Thank God for Keith Hernandez. Without him, I wouldn't know my place!
Hernandez made the remarks during the second inning of New York's 8-1 victory in San Diego on Saturday night. Mike Piazza homered for the Padres and exchanged a high-five in the dugout with 33-year-old Kelly Calabrese, the Padres' massage therapist.
"Who is the girl in the dugout, with the long hair?" Hernandez said. "What's going on here? You have got to be kidding me. Only player personnel in the dugout."
Hernandez found out later in the broadcast that Calabrese was with the Padres training staff.
"I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout," Hernandez said.
Well, that's good. I'm so glad Hernandez was there to reaffirm that women don't belong in professional sports.
Hernandez, a former Mets first baseman, then laughed and said, "You know I am only teasing. I love you gals out there - always have."
As if his remarks weren't galling and misogynistic enough, he has to pretend that he's only kidding and it's us gals who are taking offense to nothing. Uh huh. We're just a bunch of kitchen-dwelling screaming fishwives to Hernandez, apparently.
Luckily, Calabrese had the last word:
Calabrese said she was flabbergasted by Hernandez's comments.
"It amazes me that somebody of that caliber, that has obviously played the game before and is in front of an audience of millions of people, would say something like that," she said of Hernandez, a former Mets player. "It's a little shocking, but you know what - it happens. . . . He not only discredited me as a person, but he discredited women."
Calabrese then walked down the hallway to the Padres training room and joked, "Should I go in the kitchen now?"
She probably gets that kind of crap a lot, but I'm sure it doesn't make it any easier. Good for her to have a sense of humor about the situation, though (really, what else can you do?).
Anyway, I hope the jackass goes back to his damn Just for Men commercials and keeps his chauvinistic mouth shut.
3 comments:
I heard the teleplay live and it didn't sound that bad at all. I think the media is making it worse than what it really is. He was just joking trying fill time with societal fodder. Although he does sound kind of stupid because most times you know who everybody is inside the dugout. He should known that was the team massage therapists
Hernandez should know that when your on the air you never discuss opinions or even joke about race, gender, sexuality, or politics. That alone qualifies him as a dumba**. Now if he had a blog then he could spout his 19th century ideas all over the place and really get this stuff off his much too coincidental neanderthal-like chest.
I have hated the Mets, and Hernandez, ever since they beat my beloved Red Sox back in 86 in the World Series
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