tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69782510047498882402024-03-13T02:01:24.021-04:00DC-JockularityDC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.comBlogger402125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-58398664271642228572018-06-26T14:24:00.002-04:002018-06-26T21:56:13.831-04:00Two New Citizen Tigers <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Leonys Martin Tapanes, a 30 year old Center Fielder, played on the 2009 Cuban National team before defecting while paying in Taiwan. Martin then signed with Texas Rangers in 2011 and later played for the Seattle Mariners and Chicago Cubs. This is the first year that Martin is playing for the Detroit Tigers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the ceremony, Martin mused: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I will never forget about my country but it's amazing to be part of the United States. Being able to do this here at the ballpark, in front of fans, that was really emotional."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"It's hard man, you came. You face a new culture, face a new language, facing new food, new everything. Still learning. I've been here ten years and I'm still learning."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One thing Iglesias learned well was to not alienate fans. He was happy to be a newly naturalized citizen and be able to vote, but he deflected from questions about commenting on President Trump's immigration policies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that they are naturalized citizens, Martin and Iglesias will be able to join the rest of the Tigers on a road trip to Toronto for a series with the Blue Jays. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is inspiring to see two immigrants who sought freedom to live their dreams in America who worked within the system and and embrace their new country rather than treat it like a meal ticket.</span><br />
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-24858399067856140822018-02-12T08:51:00.000-05:002018-02-12T08:51:09.822-05:00On What Propaganda is Condemned and Countenanced at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 23rd Winter Olympiad in Pyeongchang, South Korea had a reoccurring theme of Peace, as was evident from the Opening Ceremonies. It was well known that athletes from North and South Korea would march as a unified team into Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the draws for casual sports fans to watch the Olympics is the Opening Ceremonies. The pageantry of the Opening Ceremonies, as expressed through artistic expression as well as thematic choice sets the mood for the Olympic Games. Afterwards, there is the Parade of Nations, when all of the competitors gather in a gesture of unity and good will. During this long march of nations, television viewers often have to endure commentary from NBC announcers to add color and context to the visuals. Often this dialogue is pap or seems scripted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, when the Japanese team made their debut at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, NBC Asia correspondent Joshua Cooper Ramos offered an incredible generalization. Ramos claimed that Koreans looked with admiration to Japan as an important example of cultural, economic and technological transformation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Several hours after uttering this insensitive and insulting insinuation, NBC Sports issued a hasty apology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">NBC paid $967 million for broadcast rights for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and it would seem that they did not want to insult their hosts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">With that in mind, one wonders why NBC keeps pushing North Korean propaganda while covering the Winter Olympics. No doubt that a unified Korean team marching during the Parade of Nations was a big story. It epitomizes the international aspiration of brotherhood and exemplifies the Pyeongchang Game's theme of Peace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is understandable that an Olympic broadcaster would want to capitalize on controversy by showing how close Vice President Mike Pence was seated to North Korean Kim Jong Un's sister Kim Yo Jong during the Opening Ceremonies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What has been shown but little explored are instances in which the female Beauty Squad use big heads of a Korean man. Hmm. Who could this be? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is dubious that it was an everyman Korean. <a href="https://twitter.com/CalamityDC/status/962363507588173826" target="_blank">The Big Head looks rather like an idealized image of North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un.</a> What does it say about the consequences of "Unity". Is that something that all Koreans also believe?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">UPDATE 02/12/2018</span></b> BBC News quotes Korean media that the DPRK Army of Beauties cheerleaders were holding up big heads of Kim Il-sung, the grandfather of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (the first of the Hermit Kingdom's Juche post World War II dictators). Yet the South Korean Unification Ministry insists that the cheerleaders were just holding up cut outs of "a good looking man". </span></div>
DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-81115965926754230492018-02-10T09:19:00.000-05:002018-02-10T09:19:17.413-05:00Lord Mancroft on Skiing <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-61883513418663224022018-02-09T15:30:00.000-05:002018-02-10T09:30:55.321-05:00Being At Peace With Different Measures of Glory<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Due the<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/01/pyeongchang-winter-olympics-features-169-russian-athletes-despite-countrys-ban.html" target="_blank"> doping ban on Russian Federation,</a> the 169 clean Russian athletes marched as neutrals in red and grey uniforms as neutrals. Any gold medal winning "Olympic Athletes of Russia" will be feted with the raising of the Olympic flag and anthem. </span><br />
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-23942497587351642012016-08-05T19:25:00.000-04:002016-08-05T19:25:42.815-04:00Lula da Silva on Rio Olympics <a href="https://dcbarroco.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/160805d-lula-da-silva.jpg"><img src="https://dcbarroco.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/160805d-lula-da-silva.jpg?w=604" alt="Ex Brazilian President Lula da Silva on the Rio Summer Olympics " width="604" height="491" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-17304" /></a>DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-42474351913240879332016-06-10T10:50:00.000-04:002016-06-10T10:56:21.008-04:00RIP Mr. Hockey Gordie Howe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Howe played 32 seasons in professional hockey-- 26 seasons for the NHL and six seasons for the WHA. Howe played for the Detroit Red Wings from 1946 to 1971. As a Red Wing, Howe led the team to four Stanley Cup championships, was the NHL's MVP six times and was the league's leading scorer six times. In fact, Howe was in top ten scorers for 21 seasons. Howe retired in 1971 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of fame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, two years after retiring from the NHL, Howe came back in his mid 40s to join sons Mark and Marty Howe to play for the Houston Aeros in the upstart World Hockey Association. This stint was not just a marquee trick as Gordie Howe managed to rack up 100 points during his six seasons with the Aeros. </span><br />
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-67256580843287568822016-05-11T10:51:00.000-04:002016-05-11T10:51:07.023-04:00Rivaldo Rebukes Rio Olympics Attendance <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With less than three months before the XXXI Summer Olympics are set to begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian soccer star Rivaldo warned fans against attending because of unchecked violence on the streets.<br />
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This is not the only logistical and public relations challenge Rio has needed to overcome in hosting the Olympics. Rio was awarded the Summer Olympics in 2009 and had reason to ramp up the infrastructure hosting the Catholic World Youth Day in 2013 and the 2014 World Cup. Yet in March, only 90-95 percent of the infrastructure was complete. Rio organizing officials held a press conference to announce that they were ahead of schedule a couple of days after two workers were killed when a coastal bike path associated with green transportation between Olympic venues. <br />
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Of course, racing to complete infrastructure is nothing new for Olympic host cities. What is more rarified is that the state government is broke so it failed to pay public workers like policemen, firefighters, doctors and nurses. Thus a half million of them went on strike which shut down hospitals across the state.<br />
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Pollution still mires the Rio Olympics. Last year, there was a study which revealed that Guanabara Bay are so polluted with fecal matter and other contaminants that water Olympic athletes risked becoming ill rowing and sailing around the Copacabana. It is dubious if the bankrupt state government can achieve what they have promised to fix for years.<br />
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Then there is the risk of the Zika virus from mosquito bites, especially to pregnant women and their unborn children. Some public health doctors have advised that the Olympics ought to be moved to protect the 16,000 athletes and expected 600,000 sports fans. Since that is unlikely, people will need to mitigate their feared risks. The US Olympic committee has advised athletes that if they are concerned for their own health, they ought to skip the Rio games. US Womens<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/12/health/zika-olympics-threat/index.html" target="_blank"> soccer star Hope Solo has publicly proclaimed that she won't go to Rio</a> unless the situation changes. Several prominent <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/pros-continue-to-drop-out-of-rio-olympics/vi-BBsGyRw" target="_blank">pro golfers are also dropping out of competing in the Rio Games</a>, but most cite a hectic summer PGA tour schedule .<br />
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<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/29/sport/rio-olympics-zika-south-korea/index.html" target="_blank">South Korean athletes</a> will wear tracksuits infused with insect repellent and will wear long pants and blazers for the opening and closing ceremonies to minimize Zika infections.<br />
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Ticket sales have been less than robust for the Rio games. In early April, only 50% of the Olympic tickets have been sold, and just 12% of the Paralympic events. The<a href="http://www.globalpost.com/article/6768148/2016/05/09/residents-rio-are-worried-their-city-isnt-ready-olympics" target="_blank"> government has suggested that it might buy unsold tickets and distribute them to school children</a> to fill the seats. </div>
DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-86983082134062457092016-05-02T20:03:00.000-04:002016-05-02T20:07:33.902-04:00Bloody Hell: PC ESPN Goes 1984 on Red Sox Nation History<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Five years ago, ESPN produced an hour retrospective of this incredible come from behind playoff rally titled "Four Days in October". Schilling's performance was prominently featured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, ESPN recently fired Curt Schilling from his on-air job because of personal social media commentary concerning transvestites and those citing gender dysphoria from using whichever bathroom he/she/<a href="http://goo.gl/JJ4rwL" target="_blank">zhe</a> prefers at that moment. Subsequently, less than a week later, when ESPN 2 reran "Four Days in October", the chronicle of Schilling's crucial play (and the bloody sock) was strangely missing. In this case, one ought to call the channel "The Deuce" with good reason.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">All week, Schilling has been proclaiming the unchecked political progressivism at his former employer, as well as noting that more than a few have displayed overt racism. But because Schilling violated today's shibboleth of "transgender" acceptable, it seems his memory must be erased at what is purportedly a sports channel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So know that Disney/ESPN is not only spewing liberal commentary within their sports coverage, they also have taken it upon themselves to rewrite history. Perhaps one of the 1984 IngSoc mantras will become more poignant "Ignorance is strength". </span></div>
DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-66113634187866149102016-04-22T10:51:00.000-04:002016-04-22T10:51:33.437-04:00ESPN Cans Curt Schilling Over Transgender Bathroom Tweet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ESPN fired former Major League Baseball star pitcher and TV Color Commentator Curt Schilling because of sharing a meme on transgender bathrooms on Twitter. <br />
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Disney owned ESPN insisted that the company was dedicated to inclusiveness, so it terminated someone with a view which different from the current politically correct line. It is intriguing that Disney owned ABC Good Morning America report blurred out the image of a transvestite who would have been eligible to use whatever bathroom which he/she/zei felt like using. It seems that the ideals of diversity and inclusiveness can not be particularized in a <i>reductio ad abusurdum</i>.<br />
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This was not Schilling's first run in with social media PR challenges. A couple of years ago, <a href="http://usatodayhss.com/2015/curt-schilling-this-wasnt-a-mistake-this-is-a-crime" target="_blank">Schilling went on attack mode against a Twitter troll who sexually harassed his daughter </a> sparked by congratulations over admission to Salve Regina University.<br />
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Later in 2015, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/08/26/espn-pulls-curt-schilling-from-little-league-world-series-after-tweet.html" target="_blank">Schilling was suspended from covering the Little League World Series </a>for sharing a controversial tweet which compared Muslim "population infiltration" with Nazis.<br />
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There seems to be an academic and corporate corporate push to be intolerant towards<a href="http://dcbarroco.blogspot.com/2015/08/last-week-campus-reform-made-headlines.html" target="_blank"> "ciscentrism" </a>and those who do not acquiesce to "the new normal" regarding self designated transgendered bathroom fluidity. It is dubious if ESPN would punish an employee for sharing progressive political memes.<br />
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<a href="http://goo.gl/wjVP4S" target="_blank">Bruce Springsteen, et ali, have forgone concerts in North Carolina </a>while the Bathroom Law is in effect. <a href="http://goo.gl/6EGnC1" target="_blank">The NBA has threatened to pull the All Star</a> game unless the Tar Heel State relents on traditional notions that those with male genetalia should not evacuate their excrement around little girls. During a NBC <a href="http://goo.gl/f77ava" target="_blank">Today Townhall meeting, Manhattan mogul Donald Trump</a> insisted that just not worrying about transgenders using whatever bathroom they like is no problem.<br />
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<a href="http://dc-jockularity.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-pre-game-plan-for-dc-jockularity.html" target="_blank">From its inception, DC-Jockularity</a> recognized the convergence of sports and public policy. ESPN's aggressive application of standards reinforces the idea that ABC/Disney/ESPN is a progressive entity which pushes its agenda even unto sports coverage and will not brook dissent.</div>
DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-65541567324095186822016-04-19T17:12:00.002-04:002016-04-19T17:12:42.678-04:00Trashing Flyers Fans?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Detroit Red Wings have to temper their fans enthusiasm in the playoffs but from the other end of the spectrum. A tradition started in 1952 that enthusiastic fans threw an octopus on the ice symbolizing the eight games that were needed to win the Stanley Cup at that time. In the 1980s, Red Wings fans tossed larger and larger cephalopods weighing 38 and 50 pounds. The head ice manager would twirl the octopi above his head as he walked to the Zamboni. The NHL tried to curtail this practice but the league relented after the hue and cry from fans in Octopus-gate.</span><br />
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-57918333377753864942016-04-15T17:23:00.001-04:002018-04-15T11:12:07.726-04:00Jackie Robinson on Respect <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-2393184021612133912016-04-14T09:19:00.001-04:002016-04-14T09:19:46.968-04:00Donald Trump on Joe Paterno<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-37778652589615730452016-04-10T14:47:00.000-04:002016-04-10T14:47:16.649-04:00Tarheel State Must Jump Thru LGBTQQ? Hoops to Host NBA All-Star Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-37684831313891825232016-04-05T17:53:00.000-04:002016-04-05T17:53:29.911-04:00On Leaders, Liars and Links <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-23507673059423670072016-04-03T10:03:00.000-04:002016-04-03T10:04:06.196-04:00Dispensing Controversy in Mile High Naming Rights <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidEV1HQv1Ag3Kla3g6k__SczscU_AscFVGONWXtuD1ZyRcSc6n7_Gh6S8co6ztxnCaTPOAFJoMYuxXrIGdTq9qtcH-n8r7HBFMYMj5FqraHv5Y0NCUK6SSHl6Qa4N_ciN0xz5LoDMAes/s1600/Baseball+is+a+funny+game.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidEV1HQv1Ag3Kla3g6k__SczscU_AscFVGONWXtuD1ZyRcSc6n7_Gh6S8co6ztxnCaTPOAFJoMYuxXrIGdTq9qtcH-n8r7HBFMYMj5FqraHv5Y0NCUK6SSHl6Qa4N_ciN0xz5LoDMAes/s1600/Baseball+is+a+funny+game.png" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joe Garagiola, a major league baseball player who evolved into a long broadcasting career at the age of 90. Garagiola was a journeyman catcher who played for nine seasons in the majors for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants. After his retirement from baseball, Garagiola wrote the book "Baseball is a Funny Game" (1960). That helped launch his broadcast career.</span></div>
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DC Calamityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00410579037445829658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6978251004749888240.post-44536018582686063222016-03-22T10:43:00.001-04:002016-03-22T10:43:44.621-04:00ESPN Sports Cuban Propaganda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">One of the reasons why sports is a popular pastime among Americans is because it has tended to be non-partisan. It is news which mentally reconnects aged athletes back to their glory days, while stoking local loyalties and friendly rivalries and forgetting the tumult of news from the "real world".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, the trend in the media has been to politicize everything, including sports news. More than <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/09/19/sportswriters_believe_in_political_correctness" target="_blank">seeing sports through a lens of political correctness,</a> the sports media has segued into political propaganda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A case in point was a ESPN Sportscenter social media sharing in regards to President Barack Obama's visit to Cuba after 55 years of bilateral hostility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">ESPN authorized a Tweet which whitewashed the brutality of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's communist regime by promoting propaganda that Fidel was a sports fan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/espns-sportscenter-deletes-tweet-praising-fidel-castros-love-of-sports/" target="_blank">After a couple of hours of consternation, ESPN withdrew the post, </a>but the damage was done by humanizing the despot. One of the reasons that Cubans believe that they won their long standoff with the United States is because of <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/14/when-barbara-walters-was-charmed-by-fidel-castro/" target="_blank">Fidel's romancing the American press.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It may be true that Fidel is a big sports fan. Fidel even yearned to play for the Yanquis in his youth. But ESPN featuring such factoids during a controversial trip to Cuba by President Barack Obama amounts to propaganda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To give a truer picture of the sporting Castro, it is important to understand how Fidel Castro used sports as a weapon to enforce his communist ideology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A more accurate picture of Fidel Castro's sporting sense is captured by hitting the links with the bloody revolutionary Che Guevara. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is dubious that Che's favorite sport was golf. More likely it was coaching firing squads. </span><br />
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