apology

You probably heard by now that the American League’s Houston Astros have been outed for cheating. They were stealing the signs of opposition catchers in real time and signaling to Houston batters what the next pitch would be. This was going on in 2017 when the Astros beat the NY Yankees for the American League […]

While apologies have become a dime a dozen, and most are either insincere, or filled with qualifications and excuses, this one has some substance to it. Here’s the background: Last week, the National Football League’s commissioner suspended Baltimore Ravens star running back Ray Rice for the first two games of the coming season. The penalty […]

By Eric M. Seidel, CEO The Media Trainers®, LLC The answer to the headline above: No! Not anymore, if they ever had. Apologies are about as meaningless as “They took me out of context.” Case in point: three sports talk hosts on a morning drive radio show in Atlanta do two minutes of a tasteless skit at […]