ESPN to Reynolds: "Don't hug it out, bitch."

It will be interesting to see how the Harold Reynolds situation shakes out in the next couple of weeks. I have to say, I am more than a little surprised as I'm sure many of you are. As a long time Mariners fan, I would have expected this kind of behavior from Henry Cotto or Scott Bankhead but certainly not from the best non-obvious-steroid-using second baseman to ever play for Seattle. Granted, very little from the story has been made public, but it seems to be shaping up into an instance of he said/she said. The most scandalous quote that has surfaced came from Reynolds himself: "It was a total misunderstanding, my goal is to sit down and get back. To be honest with you, I gave a woman a hug and I felt like it was misinterpreted." I'm 26 years old. I'm estimating that I've given or received some 10,000 hugs in my day and it never dawned on me that each hug had to be interpreted like 19th century French poetry or an Aborigine rain dance. I like to think I have a healthy imagination but I'm having a hard time picturing how an innocent hug can be misconstrued as sexual harassment, unless he gave the woman the same kind of hug that Jim Carrey gave Lauren Holly when she answered the door in "Dumb and Dumber", minus the doves. I hope this situation can be resolved and Harold Reynolds can return to ESPN's airwaves sooner than later. Watching John Kruk sweating like a woman giving birth while trying to pronounce "Akinori Otsuka" only makes for good television once in a while. He's one of the few people on ESPN that I found both knowledgeable and tolerable and I wish him the best, unless of course the woman he hug/harassed turns out to be Rachel Nichols, because if that's the case, I will hunt him down like he's Waingro from "Heat". "You don't know what this is, do you Harold?"