ESPN is quickly becoming less of a sports network & more of a "push our social agenda" crap-a-thon. Did anyone get ass-whipped by tonight's Dodgers - Padres game? I tune in wanting to watch a good game & expecting to get a few inside stories from ol-timers about Jackie Robinson & as I love baseball history I'm OK w/that.
Instead, we get a 3-hour infomerical about what baseball needs to do to get more blacks in the game. That it's a travesty ... more needs to be done .. it's too expensive to play ... market it in the inner cities ... there's too many whites ... and can we PLEASE bring up the fact for the 99th time that in the 70's the black baseball player percentage was 27% but now it's only 8.4%. Who cares?!? The Latin and Asian influence in the game has expanded by 20% in that time but never mind details like that as I guess Latins & Asians don't count in ESPN's world.
You have to agree that when ESPN.com breaks down every major league roster & lists the number of black people & comments on teams that aren't doing a good job (Braves & Astros don't have any black players for example -- Andrew Jones didn't count since he's Latin) that's racist, right? Or to put it another way, when are you going to see ESPN's analysis of the disappearing white American basketball player & team-by-team breakdowns of how many whites are on each team? Never, because that would be racist ... I just love me some double-standards.
For an example of a great double standard, take this quote from Jimmy Rollins on ESPN: "We see different teams come in, and the first thing we look for is how many brothers they got. Sometimes it's one dude by himself. And we're like, "Man, you know that's a long year for him." OK, now make this quote belong to, let's say Steve Nash: "We see different teams come in, and the first thing we look for is how many whites they got. Sometimes it's one dude by himself. And we're like, "Man, you know that's a long year for him." Reaction? RACIST INGRATE. STRING HIM UP!!!!!
Sorry for getting on my soap-box but I look forward to the day when ESPN shuts up w/the agenda pushing of a group of select few that ram stuff down our throat that 85% of the people couldn't give a whip about.