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Sunday, June 03, 2007

Yankee Organization has Battered Wife Syndrome, NY Daily News case in point

The mistaken notion is that endless abuse is part of being the Yankees, but people forget how the average schoolyard bully succeeds so well at his craft. The NY Daily News can do whatever they want, but why are the Yankees giving them a glittering, gracious showcase on Yankee radio every day with John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman?
  • Peter Abraham on his Lohud Yankee blog yesterday related Joe Torre objecting to the Daily News headline saying he told A-rod to "Shut Up." Peter's point was to defend the Daily News beat writer, saying someone else makes up the headline but the beat writer "takes the heat." The "heat?" The beat writer in question is an international celebrity, whose image just went up another notch, has his picture in the paper every day and is graciously interviewed on Yankee radio everyday.
Whether or not the beat writer makes up the headline, this again shows Yankee "Battered Wife Syndrome," by continuing to provide an editorial showcase for the Daily News in every game. (For the most part, these segments for years have been a tune-out. Occasionally Anthony McCarron has been worth hearing, but that's it).
  • The Yankee fans hear and see constant battering of themselves, the team, and its individual players--the internet, fueled by anonymous floods of hateful email and commenting has helped.
The Daily News beat writer made a cutting remark about the team in one of his recent appearances on Yankee radio and was glorified for doing so by the paper's sports media columnist, Bob Raissman, in a subsequent edition, gushing that the Daily News' own employee gets the credit for a big put-down of the Yankees. He doesn't mention this great victory of their "own" reporter was while he held hostage the Yankee radio broadcast, that is, during his scheduled daily appearance on the broadcast. What could Sterling and Waldman do about it? Nothing, because they're too gracious.
  • Today's Daily News Lupica headline says Joe Torre should "pipe down," referencing Torre's unhappiness with the "Shut-Up" headline. Fine. But the Yankee fan can't even follow the team anymore as the media are all negative and hateful. Forget focusing on the local aspect of baseball reporting. Those days are long gone. It's all national now. That's where writers' futures lie. (Read ESPN, BBWAA, etc.)
In case you forgot, nothing stops the school yard bully except getting back the same treatment. The average Yankee fan like the average US citizen has been beaten into a malleable pulp, told he must be "tolerant" and "giving." Smack me again he says, like the battered wife.

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posted by susan at 6/03/2007 02:45:00 PM

3 Comments:

  • You should at least get your facts straight when you write this nonsense. The story with the headline in question was written by your guy McCarron, not the beat writer.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:35 PM  

  • I specifically did not name the 2007 beat writer as the author of that 1 story with the 'Shut Up' headline. I repeated that Peter Abraham said the beat writer takes the heat--I'm aware other people at the News write articles about the team and did not make the content of that one article as the sole factor. One article alone wouldn't make enough of a point. My post talked about other specific events that have taken place over a long period of time. Perhaps you didn't read the whole post, Anonymous.

    By Blogger susan, at 7:55 PM  

  • I cover several different events in this post--it's a much bigger topic than the 1 article with a headline that received publicity. For the record, I'm not looking for sugar coated coverage. I wasn't a fan of the 2006 Daily News radio guy either. McCarron was some time before that.

    By Blogger susan, at 8:34 PM  

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