True Idiocy Over at Gothamist

Hey everyone, A Friend of Mr. Glass' here. Real quick post for you here in the run-up to Sip's piece later in the day.

I came across a blog post on the website Gothamist this morning naming Duaner Sanchez their Idiot of the Week (or Month). It pains me to write this post because I really like Gothamist as a website, but the idiocy of the author, Tien Mao, is truly staggering here.

In addition to criticizing Duaner for being in a taxi cab so late at night and chastising the Mets for not having a curfew on the nights before off-days, Tien goes on to suggest the following to Duaner's Dominican compadres:

"Note to Jose Reyes and Pedro Martinez: if you have cravings like your fellow Dominican, please don't go on a futile late-night search in a city you don't live in. Thank you."

I'm not sure that this sentence is racist necessarily (as some on the comment board have claimed), but it's certainly in bad taste, and it's unquestionably stupid and unfunny.

Look, sometimes blogging isn't as easy as it looks. Some days you know you want to write about a given topic, but you don't know the best way to go about doing so. Other days you've got nothing to write about at all but you've gotta get something up there because that's your responsibility. But I'm sorry, none of that excuses this kind of idiocy. It's just really hard to understand where Tien was coming from on this one.

Anyway, you can connect to the post by clicking on the title above. I encourage you all to register your disgust on their comment board, where, thankfully, many others have already done so.

- A.F.O.M.G.