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Why do airplanes always do this "It's too late" routine when there's any kind of issue and insist people get off the plane even when they're willing to adhere to the rules? It's always so annoying to watch.
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Escobar thing was 8 years ago too. Same sex marriage was still banned in WI in 2012. Not equating that with this kind of behavior, but the needle has moved remarkably fast on this stuff. We are much closer to zero tolerance than we were in 2012.
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There's so much more gray area and room for interpretation with what DeSean Jackson did. It's drenched in context. It was bad, and I'm not a fan of his at all, but there are a bunch of different arguments as to his point and that was in the middle of an ongoing discussion re: black rights. He also clearly didn't research what he posted at all. There's no context in which you can explain what Brenneman said. The two things just aren't the same.
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I think we can expect more games like this. The crowd is such a huge factor in NBA games getting way out of hand, I just think not having one at all is really going to be an equalizer for medicore teams.
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Anyone using that phrase at my job would likely get sent home and then forced into sensitivity training. They'd go on probation and be canned the second time. Obviously the "talent" in jobs like this has a ton more wiggle room, but that's a whole other problem. Nobody should feel safe talking like that at work. He clearly had zero fear saying that to anyone within earshot as long as he wasn't on air.
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I find it more believable that he didn't know the real power the word than I would if it were someone my age. That word was still used all the time when I was in high school 15 years ago. It was said basically every play in high school football. But my generation is also the one that really started to reject it in any form and now I don't really know anyone that uses it that I hang out with. It's plausible to me on some level that a much older guy who's not active on social media wouldn't really have a good handle on it. The word was used in the 1970s, sure, but it was not in the same no-go territory that it is now. That happened pretty recently. I don't think is a career ender in 1998. But it seems more likely he or someone close to him counselled him on this being the only feasible way he gets back in a booth again. I can't think of another path there.
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We just need John Rocker to come out and call it an overreaction now.
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David Clarke was on that board as well. Wonder if he'll go down with them.
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I think that if you primarily watch one team, you will think that team is better at "shooting" than it is, because the game has changed so much. On most teams everyone can shoot now to some degree. Growing up it was normal to have 2 or 3 guys on the floor that could REALLY shoot. Someone like Larry Sanders would have no role or a very limited role on a team now because of that. It's all about stretching the floor now.
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Not surprised. I actually liked him purely as an announcer. Apparently most people didn't. I must have missed something, cus people seem to feel very strongly about the guy. I just thought he had a good voice for it.
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While this may be true, no 23 y/o PA is going to rat out Thom Brenneman to management. Maybe there is a culture of older folks there that participate with him, but I'm not gonna blame the $12/hr sound guy who got out of broadcast school last year. You just do the job and shut up; nobody would stand up to the talent.
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Is a guy with a finger on the delay button even a thing in a baseball broadcast? And if the guy knew the mic was hot, wouldn't he have taken it down himself if he had that power? I don't think anyone was aware of it, and if you think the microphone is not hot, what would you be listening to? I didn't bring this up because I didn't want it to seem like misdirecting the blame, but someone was asleep at the wheel for this to go live, unless they hate TB and did it on purpose. Someone is watching/listening to the live feed the entire broadcast for this exact reason.
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This alone would never have happened 15, maybe 10 years ago. Within my conscious lifetime, we've had Jeremy Shockey say he wouldn't "stand for" a gay player in his locker room, to very little blow black, and Ken Griffey Jr. make headlines by saying a gay teammate wouldn't bother him.
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*Thom sees Curt Schilling stand up for him* "Oh my god no, please sit down."
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If I got my timeline correct, the comment was made during the pregame to the 2nd game, and the apology was made in the 5th. Right, but when he says it isn't the "start time" that matters as far as prepping a perfect apology. He obviously didn't care about saying it, just that it got on air. It's when he realized it went live that matters. Maybe he knew that right away, I'm not sure.
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What was the time lag between it blowing up and when he got on air to apologize, though? Because, unfortunately, that apology wasn't on his mind until some PA told him he had to do it. In his mind nobody even heard it besides the guy he was talking to. I think it's doubtful he had hours to plan an apology. He's probably said 500 things like that over the years off air. In which case, adios.
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This is exactly right. This wasn't merely a slip of the tongue either. Based on how he used the term I'm willing to bet this wasn't the first time he has said something like this while on the job. This is a point worth exploring. There are questions to be asked about how casually he dropped that line. There have to be some people with some stories pre-dating this judging by the context in which it was said. Let me preface this by saying I think it's justifiable that he never calls another game. But, one thing that exhausts me are the literary critiques of apologies issued minutes after something happens. The guy was probably seeing red and had to stumble through something on the fly. I don't like when a guy apologizes for something, like Josh Hader did, and people start reading all these subconscious things into every little word. This JUST happened. He didn't sit down with a PR team and quadruple check every clause. My gut feeling is that he calls something again in about a year. Not for the Reds and maybe not for Fox, but something. Also, the "someone said a naughty word" take is really missing the point. It would be a completely different thing, though still bad, if the hot mic caught him saying "get out of the shot, xxx". You could explain that away with some kind of inappropriate inside joke. The context really made it sound like that was the vernacular on the set.
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It'd be one thing if the hot mic only caught that word or if it had come off like a quote or something. But the context made it pretty clear he's very comfortable using the word. He's done. Here's the apology and the most awkward HR call of all time in the middle of it:
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There's nothing wrong with this lineup save the enormous hole at 1B
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Arcia isn't leading off tonight, Braun is. Sogard isn't starting. I assumed that was the poster's preferred lineup, not the actual one.
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I'm feeling ready for the Smoak show to end.
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I was indifferent to them not drafting a WR early. The chances are very high that any rookie WR will contribute less than Allen Lazard with a year under his belt. It took Adams 3 years to really make a difference. I just didn't see a big impact coming from WR unless they brought in an established star. I was OK with them addressing other needs. It shouldn't be that big of a deal to develop who you have when your best WR is Adams. It's not a deep position on the team but I wasn't blowing a gasket when they went somewhere else. Even if it was a QB who won't play.
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I don't buy into this idea at all that Giannis is the problem because he wants the ball and so much and can't co-exist with a 2nd star. I am starting to believe though they need someone like Bradley Beal (I know) instead of Eric Bledsoe.
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This is just my gut feeling so take it for the nothing it's worth, but I sense the bubble has leveled the playing field quite a bit. Home advantage in the NBA is significant, the most significant by far in the three major sports. All these guys are world class players, so when you just toss them into a more sterile environment it's more like the practice they're used to than the games. It absolutely sucks for the teams that were seeded high. It's not a good excuse for the Bucks to lose, but if I were a player I can't imagine this felt anything like the home playoff game you're used to.
