Having a hot Latina Pop-star for a Wife: Totally Sweet
Winning the 2004 Home-Run Derby: Who isn't Jealous?
Winning the 2002 AL MVP: Not to Shabby
Getting totally humiliated on national TV: PRICELESS.
So not only does Miguel Tejada get traded for a day before he appears in the Mitchell Report, he now gets busted for lying to get a contract. While he certainly tread some morally gray waters, I can't say I don't blame the man for doing what he had to do to get into the MLB. In fact, I don't even care that he lied, Billy Beane and co. should've done some better homework, I mean if some jerk-off at E60 can do it, you'd assume they could've too.
The thing that totally chaps my ass about the whole ordeal is this: How often when the Mitchell Report came up did you see Roger Clemens and Andy Petite wearing Astros' uniforms on ESPN? I can recall Roger being in the Astros' uniform on the front page of ESPN.com with some sort of tawdry steroid headline right above it. I mean for guys who spent three years with an organization when their careers have spanned a decade and decade plus respectively, was that necessary? Did the E60 guy have to sit down with Miggy in his Astros uniform and bait him into making an ass of himself? Why didn't they try to do this when he was Baltimore, when get got his contract or after he got implicated by Palmeiro? Everyone knows the huge East Coast sport's bias that fuels ESPN, but really was pulling this stunt with Miguel Tejada or the afformentioned unnecessary linkage of steriod-Roger with the Astros? As much as I love sports and baseball especially, network television kind of ruins it (however, FSN or RSN type networks' coverage of sporting events is actually a HELL of a lot better than ESPN, FOX, TNT, etc) To quote the brilliant Gary Huckabee:
ESPN’s brass has lost all faith in sports as drama. This I don’t get, but it appears to be the case. The addition of music-video editing patterns, bad pseudo-metal soundtracks, and visual augmentation of highlights, and the cringe-worthy hip banter between anchors slightly too old to really be using urban lingo has made SportsCenter a test of endurance, not a destination on the dial...like MTV before it, ESPN seems to be convinced that the hype around the core of the offering is of more utility than the core offering itself. I mean, who the hell came up with “Who’s Now?”, and why weren’t they summarily beaten with a big-ass sack of oranges? And why didn’t one of the “talent” speak up and say “You must be joking, right? I’m not doing that crap.” If, before, anyone had even grudging respect for Stuart Scott and all the unindicted co-conspirators who served on the panels, I hope you’ve had the good sense to write them off as the empty and fungible vessels they are. Admit it—it’d be pretty cool to have the anchors off-camera, doing a voice over of what comes up on the teleprompter, and have a turnip, motionless, on the anchor desk. Would the viewer experience be worse? What percentage of the audience would comment that Scott Van Pelt “looks a little jaundiced this evening”?
Simply summed, while Miguel Tejada's age certainly might factor into his baseball-ability, it doesn't seem to this year so far and it's hard to blame the man for lying to get out of extreme poverty when MLB's millions came knockin' at his door. What we should all be disgusted with is ESPN's inability to do anything besides come up with this kind of "To Catch a Predator" rip off.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Miguel Tejada, You just got Punkd!
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the man is good at lying straight faced ain't he???
remember all the indignation when rafe palmeiro got caught doing drugs?
- amusement
but you know, don't nobody care. he's not good enough. people only care when you are a superstar.
anyone else has license to lie cheat and steal his way along.
and as for the hot wife, see what you can buy when you have mucho dinero??? miguel uglyrn sin
and now you get why he's lied & cheated his way along.
lisa gray
From what I discerned of that, I'll make this distinction:
This is about a poor kid lying about his age to get into a showcase league, so that he had a chance of climbing out of poverty. Once he lied, he had to carry that lie forward. Yes, he probably should have came clean when it came time for free agency, but as I person I know has defended Barroid, I think you'd forgive fudging about age (I'll lay off what I could mention about women and lying about age too).
The point I was trying to make, and probably failed to make, is that given all the scandal in this sport, ESPN sits this guy down to do an interview under false pretenses to make a spectacle out of calling him a liar. This what they're going to crucify? Seriously, is that the best ESPN can come up with?
i seriously don't care if he lied about his age. he was trying to get out of being a broke ass kid. as long as he plays well it does not matter. With that being said, my hate for espn has reached new levels. interviewing him just so they could say he was lying about his age. i dont even like him as a player and the whole interaction made my blood boil
i hate to pile on (not really, i love beating a dead horse) but this is different from the roids issue in that, Miggy was a boy when he lied about his age. He was dirt poor and saw this as his one in a million shot to make something of himself. His decision to never come clean about the lie notwithstanding, he made a decision to rescue himself from poverty.
whereas, a lot of major leaguers who used roids were already fairly wealthy individuals who simply wanted to get from big contract "a" to bigGER contract "b".
I have a ton of difficulty beleiving I am the only one ..
If the actions of the ESPN reporter in the Tejada video disgust you as much as they disgust me, [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?page=contact/espntv]please write ESPN and tell them about it[/url].
That reporter should be reprimanded at the minimum, and I wouldn't skip a beat if they fired his ass.
How bush league is that .. wow
This is baseball not fricking Ricky Lake, and the axe that ESPN has to grind with Tejada is punk!!!
sure i understand why he lied to get out of poverty, just like i understand why a woman would lie about her age to get an older richer man, just like i would understand why someone would steal someone else's car when they had none of their own, just like i understand why anyone would cheat/lie/steal about darn near anything. there is always an excuse of SOME sort
it is still cheating/lying/stealing
do i CARE that tejada used roids to get a bigger contract?
no
do i care that he lied about his age to get a bigger contract?
no
what i actually CARE about is equal treatment for the exact same crime. because i see absolutely no difference between te-roider doing drugs to get a bigger contract and poor ol lou santangelo using roids to try to get out of the minors and barry lamar bonds doing roids to get the respect he SHOULD have gotten that he didn't because he wasn't a happy lil smilin nigga like the media thought junior griffey was
i understand WHY any guy would do anything shady/illegal/immoral to get ahead, trust me on this.
but if you gonna slam one, slam em all...
- and yeh, even though i had to cackle watching tejada get caught in a bare-faced lie - cuz he IS a liar and a cheat and he needs to do the right thing and tell the truth about rafe palmeiro too - espn perfectly well could have printed it - catching him like that on camera was bush
p.s. - the "defense" of barry lamar is a WHOLE nother topic
i side with charles barkley on this one
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