Welcome to a new feature here on the blog where we examine people who have distinguished themselves as wasting good oxygen that the rest of us can use. Today's nominee for Village Idiot™ - ESPN personality J.A. Adande.
From the time J.A. Adande first appeared on Pardon the Interruption, I was struck by one burning question: What does this guy have on big wigs at the World Wide Leader? He must have some compromising pictures or some dirt otherwise, because how else does a guy like this get on TV? His inane commentary and halting delivery make PTI nearly unwatchable when he is on.
Maybe it is because he is a graduate of Northwestern and worked at the Washington Post that endears Adande to Michael Wilbon, or maybe it is his Wilbon-esque manner to drop names and places he has been. But if this guy, along with the equally lightweight Michael Smith, represents the young, hip future of ESPN, then I see how the WWL is becoming more vapid every day.
Adande's LA Times columns were often pedestrian, but it is his performance on PTI this week that has earned him the Village Idiot™ nod. Among his gems:
Panthers WR Steve Smith should not be suspended for breaking Ken Lucas' nose because Bill Romanowski was not suspended 5 years ago for a training camp altercation in which he broke a teammate's eye socket. Uh, J.A. - number one, that was the Raiders, and number two, Romo was a roided-out freak.
Phil Mickelson could be headed for a David Duval-like fade into oblivion because of his performance down the stretch last weekend and his performance in majors since his collapse at Winged Foot. Hello, J.A. - Phil has won two tournaments this year, and while he hacked up the last four holes last weekend, he still shot even par on Sunday. Not good enough to win, but not headed for struggling to even be competitive and make cuts like poor Duval.
In reference to a comment that U.S. Olympic cyclists apologized for any offense given by showing up in Beijing with respiratory masks, Adande noted that it's too late because the images are already out there (true) and that those would be the lasting image of these games. Really? A picture taken almost a week before the opening cermonies will be the lasting image of the games? You wanna bet that by the closing ceremonies, that picture will be forgotten? Certainly two months from now no one will remember it.
For this fine, incisive commentary, J.A. Adande of ESPN has earned the title of Village Idiot™. Nice work!
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This fool used a retarded analogy. In regards to Carlos Gomez' new home runs robbed stat he said he sells this stat because pitchers aren't given an RBI when they strike someone out with a man on third base. Why in the world would a PITCHER be given an RBI?!
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