"Dweeb of the Week: ESPN News"---Raissman

"Dweeb of the Week : ESPN NEWS For totally overplaying the "confrontation" between Charlie Manuel and WIP talkie Howard Eskin. ESPN News pounded this story. They positioned the beleaguered Phillies manager's pop-off as if it were John Chaney's 1994 meltdown with John Calipari. That was legit. That was big-time TV confrontation. Manuel-Eskin? Small potatoes.

• Manuel never threatened Eskin. He never got truly testy during his postgame press conference - he did have to be physically restrained in the clubhouse after the press conference. Still, ESPN News acted like it had a major clash on its hands. ESPN News took a misdemeanor and tried turning it into a capital offense."

From NY Daily News column by Bob Raissman, 4/22/07, "Three's a Crowd" (second to last item in column)

• I agree and noted on 4/18/07 on this blog:

'No one in baseball (eg. Charlie Manuel) should take queries from radio guys so seriously.'

• Mr. Raissman points out Charlie didn't take it nearly as seriously as ESPN wanted you to believe. Is Vince Doria still head of ESPN News, "defining the daily discourse?"

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