Steven Malanga August 28, 2020
With their boycott of games earlier this week to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, athletes in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball have crossed a bridge that they may find difficult to return from. Though professional athletes have become increasingly politicized since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began his “Star Spangled Banner” protests in 2016, the widespread cancellation of games, including NBA playoff contests, is unprecedented.
The walkout in support of Blake, who was wanted on a sexual-assault charge and whose own girlfriend called the cops on him, hardly represents the kind of compelling case against police brutality one might build a mass movement around. If players, in the midst of a pandemic slowdown already costing professional sports billions of dollars, were willing to shut down their industry in this instance, how frequently will they feel compelled, or even pressured, to do the same in the future? Fans who were already watching less sports may react negatively to being lectured by wealthy athletes who regularly walk off the job.............To Read More....
My Take -This should prove interesting. Are they still being paid? If they are then the league won't have to worry about appeasing these stupid, spoiled snowflakes they're paying obscene amounts of money in order to play a child's game. They'll be broke, and out of business.
If they're not paying them it's just delaying the inevitable, but in the short term it will be interesting to see the reaction of these cry babies when they find they're quickly going broke and the only skill they may have outside of throwing a big ball through a big metal ring, in spite of the fact most of them graduated from some college or other, is washing dishes in a restaurant.
Also, their moral blindness and hypocrisy is demonstrated in this piece, so this isn't a moral issue, it's a political power play, and they need to pay a penalty for it.
With their boycott of games earlier this week to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, athletes in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball have crossed a bridge that they may find difficult to return from. Though professional athletes have become increasingly politicized since former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began his “Star Spangled Banner” protests in 2016, the widespread cancellation of games, including NBA playoff contests, is unprecedented.
The walkout in support of Blake, who was wanted on a sexual-assault charge and whose own girlfriend called the cops on him, hardly represents the kind of compelling case against police brutality one might build a mass movement around. If players, in the midst of a pandemic slowdown already costing professional sports billions of dollars, were willing to shut down their industry in this instance, how frequently will they feel compelled, or even pressured, to do the same in the future? Fans who were already watching less sports may react negatively to being lectured by wealthy athletes who regularly walk off the job.............To Read More....
My Take -This should prove interesting. Are they still being paid? If they are then the league won't have to worry about appeasing these stupid, spoiled snowflakes they're paying obscene amounts of money in order to play a child's game. They'll be broke, and out of business.
If they're not paying them it's just delaying the inevitable, but in the short term it will be interesting to see the reaction of these cry babies when they find they're quickly going broke and the only skill they may have outside of throwing a big ball through a big metal ring, in spite of the fact most of them graduated from some college or other, is washing dishes in a restaurant.
Also, their moral blindness and hypocrisy is demonstrated in this piece, so this isn't a moral issue, it's a political power play, and they need to pay a penalty for it.
