ASTROS OWNER DRAYTON MCLANE’S REPUTATION has been taking a justified hit of late, over everything from front-office/coaching instability to high concession prices to incessant meddling to poor results on the field to the bungled attempt to hire top managerial choice Manny Acta.
Fortunately, McLane’s PR man at the Chronicle Jesus Ortiz (who poses as the baseball beat reporter) has had the owner’s back for years. Here‘s the latest effort, which emphasizes that McLane is a “proud man” who really is in tune with fans’ pain.
A better sports section would force rewrites of this sort of source-worship posing as beat reporting.
