[Elvis]

Hell has no fury like a St Louis Sports Reporter who has lost his professional football team (twice).

I love that he's now covering high school basketball.

No matter what your opinion of Jim Thomas' performance as beat writer for the St. Louis Rams, it's hard not to feel for the guy. He's the only media member who has personally attended every game the St. Louis Rams ever played. 21 years and he never missed a game. And now he has no team to cover. Rams Park, where he usually worked from, is being packed up and disassembled right out from under him, yet he's still covering the Los Angeles Rams from St. Louis. Whether you like his style of reporting or not, he's always been a professional. I'm as happy as anybody else that the Rams are back home, but from JT's perspective, this has gotta hurt (professionally, as well as personally). The Times or Daily News should offer him a spot, but that's not going to happen.

Agree.

I've always liked Jim Thomas, thought he did a really good job. And he's still doing a better job of covering the Rams than the L.A. crowd who are only now getting acquainted with the team Thomas has been covering for 21 years.

But he has taken a few shots at the Rams on the way out. He's a big boy, he can handle a few thrown his way...

[AltiTude Ram]

I love that he's now covering high school basketball.

No matter what your opinion of Jim Thomas' performance as beat writer for the St. Louis Rams, it's hard not to feel for the guy. He's the only media member who has personally attended every game the St. Louis Rams ever played. 21 years and he never missed a game. And now he has no team to cover. Rams Park, where he usually worked from, is being packed up and disassembled right out from under him, yet he's still covering the Los Angeles Rams from St. Louis. Whether you like his style of reporting or not, he's always been a professional. I'm as happy as anybody else that the Rams are back home, but from JT's perspective, this has gotta hurt (professionally, as well as personally). The Times or Daily News should offer him a spot, but that's not going to happen.

Agree.

I've always liked Jim Thomas, thought he did a really good job. And he's still doing a better job of covering the Rams than the L.A. crowd who are only now getting acquainted with the team Thomas has been covering for 21 years.

But he has taken a few shots at the Rams on the way out. He's a big boy, he can handle a few thrown his way...

Not to mention that his meter was broken on Jan 12th. It pegged in the right direction and got stuck!

[Elvis]

Not to mention that his meter was broken on Jan 12th. It pegged in the right direction and got stuck!

That was interesting.

When most of the St. Louis faithful/hopeful were dismissing the possibility of a Rams move, he had it at a little better than 50/50 they would leave. He was quite the realist.

But he seemed to think the Task Force had pushed the odds in St. Louis' favor, definitely had that wrong.

Though he did say (or write) that when he left St. Louis for Houston he knew it was over and told his wife as he was leaving that when he returned St. Louis would no longer have a football team...

[RamsFanSince82]

Hell has no fury like a St Louis Sports Reporter who has lost his professional football team (twice).

I love that he's now covering high school basketball.

No matter what your opinion of Jim Thomas' performance as beat writer for the St. Louis Rams, it's hard not to feel for the guy. He's the only media member who has personally attended every game the St. Louis Rams ever played. 21 years and he never missed a game. And now he has no team to cover. Rams Park, where he usually worked from, is being packed up and disassembled right out from under him, yet he's still covering the Los Angeles Rams from St. Louis. Whether you like his style of reporting or not, he's always been a professional. I'm as happy as anybody else that the Rams are back home, but from JT's perspective, this has gotta hurt (professionally, as well as personally). The Times or Daily News should offer him a spot, but that's not going to happen.

I disagree with your personal opinion of JT.

It sounds like you think I was joking when I made that comment about him covering High School basketball games. I wasn't joking. The day that I made that comment, he tweeted that he was working his first High School basketball game in 25 years (or something like that).

He's not still covering the LA Rams. He's said a number of times that his new job is covering the NFL for the PD. Since there's still a lot of interest there in the Rams, he's been more focused on the Rams than other teams. He doesn't have any inside info./knowledge on the LA Rams.

[AltiTude Ram]

Not to mention that his meter was broken on Jan 12th. It pegged in the right direction and got stuck!

That was interesting.

When most of the St. Louis faithful/hopeful were dismissing the possibility of a Rams move, he had it at a little better than 50/50 they would leave. He was quite the realist.

But he seemed to think the Task Force had pushed the odds in St. Louis' favor, definitely had that wrong.

Though he did say (or write) that when he left St. Louis for Houston he knew it was over and told his wife as he was leaving that when he returned St. Louis would no longer have a football team...

I agree. He was one of the better St. Louis local media members that didn't allow his bias to reflect too much. I did enjoy some of his articles and his chats. Much better than Whining Bernie or some of the other locals spinning everything positive about LA into nothing.

I also agree with Rams74 that said he knows more about the current Rams team than anybody in LA at this moment. If he was up for a move to LA to cover the Rams, I would support that as long as he left his St. Louis was wronged mentality before he made the move.

[Hacksaw]

JT = OK... BM lives up to his initials. The Rams coming home should also include completely wiping BM from our memories for being such an ass.

[RedAlice]

I always enjoyed JT during our time in StL. He is one of the good ones, he just had his feelings hurt over the B trade and then the leaving.

He's still a good guy. I think his digs are kinda funny. He is certainly no where near the idiocy of Bernie and SG.

I will continue to read him for his opinions on our players, he does know them better right now than then the LA guys. It's a good read to add. I wish him the best in what he decides to do.

[rams74]

I love that he's now covering high school basketball.

No matter what your opinion of Jim Thomas' performance as beat writer for the St. Louis Rams, it's hard not to feel for the guy. He's the only media member who has personally attended every game the St. Louis Rams ever played. 21 years and he never missed a game. And now he has no team to cover. Rams Park, where he usually worked from, is being packed up and disassembled right out from under him, yet he's still covering the Los Angeles Rams from St. Louis. Whether you like his style of reporting or not, he's always been a professional. I'm as happy as anybody else that the Rams are back home, but from JT's perspective, this has gotta hurt (professionally, as well as personally). The Times or Daily News should offer him a spot, but that's not going to happen.

I disagree with your personal opinion of JT.

It sounds like you think I was joking when I made that comment about him covering High School basketball games. I wasn't joking. The day that I made that comment, he tweeted that he was working his first High School basketball game in 25 years (or something like that).

He's not still covering the LA Rams. He's said a number of times that his new job is covering the NFL for the PD. Since there's still a lot of interest there in the Rams, he's been more focused on the Rams than other teams. He doesn't have any inside info./knowledge on the LA Rams.

No, I didn't think you were joking. I understand that part of his new assignment is covering high school sports. And while his official assignment is not the Rams, per se, he is still writing articles that are completely about the Rams, so that's all I meant about "covering" the Rams from St. Louis. I agree with everybody that he definitely has the viewpoint of a St. Louis fan on most things related to the move. And he is definitely bitter, but I think that's understandable. Nevertheless, despite all those things, he's been a professional the whole time, and still is. Bernie? Please. And why anybody would actually pay Shane Gray to write any of his drivel is beyond me. But Jim Thomas is a different story. As others have already pointed out, his history with the Rams provides a much more developed base from which to write about the team than any of the L.A. based writers have displayed so far. I think part of his advantage there is that his job with the PD used to be Rams beat writer -- and nothing else. None of the L.A. writers who have written Rams articles is dedicated to the Rams, and that's a problem. I think it would serve Rams' coverage well if the Times brought JT over, for the sake of continuity and depth if nothing else. I just don't see it happening. They'll cover the Rams, they just don't really care how well they do it.