And what, pray tell, could he have been doing during this 2 hour (at max) photoshoot that would have impacted his team? This idea that "URGRGRGR if your not living the sport 24/7 your a joke!" bullshit has got to stop.

Why is that an issue? I mean if you aren't a racist of course.

so in other words, you don't know if he chemically straightened anything. You are just assuming, which is fine how the hell would we know unless you knew Neymar.

Right, i understand the point of the article, I enjoyed it when it put the author's contrived premise aside and just discussed race in Brazil.

or maybe we are just questioning the premise of the article? It really doesn't even make any sense UNLESS Neymar is ashamed of his race. That is an assumption the Author makes, based on his desire to change hair styles. The author has no proof that Neymar in anyway did so, and in fact ignores the fact that this kid…

No, race has to drive every choice, at all times. Gawker has spoken.

What a shitty world you must live in, Where every hair style choice has to be part of a torturous internal monologue about your race and place in society.

do you have any proof that Neymar did either? Lots of kids have curly hair when they are young that grows out straight. I did.

They would google it, and slightly chuckle.

HOT TAKE champ.

Thank you. I for one was unaware that it is "too easy to condemn Neymar for pretending to be white"

Agreed, considering this is the first time I've ever heard that making the awful decision to get frosted tips makes you a race traitor to the black side of your family, I wonder who the author is saying it's "easy to condem neymar" for, I was unaware there was a large movement to brand him a race traitor for his hair…

Yea, I was expecting to see some sort of sosa level skin whitening, not a change in Hairstyle and Facial Hair.

Because he doesn't do any analysis. Here is every Lalas response during this World Cup.

I don't know how you give ESPN's studio analysis a A- here. They don't do any analysis. All they do is sit there and say how things made them feel.

Hell yea. I saw those prices and thought it was a misprint. 7 bucks for 12 ounces here at gloriously overpriced Fenway.

I think he's carrying a bit of off season weigh he can likely drop with a month of hard work. I think he'll be fine.

I would argue that he's a world class athlete with millions of dollars and access to an unlimited training staff, and it's the offseason so who gives a shit. He has a bit of fat that he'll lose prior to the season.

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You've put up better in your mens rec league, no doubt.