A laughing matter
I'm not joking about this-- I think it would be very difficult to be a professional athlete and have to deal with idiot sports journalists. Sports reporters comprise a pretty lowly stratum in American life overall, as evidenced by the stooges that make up the television program "The Sports Reporters." In my book, they're right down there with radio disc jockeys-- though I generally adore fictional radio disc jockeys. Go figure.Arizona quarterback Derek Anderson had to defend himself vociferously Monday night after ESPN's cameras found him laughing with a teammate on the sidelines while his team trailed San Francisco by 18 points. But this reporter who all but scolded Anderson after the game looks like a twit and so does MNF broadcaster Jon Gruden, admittedly a coach by first professional, who got everybody fired up to begin with. Anderson then had to lose his cool and deny that he had done it to try to rescue his professional reputation. What would have been better for the quarterback to be doing at that moment? Crying? Should he have gone all-Carlos Zambrano on the Gatorade bucket? Yeah, teammates love that type of behavior when the team is getting blown out.
Derek Anderson can play on my team any time. Hell, he already did-- with the fantasy St. Louis Clydesdales in 2007.
You know what does annoy me though? U.S. soldiers that laugh on the battlefield. That shit's gotta stop.
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Cheers to Deadspin commenter "Rynosaurus," a surprisingly-clear-eyed thinker for an obvious Cubs fan, who dropped some George Bernard Shaw on us this week in regards to the Anderson flap: "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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Former Cub Ryan Theriot is now the Cardinals' shortstop. I'm not sure he's a solution on the field, but he's saying all the right things.
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You gotta feel bad for LeBron James upon his return trip to Cleveland tonight. A lot of people leave Cleveland and are never forced to go back.
posted by CM @ 9:15 PM
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Theriot is in "baseball heaven"? Hope he figures out which side to take in the LaRussa/Rasmus scrap. They had a ton of infighting last year and quit on their manager (as I heard it).
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