I find your (and Barry’s) idea of what is “political” ridiculous. Just because you can speak on a topic from a political viewpoint doesn’t make it that. Barry does this for several sports things and concludes that “everything is politics”. You can apply the same logic to a million other things, and find that…

Not to defend him at all but Schefter strikes me as a conservative type and I get the feeling there is a strong minority of conservative sports reporters who actually do feel like Curt Schilling and others were punished for being right-wing. Most of the reporters and broadcasters that seem almost neurotic about…