Yeah for once I agree with Bengie, it is frustrating to not see any coverage of the actual game that went down. Especially considering that we are on the the top clubs in baseball (at the time they showed the clip)

You know what? I don’t really give a shit about Bengie. It pisses me off to have ESPN taking dumbass, easy comedy, collegehumor.com style shots at a Giants player. Any Giants player. Fuck them.

I’m not gonna bag on Molina for his blog post. I can see why he’d write it. Personally, I thought the clip was funny (I R 5), but I wasn’t the one being mocked.

One quibble, though: he HAS taken issue with reporters writing about him being the slowest guy (he writes: “Look, you can say I’m the slowest guy in baseball or in all of sports or in the entire world. I don’t take issue with that because I AM the slowest guy. I have always been the slowest guy. I can’t challenge that criticism.” His freeze-out of an Angels beat writer for pointing this out is well known).

Slow or not – if it was me… my feelings would be hurt as well. No lie. It’s only natural that he’s embarrassed.

Get over it. You’re fat and are supposed to be an athlete. Come to camp carrying less weight next season….preferably for some other team.

I’m not any great fan of Bengie’s, and I’d be quite happy if he wasn’t on the team right now, but he’s right and ESPN is full of dicks. There are plenty of Youtube clips with fat guys running, I’m sure, and ESPN’s job is to cover sports. If we want to see fat guys running slowly, we could probably find that pretty easily; we go to ESPN for “analysis” and coverage of the Yankees and Red Sox.

But for it to be the only highlight that they really showed was fucking ridiculous. That network has no respect for teams other than the Yankees and Red Sox.

I don’t think he wrote that.

I had thought of ESPN as a network run by professionals who know sports.

Well, there’s your first mistake.

He needs to start watching MLB Network instead. But he is slow, and fat. No TV or trick mirror can make him look differently

It’s not the “Sports are Serious Business Programming Network.”

It wasn’t even that bad. Nobody would have remembered it until he brought it back up. Fucking attention whore.

The outrage of his outrage borders on sociopathic.

When he says things he, often comes across as whiny or saying things in the heat of the moment, but when he writes, he’s a lot more personable. I can completely understand what he was saying. If ESPN wants to be the “Leader in Sports”, they should show actual highlights of games, not make potshots. I realize that it’s sports and you can’t get around the fact that there will be some fan-style heckling, but ESPN should be better than that.

Of course I say should but I realize they never fucking will be. I’m glad I watch MLB Network for baseball news.

And it’s understandable that he’d be mad.
I probably would too.

What ESPN did was wrong, to quote NPH “It was a dick move”.

That said this quote by Bengie is why he is mocked

I AM the slowest guy. I have always been the slowest guy

To me, that seems like Bengie has accepted this fact instead of doing agility drills to try and give him a little extra speed, where he could’ve scored and not been mocked.

I mean, Bengie acts like this is the first time an athlete has been humiliated on Sportscenter. Has he not seen the Friday “Not Top 10?”

I am so fucking sick of Bengie Molina. At this point I don’t even care if he is hitting well and getting walks for this team, I don’t want to hear from or see him because I am so damn tired of his whining. But more than that, I am insulted by his feeble attempt in this blog post to rewrite history.

Bengie: I can think of at least 3 instances in which you acted like a fucking two-year-old in serious need of a nap because someone called you slow. How dare you write a blog entry that denies your long history of bellyaching on this particular issue, when any Google search will bring up plenty of articles to the contrary. You don’t want to be mocked? Well personally, I don’t appreciate being treated like I’m stupid, so please stop insulting my intelligence. Really. Just stop.

Bengie is right, and ESPN is always wrong.

One of those comments just doesn’t belong

Not here, you knuckleheads – on the blog!

I’ve known toddlers that cry less attention than Bengie.

You do not see Dennis Eckersley write a blog post everytime ESPN shows the no legged corpse of Kirk Gibson hit a HR off him.

And serious. You play off the fact that you are slow and possibly the slowest guy in the league barely weeks after you complained that you did not get a better contract in the offseason, citing all your “positive qualities”.

Did it ever occur that maybe you being the slowest player in the league who has trouble scoring from 3RD on deep hit balls was a factor in people not wanting you?

Also the love fest for Bengie in the comments section is a little crazy. There is only one person who had a negative post. The rest were MORAL OUTRAGE AT THOSE BAD MEN AT ESPN. Even the negative guy was a little off his rocker though:

No sir…no, no, no. I can’t give you a pass on this one.
You’re not “slow.” You’re overweight. This is not disrespectful name-calling. It’s the truth. By any medical standards, you’re obese.
I do respect your heart, your contribution, your career. But it makes me angry to see you step to the plate. I run 20 miles a week to work off the $9 beer I buy at the park to pay your salary.
So which speech resonates?
How about the “you get paid a lot of money to do nothing but exercise” speech?
How about the “obesity is a national epidemic, and you’re a role model” speech?
How about the “you have the best facilities, best trainers, best nutrition, best information around you at all times” speech?
There’s no excuse for it. You’re disrespecting us. We hope and fantasize and cheer and…pay…and every day you come to a game having not taken the best care of yourself, you’re giving us less than we’re paying for…and cheating us.
Lose 40 lbs by the All-Star Break and we’ll win the pennant. Fact. Maybe coach some kids on fitness and nutrition while you’re at it.
Don’t hate ESPN. They were only calling out something rather ridiculous. No professional athlete should be out of shape. Get on it, Bengie. It’s not disrespect to you…it’s disrespect to the fat…on you…on any other athlete or coach…on a police officer or firefighter…and on our own damn selves. Get on it. Make it happen.

Needless to say, this is all very stupid, and that the world has been laughing at slow catchers for years without somehow shattering their self-esteem. Also, it should probably be noted that this happened a week ago, and Molina is just now getting around to professing his outrage. The guy’s slow even to anger.

I don’t see anything wrong with that clip. There was nothing personal about what ESPN did- it would be one thing of they made fun of him about something in his personal life (making a joke about his wife, kids, etc.), but they didn’t. They made fun of Bengie Molina’s speed, which is nothing personal. In actuality it is a baseball skill, so ESPN has every right to make fun of him about it. If a player sucks at hitting, ESPN along with all sports fans have every right to make jokes about it. If someone consistently takes laughable routes to catch flyballs (I’m looking at you, Adam Dunn) ESPN and fans everywhere have the right to scrutinize his fielding ability. How is this situation any different. Speed and baserunning is a baseball skill, and should be treated as such. If you don’t want to be made fun of about it Bengie, why don’t you lose 40 pounds?
I remember last year I sat in the bleachers for a Giants-Astros game. For the first few innings of the game we were all ragging Carlos Lee for being fat. At one point, he turned around, stuck his belly out as far as he could, and started rubbing his stomach. We all laughed about it and everybody moved on. But I’ve always wondered how Bengie would react to a situation like this. I don’t think catchers have to deal with hecklers all that much, so it’s hard to say. But I have this weird vision of us in the series against the Sox at Fenway, and 38,000 rowdy Bostonians are chanting “FATTY” during a Bengie at-bat. I bet Bengie would have a big 0-fer during that series haha

This is not the first time somebody has made fun of how slow he is, and it won’t be the last. Just shut the hell up and play.