First it was Jennifer Floyd-Engel. Now it's Richie Whitt.
I have an aggravated indifference to Whitt as a sports columnist.
Honestly, judging his writing, he sounds like he's 60 years old. He's not.
He also sounds miserable. Like he's so sick and tired of Dallas and its sports franchises that he'd rather be anywhere else in the world rather than writing another column about Dirk Nowitzki.
Otherwise, he's not a must-read, but he's not a guy that draws my ire quite like Jean Jacques Taylor or Tim Cowlishaw.
Whitt blogged about Corby Lewis' recent absence due to his second child being born, forcing a missed start and the Rangers having to make roster moves to accommodate.
To paraphrase Whitt: Professional athletes get paid millions and missing a start or game due to a birth of a child that you will see for the rest of your life is not a good enough excuse. He even suggest athletes schedule births to happen in the off-season.
In short: Whitt looks like a total asshole and it took him about 600 words to get there.
Whitt states, "Don't have kids of my own but I raised a step-son for eight years. I know all about sacrifice and love and how great children are."
Making this argument, why would you say that. Either you know about the "sacrifice and love" it takes to raise a child or you don't. Whether you've had a kid or not is irrelevant unless, secretly, it's totally relevant.
Whitt sounds like he's never had a kid and really doesn't understand all that sacrifice bullshit he's touting.
What you have to consider is that it's not even May yet and Lewis missing one start means absolutely nothing. There's so much time and games to be played. And the Rangers have bigger problems than Lewis having a baby.
Why dump on Lewis? Maybe because Whitt is a miserable turd. That's never had a kid. But he sure as hell understands the "sacrifice and love" it takes to raise a kid.
And the point that athletes are paid millions of dollars therefore they can't be there for the birth of their child is the most tired excuse ever.
Athletes are paid millions of dollars for one reason. They are cogs in a multi-billion dollar industry. It's not some kind of accident or a detail overlooked. It's because 99 percent of humanity can't do what Lewis does and the richest people in the industry never throw a pitch, field a grounder or take batting practice.
The Big Lead caught onto Whitt's idiocy. Now he's ridiculed nationally. Now we all look like dumpy assholes that are stuck in 1955 when women did women's work like baking.
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