Rangers’ Wilson Blog Comments Backfire
From the Dallas Morning News with a hat tip to BaseballThinkFactory.org:
The exhibition season hasn’t yet started, and already Texas Rangers closer C.J. Wilson has found himself in a jam.
In his own clubhouse.
Wilson recently made comments about his teammates’ lack of political education in an ESPN.com article and then made subsequent posts on a Rangers-related blog that referred to the average major leaguer by an obscene remark. On Tuesday, teammates confronted him about the comments.
I guess this would qualify as a “bad incident.” Given the recent news about Yankees players having blogs, I wonder if this situation will give cause for the Yankees to take a preemptive strike, using the Rangers as an example, and start to tell players that cyberspace is a no-go?
I wouldn’t be surprised, but I would hope not.
This isn’t a matter of blogs or websites or radio or TV or MySpace. It’s simply a matter of knowing what to say and what not to say. For example, if Mr. Wilson had said the very same thing to a reporter, would his teammates not confronted him? They only confronted him because it was a blog? Of course not. So, it’s just not fair to label one form of media as negative when it really comes down to knowing what to say – to any form of media.
Patrick
Why don’t the Yankees have their bloggers run what they post past the PR department???? No problems.
So the Yankees should take action because one player is an intolerant jerk? Um, OK.