| 17 November 2009
The media! The all loving, all knowing, voices of the sports world. The ones we call upon night and day to tell us all the sports stories and news and the people who analyze games, players, and situations. They're good at one aspect of their job, entertainment, but when it comes to some other parts of the job, they just blow. My biggest problem with the media is that they complain about stories they shouldn't be doing right before they're doing the story. I hope that makes senses. It's a reoccurring theme with them though. If there's an unfortunate situation or something they deem wrong and they have to talk about it then they make it seem like some sort of tragedy that they have to spend five or ten minutes discussing the issue. Too bad nobody wants to debate and discuss about stuff that isn't controversial.
The most recent thing that happened where I heard someone complaining was about Stanford going for a two point conversion after they were up three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Mike Greenberg of Mike & Mike in the Morning got a little perturbed because he thinks that they shouldn't have to waste their time discussing this classless display from Jim Harbaugh towards Pete Carroll instead of speaking about the game and how well the Stanford players played. Guess what? Shut up and discuss the game then. We can debate about the issue and listen to what you have to say about it without hearing how it's a travesty that you have to talk about it. There is no story without the two-point conversion. The story would be about how bad USC is falling from the ranks than anything about Stanford being great. My problem with the whole situation is that there would be no story if it wasn't for people complaining about that this shouldn't be a story. Most people around the country didn't watch the USC-Stanford game. If you did, fine, you can complain all you want, but for anyone else who saw the box score all you saw was that USC got killed. There wasn't any mention of Stanford going for two and the classless act of Stanford's coach.
I just don't want to hear media outlets complaining about doing stories that are created by the media outlets themselves. These stories is what gets people talking. They sure had no problem debating all day about the Bill Belichick call. My take on the call is that it was a completely idiotic call. No other coach in the league would ever make that call. People need to stop saying that if he would've made it he would've been a genius. This is true for any situation. If it's 4th and 18 from your 10 yard line and you throw a screen pass for a touchdown you are a genius too. These situations happen all the time and you have to make the correct coaching call. He didn't. End of story. Back to the original, sorry. Basically controversial stories is what makes the sports world go around. Controversy is always a part of sports so lets stop acting like it's cruel and unusual punishment when you have to talk about a controversy in sports you don't like for five minutes.
