data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.baseball.104413 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] ("Todd Karlin")
Subject: Re: THE METS ARE RAPISTS!!
Organization: University of Virginia
Lines: 34
writes:
> In the new book about the Mets it talks about how they like to rape little
> girls before games. Sick jerks!!!
> -Max
Is this the book by Bob Klapisch (spelling?), "The
Worst Team Money Can Buy"? If it is, I wouldn't give the book,
or anything in it any value whatsoever. Klapisch wrote the
book to make money (obviously) and sensational literature is
going to sell a lot better than what he usually writes for the
papers. I'm not calling him a liar, but if there was any proof
that a Met player had raped a little girl before a game (let
alone doing it on a regular basis) they would be in jail, not
Shea.
For those people who do not know what the press is like
in New York, it is probably more cut-throat than in just about
any other part of the U.S. Keith Hernandez said it very well on
ESPN a couple of days ago, they would much rather mention a
clubhouse fight, than a two-run homer in the ninth to win a
game. I do not read Klapisch's news columns regularly, but I
do know that he has been accused before as being an instigator
that enjoys (hopefully for only professional reasons) to drumb
up a news story, even if there isn't one there. Now as far as
the confrontation with Bobby Bonilla a few days ago, I almost
totally blame Bonilla. No matter what a member of the press
does, and no matter how much of a putrid individual he might
be, that does not give a ballplayer the right to threaten a
journalist.
Personally, I always thought that a beat writer that
always follows a club around should report the news, but not be
looking to degrade a team. I don't know whether to blame
Klapisch, because that may be the only way to keep a job in New
York.