Siding with Derek Anderson Over Kent Somers

How obsessed are we as a country with knowing everything? We have the 24-hour cable news (sort of news), social networking sites, cell phones that appear to be more like computers, etc. We have texting, tweeting, e-mails. It's not enough to watch the nightly news at 7 or 8 pm or perhaps the local news at 10 or 11. No, let's check out CNN at 11:21 am, MSNBC at 1:42 pm and Fox News at 3:19 pm and rotate every 13 minutes. Let's check out what Ashton Kutcher has to say on Twitter at 4:21 pm, browse a few sites at 4:39, check out our friends' Facebook status at 5:12 and then find some motivation to fix supper.

The Arizona Republic's Kent Somers fed into this craze last night following the Cardinals' loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football. Down 18 points in the 4th quarter, Cardinals' quarterback, Derek Anderson, can be seen talking with lineman Deuce Latui on the bench and the two of them share a smile. We'll never know what it was they were talking about or what provoked the smiles. What is the point of asking about it? The questioning should revolve around the pathetic play of the 3-8 Cardinals so far this season. The questions should be about Anderson's poor play, not what he and a fellow teammate were talking about on the sideline. Anderson even calmly responded to Somers the first time around, but he didn't get into specifics, so his response didn't satisfy Somers and the reporter had to follow up with three more questions about the smile on the sidelines. That's when the Arizona quarterback lost it, blew up at the reporter, before walking out. You know what? I can't blame the guy. It's ridiculous the kind of questioning, the kind of badgering we see anymore, largely due to our 24 hours of "news". Why is it any of our business what this man and his teammate were talking about on the sideline? How about we just attach a mic to every player and that way, we'll know at all times what is being said? We won't even need to question them following the game, because we'll already have our lovely stories.

Kent Somers should have to answer this question, "Have you ever had a bad day at work? Have you ever, in your professional career, had a day when things just didn't seem to be going your way? ::I'll assume he nods at this:: How do you react during these times? Have you ever smiled or laughed on such an occasion?" If he's being honest, he'll say yes, but due to how he went after the Cardinals' quarterback, I have a hunch he'll probably say no. The guy probably doesn't last more than 15 seconds while doing the deed. "Do you like it? You didn't answer me. I said, do you like it? Do you like it? Huh? Huh? Huh? Do you like it? Well do ya?" That's when she pushes him off and says, "No and you can have your money back."