I Just Read Richard Justice, And Boy, Does My Brain Hurt

It's been awhile since we've seem some real idiocy from Richard Justice, so I guess we were just do. Thus comes today's posting in which Justice remembers that he hasn't kissed up to Vince Young lately. So he comes out with why the Texans made the wrong decision by passing up on Young in the draft.

He doesn't talk about it as a football decision, he talks about it in terms of a business decision. Then he justifies his thinking by stating that Drayton McLane and Les Alexander would have dictated that Young be drafted. Only he's wrong in his thinking. He knows he's wrong, but Justice likes playing his readers for fools.

But remember this.

Can anybody ever tell me a time when Les Alexander dictated personnel decisions to his basketball people? You can fault Alexander for lots of things -- he did an awful job with Toyota Center and turned that place into a lifeless building -- but not for interfering with the basketball side of the equation. He lets his basketball people make the decisions, and he signs the checks. Like a good owner should. So it makes no sense that he would overrule his basketball people because he knows it makes no sense sticking them with a player that they don't want.

But if Justice writes that, the so-called logic of his post makes no sense.

And speaking of making no sense is Justice writing that Drayton would have ordered that Young be signed. One of the reasons the Astros have the worst farm system in baseball has been that Drayton won't pay for draft choices, and he would have had to pay for Vince Young. Drayton only pays for draft choices what Bud Selig tells him to pay, and Vince Young would have cost way more than what Selig would have said. So there's no way that Drayton would pay that cash for Young.

And don't give me this nonsense about Young being a local product. The Astros didn't draft Carl Crawford, a local product, because he wanted too much money. Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens came at huge discounts, and Drayton really didn't want to sign them but he got tricked into it

So sure. Some people are going to be stupid enough to believe Justice's crap. But anybody who follows Houston sports should know better.