RANT: Stephen A. Smith is right; Guess MLB doesn’t see all the gambling sites they advertise

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mlb/article-13913071/pete-rose-mlb-ban-blasted-stephen-smith.html

Stephen A. Smith issues scathing verdict on Pete Rose’s MLB ban after baseball icon’s death aged 83

  •     Pete Rose is considered a baseball legend but is not in the Hall of Fame 

By Jake Nisse and Oliver Salt
Published: 16:01 EDT, 1 October 2024 | Updated: 07:15 EDT, 2 October 2024

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Stephen A. Smith has blasted Pete Rose’s MLB ban following the baseball icon’s death at the age of 83, saying that ‘murderers have been let off quicker’ than he has.

Rose, MLB’s all-time hits leader, was handed a lifetime ban in 1989 after he was found to have bet on the Cincinnati Reds as both a player and manager of the team.

That meant that the baseball icon was never inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame before his death, and ESPN’s Smith raged against the treatment Rose was shown on Tuesday morning. 

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MLB is a bunch of hypocrites.

All sports are now advertising gambling sites.

“Lifetime” is a long time.  This was the sports equivalent of a death sentence,

I’m sure no MLB executive ever gambles on baseball.

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca

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INSPIRATIONAL: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith states the American ideal

Thursday, April 4, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2024/03/28/everybody-doesnt-deserve-same-espns-stephen-a-smith-promotes-equality-of-opportunity-over-outcome/

‘Everybody Doesn’t Deserve the Same’: ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Promotes ‘Equality of Opportunity’ over Outcome

Paul Bois  —  28 Mar 2024

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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith recently promoted the idea of “equality of opportunity” over the more egalitarian “Equality of Outcome” that left-leaning theorists extoll.

Smith made his somewhat surprising position on the subject known during an interview on the PBD Podcast hosted by Patrick Bet-David, in which he said that “people who produce more ultimately end up more successful than those who don’t.”

“One of the things that I have a problem with when I look at things that are transpiring in this country, you can’t in the same breath talk about capitalism, talk about how it’s equal opportunity that we want, but everybody doesn’t deserve the same, it’s about your level of production,” he said.

“Some people are high-end earners, some people are high-level producers and stuff. And you know, they’re getting treated, they might earn more than somebody that just don’t have that skill set. That’s the world we’re living in,” he added.

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I was pleased that someone repeats Doctor King’s wish about “content of character” rather than color.

The NBA is a classic example of the best rise to the top.  Is the system perfect?  No.  But it does demonstrate what is possible when we have “equal opportunity”.

Now if we could just have equality in the law, then we ca get back to doing productive work.

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