Dan Patrick is an Arrogant Ass

I guess I couldn't make it any more clear. I like Dan. Respect him, even. But today I caught him interviewing Jeremy Roenick about some disparaging comments he made about certain hockey fans:

Among his comments Saturday:

"We're going to try to make it better for everybody, period, end of subject. And if you don't realize that, then don't come," Roenick said.

"We don't want you at the rink, we don't want you in the stadium, we don't want you to watch hockey," he said at the Mario Lemieux Celebrity Invitational in suburban Pittsburgh.

Omitted from the article were the several "kiss my @ss" comments he made.

Were they unnecessary? Of course? Over the top? Crude. Yes.

But then Dan Patrick interviewed him about it. It seemed all that Patrick was trying to do was pin Roenick in a corner, trying to get him to admit that he was out of line. Roenick, one of the bigger jerks in hockey that I can recall from being an ambivalent fan, comes out looking like the better man. He defended himself well and held his ground.

I thought the point of an interview was to get the facts, not get into a pissing match with the subject or try to trap them into saying something outrageous.

Dan Patrick entered the Jim Gray zone. I hate Jim Gray. Worst. "Reporter." Ever.

All I got out the interview is a greater sense of Patrick's smugness, arrogance, and self-importance. You're not bigger than sports, Dan. Stop acting like it.