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Aussie College Baseball Playa Killed By Bored Teens In Ok Narrative

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Boom_70, Aug 19, 2013.

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  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Re: Austrialian College Baseball Player Killed By Bored Teens In Oka

    How, exactly, is the media supposed to find a teenager's pot connection?

    Do you think his friends would be open to giving that name to some adult they don't know from Adam?
     
  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

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    Look, man, I don't even know what you're trying to say anymore. First you say he was high. Now you're saying that at some point in the recent past, he had smoked. Inky deconstructs the impossibility of your chain of events and now you're changing the argument. So what's your exact point here?

    You're off the reservation. A normally reasonable person who has gone full conspiracy nutjob on this one.
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    All true.

    Lots of books have relayed player's versions of events, based on a player's memory, when the facts don't bear them out.

    It's still inexcusable.
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Re: Austrialian College Baseball Player Killed By Bored Teens In Oka

    Just don't compare me to Bubbler!
     
  5. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Re: Austrialian College Baseball Player Killed By Bored Teens In Oka

    As example see "The Book of Basketball " by Simmons , Bill
     
  6. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Re: Austrialian College Baseball Player Killed By Bored Teens In Oka

    Of course not. George Zimmerman will never be the monster that Ryan Braun is.
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    Did he?

    Was Trayvon dead in within 11 minutes of his purchase of Skittles and "iced tea" or did Inky repeat a mistake as a "fact" -- the very thing I've been complaining about?
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Re: Austrialian College Baseball Player Killed By Bored Teens In Oka

    Yeah, Braun's a dirty Jew! Am I right?
     
  9. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

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    Sorry, I was working off memory on time frame.

    I was not working off memory on the amount of THC in his body, which indicates he did not smoke out just before he was shot.
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

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    Not necessarily. The player is busy playing the game. They're not trying to remember every detail so they can give a 100 percent accurate accounting 30 years down the road. They remember something that happened and think they know how it happened. Nothing inexcusable about it.

    There's the old saying that there's 3 sides to every story. One person's side, the other person's side and the truth. Shouldn't THE MEDIA!!! have checked out the Swift Boaters' claims about John Kerry before reporting them? Or should they have been, as you put it, stenographers and just wrote down what they said, along with Kerry's (weak) denials?
     
  11. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

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    No that's Bernie Kosar.
     
  12. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

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    It's being treated like an argument that conservatives are convinced they can only win if they prove Trayvon deserved to die and the media ignored that "fact."
     
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