Jemele and Mike

Oh, I empathize with her. It's a pisser when the world doesn't line up the way you think it should. I remember that feeling, because I wasn't always this perspicacious*, and it's no fun.


*In your face, @dixiehack!).

 

Ad hominem, hominem, hominem, hominem, hominem ...

 

As soon as my dictionary app finishes downloading, you can expect a sharply-worded complaint, mister!

 

Well, I disagree with it on an objective/theoretical basis, but really how many actual full time sports columnists are there left in the USA?
Fifty? Maybe 100? That's about it.
So pretty much by default, she probably is.

 

the politics thread is dead? Good.

 

This whole thing fascinates me for a number of reasons. I don't have enough context to know for sure, but I suspect the Bortles reference was made in part because he's not what I'd consider a household name, meaning (to me) that even if you don't follow sports closely, you've heard of him. Her dropping his name there was, I'm guessing, as much symbolic as it was material to the discussion at hand. That she might not have said it about the biggest name in the NFL. It's why I mentioned I'd never heard of him until this thread. He's no Tom Brady (but then again, from what I've heard, neither is Tom Brady).

But I could be wrong. I'm sure some nice person who pays more attention to ESPN and pro football will let me know either way.

 

Nope. My position here is that it's fucking laughable that a bunch of white men could feel so strongly about Hill's innocuous quote explaining her frame of mind in posting the (perhaps inadvisable) tweet, especially considering most of you have no idea what it's like to be black, a Jew, a Muslim or a recent immigrant in the current political climate.

 

And I think you're being paternalistic and condescending toward her by feeling you need to protect the delicate flower.

Then again, I'm just the guy who begins multiple threads each week drawing attention to stellar magazine and online pieces and also started a thread just yesterday asking people to sing the praises of sports talk shows that they like, while name-checking my own favorite, who is ragingly jealous he's not the one hosting the 6 p.m. "SportsCenter."

 

Hmm ...

 

Nothing paternalistic or condescending about it. The faux outrage about her (very reasonable) Bortles quote is way over the top.

 

Come on, what she said about Trump is pretty tame (and accurate). It's not like she said rooting for the Celtics was like saying Hitler was a victim.

EDIT: By the way, what the eff does that even mean?