One of my favorite shows to listen to on the way into work is ESPN’s Mike and Mike. They made a comment that I agreed with wholeheartedly about the congressmen holding the investigation. Several of the congressmen and women holding the meeting couldn’t even pronounce the names of the people they were talking about. From the Jayson Stark blog of the hearing. “Both Rep. Christopher Shays and Rep. Diane Watson referred to the commissioner as Mr. ‘SELL-ig.’ ” and also “Shays wound up bungling Palmeiro’s name (“Palmeiree”)...” Also from the blog, but not mispronunciation but ignorance of the history and milestones of baseball Shay’s also said “1919 Chicago Black Hawks” was the biggest scandel in baseball history and mentioned Palmeiro’s historic 300th hit.
Mike and Mike made the point that after the mispronunciation the rest of the congressman’s questions become laughable. If they can’t do enough research to get a person’s name correct, or the name of the biggest betting scandal in the history of baseball (the 1919 “Black Sox”) then how do we know they did enough research into the rest of the steroids scandal to be believable?
Excellent point Mike and Mike.
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