A Question For Us Lefties

ryan198
ryan198 Posts: 1,015
edited February 2007 in A Moving Train
Today I was watching ESPN and saw Tim Hardaway's comments about John Ameche coming out as gay. Eventually his interviewer Dan Lebatard got him to come out and say "I hate gay people". At first I was upset, and pissed at Hardaway for being such an idiot...and I still am to an extent. However, what does Dan Lebatard or myself, or anyone of us gain from knowing that Hardaway is an idiot? Does that make us better than him? Does Lebatard getting Hardaway to say that make Lebatard a better person? Will this mean more human rights for homosexuals? Or does it just confirm the fact that gay basketball players do not want to come out, b/c many of their teammates may feel like Hardaway but keep quiet about it to the press? In other words, does pointing out the obvious, in this case 'that homophobia exists in the NBA' really do anything to make this world a better place? I think quite contrarilily that this is part of the spectacle, that it's just a way for ESPN to capitalize on John Ameche for this few days of speaking about homosexuality in the NBA, then they will forget him tommorow and move onto T.O. or Bobby Knight or whomever will get them the most viewers. Thoughts anyone?
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    It's not really a sportswriters' place to make the world a better place.

    Occasionally, it can be a sportswriters' place to explain the world. Which is what LeBatard did in this instance.

    Wanna know why gay NBA players don't come out? Because most of the heterosexual ones think like Tim Hardaway.
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  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    people hold professional athletes in very high regards...unintelligently...this proves that tim hardaway is a slime ball - there is no reason for anyone to look up to him...but, people did before...why? because he lives in that world where he is special because he's rich and talented at ONE thing...good for him - i would spit on him if i saw him
    ryan198 wrote:
    Today I was watching ESPN and saw Tim Hardaway's comments about John Ameche coming out as gay. Eventually his interviewer Dan Lebatard got him to come out and say "I hate gay people". At first I was upset, and pissed at Hardaway for being such an idiot...and I still am to an extent. However, what does Dan Lebatard or myself, or anyone of us gain from knowing that Hardaway is an idiot? Does that make us better than him? Does Lebatard getting Hardaway to say that make Lebatard a better person? Will this mean more human rights for homosexuals? Or does it just confirm the fact that gay basketball players do not want to come out, b/c many of their teammates may feel like Hardaway but keep quiet about it to the press? In other words, does pointing out the obvious, in this case 'that homophobia exists in the NBA' really do anything to make this world a better place? I think quite contrarilily that this is part of the spectacle, that it's just a way for ESPN to capitalize on John Ameche for this few days of speaking about homosexuality in the NBA, then they will forget him tommorow and move onto T.O. or Bobby Knight or whomever will get them the most viewers. Thoughts anyone?
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  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    ryan198 wrote:
    Today I was watching ESPN and saw Tim Hardaway's comments about John Ameche coming out as gay. Eventually his interviewer Dan Lebatard got him to come out and say "I hate gay people". At first I was upset, and pissed at Hardaway for being such an idiot...and I still am to an extent. However, what does Dan Lebatard or myself, or anyone of us gain from knowing that Hardaway is an idiot? Does that make us better than him? Does Lebatard getting Hardaway to say that make Lebatard a better person? Will this mean more human rights for homosexuals? Or does it just confirm the fact that gay basketball players do not want to come out, b/c many of their teammates may feel like Hardaway but keep quiet about it to the press? In other words, does pointing out the obvious, in this case 'that homophobia exists in the NBA' really do anything to make this world a better place? I think quite contrarilily that this is part of the spectacle, that it's just a way for ESPN to capitalize on John Ameche for this few days of speaking about homosexuality in the NBA, then they will forget him tommorow and move onto T.O. or Bobby Knight or whomever will get them the most viewers. Thoughts anyone?

    You lost me at "us lefties."

    believe it or not, us right wing whackos hate homophobia just as much as you lefties.

    No other network obsesses about skin color, sexuality, or anything else, than does ESPN. Yet they don't have a problem with capitalism. They are the phoniest of the phony. That is what was brilliant about the Rush Limbaugh comment last week, and the idiotic response by peter king.

    in short, my thoughts, the sports media should stick to sports, b/c they really aren't that smart when it comes to sports, and even dumber when it comes to issues of social justice.
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  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    I don't know who Tim Hardaway is.
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I don't know who Tim Hardaway is.

    fuck no you don't, you cracker-ass, pasty bitch white boy!
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  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I don't know who Tim Hardaway is.

    Tim Hardaway is a very intelligent, main-stream, articulate and very clean black guy.
    "Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"

    "What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."

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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I don't know who Tim Hardaway is.

    He was an all-star guard for the Golden State Warriors back in the 1990s. Part of the Warriors' famed Run TMC backcourt (Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin).

    They never accomplished jack squat.

    Chris Mullin turned out to be an alcoholic. but not gay.
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  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    I don't know who Tim Hardaway is.

    I think she was Blanche...the "diva" of the golden girls.
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • hodge
    hodge Posts: 519
    he had a killer crossover, i'll give him that
    ..and you will come to find that we are all one mind, capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable
  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    ThumbingMyWay32 wrote:
    Tim Hardaway is a very intelligent, main-stream, articulate and very clean black guy.

    would you see him in a dunkin donuts? are people like tim hardaway cleaner than dunkin donuts workers? there's gotta be some funding for such a study.
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    You lost me at "us lefties."

    believe it or not, us right wing whackos hate homophobia just as much as you lefties.

    No other network obsesses about skin color, sexuality, or anything else, than does ESPN. Yet they don't have a problem with capitalism. They are the phoniest of the phony. That is what was brilliant about the Rush Limbaugh comment last week, and the idiotic response by peter king.

    in short, my thoughts, the sports media should stick to sports, b/c they really aren't that smart when it comes to sports, and even dumber when it comes to issues of social justice.


    Case in point... Sportscenter just signed off with "Tune into Mike and Mike in the morning for the response to Tim Hardaway's comments from John Amaechi!" Followed by heavy panting...

    Amazing they've already lined this up huh?
    "Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"

    "What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."

    Camden 5-28-06
    Washington, D.C. 6-22-08
  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    would you see him in a dunkin donuts? are people like tim hardaway cleaner than dunkin donuts workers? there's gotta be some funding for such a study.

    Somewhere a lobbyist is salivating.
    "Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"

    "What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."

    Camden 5-28-06
    Washington, D.C. 6-22-08
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    I really thought this thread was for left handed people.






    Carry on.
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    I think she was Blanche...the "diva" of the golden girls.


    best answer. 10 points.
  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    cutback wrote:
    I really thought this thread was for left handed people.






    Carry on.

    ME TOO



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  • trappedinmyradio
    trappedinmyradio Posts: 1,189
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    best answer. 10 points.

    as if you're capable of determining that ;)
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  • Purple Hawk
    Purple Hawk Posts: 1,300
    Kenny Olav wrote:
    best answer. 10 points.

    believe it or not, all four golden girls are still alive...that's impressive to me.
    And you ask me what I want this year
    And I try to make this kind and clear
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
    Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
    And desire and love and empty things
    Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    believe it or not, all four golden girls are still alive...that's impressive to me.

    Although Estelle Getty is so out of it, she thinks she's Ernest Borgnine
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  • PaperPlates
    PaperPlates Posts: 1,745
    http://towleroad.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/amachiebook.jpg

    :p
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  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Purple Hawk wrote:
    believe it or not, all four golden girls are still alive...that's impressive to me.


    Believe it or not I used to watch the Golden Girls. Not because my grandmother watched it, but because I enjoyed it. :o
    "Sarcasm: intellect on the offensive"

    "What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact."

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