Let's hear less from ex-athletes on TV

Jeanne Zelasko deserves credit for standing up for what’s right.

During the pregame show on Fox-TV’s baseball Game of the Week, the topic of comments Curt Schilling from the Red Sox made recently about Barry Bonds arose.

Kevin Kennedy, being an ex-player, stood up for Bonds and said Schilling was way out of line for his comments (who cares if Schilling told the truth originally, before retracting his statement?)

Zelasko responded it’s a fact that Bonds took steroids … and let’s move on to another conversation.

Good for her!

It’s about time we hear more from “people who never played the game” such as Zelasko and Ken Rosenthal on Fox baseball, or football analysts such as Chris Mortensen (ESPN) and Adam Schechter (NFL Network.)

For most of us, it’s getting old hearing athletes … or ex-athletes … defend the poor behavior of other athletes.

What we need are more people like Zelasko, who will stand up to the excuse-making athletes covering for the shame of others.

SDSU Dominates Fox Baseball Telecasts

Check out the Fox television in-studio commentators some Saturday on the Major League Baseball game of the week.
Jeanne Zelasko has been the in-studio host since 2001. Her primary partners during the 2007 season are Kevin Kennedy and Mark Grace.
What do all three of them have in common? Each is an alumnus of San Diego State University.
Guess the folks at Fox can start coloring their set in red and black.
Aztecs also come in threes in the NFL. There are currently a trio of ex-Aztecs serving as head coaches with Joe Gibbs (Washington), John Fox (Carolina) and Herman Edwards (Kansas City).
And there is one other famous SDSU alum that will certainly be in the spotlight this summer. Tony Gwynn, who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame, is also an alumnus of SDSU … as well as the university’s head baseball coach.
Seems like the major sporting leagues just can’t get enough of the Aztecs.