New York Media

Mike S. at Mike's Mets writes how the media in New York is starting to get to him:

While trying to catch up on my Mets news this morning, I come across the really important information that Paul Lo Duca's wife acted in a soft-porn video. I'm sure that this has important implications for the post-season, I just haven't figured out exactly what that might be yet.

There was a time, back when I first started watching baseball, when something like this wouldn't have been reported, and certainly wouldn't have dominated the front pages of the newspapers. But in this age of tabloid journalism, where editors trip all over each other in the effort to publish as much dirt as possible, this has become standard operating procedure. It was almost comical to watch the other sleazy rags rushing to play catch-up in airing the Lo Duca family laundry, if it wasn't so mean-spirited and pathetic.

You have to appreciate the irony of all of this happening in a week where a local columnist felt the need to paint Mets fans as unknowledgeable and classless because some of them dared to boo an opposing ballplayer who was in the midst of a hitting streak. Since he is making his living in a media that is in the midst of an orgiastic slime-for-all, what does that make him?

Some found it "a silly-looking sight" that Lo Duca was flanked by Glavine and Wright when he gave his news conference, but that's how it works with teams. The young man and the older man that silently flanked Lo Duca during that painful event reflect the best in all of us -- the willingness to stand up for each other during bad times. The sleazy one-upmanship going on in the tabloids reflect the worst in us -- the voyeuristic desire of the public to be titillated by other's private lives, and the greed of the media to cash in on this desire.

This is such a good post in my opinion. You have to go to the site and read the full opinion.