Is he naive or craven?

How many times have sportscasters uttered a banal sentiment about “honoring our troops?” There’s a political calculus under that statement that never gets examined but that’s an endorsement of a political viewpoint. (And might even be a paid promotion.)

leave it to others to ponder why, of Deitsch’s seven interviewees, Jemele Hill and Bomani Jones were the only two strongly in favor of embracing important issues when they arise.

You’ll notice that people aren’t really on board the “stick to sprots” train if it’s a political viewpoint they agree with. Because what they’re really saying is “I don’t like being confronted by anything I don’t like”.

So many thoughts:

Nah, it begins by firing up the old eBay account.

‘3 Days of the Condor’ is a movie about conspiracies. ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is a movie about Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts being Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.

Simmons believes that his firing was the result of a conspiracy:

When I was 11 I was at a week long hockey camp at the University of Maine. My best friend and I realized a couple days in that - cut off from TV (this was 1994) and playing hockey 10 hours a day - no one had any idea of what was going on in the world.

Hardcore UFC fans will sleep a lot easier tonight as soon as someone reads this to them.

LOL yes to everything... except that last part. Windy Hill/Cumberland/Marietta area is still South Cobb... where African-Americans and Hispanics are not a minority. Which is what makes me laugh the hardest: all those racist idiots think that their suburban, white utopian ballpark is actually happening. It totally is…

The “Park” here is more in reference to the traffic that will come to the area around the stadium to listen to the games on the radio while stuck in their cars.

Can’t wait to not be able to take public transit and brave the busiest interchange in the south and not find parking to overpay to see one of the most dismal teams in MLB history while sitting next to a bunch of old money assholes with funny sounding voices. But at least I won’t have to see black people out the window…

“Whaddaya mean, ‘SunTrust Park doesn’t count’? It’s got ‘park’ right there in the name!”
-Cobb County commissioners

Let me tell you something about the Cleveland Cavaliers: Fuck the Cleveland Cavaliers.

20 Minutes. My rapist took only about 15. That was >40 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten. These rapists think they are blameless. It only took 20 minutes, why is the rest of my life in ruins. BECAUSE THE REST OF MINE IS RUINED. POS

“and that he will “never be his happy go lucky self [sic]” again.”

I think Lampley just said it the wrong way. Obviously, those three and many others (particularly during WWII) enlisted, but Ali was conscripted, told he must fight even after pledging he opposed the war and would oppose fighting in it. I believe that’s what Lampley’s trying to say, that nobody else took on the…

Here ya go!