Rob Parker--Hack

[bmfc1]

Why limit our animosity toward ESPN New York columnists to Ian O'Connor? Rob Parker is another Met hating hack:

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7093851/boston-red-sox-wanted-new-york-yankees-ended-new-york-mets

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7032587/new-york-mets-shortstop-jose-reyes-cheated-team-fans-exiting-season-finale-early

[metirish]

Ugh, awful, and really, who the fuck is Rob Parker?

Couldn't get past the headlines and first paragraph in each, so predictable.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, this guy is a complete know-nothing.

[Benjamin Grimm]

"Reyes proves once again, he's no Jeter"

Sigh.

I couldn't get past the headline on that one. I'm sure I know pretty much what that article is going to say anyway.

[Edgy MD]

I don't know. Thirty-five years on The Price Is Right is nothing to sneeze at.

[Fman99]

What a wanker. Just die Rob Parker.

[metirish]

Fman99 wrote: What a wanker. Just die Rob Parker.

I approve whole heartily of you bringing wanker to your refined vocabulary.

[Centerfield]

The Yankees spent $36 million more than the Red Sox. For all the talk of failure, the Yankees' season lasted a week longer than the Sox.

[batmagadanleadoff]

n my opinion [Rob Parker] generates the most unreadable junk of any media member writing on the Mets. I'll take [Rob Parker] over --under, really-- your Klapisches, Chass's and anybody else you might think is the media person writing the crappiest crap about the Mets. Rob Parker makes Joe Morgan sound like Bill James. June 22, 2011

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[Frayed Knot]

Parker wrote as a columnist for Newsday for a short time.
What I remember most about him was him wearing what looked like a flannel shirt in his little photo, and also him playing the angry black man card. He didn't do it all the time, but occasionally, and at some odd times, like in a column absolutely trashing the Olympics because they were, among other faults, racist.

[Guest attgig]

parker is a pathetic excuse for a journalist.

a quick glance at his wikipedia page should make anyone and everyone question how he even has a job.

On March 28, 2008, Parker declared on ESPN's First Take that he had low expectations for college players Tyler Hansbrough and Kevin Love in the NBA, because they are white.[1] Parker, who is African American, is not shy to discuss the racial aspects of current sports events, such as the NBA off-court dress policy, or the lack of African Americans in NFL coaching positions. He penned a much-maligned column where he called Hank Aaron a "coward" for declining to attend when Barry Bonds would break the career home run record. In October 2008, Parker erroneously reported that Kirk Cousins, a quarterback for the Michigan State Spartans, was involved in a fight with members of the Michigan State hockey team. At the time of the fight, Cousins was at church with his parents. After being publicly reproved by head coach Mark Dantonio at his weekly news conference, Parker was suspended by The Detroit News for two weeks.[2] On December 21, 2008, at a press conference following the Lions' 42-7 loss to the New Orleans Saints, Parker addressed a question Lions head coach Rod Marinelli about Lions defensive coordinator Joe Barry, Marinelli's son-in-law, inquiring whether Marinelli wished that his daughter had "married a better defensive coordinator."[3] The question was criticized as unprofessional and inappropriate. The next day, Parker wrote that the comment was "an attempt at humor" and not a malicious attack.[4] Parker wrote no further columns forThe Detroit News, nor did he attend any press conferences, following the incident. On January 6, 2009, The Detroit News announced that Parker had resigned from the newspaper the previous week.[5]

his controversies are longer than his real biography...


I was first introduced to him with this article:
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/columns/story?columnist=parker_rob&id=6689273

it's cleaned up, but if you go to the comments, you'll realize that he thought the mets signed mike hampton to a long term deal
the original from amazin avenue:

"It's not fair. But you just get the feeling that with the Mets' luck with signing big-time players to fat-money contracts, Reyes would wind up hurt next season and the Mets will be saddled with the deal for years to come. It's just how things seem to happen for the Mets. Can you say, Mike Hampton? Or Johan Santana? You get the idea."