Tony LaRussa Arrested for Driving While Intoxicated

I just heard the news on the Mike and Mike in the Morning radio-television simulcast: Tony LaRussa, manager of the World Series-winning St. Louis Cardinals, was arrested for suspicion of drunk while intoxicated in Jupiter, Fl. According to a police report, LaRussa, in his SUV, sat through two cycles of a traffic light. When police approached his vehicle, they found LaRussa asleep at the wheel with his foot on the brake.

Mike Greenberg then invoked Andy Reid and the situation with his sons. Greenberg stated that "it makes me so uncomfortable that people have to answer these questions. And it makes me uncomfortable to have to ask these questions."

Greenberg went on to say he and Mike Golic's radio show is a reflection of public opinion. We can't dictate to you what you should be interested in. We can only do our best to try and reflect what you're interested in."

Golic chimed in with, "It's just like Barry Bonds. We get all these emails from people telling us they're tired of hearing about Barry Bonds. But if we didn't report about Barry bonds someone else would, so we report on it."

Greenberg then said, "Look, this is the reality of it. If you're interested in something, then your way of consuming it, we have come to take it so totally for granted now because everything is on television and, in this day and age, if it's not, it's on the Internet. It's on YouTube, it's on other Web sites like that."

What kind of apologist nonsense is that? Greenberg and Golic didn't say anything like that when discussing Jeremy Stevens' recent arrest? They certainly didn't hesitate to talk daily about Michael Vick's water bottle that allegedly contained marijuana residue; even after Vick was exonerated from guilt?

If anything, with the emphasis sports mediums of all kinds place on "personal responsibility" and setting examples for kids" one would think LaRussa's actions would receive twice as much attention. Not only is LaRussa a "public sports figure," but he's the leader of an entire team! He is the ultimate reflection of what his team stands for which apparently stands for being drunk and driving late at night.