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listen, I know you guys have relationships with the people behind this show... but you are giving this thing WAY too much publicity. Simply put, it’s just dumb.

no. I accepted his apology and hoped it was sincere. There’s a difference. Words have meanings. Learn them.

some people are able to look at each situation differently and thus sometimes believe owners are in the right, and other times players are in the right. In this case, it is appearing the player is in the right.

His Instagram stories page paints a pretty bleak picture

I know it’s (probably) not true, but damnit, it’s what I choose to believe.

for one of the top players in the league, etc etc.

that’s cause he didn’t make that one at all.... 

The line and line reading is so barbed, that I winced (as a decidedly uncool girl in high school, I always had a suspicion that some of my classmates likely didn’t care whether I lived or died, but to hear it articulated like that was surprisingly painful, even years later).

there are 50,000 shows that have done this before

... and it does appear he did use a rap excuse partially, so I was wrong there. Not good, but I still believe in second chances. This feels like an amazing teaching moment we have here that people want to blow because kindness doesn’t get them enough retweets. If I’m wrong, then so be it.

Turns out the Trayvon tweet was photoshopped. So there’s that.

I appreciate your biography but that doesn’t mean your take is not any less wrong.

what’s the racist thing he said about Trayvon?

Your response should have been “Shit, I didn’t see the anti gay tweets and the Trayvon Martin Truther tweet, my bad, fuck this guy.”

I guess you didn’t see his Trayvon tweet from 2 years ago.

you know what... I’m good with his answers there. He didn’t go to the standard “rap lyrics” or “out of context.” He owned it and owned that it was stupid. Time will tell if he’s honest about changing, but he deserves that chance. It’s 7 years ago. There’s a few people at Deadspin who wouldn’t want to rehash some…

how do you guys decide which shows to review or not review?

Why is it a terrible idea? Walmart has a lot of deep relationships with studios and networks that could conceivably add some benefit here. Netflix is turning into the stand-up comic network with a Hitler doc sprinkled in here and there. Stranger Things jumped the shark last year. Letterman’s fluff, pre-approved…