Sports "journalism" is a joke

I never got around to doing it last week (blame my neverending quest to become the World Heavyweight Champion of Lazy), but I think it's time to bitch about the idiocy of "the sports media" re: the recent Baseball HOF inductions.

First of all, I'm assuming you have sense enough not to watch shit like Around the Horn. Well, I should but if I didn't watch, I wouldn't have stuff to bitch about and my Jay Mariotti voodoo doll would get no lovin'. Your chest still hurtin' you, Jay? Just remember there's more where that came from.

Anyway, after the HOF inductions were announced, everyone on the show had pretty much the same thing to say: oh, it's great for Ripken and Gwynn, but it's just a shame that all the talk about McGwire is going to overshadow them.

Guess what, assholes? IT WOULDN'T IF YOU WOULD JUST SHUT YOUR FUCKING COCKWASHERS ABOUT IT ALREADY.

This is a familiar theme for ol' ESPN's "analysts". They'll spend all show bitching about McGwire/TO/Sexy Rexy (in their defense, I feel we should be talking about the great Sex Cannon, but oh well) and then will immediately turn around and lament that "it's just a shame that we focus on such and such so much". This is usually followed by me throwing whatever is handy at the wall with lethal speed- we've gone through two cats this way. R.I.P. Milhouse and Nelson- God won't throw you at walls.

The schadenfreude here is really absurd. Do they realize what the fuck they're saying? I mean really. The truly funny part about all of this is that this great and sacred sports institution of bitching about the truly obnoxious and then lamenting said bitching has crept into political "journalism" (well, the extent of it's influence depends on if you count Fox News as journalism). The pundits will line up on their proscribed sides of the issue, verbally kick each other in the junk for a couple of minutes and then lament about "the partisan nature of the debate today, blah blah blah".

I think the only conclusion we can reach from all of this is that ESPN must be destroyed in order to protect our Democracy. It's almost enough to make you cry.