I hate to agree with Clay Travis and his raging ego but ...

Yes and yes. Provocative, too.

But Coates also looks through at the world through such a specific, narrow lens - almost a vacuum of his own making - that it's reasonable to question whether he's a consistently robust thinker. I have friend who's like that - on an entirely different topic - who's prolific, brilliant, a great writer, and yet so exacting and philosophically extreme that he processes unrelated things through the same prism. It reminds me of Coates, who I love to read yet don't necessarily trust.

 

"If you truly wanna boycott the NFL and you wanna boycott ESPN, the notion that some guy sitting out there, or gal, and they decide, ‘you know what, I’m gonna cut my entire cable package because ESPN gave an award on a made-up show in July because there’s no sports, to a woman who used to be a man, so I’m now not gonna have any cable TV at all and I’m gonna sit around at night and read books by candlelight like olden times because of that,’ that’s not happening. And if you did that, than you’re so dumb that I can’t even pray for you because you’re beyond hope. If that was your reaction to this, was to deny yourself the ability to watch television, I mean that just hasn’t happened and didn’t happen, so I boycott them."
Scott Van Pelt blasts people who say ESPN is sinking ship

 

Does all that mean it isn't a sinking ship and Van Pelt is not a jerkoff?

 

My friend who claims to be boycotting the NFL (and ESPN, I think) continues to support ESPN by paying his cable bill. I told him to make his protest effective he needs to get rid of cable because he's still paying ESPN.