Sideline reporter gave fake news

[Webster]

I did notice on Twitter that Jamele Hill is somehow finding a racial angle to this. I like her and her writing, but she is all about the same thing.

 

[Dog8Cats]

I think @KVV nailed my disbelief best in his tweet: "Rolling the dice that your employer won't fire you from your $700k a year gig so you can seem funny and cool on a podcast ... ."

Doesn't Thompson realize that she has enough (had enough?) going for her already that she doesn't need to feel a part of whatever cool-kids club she was trying to gain entry to?

 

[DanOregon]

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)

It would be a decent movie - similar to The Slugger's Wife - player meets media person - they fall in love, idiot producer moves media person to some other sport/job - player starts to go on a slump - since the cable outlet is partly owned by the team, they bring back the media person and they all lived happily ever after.

 

[Songbird]

I did notice on Twitter that Jamele Hill is somehow finding a racial angle to this. I like her and her writing, but she is all about the same thing.

She who doesn't know how to ask the UNLV football coach the only question viewers would've cared about in the moment. But hey, race.

 

[BTExpress]

I mean, this stuff is all on tape, right? If not in the official Fox archives then on some obscure YouTube channel. All it takes is one coach or ex-coach to say "I never said that" when she attributed to them and this is blown to bits.

Except that too many times coaches/politicians will say "I never said that" when they DID say that. So I never believe them when they go there anyway.

 

[playthrough]

I think @KVV nailed my disbelief best in his tweet: "Rolling the dice that your employer won't fire you from your $700k a year gig so you can seem funny and cool on a podcast ... ."

Doesn't Thompson realize that she has enough (had enough?) going for her already that she doesn't need to feel a part of whatever cool-kids club she was trying to gain entry to?

I'd be stunned if she gets fired. I'd love to be wrong, but a lot of public opinion on social media thinks it's no big deal (also not stunning given the lack of respect for our profession) or they miss the point by going on the tired rants against sideline reporters. Maybe her employers will be OK with that half-hearted mea culpa. Or it would be awesome if this is the last year of her contract and she isn't renewed.

 

[Huggy]

Like everyone who's ever encountered him, I love Terry Francona. But there was some old-school baseball boys will be boys shirt 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.

Wasn't there some shirt with Heidi Whatney and Jason Varitek that blew up into a fight in the clubhouse?

 

[Songbird]

Did it bring in more eardrums? Yes? Then she/they won.

 

[Azrael]

Aldridge: Charissa Thompson's admissions corrode sports journalism, and those who strive to do it right

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Wasn't there some shirt with Heidi Whatney and Jason Varitek that blew up into a fight in the clubhouse?

Not sure, but that would track correctly with the end of their timelines in Boston, when it was a shirtstorm to end all shirtstorms for the Red Sox.

There was at least one other player from that era reliably linked to Heidi.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Wasn't there some shirt with Heidi Whatney and Jason Varitek that blew up into a fight in the clubhouse?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ationships-between-red-sox-and-media-members/

 

[ChrisLong]

Hampus Lindholm and Ashley Brewer were a very visible couple. And it was crazy that she kept mispronouncing the names of the Swedes when she was reading the news.

And don't forget, in Mr. 3,000, Bernie Mack was banging ESPN reporter Angela Bassett.