Anyway, the dipwad announcer should be allowed to say what he said. Free speech, all that. Of course, replace ‘atheist’ with any religious group or minority, and the guy gets canned.

Besides, as someone on another site pointed out, it was kind of ironic, that if it was god pulling the strings, it was funny how he set Josh up to break the previous record, but still lose the Derby. Also that you get more attention if you use drugs, quit, use drugs quit, use drugs quit, then hit a bunch of homers than if you never use drugs, then keep on never using drugs, then hit even more homers.

Let the gob-smacked losers have their little moment of fantasy. It’s never a sad night to be an atheist. We don’t need imaginary friends to help us hit a ball with a stick. Or go through rehab-8 times.

As an atheist… YES! I would allow those things to be said! Freedom of speech should never be sacrificed for any reason.

Excellent!

Do not stoop to their level of whiney idiocy.

And why would objecting to such speech be “whiney idiocy”? And why would you choose not to exercise YOUR freedom of speech and teach this pinhead the lesson he needs to learn – that there are a lot of us rational human beings that don’t subscribe to his fantasy and are not going to put up with his hateful speech.

It was some guy named Reilly. If I read the first name, I’ve forgotten it. The consensus I read was he generally sucks as an announcer, but the folks holding that view had pretty much the same opinion of all ESPN announcers.

Dave
Yes, We’re free to object to speech that attacks us. I’m not sure that’s the case here, or if this was just an idiot making a dumb remark, an attempt at a bad joke maybe.

Would you suggest we never respond to stuff like this?

No, I wouldn’t suggest that at all. But nor would I suggest we be hyper-vigilant to every time the word atheist gets used and in what context to see if we need to get all hot and bothered by it. We don’t need to nurture a persecution complex of our own. Leave that to the sheeple. Calling more attention to a stupid remark through an email campaign seems to me almost like feeding a troll. And you know the preferred policy on that.