Yikes.

http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/colin-cowherd-needs-to-stop-talking-about-dominicans-1719751555

“(Baseball is) too complex? I’ve never bought into that ‘baseball is too complex.’ Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world class academic abilities. A lot of those kids come from rough backgrounds and have not had opportunities academically that other kids from other countries have. Baseball is like any sport. It’s mostly instincts. A sportswriter who covers baseball could go up to Tony La Russa and make an argument and Tony would listen and it would seem reasonable. There’s not a single NFL writer in the country who could diagram a play for Bill Belichick. You know, we get caught up in this whole ‘thinking-man’s game.’ Is it in the same family? Most people could do it. It’s not being a concert pianist. It’s in the same family.”

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So he is simultaneously saying baseball players are idiots and that football players are intellectuals?

The message was baseball is so easy even a Dominican can do it.

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nobody's gonna give a shit about this guy once he's off of ESPN. There's nothing unique about his lazy racist blowhardery, he just had the built-in audience.

Another nomination that should be an automatic yes.

Thought he was off ESPN?

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Did he mention how unfunny they are too?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He's worse than Bernstein to me. At least Bernstein can make me laugh occasionally.

Slappy and Big Perp were discussing this and mentioning how stale "smartest guy in the room " radio has become. Maybe they'll mention that in tranny.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Soon. Neither ESPN nor Fox has issued any statement; kinda figured ESPN would take a shot at the guy under the guise of being socially pc.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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I think all he's saying is that if baseball were that complex you would need fairly developed critical thinking skills in order to understand it and if that were true, people who often have little access to the educational opportunities necessary to develop those skills (in his example, people from poverty-stricken areas like the Dominican Republic) would not be able to excel at baseball.

I don't think it's a big deal. It's like someone insisting that a particular job requires a Masters degree but the field is full of people who are succeeding with only a H.S. diploma, which would mean the insistence that a Masters is needed is not correct.

Thats just in the Clubhouse....usually not the funniest guys in the Club!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

If it weren't him, or someone like him, I'd be open to less inflammatory interpretations. This fuckwagon, however, can and should be made to stew in the shit he stirs.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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i really don't have a problem with what he said. he's a doucher but this is blown out of proportion. socioeconomics is racist by the apparent definition.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

His voice and his commercial reads give me the anger shits TM Don Tiny, so I never really listen to his show. I take it he's made iffy comments before?

He's just a bloward Caller Bob in a world where there's more than enough of them succeeding purely because they're blowhard Caller Bobs and enough morons celebrate that sort of thing.

http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/07/colin-cowherd-espn/

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I am still kind of unclear how you feel about him.

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Should I be offended? I'm not.

I'm sick of people who pretend to be offended by every comment somebody says. Who care what Cowherd says?

Damage control. ESPN doesn't want a protest, and a media firestorm over this. Fire him, and move on. Cowherd should be smarter than this.

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He literally had like a week left until he left for fox sports. Easy decision for ESPN.

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I don't disagree; I'm just sick of all of this crap.

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Damage control. ESPN doesn't want a protest, and a media firestorm over this. Fire him, and move on. Cowherd should be smarter than this.[/quote]

I don't disagree; I'm just sick of all of this crap.[/quote]


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That's pretty much how I feel.

I can't even listen to the afternoon show much anymore without it turning into a MSNBC type show.

Just sick of the fake outrage.