Sideline reporter gave fake news

Their Mets postgame staples--Gary Apple and a rotating cast of former Mets players and executives--are solid too. I have to think the pay is pretty decent for Apple, or maybe he's just there b/c he has the misfortune of being older and needing to carefully manage what is left of his hair. But when it comes to the younger people, they are still there b/c they're just not very good.

 

Well since you brought it up, how are these situations handled internally?

I can think of at least three women in the last decade who started in my former market, two of whom went national in some way eventually, who had/have relationships which came about thanks to their job. Either with athletes or coaches they covered or met while on the job.

All three of them are decent to very good on-air, only one really advertises her relationship publicly, so it’s a matter of opinion how much it affects their work, but those in the biz know what’s going on.

I don’t think I’m going out on a limb to say you surrender your credibility when you get into a relationship with those you cover, full stop. I don’t want to hear about journalistic integrity. I don’t want to hear about being part of a sisterhood of journalists. I definitely don’t want to hear about advocacy for women in the biz when your actions undermine everything that has been fought for by women who managed to be journalists without jumping into bed with anyone they covered.

Unfortunately, that stereotype that that women journalists seethe about still happens … and not infrequently. It’s that gorilla in the room no one wants to talk about.

I wonder how female journalists handle it/accept it among themselves? Is this talked about privately?

 

Boston is NOTORIOUS for that. Like, disgustingly so. (Any amount of athlete-journalism cohabitation is awful, but Boston takes it to an entirely new low)

 

Does anyone have idea what the editor's note refers to?

 

• Jenny Dell-Will Middlebrooks
• Jess Moran-John Farrell

Two very prominent examples from the last decade, and those are the ones reported on publicly. I can think of at least two more from the last 20 years, and I've been in the Fenway press box once in my life.

I can't believe Charissa still has a job.

I can't believe no one at Amazon was like, "maybe we should pull her off the air this week."

I can't believe she doesn't know about Festivus. I've never watched one damn complete episode of "Seinfeld" and I know that the hell festivus is.

Done airing my grievances.

 

Like everyone who's ever encountered him, I love Terry Francona. But there was some old-school baseball boys will be boys shit going on with that staff and the local media while he was the manager that was just cringe-worthy. And it trickled down to the players. Not gonna turn this into TMZ but as you know, there were no shortage of players messing around with the talent. The Middlebrookseses seem happy but man that's just so...no.

One more known marriage between a Bostonian and an athlete: Katherine Tappen was married to Jay Leach, who was with the Bruins and their Providence AHL affiliate from 2003-07.

 

Cleveland good at it, too …

Jim Thome, Doug Dieken, and baseball Joe Smith’s wives were reporters.

 

In LA, Carolyn Hughes and Derek Lowe and Alanna Rizzo and Chris Ianetta.

Most, if not all, were married to others when they got together.

 

Ahh yes, the Alanna Rizzo disaster, where she had the lack of self-awareness to declare someone else was unprofessional in a locker room.

And to TSP's point, Joe Smith is married to Allie LaForce, so it's hard for me to take her seriously during her broadcasts.

 

The Athletic really has become the daily newspaper LOL The Athletic.

 

When I think about it, it's not even that big of a deal with me that she may have done this when she was on Michigan State-Indiana on the noon kickoff for the Big Ten Network way back when.

More of the lack of judgment to tell the story to a large audience.

She survived the leaked video of touching herself in her office (while Bradshaw was outside the door). She'll survive this.