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Perhaps foremost among the perils of residing on a one-way street is the conditioned reflex to look only one way.<\/p>\n
Such limited vision has even brought our leisure-time sports to the precipice of revulsion, along with everything else around here.<\/p>\n
Consider that many contemporary social activists and their simple-minded adherents, resolute in their ill-considered convictions, are now portraying Caitlin Clark as a third- or fourth-generation representative of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n
Why not? In addition to being a white, popular basketball player who has brought needed TV attention and revenue to her sport \u2014 10-16-year-old girls love her as if she were Taylor Swift \u2014 Clark\u2019s WNBA team is the Indiana Fever. Klan-friendly Edward Jackson was voted Indiana\u2019s governor, just recently, 100 years ago in 1924. Aha!<\/p>\n
The one-way street predictability of many of our most active activists includes media attention far exceeding their credibility. So, to ask good questions of those protesting bigotry and racism on unfirm ground leads to baseless but easy accusations of bigotry or racism. Thus, one\u2019s unsturdy or even erroneous activism can reliably double as both cudgel and shield.<\/p>\n
This media hustle, taken from Al Sharpton\u2019s enduring playbook, is virtually fail proof. Jemele Hill knows and plays the game.<\/p>\n
The former ESPN race-is-my-game regular knows what\u2019s good for her single-themed business. Thus, given that the WNBA is 70 percent black and roughly one-third gay \u2014 Clark is straight \u2014 Hill claimed, \u201cWe would all be very naive if we didn\u2019t say race and her sexuality play a role in her popularity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hill continued: \u201cWhile so many people are happy for Caitlin\u2019s success \u2014 including the players; this has had such an enormous impact on the game \u2014 there is a part of it that is a little problematic because of what it says about the worth and the marketability of the players who are already there.\u201d<\/p>\n
OK, fine. Not such a far flung opinion. But doesn\u2019t that work both ways?<\/p>\n
The players are happy for Clark?<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s on-court blindside attack she suffered from opponent Chennedy Carter, followed by the joyous leap from her seat on the bench from Carter\u2019s teammate and Clark\u2019s college nemesis, Angel Reese, when Clark was shoved to the floor was evidence of players\u2019 happiness for her or resentment of her?<\/p>\n
And resentment for what? National TV coverage? Maximized exposure? Would it not be reasonable to at least partially credit Clark\u2019s WNBA presence with the new luxury of charter flights for all players? Or should the travel be segregated to match Hill\u2019s point?<\/p>\n
Postgame, Carter said, \u201cI ain\u2019t answering no Caitlin Clark questions.\u201d That\u2019s her freedom of no speech right.<\/p>\n
But was it not \u201cproblematic\u201d to Hill that Carter and Reese are black? Or that Carter, alone, might be \u201cproblematic\u201d on any day as she was suspended for challenging a former WNBA teammate, also black, to a fight?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would all be very naive if we didn\u2019t say race played a role\u201d as per Hill\u2019s take on Clark, but not after what went down when Hill was knocked down and Reese jumped for joy? One-way street, only?<\/p>\n
Several years ago while on ESPN, Hill did a dance of delight while reporting that black rapper Kendrick Lamar had been selected to entertain at a college football game.<\/p>\n
Given that Lamar had recorded such charming lyrics as, \u201cIf I gotta slap a p\u2014y ass n\u2014a, I\u2019ma make it look sexy. If I gotta go hard on a bitch, I\u2019ma make it look sexy\u201d among other similarly boastful but vulgar, race- and women-degrading \u201ctunes,\u201d I asked Hill in print why she \u2014 as a self-respecting, outspoken, black woman \u2014 would joyously promote Lamar.<\/p>\n
Her answer came in a tweet: \u201cI honestly consider it an honor that Mushnick wrote about me. I aspire to be this grumpy one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fine. I\u2019m grumpy. Watching ESPN makes me especially grumpy.<\/p>\n
But she didn\u2019t answer the question, and still hasn\u2019t. That\u2019s life on a one-way street.<\/p>\n
Her answer came in a tweet: \u201cI honestly consider it an honor that Mushnick wrote about me. I aspire to be this grumpy one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fine. I\u2019m grumpy. Watching ESPN makes me especially grumpy.<\/p>\n
But she didn\u2019t answer the question, and still hasn\u2019t. That\u2019s life on a one-way street.<\/p>\n
Betcha we don\u2019t know all of the story yet<\/p>\n
Homicide detectives will be the first to tell you, \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuesday, the same day MLB hit unknown Padres scrub Tucupita Marcano with a lifetime ban for gambling on his team last season \u2014 while he was an injured and inactive Pirate \u2014 the Rob Manfred Hall of Justice announced that super-duper star Shohei Ohtani has been totally exonerated as a baseball gambling suspect.<\/p>\n
Sorry, not buying it. I\u2019m not so easy as to accept a \u201che\u2019s innocent\u201d statement so it all can just blow away.<\/p>\n
MLB owes us this answer: How was Ohtani\u2019s former pal and interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, able to establish millions of dollars in credit and $17 million in debt with bookmakers without the considerable assistance of an extremely wealthy and influential backer\/debt service manager?<\/p>\n
Or did Ohtani\u2019s former pal have other pals with $700 million contracts?<\/p>\n
Also Tuesday, three minor leaguers were suspended for betting on baseball. But more likely, from where they sat \u2014 and bet \u2014 they were nailed for obeying MLB\u2019s relentless commercial prods to bet, bet, bet on baseball.<\/p>\n
By the way, according to MLB, sentenced-to-life Marcano, \u201cUltimately lost all his parlays involving the Pirates and only won 4.3% of all of his MLB-related bets, overall.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thus, one or both of two things: 1) This helps explain why parlay bets that legal sportsbooks, including those in business with MLB, are hustled hard, as they\u2019re super sucker bets, and\/or, 2) Marcano\u2019s tout was Mike Francesa.<\/p>\n
Juuuust a bit outside<\/p>\n
Saturday, on the first pitch of the bottom of the first of Diamondbacks-Mets on SNY, Francisco Lindor took it for a ball. That stood to conspicuous reason. The pitch was high and outside. Gary Cohen could\u2019ve said \u201cBall one,\u201d or nothing at all as it was self-evident. Instead, he called it, \u201cA non-competitive pitch, ball one.\u201d Really? Geez.<\/p>\n
Reader Michael Balduino to Rob Manfred upon conflating Negro League stats with MLB stats: \u201cHistory is meant to be learned from, not revised. And history shouldn\u2019t be used as a public relations stunt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mets manager Carlos Mendoza makes lead-blowing, game-losing pitching changes as if he trained under Aaron Boone. \u2026 What\u2019s that? Ya don\u2019t say.<\/p>\n
TV folks are so uptight on issues of race, religion and ethnicity that good questions aren\u2019t asked and interesting tidbits remain unspoken. The NHL Panthers have a forward named Evan Rodrigues. What in the name of Scott Gomez is a Rodrigues doing in the Stanley Cup Final? A: He was born in Toronto, his father in Portugal.<\/p>\n
Against the Mets on Saturday, Arizona\u2019s Christian Walker hit a grand slam. As he appeared to delay his start to first by watching \u2014 SNY didn\u2019t show his entire trip \u2014 Walker had a chance to hit a thoroughly modern three-run single.<\/p>\n
Tuesday was the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators in China. Estimates of the total murdered range from several hundred to several thousand. Nike, Adam Silver, Rob Manfred, Roger Goodell, team owners and outspoken pro stars including LeBron James, joined with the Chinese Communist Party in ignoring that the horror happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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