report should sign you to a multi-column deal.
October 30th, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Hey Brad, thanks for writing!
October 31st, 2012 at 9:32 am
God, I love Jim Moore! He channels my Inner Coug.
Keep at it, Peabody, for sure, but don’t forget baseball!
October 31st, 2012 at 9:46 am
There are a couple out there for your review…thanks for writing.
October 31st, 2012 at 2:30 pm
terrybenish you write a post about how Jim Moore is angry and bitter yet you bash him. I find this quite ironic. It is not just blind coug fans that do not pay attention to the James and Leach situation, it is also 90 percent of sport fans. Adam James even testified that he was not forced or locked in the shed. Did you graduate from UW? If WSU is so bad and crappy as you have said then why waste your valuable time? You’re either worried about Leach giving solid competition or not happy with your own team are the likely reasons. PAC-12 is also interested in academics and TV markets. Seattle has a large TV market with a lot of WSU alumni so the PAC-12 will not be dropping WSU. The irony continues as you write about Jim Moore and WSU journalists lack of ethics even though they are on the radio for ESPN and write for a number of publications and you are an unpaid blogger posting on a website bashing them..
October 31st, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Sam, thanks for writing! Look up the word parody and get back to me.
Jim’s my biggest supporter. Have a great day!
November 5th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Coach Leach has enjoyed a great deal of success in his previous coaching stops. I suspect he has been lucky enough to have had players with considerably more talent than the Cougars have now. Without good players you are not going to win very often. They played well enough at Stanford that they could have won. However, it is impossible for a team to have any semblance of morale or enthusiasm, when the head coach repeatedly bashes them after games. Clearly he does not understand the importance of creating a positive atmosphere in the program. Without that, they are DOOMED!
November 5th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Phil, thanks for writing! You hit the nail on the head.