Idiots Write About Sports

I don’t care who you are or where you hail from — nothing chases the work-day blues away quite like hearing a plastered Rick Sutcliffe opining on George Clooney’s recent advocacy of intervention in Darfur. (Just wait patiently for the local San Diego DJs to stop blathering in their introduction of the Sutcliffe clip, though listening to Morning Zoo-style radio antics might make you want to have some of whatever Sutcliffe’s drinking.)
The clip, which comes to us from Gaslamp Ball (by way of Deadspin), stems from Sutcliffe’s surprise visit to the Channel 4 broadcast booth during last night’s Padres-Brewers game. “Rambling and slurred!” raves the Associated Press, but at least he didn’t delve into the apparently dicey subject of unisex dugouts.
Oh, how we long for the next installment of impotent finger-wagging that is the George Solomon ombudsman column. How ever will George deal with this thorny issue? One can only imagine.
Many ESPN viewers wrote in about Rick Sutcliffe’s recent appearance on a local Padres broadcast. While it’s worth noting that Sutcliffe was not appearing on behalf of ESPN during the telecast, the network should still encourage its on-air personalities to exercise better judgment when they go out drinking with Bill Murray. Furthermore, I would encourage ESPN to look into not allowing people to appear on its airwaves while they are three sheets to the wind.