The Huffington Post inexplicably attacks young ballplayer
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It never ends with our friends at the Huffington Post. You know their record for non-sequitur and factual invention at times, but this one has nothing to do with a per se conservative or a Republican, or anyone else the cut of whose jib they happen not to like. Nope. They're attacking a talented, young rookie pitcher with the New York Yankees named Joba Chamberlain, after the second-time-ever bad evening of his young career. (The first was last October in the former Jacobs Field in Cleveland, when Dennis Kucinich and Eric Wedge turned loose the Lake Erie midge's on the young man's upper body.) Even more on his mind, his father Harlan, a splendid man who raised a magnificent son while dealing with his own travails, collapsed last week forcing Joba away from the team to be at his ailing and beloved father's side.
The Huffington Post attacks Joba, perhaps out of frustration with this fascinating but destructive road to riot in Denver.
We'll get the story from Pete Abraham, Yankees beat writer from the Westchester Journal-News, writing at his amazingly popular LoHud Yankees Blog:
Meanwhile, the people at the Huffington Post apparently don’t have much to do. ESPN’s Erin Andrews made a funny face after interviewing Joba yesterday so the assumption was he said something to cause it. The truth, as it turns out, was that her producer said something in her earpiece. But throw a 22-year-old kid under the bus, by all means. Oh, and she was asking him about his father being in the hospital. I’m sure he wouldn’t have picked that time to say something.
At Huffingtonville, they write:
What could Joba have said to elicit such a reaction from Andrews? We can't tell, but maybe you can. Watch (closely) the interview and tell us what you think in the comments.
He maybe said, "Okay." Maybe, "Yeah." Maybe, "Fine."
Methinks the 2008 Dem bacteria is spreading to their bloggers. Sane people do not attack exuberant, young baseball players as a matter of course. Not even Red Sox fans do that. (Okay...)