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ESPN Vs. Journalism: Round 47

By mw2828, Section Journals
Posted on Sun Jun 03 2007 at 2:20 PM EST Printer Friendly Page
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some ESPN crap

Ha, ha, ha. ESPN kills me. Honestly? I LOVE it! They actually toss out statistics at the bottom of the article, in a sad attempt to lend credence to the latest mindless spewing of everyone's favorite amateur sociologist, Gary Sheffield. Seriously, how lost is ESPN? And how insulting are these comments to everyone besides Sheffield? [Latin Americans, executives of every ilk, the entire sport in general] You know if ESPN HAD any journalistic credibility, one of their columnists would absolutely RIP Sheffield for these moronic statements in the coming days. But, I'm not counting on it. After all, ESPN isn't in journalism business, if that were the case, they wouldn't be so scared of the NFL. Excuse me, has anyone seen Playmakers? Anybody? How `bout Ron Mexico?  An in depth profile regarding the deeds of Terrance Kiel perhaps?

Bueller?    

But how can we be shocked? From the same network that informed Americans everywhere of their latent racism if they happened to hate Barry Bonds, comes another paradox:

Labeling Latin ballplayers subservient: OK. [So far]

Moronically dubbing female athletes as nappy headed hoes: Not OK.

No, Sheffield can't be fired for his opinions, but he can be taken to task with equal vigor.  

Go ahead, ESPN.

Surprise me for once.




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ESPN Vs. Journalism: Round 47 | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
hahahahahaha (#1)
by bsd987 on Mon Jun 04 2007 at 1:49 PM EST
ESPN surprises me every day actually, which when I think about it, it is surprising that ESPN surprises me. Of all their writers only two or three are qualified and the rest are worse than everyone except Gregg Doyel. Yet I'm surprised at how mind-bogglingly bad they are....
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Jeff Pearlman... come on dowwwwnnnnn (#2)
by mw2828 on Tue Jun 05 2007 at 4:49 PM EST
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/070605&sportCat=mlb

Well, here's former SI scribe Jeff Pearlman ripping Sheff, for what it's worth. Jeff comes off just a tad embittered toward ballplayers here, questioning the intellectual level of his athletic constituents. He could have written the article without interjecting his personal opinion, but whatever, at least its something.  You can be sure however, that the Sheffield coverage ends somewhere around here.

you know what the problem is? (#3)
by Editor on Tue Jun 12 2007 at 3:04 PM EST
Al Sharpton doesn't care about Latin people. If this the reverse and some latin player said this about blacks, there would be no rest until he was banned from the league. Sheffield is also a fucking idiot. I'm glad his wife turned out to be a ho.

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