ConstableRabbit

Again, so much the "disrespecting the military" narrative is willfully created; it's done intentionally to distract from how the players are protesting for very real, much more complicated issues. To blame that on the protests themselves is completely backwards. Americans LOVE twisting and lying about protests, especially when it comes to issues focused on black Americans, so it requires doing something as attention-grabbing as protests on this level to even just get a fraction of the population actually hearing about or talking about why they're protesting. There's ALWAYS going to be a ton of noise when you're trying to say something that a LOT of people intentionally try to not hear. You've got to keep pushing it for the few that do. Create cracks, no matter how small. It's a ridiculously unrealistic expectation to think someone is going to come up with a protest regarding racial issues that's going to be widely embraced and understood. It's always going to be an uphill battle with a TON of pushback...but that's the absolute last reason to give up. It’s a super easy thing to twist when it’s an offensive/disrespectful gesture to so many. I can’t imagine public perception has changed that much on the subject of police brutality. I just wish that they had used a more ironclad vehicle because they could have made a larger impact. Again, the thing they are protesting is not very controversial — I mean, show Vin Scully the Philando Castille video and he’s on the same side. But when you mix that message with a perceived offensive act, credibility erodes. The anthem protests have become inseparable from the message and that’s a big miss.

The point is to do something that's going to bring attention, and yes, the actual issues Kaep and co. have done this over HAVE been given more attention because of the stage it's happening on. Just because the willfully false narrative of how it's about "hating America" or "disrespecting the troops" also exists doesn't mean they should give up; it's arguably proof that the protest is horsefeathering working in the first place because it means at the very least discussions/debates/arguments along these lines keep happening all over the country. I mean, the gist of your post seemingly is, "well, people aren't embracing and understanding the protests 100%, so why bother?" The reason they're protesting to begin with is because it's pointing to things that make many Americans uncomfortable because they don't want to see or hear or admit that there's any truth to it. The point isn't to sway a crowd of 100 people to your side; if you get even just 10 of those people listening then it's succeeded. THEY DON'T EVEN NEED BASEBALL AVERAGE-LEVELS OF SUCCESS, PEOPLE. Who said anything about 100%? It's a Venn Diagram -- the people who bristle at kneeling are largely the people who they need to convince/make aware. I have no idea whether they've convinced more than 10% of those folks, but the fact that the national conversation is on kneeling and not police brutality is a huge miss that's driven by the protest vehicle.

Maybe it was a dumb idea for the protest vehicle for a generally non-controversial cause to be something that half the country finds deeply offensive -- the same half of the country that would need to be made aware of the issue at the first place. Given that the discussion has been so centered on the aforementioned vehicle -- I'd guess that many don't even know the extent of what's being protested, and it's certainly not changing hearts and minds.

I will take a big L on this one, too. Heyward was one of my favorite players in MLB and I was incredibly pumped that we got him. I even bought his jersey before his first season (oops). His decline has been shocking to me.

Northwestern just won in OT for the third straight week. Never happened before in FBS history.

This was the douchiest one Donaldson replied to: [tweet] [/tweet] The thread is just... wow.

[tweet] [/tweet] Is it too late for this to be a thing?

The Star is a 91-Acre Campus that Hosts the DALLAS COWBOYS WORLD HEADQUARTERS So do grown ups have parties there? I hope so.

Does it say only one somewhere? HAHA no. I kept reading it as "one Papa John's pizza only." Given how absurd the package prices are as-is, I guess my brain wanted it to be true.

Peyton Manning owns 30+ franchises, too.

Who has a party for 20 people with one Papa John's pizza? Sounds depressing as horsefeathers.

There’s a pretty delicious Twitter back and forth going on between Ryan Theriot and Josh Donaldson on Bellinger.

Can we please talk about Roberts letting Kershaw hit for himself down 5 in Game 7 of the World Series?

Pennant ring baby.

absolutely the events are just crazy and fun enough to justify watching something I don't actually care about. the summer olympics is none of that The events are also frankly more dangerous which makes watching pretty fun. Ski cross, for example, is horsefeathering bonkers.

They literally have since 1992. Haha -- I couldn't tell!

They literally have since 1992.

I will never not laugh at this. The entire thing cracks me up, especially the idea of giving the house mic to Zaza after a big Game 6. A rare literal lol.

I am fully erect for these three and semi for the other two. Fulmer would have been full pre-surgery. Dude, we don't care about your dong enhancement procedure.

Really was hoping for a Nats cap to drop down onto the Cubs one. What a lame gif otherwise.

Northwestern tho

All the best people. Just say major league sources said I think the problem is that it's not a major league source.

Males

Wow this game is sick.

Lol these camera angles.