As the Truth sees it…

Every morning I have a routine. After getting up around 5:30 a.m. and going to the gym for an hour, I spend the rest of my morning preparing for work and tuning in and out of Mike & Mike in the Morning on ESPN 2. While I may skip workouts, I rarely miss watching the show.
However, Monday, I did miss a large portion of it. Because the Dallas Cowboys were destroyed the day before, I really wasn’t in the mood to watch analysts and critics tell me what I already knew, that the Boys choked.
It wasn’t until Wednesday that I found out the biggest piece of news coming out of the show’s broadcast, which happened to be a holiday. As Co-host Mike Greenberg was thanking listeners and viewers for joining them on “Martin Luther Coon Jr.” day. He quickly realized his mistake and corrected himself by saying Martin Luther King Day.
After the correction, Greenberg went on with the show as if nothing had happened. And his Co-host, former NFL player, Mike Golic didn’t say a word.
It wasn’t until later the day that Greenberg posted an explanation on ESPN MediZone, and not on his own show, and apology for his mistake.
“I just came home from the Knicks game and found out about the mess that was created by my garbling a sentence on our show this morning,” Greenberg said in a statement on ESPN Mediazone. “I apologize for not addressing it sooner. And I’m sorry that my talking too fast — and slurring my words — might have given people who don’t know our show the wrong impression about us, and about me. I feel horrible about that, because nothing could be further away from who I am and what our show is about. I would never say anything like that, not in public, or in private, or in the silence of my own mind, and neither would anyone associated with our show, and I’m very sorry that my stumble this morning gave so many people the opposite impression.”
I understand saying the wrong thing. Things often come out of my mouth by accident. The difference is, they are words I commonly use. I can’t think of a time that something has just slipped out that was not a regular part of my vocabulary. So for Greenberg to state he would never say “coon” in public or private is hard to believe.
Are people not making enough of this or should we just accept the apology and move on to the next gaffe?
Michael Kinney

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