Atlanta radio jock launches ugly Twitter attack on ESPN's Jessica Mendoza,Jessica Mendoza became the aboriginal woman to plan as an analyst during an MLB postseason bold on Tuesday night, as allotment of ESPN's advertisement berth for the Houston Astros and New York Yankees in the AL wild-card game.
She was spot-on too, carrying the blazon of assay that has led to a beyond role at ESPN this MLB season. She becoming a atom calling a Monday Night Baseball bold in August, afresh was answer to the network's top baseball event, Sunday Night Baseball, if Curt Schilling was abeyant in September.Mendoza, 34, is an Olympic gold advocate in softball and advised one of the best players anytime in the game. Softball and baseball aren't absolutely the aforementioned thing, but Mendoza illustrated an adeptness to allege just as actively about baseball during her administration at ESPN.
Some admirers were afraid to apprehend a woman on their TV Tuesday night, decidedly if they hadn't been afterward the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecasts the endure ages of the season. But she'd been there, calling games, imparting ability and earning acceptable reviews from baseball people. Certain admirers don't like her — and will not like her — but afresh again some humans are never traveling to say annihilation nice about a woman accomplishing what is a lot of frequently admired as a man's job. It's 2015, but we haven't absolutely torn that barrier yet.
Twitter rants by your boilerplate dude who has a botheration with women aren't news, honestly. The Internet is abounding with such humans and such opinions. But you'd anticipate Mike Bell, a sports radio amateur in Atlanta, would apperceive better. After all, he has a radio appearance on 92.9 The Game. He knows how broadcasting works. And he knows there are some things you say if the mic is on and some things you don't. RIght?
Bell beatific out the afterward cheep during Tuesday's game, which he after deleted if the acknowledgment wasn't a agglomeration of hooting and hollering and testosterone like he expected. But it was preserved by Boiled Sports.
A woman fabricated history tonight calling an MLB Playoff bold for ESPN. This is what an Atlanta radio guy anticipation of it.
Wow. Not alone is it insulting, but it's a cool old advertence too. That reference, coincidentally, was from "Anchorman," in a arena area TV ballast Ron Burgundy is afflictive with a woman abutting his all-male team. That makes it even added of a face-palmer, as the blur eventually shows us that Burgundy was amiss for carper his changeable coworker.
Like we said, Bell apologized, which is to be commended. But it you attending at added of his tweets, you'll see that he apologized partially because he "had no abstraction it would draft up." Bell's Twitter bio identifies him as a "12 year old with a driver's license," so maybe an boyish acknowledgment of "ewww, girls" shouldn't be all that surprising.
By the time Bell's comments were authoritative civic account Wednesday, his radio base had abeyant him, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He did, however, arise on the air with a pre-recorded acknowledgment saying: "I didn’t get it. I get it now. There is no abode for that affectionate of being on my show. I will be added mindful. I achievement I can be a bigger allocution appearance host and bigger person. This has been an abrupt experience.”
We absolutely don't apprehend the male-dominated sports apple to accessible its accoutrements at the aboriginal assurance of women accepting high-profile jobs. We're not that naive. We apperceive that humans don't like change, decidedly if it involves accepting to cover humans who were afar before.
Oh, but there's no abstinent that change is happening. The old-boys network, little by little, is acquainted that women accept a abode in macho sports. It's why the Oakland A's afresh assassin the aboriginal changeable drillmaster in MLB, why the San Antonio Spurs accept a changeable drillmaster who's a ascent brilliant and why a woman absurd the NFL gender barrier beforehand this year. We accept women sportswriters, women sports allocution hosts, women accessible abode announcers at stadiums. Anniversary accumulation has fought the "No Girls Allowed" assurance at some point and anniversary accumulation has succeeded. Here's an important point, though: Jessica Mendoza is acceptable at her job. And that's added acute than any added book in this post. She's astute and absorbing and offers a altered perspective. If you don't wish to apprehend altered choir and altered opinions while watching sports, afresh why not just watch black-and-white VHS tapes from the acceptable ol' days?
Yes, the apple is changing. Fire off all the affronted tweets you want, guys, but humans like Jessica Mendoza are actuality to stay. And they're not ruining your sports-watching experience. They're abacus to it.
She was spot-on too, carrying the blazon of assay that has led to a beyond role at ESPN this MLB season. She becoming a atom calling a Monday Night Baseball bold in August, afresh was answer to the network's top baseball event, Sunday Night Baseball, if Curt Schilling was abeyant in September.Mendoza, 34, is an Olympic gold advocate in softball and advised one of the best players anytime in the game. Softball and baseball aren't absolutely the aforementioned thing, but Mendoza illustrated an adeptness to allege just as actively about baseball during her administration at ESPN.
Some admirers were afraid to apprehend a woman on their TV Tuesday night, decidedly if they hadn't been afterward the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball telecasts the endure ages of the season. But she'd been there, calling games, imparting ability and earning acceptable reviews from baseball people. Certain admirers don't like her — and will not like her — but afresh again some humans are never traveling to say annihilation nice about a woman accomplishing what is a lot of frequently admired as a man's job. It's 2015, but we haven't absolutely torn that barrier yet.
Twitter rants by your boilerplate dude who has a botheration with women aren't news, honestly. The Internet is abounding with such humans and such opinions. But you'd anticipate Mike Bell, a sports radio amateur in Atlanta, would apperceive better. After all, he has a radio appearance on 92.9 The Game. He knows how broadcasting works. And he knows there are some things you say if the mic is on and some things you don't. RIght?
Bell beatific out the afterward cheep during Tuesday's game, which he after deleted if the acknowledgment wasn't a agglomeration of hooting and hollering and testosterone like he expected. But it was preserved by Boiled Sports.
A woman fabricated history tonight calling an MLB Playoff bold for ESPN. This is what an Atlanta radio guy anticipation of it.
Wow. Not alone is it insulting, but it's a cool old advertence too. That reference, coincidentally, was from "Anchorman," in a arena area TV ballast Ron Burgundy is afflictive with a woman abutting his all-male team. That makes it even added of a face-palmer, as the blur eventually shows us that Burgundy was amiss for carper his changeable coworker.
Like we said, Bell apologized, which is to be commended. But it you attending at added of his tweets, you'll see that he apologized partially because he "had no abstraction it would draft up." Bell's Twitter bio identifies him as a "12 year old with a driver's license," so maybe an boyish acknowledgment of "ewww, girls" shouldn't be all that surprising.
By the time Bell's comments were authoritative civic account Wednesday, his radio base had abeyant him, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He did, however, arise on the air with a pre-recorded acknowledgment saying: "I didn’t get it. I get it now. There is no abode for that affectionate of being on my show. I will be added mindful. I achievement I can be a bigger allocution appearance host and bigger person. This has been an abrupt experience.”
We absolutely don't apprehend the male-dominated sports apple to accessible its accoutrements at the aboriginal assurance of women accepting high-profile jobs. We're not that naive. We apperceive that humans don't like change, decidedly if it involves accepting to cover humans who were afar before.
Oh, but there's no abstinent that change is happening. The old-boys network, little by little, is acquainted that women accept a abode in macho sports. It's why the Oakland A's afresh assassin the aboriginal changeable drillmaster in MLB, why the San Antonio Spurs accept a changeable drillmaster who's a ascent brilliant and why a woman absurd the NFL gender barrier beforehand this year. We accept women sportswriters, women sports allocution hosts, women accessible abode announcers at stadiums. Anniversary accumulation has fought the "No Girls Allowed" assurance at some point and anniversary accumulation has succeeded. Here's an important point, though: Jessica Mendoza is acceptable at her job. And that's added acute than any added book in this post. She's astute and absorbing and offers a altered perspective. If you don't wish to apprehend altered choir and altered opinions while watching sports, afresh why not just watch black-and-white VHS tapes from the acceptable ol' days?
Yes, the apple is changing. Fire off all the affronted tweets you want, guys, but humans like Jessica Mendoza are actuality to stay. And they're not ruining your sports-watching experience. They're abacus to it.
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