Boomer Esiason Rips MLB Player Taking Paternity Leave

What??? Esiason's comments were by far the worst. The idiot actually stated that if it was his wife, he would've had her get an elective pre-mature c-section before the season started to avoid missing any games.

 

Heres a question esiason should ask himself. Do you work to support your family or do you have a familyto support your work? The guy missed 2 out of 162 games. Gimme a break.

 

It really doesn't. If he was a good player, maybe. But over 2 or 3 game sample, the difference between Murphy (a 1.5 WAR guy) and whichever bench take his spot is tiny enough to be inconsequential.

 

I never did like Boomer. I can see I was justified in my disdain of the b*stard. I guess I'm just a family values guy at heart.

 

Houston went through this 2 decades ago with David Williams, I thought it was settled by now.

You do realize that's what happened, right?

 

lol baseball. yawn. players get days off for being hung over, but this is where they draw the line.

 

Yeah, besides players will get numerous rest days throughout the season.

 

I love topics like this. Always exposes the mouth breathing knuckle draggers.

 

I was able to take 4 weeks of fully paid paternity leave. And I damn sure took every last day of it. Esiason is an idiot.

 

He doesn't recognized contracts agreed upon by legally-formed unions. He only recognizes their validity if the player negotiated his own contract based on his own rules cause liberty.

 

Link:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/04/boomer-esiason-apologizes-for-insensitive-comments-on-murphys-paternity-leave/

 

At the end of the day sports is just sports. Family is way more important. IMO the birth of a child is greater than ANY sporting event in the world (Superbowl, world series, finals). Those games will be history, but personally you always remember certain moments in you life and the birth of a child is one of them. Some people take sports to seriously, family is always first no matter what.

 

Is it just my perception or are more and more "sports" radio shows incorporating non-sports topics? I was trying to listen to baseball talk on the way to work today, and aye-yai-yai, the hosts were talking more pop culture than anything else. I turn to another station where they were supposed to be talking about the NCAA tournament, but they focused only on the idea of athletes unionizing. Blah blah blah. Yeah, interesting topic, but how about we dissect the basketball games? I guess you see more and more caca in the coverage because it gets better ratings (and is honestly "easier" to prepare for each day) than real sports analysis.

Le sigh.

 

I came into this thread ready to rip Esiason for his disgusting comments and suggest he apologize. Good that he did. Francesa should apologize too if he hasn't already.