Ines Sainz claims that she was "embarrassed" while attending a New York Jets practice last week.  She also says that she is a reporter.  I say she should be embarrassed to call herself a reporter.  She isn't a reporter.

Sainz is billed as a sports reporter for TV Azteca. What a joke.  The former beauty queen is no more a sports reporter than your average stripper.  Although her normal outfits do resemble that of a stripper.

Sainz doesn't even pretend to be a serious reporter because she couldn't begin to pull it off (insert stripper joke here).  It isn't all her fault though.  Mexican TV sells sex, sex and more sex and passes it off as quality entertainment.  While selling sex works on American TV as well, we don't call that sports journalism.  (Insert Erin Andrews joke here)

Sainz has been around for a few years, doing fluff pieces at major sporting events.  During the 2009 Super Bowl this tart went around and measured the arms of all the players in her own little "Strongest Right Arm" competition.  The players played along of course, since her surgically enhanced body was falling out of her skin tight outfit.  She made sure to wink a lot in the process too.  Very professional.  Then in last year's Super Bowl she was photographed sitting on the shoulders of two Indianapolis Colts players.  

Funny, but I don't recall seeing Joe Buck, Phil Simms, Terry Bradshaw, Peter King or any other actual sports reporters or announcers sitting on players' shoulders or measuring their arms.  Maybe that's because this woman doesn't belong at a sporting event with a microphone in her hand.  Somebody hand her some pom-poms.  

Look, I get it.  Sainz got her job because she's got a nice body and sex sells, especially on Mexican TV.  But that doesn't mean that she should be taken seriously.  If she wants to be taken seriously (which she obviously doesn't) then she should show up at an event with plain, baggy clothes instead of her usual painted on pants and unbuttoned or extremely low-cut shirt.

If the reports are true about what some of the Jets players did and said, then they were wrong.  But exactly how surprised should we be that a scantily clad bimbo who flirts with the players would be treated like an object of desire rather than as a professional.  This woman sells the image of herself as a sex symbol.  Every interview she has done since this incident stars her cleavage trying to bust out of the top of her too tight and low cut tops.  Again, not that there's anything wrong with that.  It's just that she isn't a real reporter and shouldn't be treated as one.

I once ripped Erin Andrews for being an idiot when she couldn't even spell correspondent.  It's true; she couldn't spell the word when asked by an ESPN radio affiliate in Philadelphia.  But while Andrews was hired simply because of her looks, at least she tries to be a legitimate reporter.  She does her homework and knows what she's talking about.  Then she goes on Dancing with the Stars and destroys any shred of credibility that she might have had.  But she's still more legitimate than Sainz.  Plus, those frat boys on the college campuses really seem to like Andrews' "work" and that's good enough for her network bosses.

Both women should watch ESPN's Suzy Kolber and take notes.  The way she handled the infamous Joe Namith incident was pure professionalism.  Sainz would have probably mugged it up with Broadway Joe for the cameras and then claimed to be "embarrassed" later.  

This all leads to another issue that needs to be addressed.  Why are female reporters allowed in a male locker room?  Male reporters sure as hell aren't allowed in a female locker room.  Why is that?  Maybe that lack of coverage is why nobody follows any women's sports.  Or maybe women's sports are just boring.  Sorry, that's a different soapbox.

Anyway, if a woman is in an NFL locker room there will be naked men in there.  Wouldn't that make her "embarrassed"?  What, only lewd comments make this woman "embarrassed"?  I guess she's fine with naked men as long as they only answer her insipid questions while she shamelessly flirts with them.

Maybe female reporters should be made to wait outside the locker room to get their interviews.  Or at least be made to wait outside until all the players are dressed.  Of course, that would bring out the feminists who would say that it would give male reporters an unfair advantage.  True, but if that's how you want it, wouldn't you have to allow male reporters into female locker rooms?  I mean anything else would be pure hypocrisy.  Why do I have the feeling that Gloria Allred is already talking to Sainz.  I mean, Allred is probably done with all 18 of Tiger's bimbos by now so she's looking for her next feminist "cause".

Obviously I know that women would never be banned from male locker rooms and men will never be allowed in female locker rooms.  Men are pigs by nature and shouldn't be allowed in a locker room of women.  That's obvious.  But it does point out the double standard at work here.  And men being pigs also explains this entire incident.  It doesn't excuse it entirely, but it certainly does explain it.

If you don't believe that, then maybe you missed this quote from Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis.  "I think you put women reporters in the locker room in position to see guys walking around naked, and you sit in the locker room with 53 guys, and all of the sudden you see a nice woman in the locker room, I think men are going to tend to turn and look and want to say something to that woman," Portis said.  "You put a woman [in a locker room] and give her a choice of 53 athletes, somebody got to be appealing to her.  You know, somebody got to spark her interest, or she's going to want somebody.  I don't know what kind of woman won't."  Heck, it seems like Portis thinks that men and women are both pigs.  But it does illustrate the mindset of athletes and the potential problems associated with having reporters of the opposite sex in a locker room where the players are changing.  

Sainz herself validated Portis point.  "It was an uncomfortable moment because you are in the team's dressing room and they are obviously changing clothes, showering - doing what they do every day in the locker room," Sainz said.

So if she knew that the players would be changing and it was "an uncomfortable moment", then what was she doing in there in the first place?  Also note that that quote has been taken completely out of context by the media and used to make the Jets players look bad.  I saw several headlines that just read, "It was an uncomfortable moment".  Looks like the Mexican media aren't the only ones who try to sensationalize things by using sex.

Jets owner Woody Johnson has already personally apologized to Sainz and I'm sure some of the offending players on the Jets, like Kris Jenkins, will be forced to apologize as well.  I also wouldn't be surprised if there is a fine coming from the NFL as well.  Get your checkbook out too, Clinton Portis.  The Great and Powerful Wizard of the NFL, Roger Goodell never misses an opportunity for some good PR.  What better way to appeal to an untapped fanbase like women, than to appear that you're behind them.  But not in the way Portis wants to be, of course.

The NFL already has some sensitivity training planned for the Jets players and I wouldn't be surprised to see all of the NFL teams get the same mandate from the league.  

I just hope they do it soon.  After all of this publicity Sainz will be visible at every major sporting event on the planet from now on.  And I don't doubt that this was the plan all along.  Like I said, this tart isn't a journalist, she just plays one on TV.