Comments on: Random Notes

By: BlackHaloBender

BlackHaloBender — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:36:37 +0000

I had to say it like that because i’d prefer not to get fired.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:31:55 +0000

Also, it seems like there are several separate issues and stories in that USA Today interview.

1) he mentions giving a woman fellow ESPN employee a hug as the “misunderstood” reason for his dismissal.

2) he mentions his contract was up 6 months ago, and he “had opportunities to pursue”. (was that when he fished outside the ESPN waters?) and that he was in the first year of a new contract (evidently ESPN made it worth his while to stay with ESPN).

3) he wants his ESPN job back, despite ESPN deciding to “go in a different direction (John Kruk ) which he doesn’t agree with, however…

4) he’ll pursue “other avenues that are there”, avenues that ESPN created (but as he says “in a strange way”). (???)

As they say, stay tuned. This story could entertain (or disgust) us for months.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:20:39 +0000

That’s not saying much: “…confirm that the rumor is sexual harassment…”

Sure enough, I too can confirm that it’s a rumor. So can DMZ. So can Dave. So can Corco. And so on, and so on…

By: BlackHaloBender

BlackHaloBender — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:59:04 +0000

I actually work at ESPN and confirm that the rumor is sexual harassment. Sucks, I just met the guy for the first time the other day.

By: Brian Rust

Brian Rust — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:17:47 +0000

USA Today has an interview with Reynolds.

By: Jon Wells

Jon Wells — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:13:20 +0000

The Seattle Times is reporting on its web site that it was sexual harassment that caused Harold Reynolds’ firing from ESPN.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2003152044_reynolds26.html

“Harold Reynolds, one of ESPN’s most visible analysts and a long-time panelist on “Baseball Tonight,” has left the network in the wake of one or more incidents of sexual harassment.”

“Three people who work at ESPN and were familiar with the case said the cause was a pattern of sexual harassment, apparently culminating in a recent incident involving one of the network’s young production assistants.”

By: mark s.

mark s. — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:05:44 +0000

I was at the game. I THINK I saw the parts that came after the video ended. … Lopez and Felix where screwing around with each other and my mother was reminded of how my siblings and I would fight. We thought it meant they were comfortable with each other. I mean we are talking about a couple of 20-something dudes in a very dude enviroment.

ON THE VIDEO
Look at the reactions of the other players. Lopez and AB either go at each other quite a bit or they were play fighting. The only person who was looking at them was Felix really. Raul was drinking water or cleaning out his eyes not a foot away and couldn’t seem to care less.

I think the team is either use to the two play fighting or fighting-fighting. Either way almost no one else in the dugout seemed to give it a look.

By: Replacement level poster

Replacement level poster — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:51:09 +0000

I have a friend that went to the same high school that Harold went to. We both played baseball against each other (I lived in Albany which is next to Corvallis).

Harold went back to the high school to accept an honor (They named the dugout after him or something), and my friend approached Harold to tell him how much of a fan he was and how he was proud to wear Harold’s number. Harold was pissy and said his number should be retired and walked away.

I don’t think much of him, or his great guy act. I’m not buying it.

By: Bozo

Bozo — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:46:22 +0000

My interpretation of Shove Gate was that if (a) it was perceived to be serious by anyone in the dugout and (b) Felix was in the middle of it, both Beltre and Lopez would have been grabbed and told that if they had to fight they should do so around Willie (or around practically anyone but Felix.)

Baseball fights are usually stupid and quickly forgotten, but they occasionally lead to equally stupid injuries.

By: joser

joser — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:42:42 +0000

With respect to the “fight” — who’s to say this kind of thing doesn’t happen between those two a couple of times a week? Lopez could be one of those guys who gets seriously angry about some little thing for all of 30 seconds and then is back to laughing with his buddies a minute later; although Beltre seems to be more of the brooding type he might be much the same. I agree no one else seems to be taking it very seriously, including Felix who has Lopez tucked under his arm in a way that wouldn’t stop Jose from slipping free if he really wanted to go (the ease with which Felix tosses him back is pretty funny, though). Personally, I blame it on Bloomquist:
Beltre: You know a whole weekend of this was bad enough, but now our All-Star is back and I’m still batting with Mr PanDeBlanco making an easy out right in front of me.
Lopez: Hey man, I’m tired. It was a long flight, and I didn’t get any sleep before that with the kid crying and all. You know what that’s like…
Beltre: No, I married my kid’s mamma so I could have the baby in the offseason–
Lopez: What’re you saying, man?! You calling my kid…?
Beltre: I’m saying you should have at least worn a damn–
Felix: OK, alright, nobody is calling anybody’s kid anything, alright? We all get cigars just the same. Now let’s just watch the damn game!