Monday Musings
*Scott's Shots sure caused a ruckus over the weekend, based on Michael Gee posting to the sportsjournalists.com board making lewd comments about a student he was teaching at Boston University. Check the Scott's Shots link on the left of the page to take a look if you haven't seen it.
Two things right off the bat: One, it is no secret I'm a fan of Scott's Shots. I think it is the best media column in Boston today. And yes, the fact I've gotten positive mention in his column is part of it. If you're discounting the validity of a media column in the summer of 2005 simply because it is on the Internet and not with a newspaper, well, have fun going down with the ship.
Two: I don't know Michael Gee, have never met Michael Gee, and have no particular opinion on him either way. I never picked up a paper specifically to read him, the way I do with Bob Ryan, but nor did he rely on a shtick to the extent I deliberately avoided reading him, either.
All that said, it is unfortunate it came to this, and it certainly gives me pause about what I post online (I post occasionally to sportsjournalists.com under my own name). In fact, there have been about a dozen things I've written for my blog and not posted after giving it a second thought, because I know my name is on there and once it is out there, it is out there.
The thing that's most interesting to me is that there is a strong sentiment on the sj.com board that Dave Scott is a "rat" for going to BU for comment on Gee's posting. Now let me get this straight. Say you're a college basketball writer, and you find out the coach you cover is publicly making sexually suggestive comments about a woman over which he is in a position of authority. If the reporter followed up on this with the coach's supervisors and wrote a story and the coach was subsequently fired, the reporter would be praised and probably get an award. If the reporter knew this info and sat on it, he'd likely be fired or suspended.
But when Scott goes and does the same for his beat (sports media), because it is "one of our own," now all of a sudden he is a "rat?" Huh? Come again?
*Hey, Scott Kazmir pitches against the Sox tonight. I bet NESN will get all wacky and play Kashmir by Led Zeppelin 800,000 times again. Get it? Kazmir? Kashmir? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Wait, wait, let me catch my breath. (deep breath). I think I'm OK now. No, wait ... Kashmir! Kazmir!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! HA! HA!(slapping knee) Oh the hilarity!!! What'll they think of next???
*Hey, did you know Bronson Arroyo has a music career? Just in case you didn't hear.
*Somehow I knew when I mentioned Kevin Romine on Saturday I'd hear from Clarkie:
Interesting mention of Kevin Romine. Did you realize that it was 17
years ago (Saturday)? Looked it up the other night on Retrosheet.
I was at that game, as well. I was talking about it with (colleague) the other night. It had something to do with (colleague) making a Randy Kutcher reference that I don't remember.
I also told (colleague) about Bo Jackson hitting one off the back center
field wall against Oil Can that same game. You probably recall; he
didn't.
Anyhoot, that was one hell of a ballgame, and pretty much the moment you knew that something was afoot with Walpole Joe Morgan. IIRC, the Sox swept a doubleheader the evening before. The Romine game, for me, is the quintessential childhood Fenway memory. I went with my buddy Sully (it is mandatory that everyone growing up in Boston has a friend name Sully) and sat in section 42 of the bleachers. First half of the game was the Bo Jackson Show. He hit the aforementioned home run, at the time the longest homer I had ever seen at Fenway -- quite similar to A-Rod's home run on Thursday night off Schilling -- and made an absolutely spectacular diving catch in center, robbing Rich Gedman of extra bases. Then after going down 6-0, the Sox scored four in the sixth, Dwight Evans hit a two-run homer to tie it in the eighth, and Romine hit the only homer I ever remember him hitting in the bottom of the tenth to win it. Great stuff. The other game I remember attending in that run was another Saturday afternoon game, a 16-4 win over Detroit in which Evans had two home runs and hit a bases-loaded triple. Good times.
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