HALL OF FAME FOR JERKS INDUCTEE #2

Lizz Winstead posted a link to a sports column Mark Whicker wrote on Monday for the Orange County Register. It’s in phenomenally poor taste (basically, he’s recapping the big sports stories of the last 18 years for Jaycee Dugard, the girl who was held against her will and raped and forced to bear two children by her assailant). Note the last line of the column.

Here’s the article. The comments that run below it on the OCR site are pretty angry (not to mention the ones that were taken down for being too angry). On Wednesday, two days later, Whicker wrote an apology. But before that apology was published, Michael David Smith over at AOL Fanhouse published Mike’s replies to some questions regarding the article and the fallout. You can read that here.

I love that he’s “quite surprised” by how offended people were by his column. Here’s his apology.

Hopefully he won’t have a job much longer.