The Lexington media might be taking Mike Hartline a bit too seriously

by Mike Rutherford on Dec 10, 2010 12:09 PM EST in Football

I honestly don't care about Hartline getting arrested at all, but this video is too amazing not to address.

Why is the Lexington media treating Mike Hartline like he's Peyton Manning? Can you imagine Matt Hobbs or Fred Cowgill camping out and then sprinting after Adam Froman at 5 in the morning?

I think the fact that he's getting into a generic Lexington taxi might be the best part. Which poor bastard got that assignment?

The real loser in all of this, of course, is Ashley Kathleen Carnes, who became the 75,000th female UK student to get busted for public intoxication and possession of a fake ID, and the first to have the news broadcast live on local television. All in one night. Tough break, Ashley, but that's the risk you take when you make the conscious choice to live the fast life with rock stars like Mike Hartline.

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Cutler chasing Billy G was much better

Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight train coming your way...
@btcoop71

by btcoop71 on Dec 10, 2010 12:12 PM EST reply actions

Absolutely

But at least that was the head basketball coach at Kentucky.

by Mike Rutherford on Dec 10, 2010 12:16 PM EST up reply actions

I guess in the end both Cutler and Billy G lost their jobs

due to repeat DUIs.

by Blocky on Dec 10, 2010 1:22 PM EST up reply actions

ahhahahahahaha

Tiger Woods over here

by sam34gtr on Dec 10, 2010 12:15 PM EST reply actions

pathetic

WLEX sucks-camp out and wait for a kid to post bail. Classless, crude trash. Report the story but leave the kid alone for goodness sakes.

by Chip Constant on Dec 10, 2010 12:18 PM EST reply actions

He runs from the press just like he runs from linebackers,

like a 17 year old girl.

by UofL Redbirds on Dec 10, 2010 12:20 PM EST reply actions

they covered both exits

JUST IN CASE

by Leigh on Dec 10, 2010 12:25 PM EST reply actions

I wanna be like Mike.

It just works on so many levels here.

Anyway, the Lexington media is making way too much out of this. If he indeed try to throw something at the cops, he deserved to be arrested and was. Case closed. But on the other hand, the kid’s a senior, so he has to be at least 21. It’s legal. He was in a cab trying to go home, which is responsible. And when he apparently got in an argument in the cab, he got out to avoid a confrontation. The kid did a lot of stuff right. We should give him some credit.

He certainly showed better judgement and character than Darius Ashley, and he got away with a single story in the C-J.

by CARD_G6 on Dec 10, 2010 12:31 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Well there's many important stories like this one:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20101210/NEWS02/312100062/Sippy+cup+taken+from+toddler+by+Indiana+movie+theater+attendant

by Leigh on Dec 10, 2010 12:36 PM EST up reply actions

OK

So apparently Carnes is Hartline’s girlfriend, and together they were beating up another girl. Not cool, guys.

by Mike Rutherford on Dec 10, 2010 12:35 PM EST reply actions

Ha

“In case you’re just waking up….” Good thing they opened with that. That’s the kind of opening you’d more likely use/hear when talking about some sort of disaster that actually affects people or that people actually care about (i.e., in case you’re just waking up, there’s been an ice storm and all the roads are closed; in case you’re just waking, there’s been a terrorist attach in Mumbai).

by REALISTICCARDSFAN on Dec 10, 2010 12:45 PM EST reply actions

Bozich should take lessons from that guy.

Lexington really is that boring, eh? Nothing better for the local news to do than be paparazzi? Hilarious.

by CardinalDude on Dec 10, 2010 12:46 PM EST reply actions

Who's Mike Hartline?

"Screech, you CAN'T elope!"
"Who are you calling a cantaloupe, you melonhead?"

by rickmbari on Dec 10, 2010 1:08 PM EST reply actions

When I watch "reporting" like this

II always wonder, what is the end game with this?

What can whatever channel this was broadcast from hope to get from harassing him?

This is the way it would happen in the reporter’s dreams
Reporter: MIKE! MIKE!
(Rushes up to Hartline as he get in to the cab)
Any comments? Why did you get arrested?
Hartline: I got arrested over a dispute with a cab driver I thought was ripping me off.
Also, The CIA had a second gunman on the grassy knoll who kill JFK, aliens are real and Oprah is one of them and Obama’s birth certificate was forged.
(He then hands over a briefcase full documents proving his comments, gets in the cab and drives away)

by Blocky on Dec 10, 2010 1:34 PM EST reply actions

+1

by sarasota-card on Dec 10, 2010 3:12 PM EST up reply actions

TMZ has nothing on WLEX

Local news sucks everywhere, but in some places it’s even more atrocious. I grew around Lex and had this kind of stuff slammed into my brain from birth and then brainwashed to think anything related to W*ldc*t athletics was the most important thing in the universe. Thank goodness I developed an independent brain.

Still think the Cutler/Billy G video is better. That was classic.

MnPDX

by kentuckybred on Dec 10, 2010 2:14 PM EST reply actions