Araxen
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You're the dumbass for watching them and feeding into their retardedness.
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NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back
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You're the dumbass for watching them and feeding into their retardedness.
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I still find Stephen A. occasionally/rarely funny - he's more "real" than most people at that station, but even he only "hits" on 10% of his shit? But absolutely no room to support ESPN on any level at all.
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Growing up most baseball players were far better at crossing over at other sports, than athletes coming over to baseball etc.
Baseball is just hard in general. The other sports is really a measure of how much better your athleticism is, unless you're a golfer, QB etc.
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Drakurii
Golden Baron of the Realm
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get woke go broke
www.cbsnews.com
ESPN takes Rachel Nichols off NBA coverage and cancels her show
The decision follows backlash over leaked comments she made about her former colleague Maria Taylor.
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Alex
Still a Music Elitist
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Do people really buy into this? Doesn't really seem like the case. See: Google and Apple earnings.
Also this person said some things that many might consider not-woke and now she doesn't have a job. So.
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Drakurii
Golden Baron of the Realm
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Yea but she apologized and got fucked, she should have just stuck by her original comments and kept her integrity intact.
Nichols Apologizes to Taylor After 'Diversity' Comments
Rachel Nichols has apologized after saying Maria Taylor received NBA assignments because of ESPN’s “crappy longtime record on diversity.”
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Oblio
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I have not been paying much attention to sports lately including the HoF inductees etc. I just saw Bosch made it in? That surprised the duck out of me. Do his numbers justify it? From a casual fan that has had some high interest streaks over the past few decades it just feels like the bar is getting lower and lower. Am I wrong? Curious to hear your thoughts.
Basketball hof is a relative joke because the NBA doesn't have its own. College coaches, wnba players, foreign players.. they all go to the same place. It's not the elite fraternity that mlb or NFL hofs are. You can find much bigger wtfs than Chris Bosh in there.
Sterling
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Hoops HoF is definitely not the same as the NFL or MLB. NFL is kind of the polar extreme to basketball when it comes to people getting in. You have amazing players that end up having to get in through the back door of the vet committee while in the NBA you have a whole bunch of good but not really elite dudes in there. Chris Mullins, Joe Dumars, Bill Bradley, and my personal favorite Vlade Divac. Bosch is better than all those dudes and a bunch of others that are already in. Meanwhile, in the NFL you have dudes like Art Monk who finished his career 2nd or 3rd in basically every major receiver statistic behind jerry rice ended up having to wait 8 years to get in. MLB is the one that mostly makes sense aside from the old dudes having refusing to basically vote in anyone from the steroid era.
zzeris
King Turd of Shit Hill
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While entertaining, the steroid era was the starting point for baseball’s major decline. Guys went from slightly above average to record holders, the HR gained steam as the focus, and everyone realized MLB didn’t really give a shit about the records or anything else but money. It also never gained the fantasy appeal that has kept the NFL afloat.
None of the leagues care about records, fans, etc but baseball was built on stats and slow games. Modern viewers need more visual stimulus to keep their small brains occupied.
Sterling
El Presidente
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I think when it comes to the HoF, you have to compare players to their peers and not just historically. Steroid Era is what it is and Selig was a big part of it and he's in. That could lead you to judge the numbers differently for sure, so saying McGwire or Sosa shouldn't be in because of it totally reasonable. Not having Bonds, Clemens and potentially ARod is just stupid though. This really isn't the place for this particular derail though. My point was that basketball is the easiest of the major HoFs to get into, NFL the hardest with MLB in between.
Brahma
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Sources: Simmons won't report, done with 76ers
Ben Simmons does not plan to report to the Sixers or play for the team again, sources told ESPN.
www.espn.com