Erin Andrews and the Cubs locker room: Discuss

But Coach Parcells is so altogether dreamy.

 

Here's how skewed the "will someone think of the children?!?"-sports journo thought process has me.

I see her in that dress, and I don't think whether or not it's appropriate. I'm thinking whether or not it's close enough to the knee to give Nadel pause. Everything these days has to be couched with a, "what do they think?," instead of what I think.

 

1. I like to think I'm realistic, and I'm generally disgusted by the way female sports media are treated. I get sick of hearing stories from co-workers and other friends in the media business. However, if Andrews was arguably showing questionable ethics, that's fair game for criticism. But does it really warrant a newspaper column?
2. You're right in one way ... this is a slightly different dynamic, in some cases. But again, why did a story need to be published? It's a fair topic for discussion, but as a column? Sheesh.

It's one thing if she's sleeping with a player. If not, why is it news to anyone outside our business?

 

In fairness, Nadel was the one who got Ozzie Guillen to rant in 2005 about how he would retire if the Sox won the World Series. They did, and he didn't, of course. But still a good one-on-one get by a guy who doesn't necessarily have to work tha thard.

I've seen Nadel in action - he's not Mariotti. Not even close.

 

In other words, leg exposure is like real estate: What's important is location, location, location!

 

Pretty much comes down to the judgment of Nadel and his editors. Columnists have the latitude to pluck anything out of the passing scene and this didn't strike me as some egregious break of protocol.

If anything, it kind of points out that the Cubs are part of the Yankees/Red Sox elite in baseball now, being covered by one of ESPN's celebrity journalists. The fact that Piniella would make the comment about a modeling assignment indicates this is something out of the ordinary and something that clearly got the attention of the Cubs.

It's not a news story, but I don't see any reason it can't be a column. For what's it worth, if Berman was doing his nauseating act of sucking up to players all over the clubhouse and pretending total strangers were his best friends, I wouldn't have a problem with a column on that, either.

Columnists often write the scene. It seems pretty apparent her visit was a big part of the scene on that particular day.

 

I don't blame Moddy a bit for saying "no more pics" because this thread would have drifted away from discussion and toward finding the hottest pics of reporters. That's his job: to keep us in line. Most of us know better and have discussed this intelligently but you know as well as I do there would be three or four noobs going, "But this is hotter," or "I'd hit it."

 

I'm willing to bet there would be more than just "noobs" doing that.

 

I think I know why there are so few women in our profession after reading this thread, and a lot of it doesn't have a damn thing to do with a lack of interest in sports or journalism.

Oy vey.

 

I would absolutely grant that point - had Mr. Nadel written even half a sentence along those lines. He did not. This column had more to do with Mr. Nadel's exquisitely repressed libido than it did with baseball or the Cubs.

 

But don't you see? He saw her touch Soriano's bicep! And this was after Alfonso said he was going to go steady with Nadel.

I think we all know who the hussy is here: Alfonso Soriano.

 

I couldn't see very much of anything, really. Lou and I were spooning on the Players' Couch.