Paul Lo Duca: Professional Jackass

Lo Duca, running from his problems.

You may or may not be able to tell from this picture, but Paul Lo Duca is a troublemaker and all around jackass. He has been misquoted in several New York newspapers such as the Post, Newsday, and the Daily News. Now, these papers may be the literary equivalent of a Mo Vaughn diarrhea dump, but the words hurt all the same.

Lo Duca gets upset that the media gloms go after him and no one else for interviews, but it's not because they like to pick on him, it's that he's one of the few honest guys in the clubhouse who isn't going to give you cliched answers. Recently, when expressing that he didn't want to do an interview he said "There's plenty of other guys here...They speak English, believe me." Now some people interpreted this as racist, which I think is a stupid thing to say; not everything has to be a race issue. I feel like it's more Lo Duca ("Shorty Gangsta") being a jackass and calling out his teammates because they don't wanna talk to the reporters.

Who can blame the Joses, Beltran, Gomez or Delgado for not wanting to talk to the media? Those guys are animals and demand that the players speak to them at the end of every game. If it was me, I know I wouldn't want to be bothered like that all the time. And yeah, you can use the "They get paid to play a game, they should make time for the media to get a quote," but I think that today mainstream media just has too much news and they've over saturated the market.

The fault with Lo Duca is not that he talks to the media members all the time, I think that for the most part that's a good thing. But to call out your teammates for not being the first in line to talk to the press is being a bad teammate and yes, selfish.

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Thanks to Papa Ishkabibble for the insight.