“During Homerun Derby, your announcer said, ?It?s a sad night to be an Atheist.? He was referring to the turnaround in Josh Hamilton?s life as an alleged result of religion. This was hurtful as all beliefs or disbeliefs should be equally respected. Would you allow, ?It?s a sad to be a Jew? It?s a sad to be a Catholic? Of course not, for those statements are hurtful and disrespectful. This statement against non-belief must not be ignored by your network. The right thing to do is an on-air apology!”Bright Regards, Larry http://www.the-brights.net
Did anyone hear this? If so, you may want to give ESPN an email.http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/contact
Actually, the comment wasn’t made by Josh Hamiltom, or during the post event interview. It was made during Hamilton’s first round, during an stretch of consecutive home runs. So if they replay it again (and they probably will, it’s summer and there’s virtually no sports to show), you have to tune pretty early (within the first hour, that thing lasted about three hours) to catch it.
Still, it was a good laugh watching that junkie lose in the finals (mark my words, someday they’ll find him dead in some alley with a spike in his arm). The announcers could barely contain their tears. Once again, Jesus can’t produce the goods when the money’s dowm.
And I had a little fun playing troll on some non-thinker (christer) sites. Just a little doing unto others.
By the way, did ANYBODY who wrote in to ESPNazi get a response??
teammarty
No response yet.
Teammarty
Which chister site? Lets pick one and give them crap for a week.
I’m offended by your being offended. Atheists are supposed to be in favor of free speech.
By the way, I did get a generic robo responce from ESPN Sat. night. So either we reached the complaint threshhold or it takes 5 days for a response to go through the red tape.
“chidter site??? OOps, tYpo. that’s christer (like Madelyn used to call them.) I’ve gotten my trolling off my chest for a while but you can google (or any other engine you want) “atheist home run derby rick reilly” or something like that and find all kindsof Px websites and even mainstream newspaper articles celebrating the slur.
somedude- You’re offended?? That’s too fucking bad. How dare I exercize MY first amendment right in a way that’s not accepted. All this really is is a reminder that was aren’t really americans to them.
I’m proud to be an Atheist.
I’m proud to be a Natural Born Resident Alien.
somedude
Has anybody here suggested that our federal government should restrict speech. Sorry, I don’t see it. Maybe you don’t understand what the constitution guarantees?