Man, T.C. really hated this site and its proprietor, and did so for a long time. I regretted this, but understood it. He didn't have a lot of fans among the Confessors. I thought he was OK at what he did, getting better as time went by, and I thought he would do well in Florida. But likability over the air is a distinct talent, and T.C., while seldom outright unlikable, just didn't move the needle for most of us. Or moved it to the left.
His biggest beef with MTC was that I declined to disclose to him the identity of the colleagues who had (non-anonymously) communicated to me certain unflattering information about his relationship with some of his colleagues and the regulation of his popping-on during a particularly heavy on-popping period on BaD, information I had used on the site. I agreed with him that there was some unfairness to anonymous sourcing, but I wasn't going to breach confidentiality with my communicants. This made him quite angry with me. OK.
I remember the first time I ever heard an on-air reference to him. It was Craig "Junior" Miller talking about some guy backstage at TicketStock, I believe it was, with whom he'd had some kind of inappropriate interaction. Don't remember what Craig's problem was, just that he questioned what this guy was doing inappropriately interacting with him at TicketStock. Can't recall anything specific, but I got the idea that he was never a Muser favorite. May be wrong about that.
The man plainly had some gifts. He worked hard. Seemed to be a go-to guy for technical matters. Kept Bob and Dan happy most of the time, not a skill to be sneezed at. Had sportsy knowledge. Worked at his Tickers. Was prepared.
Many Confessors and, I suspect, many P1's, never forgave him for his gratuitously offputting remarks on his departure for Florida. I believe that if that had never happened, he would not have ended up the lightning rod he became on his return.
My view was always that while all of the Ticket JV are intelligent and ambitious, T.C. just wasn't good at disguising the latter or his excessive pride in the former. That on-air tone, and poor relations with his peers (remember that on-air dustup with John Fahey?), injured his prospects at The Ticket.
In the end, he was a Tickerman, and, I thought, a pretty good one. He also popped-on with BaD, but that couldn't have been too satisfying. He watched JV after JV with less seniority, some with lesser on-air gifts, leapfrog him into weekend and fill-in programming: Justin, Mino, Eli, Machine, Jake, others.
Not an attractive future, so his departure is probably a very good thing for him.
Hey -- he was a Tickerman and he's got us all talking about him. That's some measure of accomplishment. He became Ticket-famous.
My Ticket Confession wishes him and his colleagues and investors every success.
