As a hardcore sports fan, it truly irritates me how the sports media operates. On one side, if the team they cover is doing extremely poorly and has been doing so on a consistent basis, they’ll tear the team to shreds in their column…and rightfully so.

However, what I still can’t wrap my head around is why in the blue hell when it comes time to questioning a GM, head coach, or player in post game interviews, they ask extremely vanilla questions?

How do you go from ripping a team in your column to not asking the tough question in a post game interview? Are you afraid to say it to the GM, head coach, or player’s face and afraid of the backlash that may come about? Maybe you just don’t want to be the journalist who prevented their publication from gaining access into the post game conference.

As fans of our teams, we like to feel that the media understands how we feel and can relate to us better than the coaches, players, management, or ownership. Let’s face it…those individuals that are players or personnel within a sports franchise are being paid to do a job. While they want their fans to support them, at the end of the day…they don’t care about you and me. We cheer for our team regardless of who is on it. It’s all about the logo… even though we can appreciate quality players on the roster.

With that being said…we turn to the media to voice our frustrations on a public platform and give the voice to the fans that we can’t individually do ourselves. So when I see a sports journalist write a column that backs my frustrations with my team and then when they have the opportunity to present it in a post game interview and shy away and revert to vanilla questions, that’s just insulting as a fan.

I truly begin to question what the true agenda is of the sports media. Clicks, stirring the pot, boosting their individual ego’s? Maybe it’s a combination. Either way, they should really stay true to the writer they are in writing as they do in person. Fans can appreciate that consistency, especially when our teams don’t provide that consistency for us.

Is anyone else noticing this with how the sports media covers your teams in your town?

If you’re a sports fan, I’d really appreciate you checking out Frank’s NY Sports Rant.