I don’t think this article is arguing one way or the other. The takeaway that I had is the entire discussion around this matter is seen almost exclusively through the male gaze, which shapes the discussion and decisions that follow.
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Luck’s choice didn’t happen in a vacuum. How the Colts handled/mishandled his injuries are relevant to his health and this choice.
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I come here because I don’t give a shit about the scores, drafts, predictione, etc. Ilike to laugh at the ridiculous and absurd sports-related or -tangential stories.
You left out a couple classic revisionist tropes, so I’ll help you out:
The baseball articles were about the game. Not about the players, not about any sort of pop culture. About the game.
This was a Leitch-era Deadspin post: https://deadspin.com/nightmare-ant-334353
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Counterpoint: I don’t give a shit about baseball since they stole the Expos amongst many indignities to the game, so now I only read baseball articles that focus on the scandalous and the wacky and which feed my schadenfreude. I read this article.