Thoughts on Matt Mosley: Is he a Hater? Just telling it like it is?

[viman96]

Is it just me that he seems to be anti-cowboys? I'm not one to be considered a chicken little or the world hates the cowboys. But he always seem to have some dig for the team.

 

[brewers47]

Mosley loves the Cowboys

 

[sureletsrace]

Yeah. Seems to me like Mosley is always pointing out the negatives on the Cowboys. Whatever. **** him. He will see.

 

[viman96]

Mosley loves the Cowboys

really? seems to me he is enjoys putting them down. maybe it is a love hate thing with him from his days in dallas.

 

[Bluefin]

It's probably just a bad habit he picked up when in Dallas from fraternizing with the local dire straits media.

 

[Rack]

Thoughts on Matt Mosley: Is he a Hater? Just telling it like it is?

Neither. He writes/says whatever is necessary to create controversy. Controvery = $$$.



And the truth is negativity also equals controversy.


So, negativity = controversy = $$$.

 

[DFWJC]

Is it just me that he seems to be anti-cowboys? I'm not one to be considered a chicken little or the world hates the cowboys. But he always seem to have some dig for the team.

A surprising number of local sport writers are not Cowboy fans. Many are from the NE or Midwest. Some show their bias and some don't.

 

[theebs]

A surprising number of local sport writers are not Cowboy fans. Many are from the NE or Midwest. Some show their bias and some don't.

Mosley is a local guy and still lives in Dallas. He is on espn1033 everyday. He loves to rile everyone up.

Wait till we play the giants and eagles, mosley will be looking to spread bulletin board stuff constantly!

I dont think he hates the cowboys by any stretch, I think he just loves the attention he gets with his drama he is always trying to create.

 

[Jimz31]

A surprising number of local sport writers are not Cowboy fans. Many are from the NE or Midwest. Some show their bias and some don't.

Spags is one of them. He grew up in Chicago and is a Packers fan. He talked about that after a caller called up wondering about it.

Spags co-hort on the show is a Saints fan.

 

[AKATheRake]

Is it just me that he seems to be anti-cowboys? I'm not one to be considered a chicken little or the world hates the cowboys. But he always seem to have some dig for the team.

At first, he only wrote about the Cowboys and had nothing but good things to say because when all you write about is the Cowboys then the people who read your articles are Cowboys fans and naturally reading an optomistic journalist is easier than a negative one. Once he started with ESPN the Cowboys were still the majority of his material because that's where most of his contacts and leads as a journalist are. That material at the time was heavily integrated into his blog "Hashmarks". He always got greef from fans of other teams being highly Cowboys integrated.

Now he is in charge of writing about the NFC east and thus is now writing much more about other team, still with a good dose of Cowboys but has come under fire from anti Cowboys readers for always being a Cowboy optomist. So now he is having to prove his objectiveness as part of the media and he is trying to do it by throwing the wrench to the Boyz alot more lately. Bottom line, journalists need readers and as long as people are reading what they are writing they keep their job and in their hopes develop into a more broadcasted position with a growing reader base. So that sums up the Matt Mosley perspective. Used to be the best at informing readers on the Boys for the optimist reader, now he is trying to grow other ties with other teams fans.

 

[percyhoward]

Spags is one of them. He grew up in Chicago and is a Packers fan. He talked about that after a caller called up wondering about it.

Want a good laugh? Go to Mickey's WIKI page.

Yeah, he actually has one.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

He's a guy trying to gain interest in his columns for his financial benefit. Technically, that's not a bad thing but the way he goes about it really sucks.

He was every bit the hating, negative, non-factual douchenozzle at the DMN. But ESPN has a different landscape and they prefer their employees to have team allegiances. The Cowboys really don't have one at ESPN outside of Darren Woodson and he doesn't write columns. So Mosely became the resident Cowboys fan. Apparently that isn't working so they'll just go back to the ole standby, hating the Cowboys and in particular, hating Terrell Owens. Which technically is fine, provided you use facts and reasonable logic. But those words and Mosely are tough to fit into the same sentence.

Here's a column that Mosely wrote about a week ago on a particular DMN experience

Following the 2003 season, Allen started skipping Parcells' "voluntary" conditioning program, working out at a local YMCA instead. Since he wasn't easy to reach by phone, my editors thought it might be a good idea to send me over to his home in Coppell.

I figured that showing up unannounced at Allen's house would probably ensure that he'd never talk to me again -- and that's pretty much what happened. As I approached Allen's appropriately enormous front door, I was more focused on my exit strategy than what I was actually going to say.

After a couple of feeble knocks, Allen's wife opened the door. I apologized profusely for showing up unannounced, but told her how important it was that I talk to Larry.

"A reporter's at my house?" she said at least three times.

After telling me Larry wasn't home, she referred me to his agent Marvin Demoff, who returns calls at least once every four or five years. I apologized again and headed home.

Color me overly nice, but I always got the impression that showing up unannounced is a bit rude for the average person. But a REPORTER showing up to your house unannounced is unbelievably inconsiderate. And Mosely STILL went to Larry Allen's house. I wish Larry was home so he could give him his "Jose Cortez treatment."

Take that and this is the same guy that told Matt McBriar after a game he was going to be released because Mosely could read Parcells' lips and you got two shining examples of an incredibly unprofessional and inconsiderate writer.





YAKUZA

 

[seniorette]

I found this interesting, Matt always had a lot of Tony's articles on his blog, you could go in and search Tony and find all kinds of things, and Matt always had good things to say about the Cowboys.
Along in Dec. somewhere it all changed.
The information and articles about Tony were gone and his attitude about the Cowboys became what I term sarcastic.
I wondered if it had something to do with Tony suddenly not talking to the press , including him.

 

[Chief]

Want a good laugh? Go to Mickey's WIKI page.

Yeah, he actually has one.

Mickey is famous for the phrase, "If he's so good, why is he available?"

:laugh2:

 

[viman96]

I found this interesting, Matt always had a lot of Tony's articles on his blog, you could go in and search Tony and find all kinds of things, and Matt always had good things to say about the Cowboys.
Along in Dec. somewhere it all changed.
The information and articles about Tony were gone and his attitude about the Cowboys became what I term sarcastic.
I wondered if it had something to do with Tony suddenly not talking to the press , including him.

This is what I noticed as well. Not specifically what you say but the change in his writing when it came to the cowboys.

 

[AKATheRake]

He's a guy trying to gain interest in his columns for his financial benefit. Technically, that's not a bad thing but the way he goes about it really sucks.

He was every bit the hating, negative, non-factual douchenozzle at the DMN. But ESPN has a different landscape and they prefer their employees to have team allegiances. The Cowboys really don't have one at ESPN outside of Darren Woodson and he doesn't write columns. So Mosely became the resident Cowboys fan. Apparently that isn't working so they'll just go back to the ole standby, hating the Cowboys and in particular, hating Terrell Owens. Which technically is fine, provided you use facts and reasonable logic. But those words and Mosely are tough to fit into the same sentence.

Here's a column that Mosely wrote about a week ago on a particular DMN experience



Color me overly nice, but I always got the impression that showing up unannounced is a bit rude for the average person. But a REPORTER showing up to your house unannounced is unbelievably inconsiderate. And Mosely STILL went to Larry Allen's house. I wish Larry was home so he could give him his "Jose Cortez treatment."

Take that and this is the same guy that told Matt McBriar after a game he was going to be released because Mosely could read Parcells' lips and you got two shining examples of an incredibly unprofessional and inconsiderate writer.





YAKUZA

Yah I read his piece actually on your blog Yakuza. He tries to make Larry look bad the week the guy is going to hang up what is a hall of fame career. He's stressing more in that article about how Larry didnt want to work out under Parcells so he would put more time at the YMCA than the training room as opposed to the overall reporting experience of trying to get the low down which was supposed to be the real point of the article. Mosley at one point is trying to prove how hard he is willing to work to get a story on an athlete but makes himself look more like a worm than anything.

 

[Rack]

Mickey is infamous for the phrase, "If he's so good, why is he available?"

:laugh2:

Fixed.