To: \u00a0NBC
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, guy counting down the days ’til pitchers and catchers report
\nRe: \u00a0“Sportscasters”<\/p>\n
Dear NBC,<\/p>\n
Yesterday, Bob Costas used your “sports” air time to babble an uninformed, utterly wrong anti-Second-Amendment screed.<\/p>\n
Now, don’t get me started on sportscasters and sportswriters and “sports radio” people; for the most part, they are at the cutting edge of everything that’s wrong with America. \u00a0They glorify a sports culture that once at least paid lip service to the best our society had to \u00a0offer, but today mostly glorifies all that is base and stupid in our culture. \u00a0And let’s not kid ourselves; whatever they glorify, it’s all about making bank for the people that\u00a0own the teams\u00a0<\/em>that give the Sports Media a market, which in turn allows you, NBC Sports, to make bank yourselves.<\/p>\n And when they get into politics? \u00a0Forget unions and welfare; sportswriters, sportscasters and the drooling baboons and chattering lemmings that take them seriously were the ones that badgered the Legislature into giving Zygi Wilf a billion-dollar spiff to his investment. \u00a0Just as they did in turn for the owners of the Twins, the Wild and the Woofies before them. Sports America is the biggest welfare state there is.<\/p>\n And now we have Bob Costas – a guy who wants to be his generation’s Frank DeFord so badly you can smell it on the wind – using your “sports” airtime to prate and gabble about the Second Amendment. \u00a0 As if taking an troubled boy with a talent for running or blocking or tackling or catching a ball, glorifying his talent from the age of eight on, allowing him to grow into a rich, spoiled, entitled adult with no education or sense of perspective to feed the system that has made him, his team owners, Costas and all of you obscenely wealthy<\/em>\u00a0along the way, didn’t have a role in creating someone so unstable he thought he was justified in killing another human being.<\/p>\n Let’s put this another way; after a career spent making America’s sports industry (and, incidentally, himself) rich, what caliber of handgun did OJ Simpson use?<\/p>\n Or is there a Bob Costas riff against butcher knives out there that I’m not aware of?<\/p>\n Oh, yeah – I don’t watch NBC Sports, and haven’t for decades, so any threat to boycott will be an empty one. \u00a0But you get the picture.<\/p>\n That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To: \u00a0NBC From: Mitch Berg, guy counting down the days ’til pitchers and catchers report Re: \u00a0“Sportscasters” Dear NBC, Yesterday, Bob Costas used your “sports” air time to babble an uninformed, utterly wrong anti-Second-Amendment screed. Now, don’t get me started on sportscasters and sportswriters and “sports radio” people; for the most part, they are at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,77,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-32200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-the-rare-sports-post","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33671,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32200\/revisions\/33671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}