One thing ESPN may recognize soon, if it hasn’t already: There’s an army of bloggers out there who have become increasingly infuriated with the ESPN product. They see through the phony ombudsman, the played-out catchphrases, uncessary screaming. The bloggers lay in wait, hoping for mistakes. Then they pounce. And mock.

It’s not only on the .com and on-air, but on the radio, too.

This morning, Mike Greenberg, who shares radio time with Mike Golic each morning on Mike & Mike, apparently said something he may end up regretting, according to Sports Media Review:

Greenberg was discussing the suspension yesterday of Guillermo Mota, the hard-throwing former Mets’ reliever, for violating MLB’s steroid policy. Mota is automatically subject to a fifty game suspension and issued a statement taking full responsibility for what he had done. Greenberg expressed shock that a modern athlete would simply accept responsibility for what he had done, and not try to make excuses for having failed a drug test. By contrast, Shawne Merriman and Rafael Palmeiro, for example, insisted that if they ingested banned substances, they did so unwittingly.

I heard this while driving my daughter to school, so I don’t have the full quote, but Greenberg did positively say that Mota “manned up” by coming clean, as opposed to all of these other athletes who “womaned down.”

Since we didn’t hear the show – it’s always on ESPN2 on mute in the background every morning, but since LOST was such a mindfuck last night, we had to watch it again this morning – we’re not even sure what the hell ‘womaned down’ means. Is this his way of referring to a blowjob? Are men who lie about cheating … women?

Between one of those Page 2 clowns possibly embellishing a story about Shaq dick-whipping a female reporter, to an ESPNU announcer using the word ‘gay’ and getting suspended, and the Harold Reynolds mess, it’s been quite a week at the Worldwide Leader, huh?

Should Mike Greenberg Be Fired? (Sports Media Review)