Not the Bloggers
I like Jay Hovdey. He writes about racing with style and feeling. But I feel compelled to correct this one little thing in his latest column, in which he writes about Jeff Mullins and the Santa Anita Derby:
The trainer subsequently became famous for all the wrong reasons, when a frustrated Mullins was quoted by a Los Angeles Times sports columnist, lashing out in a number of directions. Bloggers had a field day, stomping Mullins’s name into the mud.
It wasn’t bloggers who stomped Mullins’ name in the mud. There are maybe 10 blogs that touch on horseracing regularly, and I’d say we were all pretty reasonable. Oh, sure, we had our fun. But I know I limited coverage of Mullins’ “idiots” comments, thinking the affair overblown, and even said “enough” at one point. It was good old mainstream media who made Mullins’ name mud: T.J. Simers, Bill Finley, Jeremy Plonk in one particularly overwrought column….
