ESPN takes Larry Miller to Task
In a followup to my Larry Miller commentary, ESPN has decided to go after the Jazz owner. Maybe they read what I had to say (and wanted to disagree??), because everyone knows this is an important place to receive information. Anyway, the approach used by the author has some validity, though I am not nearly as disturbed by Miller's actions as the author is. Also, while we all carry our own biases, I find it interesting that this author also wrote Sheryl Swoopes' coming out story, where the author discussed his/her own homosexuality. Sounds to me like the author came into the discussion with a loaded gun. If you want to read a semi disturbing article check out that one. But this link is to the Miller article:
posted by slink @ 1:28 PM
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This is the link. Right?
Anyhow the article jumps to conclusions without the aid of logix. They might even be correct conclusions, but since Larry isn't talking we don't know that. One paragraph that was particularly illogical was:
Inconvenience? An inconvenience is running into your ex with your current significant other next to you. What Miller did was more akin to, "I wouldn't want to be on that team."
What does that even mean?
That's the language that Seinfeld introduced ages ago. At least it seems to be to me. The analogy is the baseball team where Elaine tried to get a gay man to "switch teams" and then he was eventually discovered to be a "switch hitter."
Of course it is also just bad writing.
Update!
Larry goes nuts!
Obviously he doesn't want to talk about this.
And I totally missed the Seinfeld reference. Even so it doesn't really bring the article into the realm of logical, does it?
I don't care what he does as a capitalist. it is his business, and he'll probably profit from his decision in Utah. However, I get sort of offended by this sort of stuff as a mormon dude. I think that if you have the opportunity to make us look lame in the national news, generally, you should pass that opportunity up. It might be bad for our community relationships, inside and outside of the B of M belt.
If we don't have anything nice to say, we probably shouldn't say anything at all.
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