By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
July 12, 2016

It’s rare when there is a positive development in the Detroit sports media landscape so I figured I would post a quick blog regarding yesterday’s news that Justin Rogers is leaving MLive.com to cover the Lions for the Detroit News.

Rogers — the second banana behind Kyle Meinke for the last couple of years — will be replacing Josh Katzenstein, who is leaving the News to cover the Saints at NOLA.com because Evan Woodbery left that gig to replace Chris Iott at MLive.com on the Tigers beat.

Got all of that? Good, because there will be a quiz later. That triangle is more incestual than Mackenzie Phillips at an Alabama/Auburn tailgate party with Woody Allen.

Anyway, the hard-working and thoughtful Rogers deserved the gig and the decision was a no-brainer. Of course, if the News always made the obvious choice, Tony Paul would currently be covering the Tigers and Chris McCosky would be a cop in a quiet, little, white-bread, redneck, podunk mountain town.

How badly did I want Rogers to get the gig at the News? Well, a spotter of mine alerted me to the fact that Rogers was seen interviewing downtown at the paper’s building a couple of weeks ago and I didn’t even mention it on this site or on Twitter because I didn’t want to jeopardize the poor guy’s chances at getting the job.

Seriously. I even told Rogers as much at the time.

Because the last thing any professional journalist in this town wants is a public endorsement from me. A politician is better off getting a recommendation from David Duke than is a media member in Detroit getting any support from the DSR.

If you want to read Rogers’ announcement about his transition, here it is in its entirety ….

Rogers being provided a larger platform will guarantee that we will continue to get quality Lions coverage in Detroit for the foreseeable future. And of the “Big 4” sports teams in Detroit, they are the only team that is properly chronicled in this city.

And imagine what kind of coverage we’d get if Dave Birkett ever got his head out of his ass.

Of course, the news isn’t all positive. Now that Rogers works for the News, he won’t be able to talk to me any longer or give the DSR credit when we break a story.

A “Like” sure is not a denial.

And While I Am Posting ……

I don’t want you folks getting too comfortable with me saying nice shit about people, so I better end this with a comment regarding yesterday’s “Benedict and the Virginal Manatee” program on 97.1.

On the heels of Ashley Burchfield’s offensive and asinine Pavel Datsyuk article and Dennis Fithian’s Tweet that the Tigers should trade Daniel Norris for Rich Hill, we received more stupidity from “The Ticket” on Monday.

If you want to know why this city’s Sports IQ isn’t very high, you received further evidence of this when Scott “The Whale” Anderson opened his baleen and stated that he would only trade away Tigers prospect Joe Jimenez for a player the caliber of David Price. This cross-eyed slob never misses an opportunity to dumb down the discourse in Detroit.

It is frightening that people actually LISTEN to this jelly doughnut on a daily basis.

Yes, the Human Cholesterol-Filled Carotid Artery actually stated that an undrafted reliever with two pitches is basically untouchable even though Jimenez isn’t on any Top 100 prospect list in the world.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I think Jimenez might eventually be a nice bullpen piece and even help out later this season, but to say you’d only trade him for a superstar starting pitcher is so fucking dumb that I can’t even put it into words.

But Anderson wasn’t done uttering incredulous statements. Later, the topic of conversation turned to ….

During THAT conversation, Anderson claimed that he once dated a girl twelve years younger than him. Hahahhahahahahah. Yeah, sure. Let me guess, you met her at a fat camp in Southern Ontario, Scott.

Uh-huh.

As one of my Twitter followers stated, who knew that blow-up dolls came with an age? I know the one (Kinky Kim) we purchased for Anderson when he won the 2015 Worst Detroit Sports Media Personality had an ambiguous date of birth.

It would seem gauche to me if Anderson goes around asking prostitutes how old they are because I cannot imagine any hooker degrading themselves by having sex with Anderson if a new Gucci handbag weren’t at the end of that disgusting rainbow.

I mean, this monster dated someone a dozen years younger than him?

Yeah, pull this leg …

It plays “Jingle Bells.”

Anderson’s recent comments that the Red Wings could “buy” Connor McDavid from the Oilers or thatAndreas Athanasiou is the Red Wings equivalent of former Tiger utility outfielder Quintin Berry were more plausible.

I had more sports knowledge in the foreskin the mohel cut off my pecker than this hippopotamus has in his entire 400-pound frame.

Have a good day, everyone, and once again, congrats, J-Rog!!!!