A History of Mistrust

By: T. Love

In case you missed it, check out this article written by Mr. Wright Thompson.

It was a great piece of work and well written, but my problem is the source of where this is coming from. The root of all evil in the sports world today, that is a multibillion dollar Disney product that mixes clichés, quips, washed-up athletes, writers with over inflated egos and sprinkles in a little sports to produce the entity known as ESPN.

More like BSPN. If FSN can get Final Score up and running a little better or if CBS’ new acquisition CSTV can get going, then maybe someone can finally bury these clowns.

Since the Michael Vick case broke in late April, ESPN has had round the clock coverage which even includes a Vick sneeze update. Kelly Naqi has been assigned the “Vick Beat” similar to Pedro Gomez’ “Bonds Beat” and it has been nothing but splattering this man’s name all over television and the internet to make him seem like the most vile and heinous criminal ever to walk the face of the earth. If I was a casual onlooker, I would really think that Vick was in charge of running Hitler’s army.

Naqi’s “breakthrough” came in late May when she uncovered an “informant” that had information regarding the “secret” world of dog fighting. Well, like all of the sheep that this country has now, they followed the story and believed that this was a credible source. First, if this guy was so credible, why wasn’t he talking to Federal authorities? Second, his claims are BS because he said Vick was a “heavyweight” and bet in the 10G range. Well, read the indictment for yourself and come up with your own conclusion.

Since Vick was indicted in July, there should only be two reports. The first should have been when Vick was indicted. The second should have been when he went to his arraignment. The BS network got lucky and Tony Taylor snitched so that gave them one more thing to talk about.

It has been almost three weeks and the story has started to die, but what’s this? The network releases this piece trying to analyze the racial divide on this issue? Like my friend Jared says, “Stay in your lane”. ESPN should heed that advice and try getting back to reporting sports and do a decent job of it instead of being a tabloid. You are alienating the true sports fan. Your bogus claims, misinformation regarding players and last to know mantra are pathetic.

I know this issue is racially divided and it is sad but true. But maybe, just maybe the issue wouldn’t be so out blown out of proportion had the network stayed true to its roots of reporting sports and not been so focused on yellow journalism.

History of mistrust is a pretty appropriate title coming from the folks at Disney.