Bruce Benidt
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Mike KeliherThis is not the happiest of mornings for venerable Star Tribune sports columnist Sid Hartman.
The headline of the column that landed on my doorstep this morning was a typically smug Hartman harangue, “Wolves wanted Mayo all along.” His Sidness lectured his naive press corps colleagues:
The media got fooled into thinking the Timberwolves rated Southern California guard O.J. Mayo and UCLA Center Kevin Love even in ability, and that it was going to be tough to pick between them with the third overall choice in Thursday’s NBA draft.
Well, there was never any doubt.”
Except when the Wolves traded Mayo for Love about midnight last night.
Ouch for Sid. OUCH for the Wolves media relations people who have to deal with Sid. Love may be headed from LA to Target Center, but love is most certainly not flowing to Target Center from 425 Portland Avenue.
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Filed under: Communications, Journalism, Media | Tagged: Kevin Love, Minnesota Timberwolves, O.J. Mayo, Sid Hartman, Star Tribune
Yikes. Considering McHale is going to be hated by every other person in Minnesota for making this trade, now he risks alienating his Number One Fan, Sid.
DJ
Yeah, McCale is getting brutalized on sports talk radio this morning.
There’s some poetic justice surrounding what happened to Sid. For decades, Sid’s formula has been to follow every major announcement with a similar self-righteous AFTER-the-fact pronouncement: “All the lesser reporters thought X was going to happen, but only soothsayer Sid knew all along that Y was going to happen.”
Sid is a senile asshole.
It seems like both t-wolves and grizzlies fans hate the deal. Grizzlies fans really wanted gay-love. And the t-wolves fans really wanted some Mayo.