Tyler Summitt out after making Baby Techster

Criminy, shotty, it's like the "eye test" bullshit all over again. Yeah, of course you don't "need to" respond. Nobody's got a gun to your head. But don't expect anyone to take your views seriously if every damn time anyone asks you to explain or defend them you respond with the equivalent of "nyaah, nyaah, nyaah, I don't have to....." Take a shot at it. For kicks, if nothing else.

 

ESPN.com has this as its centerpiece story right now. I understand the interest, but, damn, it's getting to the point of salacious rubber-necking by now, dressed up as a serious news story, no?

 

And it doesn't stop there. If it stopped there, then, OK, whatever. But in the process, he's smug about how the rest of us have lesser characters than he does, because we choose to defend our opinions. And he's exposing us.

 

It's not an ESPN centerpiece story, ever.

 

It's kind of funny right?

When two married ESPNers were hooking up, it was nobody's business.

But some 21-year-old basketball player at Louisiana Tech might have hooked up with her coach, and we have to get to the bottom of it.

 

Well, certainly the power dynamics are a little different here. (I know you and I differ on the importance of Deadspin's scoop for all time that day.)

But at some point, this turns into a gossip piece. I understand the elements are really, really appealing. It's Shakespearean. But I think a lot of that is cover for being able to write about sex, sex, SEX!!!!eleventy111!

 

It's also notable that the reason this really caught fire, I think, is the pregnancy element. It's scarlet letter/"Papa Don't Preach" stuff. Some of these people might as well write that she's "in trouble."

 

She is a good girl with good parents from the heartland. We're all shocked when it happens to a good girl with good parents from the heartland.

 

Mrs. Whitman and I have such a raucous, almost debauched relationship in the bedroom that I don't feel the repressive draw to a story like this that others might.

 

Why does someone have the need to constantly remind us they are incurious about the world around them?

 

It's a defense mechanism, I think. Deep down, he knows that he struggles to match wits with some of the brighter bulbs of SJ.com nation (like me), so he tries to save face. I feel for him.