re: Was this really intended to be a hit piece?

My uninformed opinion: I think the article was always going to look something like this. I don't think it was ever set up to be a "hit piece." If that was truly the intent, there would've been a lot more digs in it.

I think Pat Forde is a shite head who heard that an article was going to come out, it was going to mention some of the controversies Mulkey has been involved in, and that Mulkey refused to be part of it and ran with it and tweeted like the shite stirrer he is and we all freaked out.

I'm not well plugged in so I don't know Kent Babb's track record, so maybe you guys can correct me but I don't know of him with a history of shitty articles. Pat Forde, on the other hand, has been a frick stick forever. I think Babb was likely trying to just write a profile of a high profile sports figure in the height of its popularity with the good, the bad, and the ugly. The only thing I didn't like was that he was really interested in her personal life, Mulkey deserves her privacy like the rest of us.

ETA: unlike the LA Times article which was a straight up hatchet job with no journalistic integrity.