In talking with a friend of mine yesterday, after news broke that Mindy McCready had killed herself, he asked, “Who the f*ck is Mindy McCready?” I first replied, “A country singer.” That didn’t clear anything up. Next I tried, “Crazy lady, always in and out of rehab”, but that didn’t help either. So I went with: “Roger Clemens had an affair with her back in the 90s when she was like 15 or something” and he replied, “Oh yeah”, and the reason I bring this up is because the New York Daily News editors apparently had a similar discussion with someone last night as well.

McCready’s death and her relationship with Clemens really have nothing to do with each other, unless you count “They’re both things that happened” as a valid excuse, in which case you can go ahead and report to the NY Daily News for your new gig. It’s also important to remember that not only is a very troubled person now dead, but so is her boyfriend, whose murder had people pointing at McCready, and she even killed her dog before offing herself, which… well, my feelings about people who kill pets can best be summed up in one GIF.

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Back in July, New York Jets receiver Santonio Holmes vented his frustrations with the New York media, telling reporters that he didn’t appreciate how writers had been criticizing his team. Holmes, like many athletes, wrongly believes that the local newspapers should serve more as an ego-stroking PR guide than a non-biased source of information. And while the modern era sports columnist has proven that idea easier said than done, it still shows that athletes aren’t always the best at grasping reality.

Yesterday, Jets linebacker Bart Scott took Holmes’ gripe one step further in an interview with a USA Today reporter after his team laid a 48-28 spanking on the Buffalo Bills and Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Ivy League ass by declaring a “media mutiny”. I assume that’s before he yelled “YARRRRRGH!” and slid down the sails of his galleon with a knife in his teeth.

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"Hello God, are you there? It's me, Santonio."

New York Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes likes to talk. A lot. And sometimes when he speaks, he says something that is either less-than-smart or can be misconstrued and manipulated into something stupid. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Holmes gave the sports media more firepower than it already needed when he told NFL.com that the New York media needs to be nicer to his Jets if they want to be a part of the team.

You know, because that’s how the media works. Especially in New York.

“That’s what sells in the New York media is how much negative attention we can bring to these players and just keep running with it. When things aren’t going good it makes our ratings go up,” Holmes said.

“But it doesn’t help our team. If you guys — and this is for the New York media — if you guys want to be a part of our team and feel so important, be there to support us. Not to try to break us down.” (Via CBS Sports)

See, here’s where I should join the bandwagon and pile on Holmes, because the media should never ever act as blatant PR for sports teams, and I know this because I live in a small sports market dominated by one newspaper that local fans believe routinely sh*ts all over our only sports teams.

HOWEVER, have you guys seen the state of sports media these days? Just take a look at the new Twitter-du-jour @BIGSPORTSWRITER and his/her takedown of New York Knicks beat writer Frank Isola, who became James Dolan’s Metatron in the wake of the team’s decision to let Jeremy Lin walk. Sports journalism careers are very hard to build these days unless you’ve got Maverick Carter on speed dial or you just like to scream, “SOURCES!” while you throw sh*t at a wall and pray something sticks.

We can make fun of crybaby Holmes all we want, but I guarantee you that a few enterprising writers out there just started writing some very flattering articles about the Jets.

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Normally, the New York sports media is the world’s greatest source for the most biased, sensationalized pseudo-journalism this side of, well, a sports blog. But the good thing about a New York team making a sports championship game or series is that the very same media at least digs to great depths to turn the most worthless dirt into news. As opposed to, you know, airing David Tyree’s catch ad nauseum.

Today’s big story is New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and a comment he made while addressing 25,000 Pats fans who showed up to a rally to send the team off yesterday.

“We have the greatest fans in America. You guys have proved that year in and year out with your support. I wish I could take all you guys to Indy with us. We’re going down there, and we’re going down there for one reason. We’re going to give it our best and hopefully we have a lot more people at our party next weekend.” (Via NESN)

BOOM! Suck on that, Giants fans! T-Bra is already planning a major wicked kick ass raging kegger next week at Gronk’s place, with more porn stars than even Evan Stone could handle. Wait, that’s actually a pretty harmless comment. So I’m guessing the New York journalism community didn’t go overboard with responses…

*looks at banner pic*

Haha, damn that’s good overreaction. What say you, Gary Myers of the New York Daily News? Do you have a good take that totally makes a mountain out of a butt chin mole hill?

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