I think it serves everybody pretty well that the Wingnuts will spend three days, starting Tuesday, on the road. After what happened this week (I’m not going to re-hash it again), I think it’s best that the team gets out of the spotlight for a while.
As the only media member who’s at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium for every home game, it was interesting to watch the local TV stations go about covering the incident. My favorite was when a Channel 3 news reporter showed up on Thursday or Friday on assignment from sports director Jim Kobbe.
I don’t think this guy really knew what he was doing at a baseball game or what, exactly, the story was supposed to be about. When general manager Josh Robertson pointed out certain aspects of the story that hadn’t yet been touched on, the reporter kept saying, “Yeah, that’s kind of what we want to talk about.” I didn’t see the piece on TV, but I hope for this guy’s sake that it came out well because he seemed slightly in over his head.
I totally respect the job TV reporters do. The only thing I don’t like is that their interview requests usually seem to take priority over mine. That’s just a general statement more than a comment about the coverage of Kash’s tirade. There were plenty of sound bytes to go around for everybody.
Fort Worth might not be the best place at which to have the first road series after the incident, either. The Cats have a strong following and a packed house likely means a lot of heckling from fans who saw the Wingnuts on national TV this week. Everybody will have to have a thick skin — especially Beauchamp, who returns from a four-game suspension tomorrow.