March 2, 2004
Is Jerry Stackhouse a bit weird?
Raise your hand if you were baffled by the Wizards player with the hurt knee announcing on Saturday that he was done for the season -- sans physical, sans discussions with team officials. Today (March 1, 2004) Michael Wilbon examines the strangeness of the announcement.
Media question: Why wasn’t this angle in the original story (Feb. 28) by Steve Wyche? Usually teams in all sports announce that a player is sitting out, or done for the season. Wire services even send out lists of, say, football players who are hurt. Stackhouse obviously wasn’t following the normal procedure.
Maybe Jerry’s just busy looking into vacation rentals, so he can create more consternation as ESPN.com reported that he did in the Outer Banks last summer when he stayed in a property eight days (his idea of a week), creating consternation for the next renter.
