Chipper Jones Sandy Hook truther

[Alma]

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 ...

Because the mass popularity of baseball predates the modern investment in collegiate sports, while basketball does not.

People are more selfish than they are biased. They like their college hoops. The NBA's product is as good as it's been in awhile, and yet, because of the ****ty way pro hoops coverage evolved, one's knowledge of many of the league's best teams is marginal.

 

[Dick Whitman]

If you want to play in the NBA, better do a little bit o' cake-walkin' first.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

If you want to play in the NBA, better do a little bit o' cake-walkin' first.

Starring **** Whitman as Starman.

 

[YankeeFan]

I have no idea what ****'s post means.

 

[User 11148]

DW translated:

Basketball players who skip college for the NBA are criticized* for not getting an education.

Baseball players and hockey players who skip college for the pros aren't criticized for not getting an education.

Basketball players tend to be black. Baseball/hockey players tend to be not-black. Here endeth the lesson.



P.S. Cake-walkin' (and tap-dancin') are euphemisms recalling dance routines by African-American minstrels.



*Supposedly.

 

[YankeeFan]

So, ****'s saying black folk sure are good at singin', dancin', and basketball playin'?

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

So, ****'s saying black folk sure are good at singin', dancin', and basketball playin'?

**** doesn't think basketball players should "act white."

 

[Dick Whitman]

There are plenty of people who don't want to see shiftless Negros handed a job in the NBA without first going to college for some book learnin'. Otherwise, it's just the black man getting everything handed to him. Again. Just like the Cadillac drivin' welfare queen.

 

[User 11148]

His views have evolved ...

 

[User 11148]

There are plenty of people ...

An introductory phrase right out of the Fox News stylebook.

 

[Vombatus]

 

[MisterCreosote]

It's pretty widely accepted these days that basketball players who stay in college for four years do so because they suck. No other reason.

I'm very concerned about ****'s concerns of racism against black basketball players but not against black or Latino baseball players.

By the way, I'm tired of the lack of criticism being directed at this college graduate:

And, I wish all the racists would leave this guy alone for leaving school after his freshman year:

 

[YankeeFan]

There are plenty of people who don't want to see shiftless Negros handed a job in the NBA without first going to college for some book learnin'. Otherwise, it's just the black man getting everything handed to him. Again. Just like the Cadillac drivin' welfare queen.

Aren't most of the people who don't like seeing players go straight to the NBA just college basketball fanbois?

 

[MisterCreosote]

An introductory phrase right out of the Fox News stylebook.

On par with that columnist who said Romney was going to win in 2012 because there were a lot of his lawn signs in her neighborhood.

 

[YankeeFan]

Attended three colleges, never graduated, and became managing editor and anchor of a network newscast.

Unclear if he ever cake walked.

 

[MisterCreosote]

There are plenty of people who don't want to see shiftless Negros handed a job in the NBA without first going to college for some book learnin'. Otherwise, it's just the black man getting everything handed to him. Again. Just like the Cadillac drivin' welfare queen.

I know you're just trolling this morning, but what the hell...

LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Moses Malone and Darryl Dawkins are friggin' folk heroes. Dwight Howard isn't far behind, and would be if he hadn't had his L.A. debacle.

Sebastian F-ing Telfair was on the cover of SI when he declared he was skipping college as a point guard.

But, you know, troll troll troll your boat.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Some "shiftless Negros handed a job in the NBA without first going to college for some book learnin'":

 

[YankeeFan]

Yeah, but the rednecks don't care if white folks go to the NBA without going to college first.

It's only the shiftless blacks that are resented.

The whites are hard working, scrappy players, who love the game.

The blacks are gifted athletes, but they're immature, and not ready for the money that comes with an NBA contract.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Who cares about fer'ners?

 

[YankeeFan]

Who cares about fer'ners?

They're immigrant success stories!