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I accidentally caught the start of the Finebaum show yesterday.

He said Neal McCready has left the Mobile Register, due to that paper's "lack of support" when WNSP 105.5 canned him. Y'all may recall that the radio station removed him from the Sports Drive program (Mobile's top-rated radio show), because of his open contempt for the Alabama Football Program and its fans.

The afternoon immediately following the firing, his boss, Sports Editor Randy Kennedy appeared on the hour-long Tide and Tigers Report, which follows Sports Drive on Thursdays. Kennedy has been doing that show for years. Apparently, McCready took that as a lack of support and started shopping his resume.

All I can say is "awww, poor widdle baby. Him got his widdle feewings hurt? That's a 'YOU' problem."

I met McCready at a community event a couple of years ago. He is filled with a sense of his own greatness. He honestly believes that he has never met a more knowledgeable sports journalist and doesn't think he's going to any time soon.

Good bye, good riddance, and ROLL TIDE.
 
This is correct. I've heard from two different Press Register sportswriters that McCready will be leaving the Press Register to cover Ole Miss for Rivals.com.
 
McCready reminds me of a percentage of the national media who assured all of us crude, backward narrow minded Bama fans that it was unthinkable for CNS to leave that pearl of south Florida for lowly and disheveled Alabama. People with sharp pens don't like to be left with egg on their face. For all of you media members everywhere who can't get over Saban's departure, deal with it. That goes for you to McCready weather you really have a deep seeded hatred for Bama or are just an average publicity hound. Either way GOOD RIDDANCE!
 
His hatred of Bama is exceeded by his utter contempt for us -- the Bama Nation.

We will always have to deal with a small but vocal group of alleged journalists who can't complete a column or broadcast without a potshot at us. We sound off about them, but rarely do we make a difference.

In McCready's case, we got a scalp. A number of Bama fans who were advertisers threatened to pull their accounts unless something was done to rein in the arrogant SOB. The GM called him in he was fired.

He had several colleagues at other papers who were guests on the show. It was a Rogues Gallery of Bama haters, including Glenn Guilbeau, Jay Tate and other assorted losers. They all refused to be guests of the station's programs when he got canned.

So, not only is Sports Drive rid of a first class A-hole, we don't have to tolerate the other idiots, either. And now that he won't be writing his nastiness in the Sports Page anymore, it is a complete victory for the good guys.
 
Finebaum was the same way towards Bama when he started out at the Post-Herald in 1980. He had sense enough, unlike McCready, to temper his hatred. He knew it wasn't smart to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
 
Last year in Mobile a man ask Chicken ala McCready to come out of the Radio Station. Most remember this, while it was on the air. I guess Neal was made sport of due to the fact the man was approximately 5' 7' 125 lbs. The police came and ask the giant mini mouth to leave. He actually bet he could whip Neal on air. My money was on Mighty Mouth because was willing to settle the issue of Creepy trash talking about Alabama. Neal did not want any part of it. I am thinking Chicken ala McCready was the course of the day and it wasn't his good judgement that saved him. That would have been an Oxy Moron. :BigA:

-- "It would be easy to be very bitter and ask all of you not to give your time to the people at WNSP in the future, but that would be petty on my part and I'm going to try to be the bigger person here," he wrote to us journalists. "Hopefully, another opportunity in this market or another will come my way and I can call on you all again.
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You keep trying Neal Goober Pea McCready. Don't bother calling on Alabama fans neal.

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The sad thing is, he really was a pretty good investigative reporter. He was the one who brok the story uncovering the pay for play program at UT. He single handedly proved that Tee Martin received cash from a Mobile booster. Had he been able to get one more source to go on the record, he would have blown open a huge case of wrongdoing there.

He was also usually right about the kind of people at ESPN and other national media outlets (i.e., typically left-leaning, typically anti-south elitists).

But his hatred of the entire state of Alabama colored everything he wrote or said about sports in the state. He just didn't like the state, its people, or the devotion we have to our favorite sports programs.

The reason? It comes in many shapes and flavors, but it's always this color. ENVY.
 
Often quick it point out his credibility as a legitimate "print journalist" and moving to small-market-slightly-up-scaled BLOGGER, his resume now will read like a first draft screenplay for SPINALTAP. I STILL FIND MYSELF WISHING FOR MORE OF LESS FOR HIM.
 
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He will hate the Tide more now that he is doing the Ms. Hotty Toddy dance. :biggrin:
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Maybe he will learn the virtue of not attacking the things his readers treasure. If not, his stop in the Magnolia State may be brief.

"Hi, I'm Neal McReady. I hate you, your state, and everything your love. Please buy my newspaper." This does not sound like a recipe for success.
 
There are/were good and bad elements to McCready while he was working in Alabama.

He was one of only two journalists I knew who showed legitimate interest in following the Tee Martin ticket story (the other was out of state). McCready's first loyalty, as a journalist, was almost always to the story.

What gets all journalists in trouble -- me included -- is when we're asked to be op/ed writers. You have to be able to write very opinionated, pointed commentary and stand behind your work but at the same time, not come across as mean-spirited or close-minded.

I think that's what got McCready in trouble, and it didn't fully manifest itself until he had his radio show. He seemed to believe he could copy/challenge the Finebaum market, but he's not Paul Finebaum and he wasn't going to dent Finebaum at any point in the foreseeable future. He then seemed to compound the problem by getting personal with the Alabama fans.

I don't have any love at all for Auburn and I don't hide that, but I don't let my preferences turn to grudges, nor do I seek conflict with the fan base just for the sake of doing so. I think if McCready had tried to take his cues more from Cecil Hurt than from Jim Rome, he might still be on the air.
 
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