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MourningView posted:They put it in their dumb online poll and it won so now they have disrespected democracy or something. On one hand, it was dumb to vote for a horse. On the other, it was dumb to put up the poll. Both hands are dumb.
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Horse ain't beat nobody. Horse ain't want no part of Bama Pawwwwlllllllllll.
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Dec 15, 2015 08:47
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That horse never crip walked that's for dang sure
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Jason Whitlock has some words to say about this. http://j.school/post/135257975985/serena-williams-as-victim-diminishes-her-greatness quote:The safe space being erected around Serena Williams could cripple what’s left of her playing career.
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Dec 16, 2015 01:17
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She came incredibly close to completing a calendar year Grand Slam, one of the most difficult things to do in Sports. But yeah, this award is about identity-confused safe places.
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Dec 16, 2015 02:06
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Yeah it reads like something he already wrote and was just waiting for something he could toss into the template and publish. Even someone as evidently clueless as Whitlock can see that there is nothing odd or untoward about giving the SOTY award to someone who is possibly the greatest player in the history of her sport and had a fantastically successful year at what for tennis is an ancient age.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah it reads like something he already wrote and was just waiting for something he could toss into the template and publish. Even someone as evidently clueless as Whitlock can see that there is nothing odd or untoward about giving the SOTY award to someone who is possibly the greatest player in the history of her sport and had a fantastically successful year at what for tennis is an ancient age.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yeah it reads like something he already wrote and was just waiting for something he could toss into the template and publish. It's true, I just obtained this rough draft of Whitlock's original article when American Pharoah was still the favorite quote:American Pharoah, 3, is the most talented horse we’ve ever seen. That immense talent, the ability to cut corners and win, prevented him from reaching his current level in his prime. His Utopian worshippers want us to believe the criticisms he faced in the past about his effort and focus were the byproduct of speciesism. Had we just let the horse exist in a safe space in his mid-2s, he would’ve already flown past Steffi Graf as the most accomplished women’s tennis player of all time.
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Dec 16, 2015 02:37
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Sportsman of the Year is a nothing award anyways. They've given it to teams, coaches and lots and lots of players who weren't the best in their sport. Lots of dual winners, too. Bumgarner won it last year, a player who they didn't care about 2 months before or 2 months after. They try to play up the sportsmanship type stuff, which is dumb to start with, but how would you do that with a horse?
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Luigi Thirty posted:Jason Whitlock has some words to say about this. What the hell does he think Fascism entails?
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Dec 16, 2015 04:00
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No matter who uses the word "fascism" always means "things I personally dislike".
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Yeah but usually I can at least understand what they are getting at this one is just confusing.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Jason Whitlock has some words to say about this. Yes, yes he does. quote:"Instead, Serena is arguably pushing 175 pounds, content playing hard only in the major tournaments, happy to be photographed on dates with pro athletes and proud to serve as a role model for women with oversized back packs.
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Dec 16, 2015 05:13
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What editor is approving this poo poo?
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Dec 16, 2015 05:15
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I can't believe that man types out words like that for others to read to pay his bills.
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CharlestheHammer posted:What the hell does he think Fascism entails?
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AsInHowe posted:Yes, yes he does. I love that someone bought the url http://blackgrant.land to redirect to the archived version of this terrible article that had to be taken down
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xbilkis posted:I love that someone bought the url http://blackgrant.land to redirect to the archived version of this terrible article that had to be taken down lmao
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Crazy Ted posted:Fascism might be the single most misused term in the English language. Censorship
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Dec 16, 2015 13:50
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Central components to a Whitlock column: self-loathing, misogyny, faux philosophy, race counterfactuals, Wire references...what are we missing here?
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Crazy Ted posted:Fascism might be the single most misused term in the English language. Literally.
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I think Jason Whitlock might have a subtle and somewhat unconventional reading of Utopia and that's interesting.
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Anals of History posted:Central components to a Whitlock column: self-loathing, misogyny, faux philosophy, race counterfactuals, Wire references...what are we missing here? Yahtzee!!
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Anals of History posted:Central components to a Whitlock column: self-loathing, misogyny, faux philosophy, race counterfactuals, Wire references...what are we missing here? Petulant sniping at peers and former colleagues.
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Dec 16, 2015 16:34
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When is that Whitlock defender going to post about that article here?
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morestuff posted:Woj announced a new basketball-specific site with Yahoo called The Vertical, which is launching in 2016. I hope my writing career becomes specialized enough where I can be something like the preeminent journalist in the basketball shoe industry.
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Dec 16, 2015 16:48
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They buried the lede with White Mamba doing video content
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Anals of History posted:Central components to a Whitlock column: self-loathing, misogyny, faux philosophy, race counterfactuals, Wire references...what are we missing here? Food references. Also the Vert has Jordan's old trainer, which makes me pine for the days of the Jordan Steroid thread. It's been a while since we've really tried to get the site Cease and Desisted, or since TFF's managed to kill someone on Twitter. The good ol' days... 
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I'm still onboard the Jeter Steroid train.
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Muddy Burphy posted:When is that Whitlock defender going to post about that article here? I can't defend his writing anymore, which I already have said. He has gone off the rails. The real thing I was a fan of was his Fox Sports podcast, which really was the best sports podcast going. Even his ESPN one was great, but his Fox Sports one was just awesome. To be honest I never was a big fan of his actual columns. Every now and then he would write a good one, but a lot of them are garbage. I think it is even worse now because I feel like he must publish straight to j.school with no editor. I don't even read it anymore. I bailed the second week. I don't even get what he is about now. He is on some rampage about all these Black Lives Matter "leaders" being atheists millennials or something, I cant even understand it. I really can't. Everything is some "safe space" conspiracy. If he doesn't put out a good podcast soon I'm totally off the Whitlock train. He needs a few friends to sit him down and bring him back to Earth but he probably doesn't have any left. Ribsauce fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Dec 16, 2015 |
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He strikes me as a black guy who wants very badly to be the black guy that white racists point to and say poo poo like "See, blacklivesmatter people? A black guy doesn't like you!" I picture him going on like Sean Hannity's show or something to talk about how Cam Newton should stop dancing and showing off.
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DJExile posted:He strikes me as a black guy who wants very badly to be the black guy that white racists point to and say poo poo like "See, blacklivesmatter people? A black guy doesn't like you!" I picture him going on like Sean Hannity's show or something to talk about how Cam Newton should stop dancing and showing off.
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FMguru posted:Yeah, he's basically filling out the parameters of the classic One Of The Good Ones, the black guy who tells other black people that their problems are all their own drat fault. Remember when old white people thought Bill Cosby was "one of the good ones?"
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Dec 16, 2015 19:16
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The BS Podcast with Abbie Wambach is really good. She pulls zero punches.
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Is that field turf pellet cancer thing legit? I remember hearing rumblings before, but I thought it was viewed as kind of a crackpot theory. She made it sound like it's all but proven, surely we aren't running kids out onto field turf every day if we know it causes cancer?
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Speaking of Simmons' podcast, I thought it was really funny that they decided to go with "BSPN" for their code for promotional stuff (e.g., "go on stamps.com and enter BSPN as your promotional code").
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OctoberBlues posted:Is that field turf pellet cancer thing legit? I remember hearing rumblings before, but I thought it was viewed as kind of a crackpot theory. She made it sound like it's all but proven, surely we aren't running kids out onto field turf every day if we know it causes cancer? Little of column A, little of column B. Keep in mind that literally everything may or may not be linked to cancer these days. Her anger at it is justified since FIFA required all the womens WC games in canada be played on it (soccer is awful on fieldturf), even though a ton of providers were willing to step up and provide grass. If I recall correctly, Abby spearheaded something of a class action suit against FIFA for the conditions and got a ton of other countries' players to join in. I don't think it ever went anywhere though.
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