One of my favorite Seinfeld episodes involved New York Mets star Keith Hernandez, and Jerry's use of the magic loogie defense to argue Hernandez did not imfamously spit on Kramer and Newman following a game.
Hernandez was portrayed as the perfect guy, who Elaine and Jerry fawned over throughout the episode.
It totally made me a Hernandez fan until I read about his comments during a Mets television broadcast that women have no place in the dugout. During the same broadcast, he half-heartedly apologized when he learned the woman whose pressence offended him was on the San Diego Padres' training staff. He refused interviews on the subject but apologized if he offended anyone during the following Mets broadcast.
I know baseball is the one of the last unconquered frontiers for women in sports, but his comments were ridiculous and ignorant at best.
It makes me wonder ... maybe he was responsible for that magic loogie after all.

Posted by ilimon at 01:33 PM | Permalink