Chipper Jones Sandy Hook truther

There's usually an underlying psychological issue, like some profound sense of paranoia, playing out in the most extreme examples, so I save my vitriol for the people who feed off their illnesses.

 

It's the most craven kind of opportunism.
Alex Jones might not be mentally ill, but is mean enough to profit off those who probably are.
Anything will be used. The violent death of Paul Walker, a D-list actor, somehow was made to fit into the Illuminati master plan.

 

You know, I always thought I was the smart one in our family. Hurts to have you knock me down like that, bro.

 

Pro baseball players on the whole are the least-informed of any major American sport. Lots of them go straight from high school to the minors as Chipper did, and that's where their learning stops.

At least football players get three years of college and basketball players at least one. Hockey has a similar setup as baseball, but those guys are mostly Canadian and have a more enlightened education.

 

And yet you don't hear people wailing about the baseball players forgoing their education like you do the NBA.

I wonder why that is the case ...

 

Or hockey players

 

There must be some trait that baseball and hockey players share and which NBA players do not wherein it doesn't bother people very much to see the formers head straight to the pros without a little bit o' tap dancing thrown in first.

 

Chewing tobacco.

 

The education part of it is a salient point. It hasn't helped that he's been sheltered his entire life. Private school in high school. Controlled environment in the minors. Highly controlled environment in the majors. The tunnel vision that made his career what it was doesn't serve him well when he wades into current events water. Pro basketball and football players get at least a year in college. In theory at least, they were required to read something other than a playbook.

 

Or perhaps it is because baseball has been that way for generations while most of us actually remember when it was an extreme rarity for basketball players to go straight from high school to the pros and college football players all waited at least three years before moving on to the NFL. Some people don't deal well with change.

I'm guessing it is a mixture of both.

 

This a hundred times. Baseball players, on average, are the dimmest of all.