To Braves, Hawks, Falcons, Thrashers: Good is for losers
Editor’s note: This is Terence Moore’s last column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Terence has decided to take a voluntary buyout, ending a stellar 24 years as a sports columnist. Terence sums up his time this way: “My objective was to get people to think, not to agree or disagree, just to get people to think.” We thank him for making all of us think and wish him the best as he moves on to new endeavors.
Can we talk? There’s a question I’ve asked myself for 13 years and counting, especially with the Hawks becoming the latest Atlanta team to operate as a tease.
That question: Will anybody around here join the Braves as the only professional sports franchise with a world championship? I mean, will the Braves even do it again? And the 1968 Atlanta Chiefs don’t count. Well, unless you’re a little goofy and consider the famously wobbly North American Soccer League something worth mentioning.
I’m referring to whether the Hawks, the Falcons, the Thrashers or the Braves can spend a season within the next couple of millenniums keeping the events of October 28, 1995 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium from resembling a fluke.
That was the night of the second loudest baseball crowd I’ve heard inside these city limits. As for No.1, nothing will surpass the eternal stomping and screaming that occurred after Francisco Cabrera’s hit and Sid Bream’s slide. But back to No. 2, when David Justice’s homer gave the Braves their only run back then against the Cleveland Indians, and Mark Wohlers followed Tom Glavine’s eight innings of shutout pitching with a save. Then the Braves’ old ballpark became a noise factory again.
Soon after that World Series victory was official for the Braves, I roamed center field, about where Marquis Grissom squeezed the final out. I hadn’t a choice. Players, team officials, coaches. Nobody wanted to leave the area in order to savor the moment, so you had to interview folks on the field.
While those associated with the Braves alternated between smiling, crying and dancing (you know, with a few interviews in between), the crowd hollered louder and louder as they kept blaring Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “Takin’ care of business” over the PA system.
I remember thinking from an Atlanta standpoint: It can’t get better than this, and it hasn’t. And it won’t. Not until one of these teams becomes more than just good, which is the Hawks’ problem in the playoffs against the Miami Heat.
Elite NBA teams have an elite player, such as the Heat’s Dwyane Wade, and Joe Johnson is the Hawks’ best player, but he’s only good, just like the Hawks.
The Falcons also are only good. Still, with suddenly enlightenment management and coaching, they have a chance for a breakthrough, but they need back-to-back winning seasons first. They’ve yet to do that in their existence.
Elsewhere, courtesy of decent starting pitching, promising youth and future Hall of Famers Chipper Jones at third base and Bobby Cox in the dugout, the Braves are only good (see a pattern here?). The Thrashers, not so much. Ilya Kovalchuk is the only overwhelming star on a flawed roster, and he could bolt after next season as an unrestricted free agent.
This isn’t to say the two major colleges around Atlanta have fared better at winning it all beyond gymnastics since pro teams came to Georgia in the mid-1960s. In football, the Bulldogs had a national championship in 1980, and the Yellow Jackets managed one 10 years later. Neither has come close since then.
But that’s another column.
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ProfFish
April 27th, 2009
3:49 pm
Good luck in the future, Terrence. I’ve enjoyed your work. You have made me think more than once. Sports is just part of life, not the reason for life.
Barbarosa
April 27th, 2009
3:51 pm
“But that’s another column.”
Uh, not. Thanks for a mostly forgettable (stellar, did you write that yourself?) 24 years of mediocrity. Don’t let the screen door hit ya …
Herschel Talker
April 27th, 2009
4:04 pm
Terence is gone! That is beautiful!
Run Heap Run
April 27th, 2009
4:07 pm
Good luck Terrence. You definitely made people think.
Josh
April 27th, 2009
4:11 pm
I’m so glad you are finally gone, worst writer in sports…24 stellar years? are you F…ing serious?
AndyC
April 27th, 2009
4:16 pm
Terrence, I often disagreed with you but I do respect you as a journalist with strong opinions. Good luck to you. By the way, the Jackets national championship was a co-championship. Not a true championship.
LizDawg
April 27th, 2009
4:18 pm
Good riddance Terence and your incessant spewing of blatant racism. Free at last, praise God almighty we’re free at last!
David Justice
April 27th, 2009
4:22 pm
Hey Terry my buddy, thanks for the memories and working me into 91% of your articles since 1995. Regardless of the topic, from ND football’s return to glory to the Atlanta Spirit’s ownership of the Hawks you always find a way to work me into the article and for that I will always love you, just like Michael Bolton sang. I will miss you dearly but may have to subscribe to AOL instead now.
Thanks Terry from your man-crusher Dave!
PMC
April 27th, 2009
4:24 pm
Good Luck Terrance in whatever you decide to do.
Ernest
April 27th, 2009
4:28 pm
Best wishes going forward, Terence! I recall a piece you did a few years ago called, kids don’t drive. It was about the efforts parents make to get their children to practices, sometimes showing up late. I often repeat that line to coaches that want to punish kids for their parents getting them to practice late. I once offered to do the laps for my child for getting him to practice late before (delayed due to an accident).
You have written a LOT of columns that I have agreed and disagreed with. They also made me think, which I understand was your objective. Hope you new gig with AOL works out well.
Atlanta fan Jeff
April 27th, 2009
4:29 pm
I’ll miss you Terrence. I always looked forward to reading your columns, and usually whether I agreed with you or not, you were right on the money! And as for angry AJC readers … they won’t know how much they miss your insight until you are gone.
Barbarosa
April 27th, 2009
4:35 pm
AOL? Well a fossil working for an Internet dinosaur. How appropriate.
No Lawson No Chamipionship
April 27th, 2009
4:44 pm
See ya Terrance…Did you ever say anything positive once in your column. If you hate Atlanta so much you should have left about 20 years ago. Not 24 years…
Al
April 27th, 2009
4:55 pm
Watch what you write Sekou. You could be next.
Pi$$onaDAWG
April 27th, 2009
4:58 pm
T. Moore glad you are gone. Sell that BLACK CRAP to the world and leave us alone. Is the Ladies jockstrap comfortable? Men call it a thong. Bye you Black only writer. AOL I will never read his crap so I hope that works out for you.
Knuckle Sandwich
April 27th, 2009
4:59 pm
Terrence, I can’t say I’ll miss your brand of Journalism, but you hit the nail on the head with this column. Good luck as Jim Rome’s new sidekick.
T-Bone
April 27th, 2009
5:02 pm
Terrance, you made me think . . . and I appreciate that. You will be missed.
Bo
April 27th, 2009
5:27 pm
Terence –
Before taking a swipe at UGA (and GT), a little research could’ve saved you from once again exposing your shallow and reckless reporting skills.
UGA has produced 37 national championships across several different sports, with many coming in the preceding years.
For your reference:
http://www.georgiadogs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8800&KEY=&ATCLID=324061
spotts
April 27th, 2009
5:36 pm
Have some class, people. Just because you didn’t always agree with the man doesn’t mean he deserves your pointless mocking on his way out the door. (I still don’t understand how so many people spell his name wrong…it’s at the top of your browsers!)
Terence, I haven’t always agreed with you, but you’ve done a great job of covering Atlanta sports over the years, and it’s very much appreciated. I wish you the best of luck in whatever you do in the future.
As for the article, I completely agree. Hawks won’t be able to compete for championships because they have a great player – Joe Johnson – some good players – Horford, Smith, and Bibby – but no elite players.
The Falcons finally seem to be on the right track to start a…dare I say…dynasty?
The Braves? Who can figure them out. I blame TP, but whatever.
And the Thrashers, well…they’re there.
Later, Mr. Moore!
Chris Schuette
April 27th, 2009
5:47 pm
Sorry to see you go, best of luck in future endeavors. As a native of Oxford Ohio, I used to read your articles in the Miami Student a thousand years ago. I’ll keep an eye out for your next stop.
Kevin
April 27th, 2009
6:50 pm
Mr. Moore, Often (usually?) didn’t agree, but I did read you for the past 24 years and you made me think. Only shallow folks read just what they agree with – we stretch ourselves when get outside our comfort zone even in sports writing. And judging from some of the idiotic notes above, some folks are definitely shallow and out of their comfort zone. Remember folks, he was a columnist who wrote opinions, not just a fact reporter. Every colummn had some good in it – at the very least he provides a bad example! Best of luck in your new role.
lawton
April 27th, 2009
7:26 pm
thank you for telling the truth on the way out of the door. im disagreed with you on some things, but You hit the nail on the head about atlanta’s teams. braves: not signing barry bonds, falcons: getting rid of deion, hawks: getting rid of dominique, and STILL rebuilding. those are just SYMPTONS of a larger problem. You think Jerry Jones or George Steinbrenner gonna let perceptions get in the way of fielding the best possible team??? No, thats why they got championships, and Atlanta has nothing but the losersville image it earned. Again, thanx for telling the truth on your way out of the door.
ToccoaDawg
April 27th, 2009
7:55 pm
Leave already you racist pig
william cranman
April 27th, 2009
8:19 pm
Good luck Terrence. I didn’t always agree with you but if I had that would not have made you a very good writer. Good luck in your future endeavors and as far as I’m concerned, you will always be a member of the AJC family.
Plato
April 27th, 2009
8:32 pm
What in heaven’s name makes you think Bobby Cox has been a plus for the Braves? That washed up old geezer should have retired years ago.
SEC Fan
April 27th, 2009
8:58 pm
HEY TERENCE,
DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT.
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS AS LONG AS THEY ARE FAR FROM ATLANTA.
GOOD LUCK TRYING TO GET OTHERS TO “THINK” YOUR WAY. YOU WORE OUT YOUR WELCOME HERE 15 YEARS AGO.
HEY AJC, PLEASE RENEW MY SUBSCRIPTION!
murfdawg
April 27th, 2009
9:07 pm
To borrow a line from a GT blogger, thank God and Greyhound you are gone.I’m glad I outlasted your biased reporting and insipid columns. I can’t wait until I get the “new” AJC and you will not be there.
Walter Lewis
April 27th, 2009
9:11 pm
“Neither has come close since then.” Seems like UGA came pretty close the year before last.
misterwax
April 27th, 2009
9:11 pm
TM, your main difficulty was mixing poitics with sports…Guys read the sports pages with a completely different reason than reading the national news. You muddied this distinction way too often and your politics was invariably some version of “Whitey still keepin’ us DOWN!!” I and most men who read got sick of it a long time ago…..try writing some columns in Nigeria, maybe you will get a clue about being kept down….good riddance to bad rubbish!
heeldawg
April 27th, 2009
9:16 pm
Terence:
1. Goodbye, and good luck. I didn’t always agree with you, but I do agree that your point was to engender thoughtful consideration of the topics you wrote about. Mission accomplished on that one.
2. I also agree that Atlanta’s pro teams do not stand much of a chance to win a title in the next decade. There’s hope with the Falcons, a little less with the Braves, and essentially none with the Hawks and the Thrashers.
One question: why don’t we just rename the Braves after a bird? The Turkeys, perhaps? Then we’d have four major sports teams with avian names. Just a thought.
3. Georgia and Tech haven’t won national titles since their respective wins in 1980 and 1990, but #1 Georgia played #2 Penn State for the national title in 1982 and lost. And they beat #2 Texas in 1983 to end up in the top 5. And they finished #3 in 2002 and #2 in 2007. It all depends upon how you define “coming close.” If coming close is finishing as one of the best few teams in the country, Georgia has done that. If coming close is actually winning a title, well, you’re right–neither team has. Can’t say much else about that.
Zeke
April 27th, 2009
9:17 pm
Good Luck Mr. Moore! I have enjoyed reading your articles for years. Any idea where you will go next?
bigpapapump
April 27th, 2009
9:18 pm
Terence, you say that good is for losers. Then “good” describes your career.
Keith Warren
April 27th, 2009
9:20 pm
I’ve always dreamed of this day.
But don’t feel bad Terrence, now you can join the other hacks on ESPN. I know Jim Rome loves you. You’re one of the few people in the world who makes him look smart.
All the best. Now, GET LOST!!
TMooreCanSuckIt
April 27th, 2009
9:20 pm
Good Riddance too you and your race card! On a bright note…..Vick will be out of jail soon….he will have some openings on his new entourage. Perhaps you can make it there. Best thing I have read in the AJC in years.
Bluestreak
April 27th, 2009
9:23 pm
T Moore,
I may not have always agreed with your point, but I never finished one of your columns without knowing exactly where you stood. I’m sorry to see you go. Good luck in whatever your path leads to.
Ty
April 27th, 2009
9:24 pm
Terence, finishing #2 in the polls twice in the last seven years isn’t anywhere close to a national championship?
Good luck in your future endeavors, dip$#!+
TROTTINGHOME
April 27th, 2009
9:26 pm
adios you boot licking, porkchop bone sucking knee bending head bowing uncle tom
mr. mang
April 27th, 2009
9:27 pm
I’ve read your crap for years, finally the powers that be have gotten rid of you. The only purpose of your columns is to encite the local sports fans to try to stir the pot. Great way to get ratings loser. I’ve never written because I didn’t want to contribute to your continued employment but now that the AJC has booted your butt out the door I will comment joyfully. Thank goodness I don’t have to read your trash anymore.
mountain_jim
April 27th, 2009
9:29 pm
Terence, I’ve been reading you here for all of those 24 years – Thanks for all your work and good luck in the future!
Duluth Gator
April 27th, 2009
9:30 pm
Late at night I could read your column and eat a bowl of Corn Flakes and go to bed with nothing on my mind or my stomach. After all your negative comments about UF, UGA, GT, please don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out and promise to never come back.
Brian Hunt
April 27th, 2009
9:30 pm
Thanks for your time and efforts Terrance. I have enjoyed reading your blogs over the years. You’re the only one who was never drinking the kool aid and keeping it real when it came to our teams, whether they were good or bad. Good luck to you my friend.
David Basham
April 27th, 2009
9:33 pm
There are many of us who have waited for this day for a long, long time.
As a graduate of the Grady College of Journalism, a former Lewis Grizzard scholar & Peabody Student Judge, and ex-writer for Rolling Stone and MTV News, I have read and rolled my eyes for the last time at your tired, race-baiting tripe, Mr. Moore.
We are so much better off without you, and you can take heart in the fact that you will not be missed at all.
ATL Fan
April 27th, 2009
9:34 pm
You people are disgusting and should be ashamed of yourselves. I almost never agreed with him either, but you hicks slithering out from under your trailers have less than zero class and you give this great state a hideous name.
Since I didn’t choose to act like a 12-year old from the 1800s to show it, I guess some people may not realize that I also rarely agreed with you. That being said, good luck Mr. Moore in whatever you end up doing.
Wherever you go, please remember that a handful of idiotic rubes draped in “No Fear” stickers and Confederate flags do not represent the thinking majority in this otherwise great state.
Ed
April 27th, 2009
9:34 pm
Terence,
Thanks a bunch and best of luck, it’s kind of a big change seeing all you ajc’ers leave in a short space of time. I hope the ranters and ravers recognize the value of the press and the absolute fun of sports columns. Looking forward to your next column and by the way……….Go Jackets!
JDW
April 27th, 2009
9:38 pm
Goodbyand good riddance!
Joe Carr
April 27th, 2009
9:43 pm
I did not always agree with your columns, but there were a lot that I did agree with. Whether I agreed or not was never important because I always made time to read your column. I have really enjoyed your opinions and columns. I will most certainly miss you and the city of Atlanta has lost a journalist who doesn’t always tote the party line. Best wishes.
Alisha
April 27th, 2009
9:45 pm
Terence,
You said your objective was to get people to think, and i think it’s blantanly obvious that you accomplished that goal. Although many including myself havent always agreed with you, I appreciate your work in covering Atlanta sports. Good luck with all your future endeavors!
You can go 2
April 27th, 2009
9:48 pm
Hey ATL FAN, you can hit the road to after you get your nose out of your boys behind.
Terence Bored
April 27th, 2009
9:49 pm
Terence, your deck of race cards has been so worn out enough that not even the AJC could take it anymore.
And if that whining liberal Cynthia Tucker leaves too then the AJC might actually have themselves a new subscriber
loveya terrance
April 27th, 2009
9:49 pm
All about the money terrance, until the very end. Goodthing a tiger never changes his stripes.
jacketbacker
April 27th, 2009
9:51 pm
good luck terence…..i got tired of the race crap but i did read your columns and actually agreed with much of what you wrote….keep an eye on CPJ and the jackets….may have something to cheer about soon!…..
130on2
April 27th, 2009
9:58 pm
It is a shame that someone with your talent let race ruin a potentially great career. Occasionally you would write a good article but invariably you would soon write a race filled column that obliterated any thoughts that you had any valid insight at all.
NCBravesFan
April 27th, 2009
9:58 pm
Thanks, Terence and best wishes in the future. I appreciated your work, and think you’re a classy guy.
Rebel Rouser
April 27th, 2009
10:03 pm
More Money, More Money, More Money….I wouldn’t have expected anything else from you Terrence. You never gave any team in Atlanta any repect…the glass was always half empty in your eyes. Over the years you’ve tried to hide your racism….but your writing gave you away. I hope you end up in Oakland covering their teams…but even they deserve better than you.You need to quit looking at yourself in the mirror and thinking you know more than everyone else…other wise no one will ever take you seriously in the future….no one ever did here in Atlanta.AMF
CorkylikesBeer
April 27th, 2009
10:06 pm
Good luck!
Tech82
April 27th, 2009
10:07 pm
I guess this means the AJC has an opening for a beat writer on racism. That’s all TM appeared to be for 24 years.
Jonesing for Moore, Terence
April 27th, 2009
10:09 pm
The posts, hopefully, will amuse you. While you never were a favorite or a must read, I’m still a Kendred man, we must all acknowledge, you lit us up pretty often. It’s a talent and one that, as hard as this is to say, will be missed. Wish you were staying, the time you have to put in at the paper would save us from encountering you on other forms of media. Good Luck and God Speed. Terence, we hardly know YOU!
NRBQ
April 27th, 2009
10:12 pm
That’s another column…… that you phoned in, Moore.
I’ve read the AJC sports page since way before you were hired, and there have been a lot of great writers come through the sports department, many of whom are nationally known now.
I can honestly say, negativity and race-baiting aside, I’ve never read one of your columns and thought, “Now that’s good writing.”
Rick
April 27th, 2009
10:13 pm
Terence,
As you begin a new chapter in your life, please leave the race card behind. Not everything in life has to do with race. Good riddance. You’ll not be missed.
terry1030
April 27th, 2009
10:17 pm
To all: Thanks for reading during the past 24 years, and I also thank many of you for your kind words in these comments. You still will be able to read, hear and see my comments in other settings. So I’m not fading into the sunset — not for a while.
Take care.
Justafan
April 27th, 2009
10:25 pm
Take Bobby Cox with you, please.
Average White Man
April 27th, 2009
10:32 pm
Let’s tar and feather his a$$ on the way out of town. Moore was a bigger no-talent bum than any of the Atlanta sports franchises have ever seen. And the AJC let him get away with his racist crap for all those years. No wonder they are about to go under.
stew
April 27th, 2009
10:33 pm
This white guy never saw the race thing. You were my favorite and good luck. PS: Send Mark Bradley to NewYork so he can be the Yankee reporter for the Daily News. Yankee fans love him.
FloridaDawg
April 27th, 2009
10:33 pm
Wishing you all the best in the future. Thanks for your work and thought provoking columns.
Another white guy says
April 27th, 2009
10:43 pm
thanks for the good work. You were never my favorite, but you were always provacative.
Message to my people: Calling attention to the subtle race issues that are indisutably present in professional and college sports doesn’t make the columnist racist. I thought Terence had it wrong it a lot of the time, but I never thought him racist.
Bob
April 27th, 2009
10:43 pm
So, after 24 years of writing for a paper in the same city, you end it by saying that our pro teams will never win another championship and are just good. We know that the Falcons and Hawks aren’t winning a championship this year, or probably not even next. But we at least have hope, and I’m keeping that hope that our teams will rise, no matter what you say.
mudcat
April 27th, 2009
10:45 pm
Terence, sorry for all the haters. For the most part your reports were professional, concise, introspective and provoked meaningful debate. For a sports beat writer, that’s as good as it gets. Speaking for several of us here in Columbus, GA, we honor your service and wish you continued success in the future. Thank you!
The Grinch
April 27th, 2009
10:48 pm
Terrence, you’re a mediocre, race-baiting egotist. Part of me is sorry to see you go (entertainment value and all), and part of me agrees with most others in fondly wishing that the door not smack your racist fanny on the way out. I guess ultimately I’ll have to side with the latter group. Auf Wiedersehen!
Tony from Stone Mountain
April 27th, 2009
10:48 pm
I’ll miss you Mr. Moore.
See you on Sports Final
Hawks win!
The series is not over.
Keith Sims
April 27th, 2009
10:52 pm
Terence,
Thank you for all your years of good work. I didn’t always agree with you, maybe not even most of the time, but I understood that wasn’t what you really wanted. At times, I even wondered if you really believed some of the things you said, or if you were just trying to stir up a debate. Either way, it was good journalism. It is sad to see you and all of your fellow partners go. You will be missed and definitely won’t be forgotten. Thank you.
UGA91
April 27th, 2009
10:52 pm
It amazes me how much race is always part of many of the posters comments on Mr. Moore’s blog. He didn’t always talk about race but someone always mentioned it in their comments on his site. I didn’t always agree with Mr. Moore but he did get the conversation started, so I guess he achieved his aim but I wish these self righteous fans would leave the racial venom in the closet.
Dan
April 27th, 2009
10:56 pm
Will the last AJC columnist (will Furman Bisher outlast them all?) please remember to turn off the lights when you leave?
Regardless of what you think of the publication, reading these farewells as yet another AJC regular takes a buyout is like watching a slow and painful death. If someone can explain why anyone would actually pay for what remains (it’s a business and not my civic duty to keep the AJC alive) I would be interested in hearing it.
FreeMikeVick
April 27th, 2009
10:59 pm
I liked T Moore. Sorry to see you go.
JT
April 27th, 2009
10:59 pm
Let’s do the T. Moore anthology….Hank Aaron, Oakland Raiders, Cincinnati Reds, Notre Dame, Oakland As, Dave Justice, Marquis Grissom, Hank Aaron, Oakland Raiders, Cincinnati Reds, Notre Dame, Oakland As, Dave Justice, Marquis Grissom, Hank Aaron, Oakland Raiders, Cincinnati Reds, Notre Dame, Oakland As, Dave Justice, Marquis Grissom, Hank Aaron, Oakland Raiders, Cincinnati Reds, Notre Dame, Oakland As, Dave Justice, Marquis Grissom,….yep, that pretty much sums it up….7 columns just recycled for 20 years straight….but hey, no judgment here….it is good work if you can get it, so I have to give you your props….peace
RYan
April 27th, 2009
10:59 pm
. .good bye Terrance. The collective intelligence of the AJC just rose with your departure. . not that that was hard.
old mikey
April 27th, 2009
11:00 pm
Please, can Bradley be next? Get rid of both of the non journalists.
Matt
April 27th, 2009
11:05 pm
Finally, the best thing the AJC has done as of yet, is get rid of you.
I’m sure it was exhausting hating every Atlanta sports team, but you managed to. Even your last article is full of “Atlanta still isn’t good enough.”
I hated just about every article you wrote. Every once in awhile you would compliment one of our sports teams (well, it was backhanded, but it was the most we could get).
Even after a good season, you would put out a similar article to this: “Nope, not good enough.” Not every city wins a World Championship every year.
Good riddance. I hope they bring in someone with a love of the cities sports teams, who can say something positive. You won’t be missed. I’ve been calling for your firing for at least 5 years.
JDH GT
April 27th, 2009
11:09 pm
Well said, ATL Fan. I completely agree. Good luck, Mr. Moore. I’ve been reading your columns my whole life, and the sports page won’t be the same without you. You have always made me think. I have probably agreed with you about half of the time, but even when I didn’t agree, I appreciated your view. It’s really easy for all of these people to criticize you when they don’t have to do this for a living. In fact, most of them can’t put together a coherent thought.
Eman
April 27th, 2009
11:11 pm
But T……… Your not even GOOD!!!!! bye bye bye old man!!!!!
Erk
April 27th, 2009
11:12 pm
Go back to Indiana.
red goat
April 27th, 2009
11:14 pm
I’ve always gotten the sense that Terrance Moore enjoys pissing people off, but I’ve never understood why so many people think he’s racist. Ignorant, yes. Maddening, absolutely. I won’t miss him. Maybe Furman Bisher leaves soon, too. Guy hasn’t written a column about someone who’s relevant in 20 years.
God
April 27th, 2009
11:15 pm
I have granted everybody’s wish! NOW PRAY TO MEH
savannahdawg
April 27th, 2009
11:21 pm
thank god you are gone the final thug in the mike vick support group is out of the atl even though i never got past your first sentence your column will be missed i now have to actually buy toilet paper to wipe your opinion off my ass
kenbme
April 27th, 2009
11:28 pm
The only thought that was provoked by you Terence was ‘ Why does the AJC keep you around?’ . Guess they thought about it. Good luck being the master of the obvious elsewhere. Oh yeah, thanks for promoting racism – just what we needed!!! Anyway, you did actually make a couple of good points over the years…
a couple.
Pollywantsacracka
April 27th, 2009
11:30 pm
All these Polly’s on this blog can’t stand anyone not like them giving an opinion & despite the unneccesarily harsh critism (rascist come on you pale morons) you have always written what was on the pulse of true ATLiens. By the way I was a grad of UGA, now you talk about rascist when I was at the school they still let those Billyboys fly that confederate flag as you drove down the street, it took beating the crap out of a american born mexican for the school to say enough. And you Bush bendovers cry about terrence being a racist, death w/ your f’ed up system.
Sports Fan
April 27th, 2009
11:32 pm
Mr. Moore,
Please learn from the post that nobody, black or white, cares to see the race card pulled. Your columns actually became a joke to me and all my friends at work because you would always find a way to make something a display of racism. I do wish you the best of luck because I do believe you are a true sports fan that knows the history of sports fairly well. So with that, best of luck at AOL or Jim Rome or whatever avenue you choose. As for the AJC, read all the previous post and wonder just how many people, like myself, stopped paying for the paper when you let someone represent you so poorly.
Jim
April 27th, 2009
11:33 pm
Terence Moore: the only AJC scribe who never went on tv or radio without being paid in advance…You could learn a lot from Mr. Barnhart or Mr. Schultz
I’d actually now pay for the Sunday edition once a year now…
David Duncan
April 27th, 2009
11:35 pm
Good Luck Terrence. I enjoyed reading your blogs.
Mike is back
April 27th, 2009
11:36 pm
MAN, FINALLY A DECENT SHOWING ON THE BLOG…GUESS THE SPORTS GOD WILL MISSED YOU…TRUST ME YOU WANT BE MISSED. Heh heh
CAN YOU DO EVERYONE A FAVOR AND TAKE BRADLEY AND SHULTZ WITH YOU…CAN’T HATE ON FURMAN BISHER…HE IS A CLASS ACT…I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HIS SON MONTY…COOL DUDE!!!
I STILL WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS. FAREWELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adios
April 27th, 2009
11:36 pm
Terence, I truly think you are a terrible sports writer. I am glad you are not with the AJC anymore. That being said, I hope you find something you are actually good at and enjoy doing, and I hope you have a nice life.
John Jonzz
April 27th, 2009
11:39 pm
I’m glad TM is gone, but the AJC is still a terrible newspaper. Atlanta deserves better!!!
Goodoleboy
April 27th, 2009
11:41 pm
If “Good” is for Losers… You’ve had a “Good” run Terence
Colorado Buff
April 27th, 2009
11:42 pm
ATL FAN doesn’t speak for the majority of Atlanta. Read the the majority of the blog posts on here and all Terence’s racist columns. You made me think for sure. Every time I read your article I thought how much I could not stand you. He wore out his welcome a long time ago. C Ya Terence, and you truly will not be missed.
Goodoleboy
April 27th, 2009
11:44 pm
Can we get one last plea to bring Ken Griffey Jr to the ATL?
scottbravesfan
April 27th, 2009
11:45 pm
Best of luck Terrence I always liked reading your stuff. Hopefully the Braves can win another World Series in my life time because I was still pissed off about the strike in 1995 and didn’t really follow the team the whole year because I was boycotting them. And then they finally win the whole thing.
Butt Sauce
April 27th, 2009
11:45 pm
Maybe being away from Atlanta will give you some perspective.
Yours Truly,
The Bruhs
Mike S
April 27th, 2009
11:46 pm
Good luck in your future endeavours Terrance. While we did not always see eye to eye, your columns never failed to make me think, and that is a gift that is rare among sports columnists. YOu will be missed around here.
ButlerDawg
April 27th, 2009
11:52 pm
The Village says goodbye to its…well you know the rest. I truly will miss you after all of these years though, Terence. Now I must learn to direct all of my anger on Jeff “Pearle Vision” Schultz.
get the picture
April 27th, 2009
11:54 pm
Terence, good luck to you in your new position and a little advice. Before you pen your first column or commentary or blog at your new job, you might want to read the tale of “the boy who cried wolf” to gain some perspective on why people loathe you so. To deny that you have cried wolf (racism) over your 20 years of writing for the AJC would be shameful. You say that you wrote to make people think…mostly you just made the same point over and over and over again – that doesn’t make people think, that makes people tune out your message of inequality and failure. Just take a look at your last column and the underlying theme is negative, just as the vast majority of your columns have been over the years. I feel sorry for you and am thankful I don’t have to live in your skin…even you seem uncomfortable in it.
82dawg
April 27th, 2009
11:56 pm
Voluntary buyout… Terrence was laid off. I hate that should happen to anyone. The AJC just got a little more boring….
Always Disagreed
April 28th, 2009
12:03 am
Nobody can take away that it took some serious balls to write some of the stuff you did. But you never took cheap shots, unlike some writers who would spit flame at college and high school KIDS, you always took it to the MEN of these games and let us watch the fireworks.
I almost always found myself arguing out loud with most of your points, which is probably the same for many of these people, and also why we kept reading. You and everyone else made mistakes, we just more often than not were chomping at the bit to tear you down for yours.
You are obviously doing something right, you still have a job. I can safely say I will not miss your opinions about the HOMETOWN teams, but without you where would we get most of our passion for these teams from? It seems to be hiding until someone says something bad, and oftentimes that was you.
I think without some of the bias we all perceive and some of the missed or misapplied facts, you would have been more widely accepted here.
Good luck, dude.
Reg3870
April 28th, 2009
12:09 am
What a loser? You should have moved 24 years ago.
JM
April 28th, 2009
12:12 am
Some of these hateful comments directed at Terence Moore are simply petulant. Terence, as far as I know, is a good man and an upstanding citizen. He’s done nothing to deserve the vitriol that has been thrown his way on this blog.
Jeez, people, are your lives so empty that you have to attack this man’s character because he said some less-than-flattering things about your favorite teams over the years? I’m sure Moore has written some articles that have gotten my blood boiling, but at the end of the day, this is just sports we’re talking about. I’m as big of a diehard of my teams as anyone else, but it’s not really worth getting riled up over and it’s certainly not worth holding a personal grudge against someone just because he didn’t kiss your team’s butt all the time. To attack Moore the way some of you have (not just today, but for many years) is just plain silly.
I wish Terence all the best in the future.
BnB
April 28th, 2009
12:13 am
Good luck in the future. As for making us think….uh, rewriting the same 12 columns over 24 years was not always thought provoking. You made some good points though. Always easy for those of us in the Peanut Gallery to throw rotten fruit. It’s sort of like being in the Press Gallery!;)
michaelgee
April 28th, 2009
12:15 am
Adios mofo
michaelgee
April 28th, 2009
12:19 am
fwiw, you didn’t make anybody think good things, you made the ATL look dumber with every negative biased article you wrote. You never represented any Atlanta Professional Franchise with anything but disdain.
Good luck on the Jim Rome circuit.
Najeh Davenpoop
April 28th, 2009
12:27 am
I wasn’t ever a huge fan of T. Moore, but he was a lot better than his haters gave him credit for, and he did make me think every once in a while. Although many AJC readers think any black person who mentions other black people is a racist, I can’t say I ever got that vibe from him. Good luck wherever you end up going.
And yeah, the ATL will see a championship sooner or later.
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