By DSR Staff
DetroitSportsRag@gmail.com
June 7, 2013
In our continued celebration of the 10th anniversary of the DetroitSportsRag.com, we have decided to release some emails from media members who have become the site’s sworn enemies in the past decade.
And one of our favorite targets is the buffoonish Detroit News writer and 97.1 radio host Terry Foster.
Back when the DSR first came into existence, Foster attempted to ingratiate himself with DSR co-founders Gregg Schultz and Jeff Moss.
As we pointed out last week, Foster was on the outs at the News and his radio career was in the toilet. So, the future failed candyman and Homeless Man’s Bobby Flay attempted to join forces with the DSR. Going as far as trying to coerce Schultz and Moss into creating a sports version of the Metro Times for Detroit.
Here are some of the emails Foster sent to the DSR with a few of our comments sprinkled in.
We didn’t know it at the time, but it would turn out that the only reason Foster wanted to do a story on the DSR was so he could make some money of the venture.
I am quitting WXYT today and going back to The Fan. The bottom line is Gregg Henson quit using me on the air and I want to do radio, not sit on the bench. He believes Mark Spindler is better on the air and can serve the station better. So I was odd man out.
Notice that when Moss forwarded this particular email to Schultz, he gave it the subject, “come on, why is he telling me all of this?”
The information was totally unsolicited. And while the DSR hasn’t agreed with Gregg Henson on much, 3-G had Foster’s radio talents pegged. Like, if someone told you that Marc Spindler was more valuable than you at radio, wouldn’t you have killed yourself?
But I still love your web sight and want to ask a few questions why you started it and all that jazz.
Web sight? This guy is a journalist? Makes money with the written word. Web sight. Unreal. Terry do ya still love the “web sight?”
No problem. I hope it helps people find your sight.
There he goes again with “sight.” What a fucking dummy.
This was also the first email from Foster where his insidious plan to get $100 to $150 an article out of the DSR fermented.
Keep in mind that Foster did write one article for the DSR, took the money and then never gave it back when the News predictably told him he couldn’t moonlight for us and the column had to be taken down posthaste.
You have to give it to the guy, he is quite a hustler. I am sure his Smokehouse investors will soon discover that going into business with Terry Foster is about as smart as investing money with Bernie Madoff.
I did receive some feed back. Some guy emailed me and said you have a bad reputation on some Lions web sight. He said he did not like you. But none of the other journalists said anything negative. I think they like the fact you rip on Parker. He and Sharp are not well respected in our community.
This passage was great. Rob Parker and Drew Sharp aren’t well respected in the journalistic community. While Terry Foster is considered a regular Grantland Rice?
Now, keep in mind that the above email was sent to us in 2003. In 2006, Sharp and Foster teamed up to write a book called “The Great Detroit Sports Debates.”
Like, Foster decided to co-author a book just THREE YEARS later with a guy he didn’t respect?!?!?!?! This continued a long history of Foster trying to make a buck in any possible fashion. Absolutely incredible.
Anyway, those are all of the emails we have for you today.
Continue to monitor the DSR for future drives down memory lane.
Boombaye!!!!