Holy cow.
The next time I try a stunt like posting 52 times in one day, I'm not going to do it on a Thursday when I have a newspaper column to write - or at least not a day when Phil Hughes and the Yankees get hammered all day for faking an injury.
Only to have it turn out he really had a broken rib.
Chris Russo and Mike Francesa are currently on the air admitting they were wrong to make assumptions about an injury, but they certainly weren't the only ones.
Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton were just as bad this morning. And I know there were others. It's all kind of depressing, really.
"We got burned; we apologize,'' Russo just said. That's a start, I guess. But let's all be more careful in the future. Please?
"It's a good lesson for all of us to learn,'' Francesa just said.
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Gee...how ironic is it that just two days after the Bob Costas special on the future of sports journalism, M&MD (and to a lesser extent Carton and Boomer) find a way to prove the point of the discussion.
Especially after one of them says (and I paraphrase) that the government has to do something about the Internet.
If you're gonna go after the Internet, maybe the first thing to do is to take a look in the mirror, guys.
Egg, meet faces.
Imus and his impersarios, Francessa, and Russo, especially Russo, were the same way when Pedro shut it down and it turned out to be seriously injury as he had a tear in his left calf muscle and later a torn rotator cuff. This after Russo spent an entire show questioning Pedro's heart.
Those two clowns were ridiculous today. They are gonna learn a lesson from this? Maybe a pig will fly across my window tomorrow..
I'm glad Mike and the Dog ate their crow, but what about Newsday's own Wallace Matthews?
http://www.amny.com/sports/baseball/ny-spwally015669503may01,0,3115972.column