He’ll fit right in when the Braves move to Marietta.
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If it were 1948 and I was in seventh grade again I would have thought this was funny as hell.
[/quote]Me too! We are in the same age group and anatomy is of great interest at that tender age!
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If you read the article, the jerk was making fun of women’s softball (she played fast pitch softball) by saying she could never hit a 95 mph pitch. That’s what made the comment relevant, and why I started my comment with “additionally” to add to the comment I was replying to. It showed that on top of being sexist, he was wrong in his assumption that she had no clue about hitting fast pitching.
Actually it’s called math. A ball traveling 95 mph from 60.5 feet away will arrive at home plate at roughly the same time as a ball traveling 70 mph (about 3/4 of 95) from 43 feet (about 3/4 of 60.5). So the batter has about the same time for a reaction in either situation. Pretty basic concept from grade school. I showed the table for a reference for other distances, I did not have the time to put together my own Excel spread sheet.
The rest of your post is the usual childish nonsense, I’ll pass on taking the bait. But your obsession with me is quite odd, especially since many others in this thread are discussing the same thing, the fact that she is in fact qualified as a player to hit fast pitching, and that many male announcers never have.
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Yes, this asshole is not only sexist, he is wrong in his assumption about her hitting fast pitching. Again, the ball is bigger, that is key, as well as a hardball perhaps “moving” more. But it still takes great skill to react to the pitch, and the time to react is essentially the same in either scenario. He was so anxious to make a sexist comment, he ignored basic facts about his target, a woman who can in fact hit fast pitching. I wonder if he makes fun of male announcers who never played pro ball?..
“fast pitching” is what’s important here? Really?? Why not just say it’s all about her ^^s???
I did indeed.
God help us. Literally!
Atlanta Radio Host Does the Math on Being Suspended for Making Nineteen Fifties Boyhood Observation.
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I simply enjoy poking you every now and then McV. I’m simply curious if you can do any tricks other than the google.
Well, I guess there’s a reason “Moobs” Bell isn’t doing comedy full time. Mebbe he can make nice and get a sales job some place…
Really??? I didn’t realize it came from DeLay; that makes it even better. The really ironic thing is that hardly any of it was actually written for the dinner - if you go back and watch the first few weeks of his show, 80% of the lines come almost verbatim from the show. So it’s not like they didn’t know what they were getting even in the speech itself.
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A big difference being that the Fox host (it was Eric Bolling, not Doofey) faced zero repercussions for his comment, which was far more out-of-line because he said it on a national TV news network rather than on a local sports radio show. He “apologized,” and it was over.
The rightwing media has figured out how to excuse bullying and bigotry simply by protesting that repercussions, which are normal in all other fields of endeavor, are “political correctness run amuck.”
How many ‘95mph cutters’ has Mike Bell seen, other than those he saw from the press box, from the stands, or on TV?
Professional sports is filled with nothing but infants.
Yes, DeLay bought into Colbert’s humor and thought he was a true conservative. It shows you that conservatives for some reason don’t get parody at all. To me that’s odd because IMO parody is one of the finest forms of humor.
I bet Joe Buck has never faced a 95 mph cutter. He is pretty qualified to do play-by-play.
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F*king Bullst. He “gets” it now. They must have suspended his pay as well.
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Or many other male announcers who never played pro ball, seems he did not make fun of any of them. How would Bob Costas do against fast pitching? Not relevant to being a play by play person of course, but it shows that this jerk was so desperate to trash this lady, he used a complete false premise to do it.
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While I’m not saying the actors on Big Bang deserve those salaries, 30 minutes a week comes from hours of work during the week. And I think we all know how much work goes into playing a sport that makes it worthwhile to watch.
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A pretaped apology? He says offensive inappropriate stuff enough on his show that he has an apology on tape ready to use? Like a sound effect reel?
Classy guy
Indeed many of these female hosts are there strictly for their looks and deserve criticism (as do the people who hire them), though of course not sexist criticism. The difference here as you say is that she is more than qualified, making this criticism not warranted even if it was not sexist, showing how out of his way he went to be a jerk. Susan Waldman went through the same thing here in NYC. Though not a brilliant sports person, she was much smarter than most of the jerks on WFAN, yet she got the most criticism.
“I didn’t get it,” Bell reportedly said. “I get it now."
No, I don’t think you do. What you “get” is that you had your own ass handed to you on a platter.
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I didn’t get it? Oh he didn’t get that he’d get fired for doing some dumb shit like that…now I get it too!
"This has been an eye-opening experience.” Yes, I can tell from the photo.