I used the baseball example to point out, that jezebel *does* write about athletes every now and then, to counter any arguments that this was a deadspin topic exclusively. Maybe I came across a little too flippant.

Referencing to the Lucille Richards post was for all those who would have argued that jezebel is a gossip site and that I should go to deadspin for all things sport.

Putting Ali next to child pornographers and abusers in something called a ‘dirtbag’ is the belitteling part in all of this.

Why in a dirt bag, next to an indicted child pornography peddler, some celebrity nobodies who have split and a convicted domestic abuser?

I dunno, Ali’s death is buried in a dirtbag on jezebel, while the death of a woman who once played baseball for a hot minute gets its own post. They were both sports figures, one was one of the greatest athletes of all times, the other was well known to her family and friends. Guess who received a hero’s farewell on…