News Articles Without Video

Who the hell writes this stuff?

Bengie Molina slams ESPN for humiliating highlight...but there is no video to watch. WTF, seriously. Even the link they give (you know, some random word in the story that's highlighted so you click on it) goes to a page where the video has been deleted by MLB Advanced Media.

I don't want to read how SSSLLLOOWWW someone ran from second to home, or how embarrassing a play was, I want to see it. How can a writer post a news article about an action play and not post a video?

First of all, I can't stand ESPN and their obsessive re-runs of SportsCenter. They never show anything other than Red Soxs and Yankee highlights, even if there was no game "This clip is from three nights ago, but we decided to show it anyway." Aren't there like 28 other teams?

Secondly, if you are a professional athlete you should be used to the camera and being made fun of for whatever you do, especially coming from ESPN. Doesn't make it right, but it seems like a small thing to get pissed about.

"In that Marlins game, which we won, Nate Schierholtz(notes) went three-for-three with his first home run of the season. Matt Cain(notes) pitched six innings of no-hit ball. And the one highlight ESPN shows of that game is me getting thrown out at home? And they're doing it just for laughs? "Look, you can say I'm the slowest guy in baseball or in all of sports or in the entire world. I don't take issue with that because I AM the slowest guy. I have always been the slowest guy. I can't challenge that criticism. But ESPN's intention was not to criticize but to humiliate. I would like those people at ESPN who, from a safe distance, make fun of players for a cheap laugh, to remember that players are actual people. With wives and mothers and fathers and children and brothers and sisters. My mother saw the clip.""

Look Molina, I AM reading about how you are the slowest guy in baseball but because you are also a sniveling baby, I can't actually see it for myself. You should thank ESPN. When you are all washed up, you'll still be making money off the bloopers video with you running slow. And, your mother needs to get a sense of humor.

As another blogger put it, and I couldn't agree more....."Bengie Molina is a 12-year Major Leaguer who has made $28.8 million in his career. If he doesn't want to face mild mockery for being overweight and slow, he should spend more time with a personal trainer and nutritionist and less time whining."