(08-23-2017 07:18 AM)bullet Wrote:  Sounds like discrimination against a common Asian name.

hence, where the hell is the ACLU on this one???

(08-23-2017 07:21 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(08-23-2017 07:18 AM)bullet Wrote:  Sounds like discrimination against a common Asian name.

hence, where the hell is the ACLU on this one???

Don't hold your breath.........wrong agenda.

(08-23-2017 07:27 AM)Crebman Wrote:  

(08-23-2017 07:21 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(08-23-2017 07:18 AM)bullet Wrote:  Sounds like discrimination against a common Asian name.

hence, where the hell is the ACLU on this one???

Don't hold your breath.........wrong agenda.

XACLY!

#doublestandard

(08-23-2017 07:11 AM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(08-23-2017 07:07 AM)Centdukesfan Wrote:  i would sue uva and the network for everything they are worth

there's a catch-22 to that if you lose.....

regardless, it becomes, "now what do I do?" you basically blackball yourself by filing suit......

now if the ACLU were to spear head the suit????......nawwwwwwwwwwww, that ain't gonna happen with this one

this issue is simply inane ....

If he wins any real amount of money he won't be working anymore. He probably should move, though...

Even more reason to not watch ESPN. While I admit they put on a great show for college football and I love that 99% of our games are now on some sort of ESPN channel, they have become more concerned with racially charged issues rather than just seeing sports. After I work hard all day and come home to drink a beer I just want to see sports highlights, I don't want to hear about how if Lebron James was white he wouldn't get scrutinized as much.

Their "sports" shows are drenched in leftist views, the personalities constantly make racial opinions about situations that have nothing to do with race, they are just as ridiculous as most news networks. People tune into sports to get away from things like that. Their personalities can be just as left or right as they want off air but when I tune in I don't want to hear the crap. Literally the only time I turn on ESPN now is in college football season or watching the LLWS recently.

If I'm this cat I approach Fox Sports or CBS Sports today, feel them out and if they bite sue the crap out of ESPN.

(08-23-2017 08:02 AM)DownEastPirate Wrote:  Even more reason to not watch ESPN. While I admit they put on a great show for college football and I love that 99% of our games are now on some sort of ESPN channel, they have become more concerned with racially charged issues rather than just seeing sports. After I work hard all day and come home to drink a beer I just want to see sports highlights, I don't want to hear about how if Lebron James was white he wouldn't get scrutinized as much.

Their "sports" shows are drenched in leftist views, the personalities constantly make racial opinions about situations that have nothing to do with race, they are just as ridiculous as most news networks. People tune into sports to get away from things like that. Their personalities can be just as left or right as they want off air but when I tune in I don't want to hear the crap. Literally the only time I turn on ESPN now is in college football season or watching the LLWS recently.

If I'm this cat I approach Fox Sports or CBS Sports today, feel them out and if they bite sue the crap out of ESPN.

and to think, it all began with this feller.....it's why they are now THEE esPENIS....

(08-23-2017 07:07 AM)Centdukesfan Wrote:  i would sue uva and the network for everything they are worth

What are his damages? He's going from one D1-AA v. P5 game to another. It just makes the network look stupid.

(08-23-2017 08:02 AM)DownEastPirate Wrote:  Even more reason to not watch ESPN. While I admit they put on a great show for college football and I love that 99% of our games are now on some sort of ESPN channel, they have become more concerned with racially charged issues rather than just seeing sports. After I work hard all day and come home to drink a beer I just want to see sports highlights, I don't want to hear about how if Lebron James was white he wouldn't get scrutinized as much.

Their "sports" shows are drenched in leftist views, the personalities constantly make racial opinions about situations that have nothing to do with race, they are just as ridiculous as most news networks. People tune into sports to get away from things like that. Their personalities can be just as left or right as they want off air but when I tune in I don't want to hear the crap. Literally the only time I turn on ESPN now is in college football season or watching the LLWS recently.

If I'm this cat I approach Fox Sports or CBS Sports today, feel them out and if they bite sue the crap out of ESPN.

Agreed

I know it sounds silly, but given how many broadcasts ESPN has and how many announcers they use, having Robert Lee call a game in Charlottesville in the wake of what just happened could look like more than just a coincidence, so I totally get why ESPN is making the move.

According to the media on Twitter, an ESPN exec just shot out this email:

Quote:After I work hard all day and come home to drink a beer I just want to see sports highlights, I don't want to hear about how if Lebron James was white he wouldn't get scrutinized as much.

ESPN still shows sports highlights?

(08-23-2017 08:07 AM)450bench Wrote:  

(08-23-2017 08:02 AM)DownEastPirate Wrote:  Even more reason to not watch ESPN. While I admit they put on a great show for college football and I love that 99% of our games are now on some sort of ESPN channel, they have become more concerned with racially charged issues rather than just seeing sports. After I work hard all day and come home to drink a beer I just want to see sports highlights, I don't want to hear about how if Lebron James was white he wouldn't get scrutinized as much.

Their "sports" shows are drenched in leftist views, the personalities constantly make racial opinions about situations that have nothing to do with race, they are just as ridiculous as most news networks. People tune into sports to get away from things like that. Their personalities can be just as left or right as they want off air but when I tune in I don't want to hear the crap. Literally the only time I turn on ESPN now is in college football season or watching the LLWS recently.

If I'm this cat I approach Fox Sports or CBS Sports today, feel them out and if they bite sue the crap out of ESPN.

Agreed

while I completely agree with looking to the other networks for employment, that's a slippery slope if filing suit persona non grata......who knows what those (networks) may become in the future based on simpleton msm bias/persuasion....

once again, this is where the embodiment that is the supposed ACLU should be pounding the gavel.....

(08-23-2017 08:08 AM)fsquid Wrote:  According to the media on Twitter, an ESPN exec just shot out this email:

#damagecontrolbegins

Guess Marshawn Lynch will never work at ESPN

It might* be understandable if some network were trying to get in front of the sjw's and avoid some controversy if said network weren't the sjw's.


*No

(08-23-2017 08:07 AM)Chappy Wrote:  I know it sounds silly, but given how many broadcasts ESPN has and how many announcers they use, having Robert Lee call a game in Charlottesville in the wake of what just happened could look like more than just a coincidence, so I totally get why ESPN is making the move.

The talking heads on The Today Show were talking about this issue this morning. If anything, I think they lean really to the left on a daily basis. They were talking about how crazy this is. They conducted an online poll (non-scientific I'm sure) that resulted in 96% respondents disagreeing with ESPN's decision and only 4% agreeing. I guess you are part of the 4%.

ESPN should have assigned him to a Washington and Lee game

(08-23-2017 08:28 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote:  

(08-23-2017 08:07 AM)Chappy Wrote:  I know it sounds silly, but given how many broadcasts ESPN has and how many announcers they use, having Robert Lee call a game in Charlottesville in the wake of what just happened could look like more than just a coincidence, so I totally get why ESPN is making the move.

The talking heads on The Today Show were talking about this issue this morning. If anything, I think they lean really to the left on a daily basis. They were talking about how crazy this is. They conducted an online poll (non-scientific I'm sure) that resulted in 96% respondents disagreeing with ESPN's decision and only 4% agreeing. I guess you are part of the 4%.

Well, I don't think it was necessary and if I ran the network I probably would not have made the move... but, I see why they did.

All online polls are non scientific.

(08-23-2017 08:56 AM)Paul M Wrote:  All online polls are agenda based and full o' something that only deserves to be flushed....

fify