I’m doing work tonight, so I’m actually listening to the game on the radio and don’t have much time to blog, but let me just say that I agree completely with Instapundit and the many others he links to that the apparent summary firing of Gregg Easterbrook (the Tuesday Morning Quarterback) by ESPN Page 2 is just an appalling overreaction, even worse than ESPN’s treatment of Rob Neyer some years back. Plus, the hypocrisy of an organization that pushes Easterbrook and Rush Limbaugh out the door for mildly inappropriate references to race and ethnicity while continuing to employ Ralph Wiley – who generalizes about race as often as Neyer cites statistics – is jaw-dropping.
Email ESPN here to let them know you want your TMQ back.
UPDATE: Aaron Schatz adds his two cents on why he’d be glad to have Easterbrook writing at FootballOutsiders.com. My own take is that Easterbrook’s comments don’t seem to be intentionally anti-Semitic, but they certainly crossed a line by pushing certain buttons (Jewish studio heads, greed, etc.) that have been too familiar hobby-horses for anti-Semites, so I can readily understand why offense was taken. More on this later, but this whole thing reeks of a game of “gotcha” with no application of common sense or perspective.