dk7th wrote:i was driving home from vacation on thursday night and i caught an espn show while driving near philadelphia. an "on-air personality" named boumani jones (?) was hosting a show and started in on cowherd. i was not really aware of the cowherd story but it sounded to me like this guy jones was trying to stir up controversy for no other reason than to become famous. dude sounded like a desperate blowhard.i have a feeling that he is representative of this modern culture we live in, everyone screaming for attention and trying to bring somebody in a higher position on the totem pole down.
Jones used to be an NFL player a linebacker I think. He used to play for the Eagles maybe. He has been around several years and hosted another show called "His and Hers" with a cohost and another show I think called "Numbers Don't Lie". He was on First Take quite a bit as a guest. He has been making the rounds at ESPN for at least 3 years or so. I used to listen to alot of ESPN poscasts, including Cowherd at work so his name is familiar to me.
As a point of reference, I stopped listening to Cowherd about 2 months ago. His show really changed. He started framing alot of his opinion as fact and also his anti talk show talk show shtick kinda grew old for me. His massive generalizations he disquised as his real talk social commentary got old real fast. For a while he was a must listen for me and probably my favorite show on ESPN.
joec32033 wrote:dk7th wrote:i was driving home from vacation on thursday night and i caught an espn show while driving near philadelphia. an "on-air personality" named boumani jones (?) was hosting a show and started in on cowherd. i was not really aware of the cowherd story but it sounded to me like this guy jones was trying to stir up controversy for no other reason than to become famous. dude sounded like a desperate blowhard.i have a feeling that he is representative of this modern culture we live in, everyone screaming for attention and trying to bring somebody in a higher position on the totem pole down.
Jones used to be an NFL player a linebacker I think. He used to play for the Eagles maybe. He has been around several years and hosted another show called "His and Hers" with a cohost and another show I think called "Numbers Don't Lie". He was on First Take quite a bit as a guest. He has been making the rounds at ESPN for at least 3 years or so. I used to listen to alot of ESPN poscasts, including Cowherd at work so his name is familiar to me.
As a point of reference, I stopped listening to Cowherd about 2 months ago. His show really changed. He started framing alot of his opinion as fact and also his anti talk show talk show shtick kinda grew old for me. His massive generalizations he disquised as his real talk social commentary got old real fast. For a while he was a must listen for me and probably my favorite show on ESPN.
I think you are confused as to who Bomani Jones is. Yes, he is an Espn personality but he is a writer by trade and he co-host Highly Questionable with Dan Lebatard(very funny show). He has also been a continual guest on Around the Horn as well as many other different Espn shows as well as his on radio show. Bomani notoriety began to really increase free the Donald Sterling incident because he was one of the few Espn writers to have continually question Donald Sterling and written articles about Sterling before the big blow up.
I don't agree with a lot of what Jones says it I respect some of his opinions. The guy is a highly educated man and usually does well articulating his point across. I know some people don't like his style but he is okay.
dk7th wrote:i was driving home from vacation on thursday night and i caught an espn show while driving near philadelphia. an "on-air personality" named boumani jones (?) was hosting a show and started in on cowherd. i was not really aware of the cowherd story but it sounded to me like this guy jones was trying to stir up controversy for no other reason than to become famous. dude sounded like a desperate blowhard.i have a feeling that he is representative of this modern culture we live in, everyone screaming for attention and trying to bring somebody in a higher position on the totem pole down.
Yep, Can't stand that guy either
yellowboy90 wrote:joec32033 wrote:dk7th wrote:i was driving home from vacation on thursday night and i caught an espn show while driving near philadelphia. an "on-air personality" named boumani jones (?) was hosting a show and started in on cowherd. i was not really aware of the cowherd story but it sounded to me like this guy jones was trying to stir up controversy for no other reason than to become famous. dude sounded like a desperate blowhard.i have a feeling that he is representative of this modern culture we live in, everyone screaming for attention and trying to bring somebody in a higher position on the totem pole down.
Jones used to be an NFL player a linebacker I think. He used to play for the Eagles maybe. He has been around several years and hosted another show called "His and Hers" with a cohost and another show I think called "Numbers Don't Lie". He was on First Take quite a bit as a guest. He has been making the rounds at ESPN for at least 3 years or so. I used to listen to alot of ESPN poscasts, including Cowherd at work so his name is familiar to me.
As a point of reference, I stopped listening to Cowherd about 2 months ago. His show really changed. He started framing alot of his opinion as fact and also his anti talk show talk show shtick kinda grew old for me. His massive generalizations he disquised as his real talk social commentary got old real fast. For a while he was a must listen for me and probably my favorite show on ESPN.
I think you are confused as to who Bomani Jones is. Yes, he is an Espn personality but he is a writer by trade and he co-host Highly Questionable with Dan Lebatard(very funny show). He has also been a continual guest on Around the Horn as well as many other different Espn shows as well as his on radio show. Bomani notoriety began to really increase free the Donald Sterling incident because he was one of the few Espn writers to have continually question Donald Sterling and written articles about Sterling before the big blow up.
I don't agree with a lot of what Jones says it I respect some of his opinions. The guy is a highly educated man and usually does well articulating his point across. I know some people don't like his style but he is okay.
Shit. You're right. Who the hell was I thinking of? I was thinking of a bigger dude with dreds. He had a tv show too. Dammit. Of all the things I lost I miss my mind the most.
i think he's a bit more racist than most people.
he also has this tired of routine of speaking in code, and digging up all kinds of class issues. it's tiresome. he mines that divisive well time and again whenever he can.
b/c his show is just him rambling, he relies on countless straw man arguments, a lotta "here's what i say to the guy who says X Y Z BLA BLA..." when no one really is saying X YZ BLA BLA
Bomani Jones is terrible. Him and Skip Bayless are probably the 2 worst major sports writers I can think of. They just spew a bunch of bs and never have anything to back it up with.
Another one bust the dust...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...Now we also recall what someone said 8 years back to bust his a...ss.
Things get better and better.
Hogan is a joker for sure but the trend to abuse the "racist" label is getting out of control.
Soon people will be better off to kill somebody that break "diversity" rules.
this is called a microagression, and sorry...it's racist.
microagressions are often "slip ups" that are not intended to hurt anyone.
how about saying most baseball players do not have a college education instead?
no, he went where he chose to go. a grand generalization of dominicans as lesser educated aka less intelligent.
arkrud wrote:Another one bust the dust...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...
Now we also recall what someone said 8 years back to bust his a...ss.
Things get better and better.
Hogan is a joker for sure but the trend to abuse the "racist" label is getting out of control.
Soon people will be better off to kill somebody that break "diversity" rules.
How about that the WWE fired Hogan more out of concern for their bottom line than necessarily as a punishment for something he said. Perhaps they think they'll lose a portion of their audience if they're trotting out someone who is perceived as a racist? Just saying. It's a free country and people by all means can say what they want however when businesses don't want to do business with you because they think ones perceived views may turn off paying customers well then it's not "political correctness" at work. It's simply capitalism.
H1AND1 wrote:arkrud wrote:Another one bust the dust...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...
Now we also recall what someone said 8 years back to bust his a...ss.
Things get better and better.
Hogan is a joker for sure but the trend to abuse the "racist" label is getting out of control.
Soon people will be better off to kill somebody that break "diversity" rules.
How about that the WWE fired Hogan more out of concern for their bottom line than necessarily as a punishment for something he said. Perhaps they think they'll lose a portion of their audience if they're trotting out someone who is perceived as a racist? Just saying. It's a free country and people by all means can say what they want however when businesses don't want to do business with you because they think ones perceived views may turn off paying customers well then it's not "political correctness" at work. It's simply capitalism.
No disagreement on this.
They decided that dealing with controversial people will cost money.
But this is the result of public sentiment no the other way around.
He was saying same things as other people were saying and not really in any hate context.
And it was at a time when this things were personal business matter.
Now after the fact he should be responsible for this in retrospect.
It may be granted in this particular case but it make me uneasy that this kind of sht can be used against people.
This is not a democracy and not country of law which take this path.
WaltLongmire wrote:PresIke wrote:http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/20...interesting piece that iterates my sentiments.
Provides a bit of closure for your article...
Very good response.
I have at-most respect for people who are taking responsibility to improve themselves and their nation in response to criticism instead of calling people who raze the issue some kind of bigots.
To prove that any person and any nation can reach anything with hard work and dedication.
Without looking at yourself and accepting the problems and imperfections there is no way to better yourself.
Nalod wrote:He got a deal with Fox reportedly. Basically his comments were statistically based on DM education system and saying baseball is not a hard sport. Comes out wrong but really, it was not racist.
This was politics, freedom of speech as gone so far out the window, you can goto to jail for calling a fag a fag (no pun intended)
The MLB and ESPN have too much at stake not to take any course of action.
How many good people is ESPN gonna "fire"?
These espn people strike me as being miserable employees. Either you are a complete yes man and shill for the company as it tries to rival the shock & awe of TMZ Sports. Putting all your journalistic integrity on the line or you speak your mind and get in hot water. I noticed with guys like Stephen A. Smith, Bill Simmons & Colin Cowherd that once they have a better job lined up with more journalistic freedom and better pay they say something provocative on air to officially get canned. I'm sure unemployment benefits and severance pay from ESPN is quite nice! Thats why these guys are able to move on to their next venture like nothing ever happened
joec32033 wrote:yellowboy90 wrote:joec32033 wrote:dk7th wrote:i was driving home from vacation on thursday night and i caught an espn show while driving near philadelphia. an "on-air personality" named boumani jones (?) was hosting a show and started in on cowherd. i was not really aware of the cowherd story but it sounded to me like this guy jones was trying to stir up controversy for no other reason than to become famous. dude sounded like a desperate blowhard.i have a feeling that he is representative of this modern culture we live in, everyone screaming for attention and trying to bring somebody in a higher position on the totem pole down.
Jones used to be an NFL player a linebacker I think. He used to play for the Eagles maybe. He has been around several years and hosted another show called "His and Hers" with a cohost and another show I think called "Numbers Don't Lie". He was on First Take quite a bit as a guest. He has been making the rounds at ESPN for at least 3 years or so. I used to listen to alot of ESPN poscasts, including Cowherd at work so his name is familiar to me.
As a point of reference, I stopped listening to Cowherd about 2 months ago. His show really changed. He started framing alot of his opinion as fact and also his anti talk show talk show shtick kinda grew old for me. His massive generalizations he disquised as his real talk social commentary got old real fast. For a while he was a must listen for me and probably my favorite show on ESPN.
I think you are confused as to who Bomani Jones is. Yes, he is an Espn personality but he is a writer by trade and he co-host Highly Questionable with Dan Lebatard(very funny show). He has also been a continual guest on Around the Horn as well as many other different Espn shows as well as his on radio show. Bomani notoriety began to really increase free the Donald Sterling incident because he was one of the few Espn writers to have continually question Donald Sterling and written articles about Sterling before the big blow up.
I don't agree with a lot of what Jones says it I respect some of his opinions. The guy is a highly educated man and usually does well articulating his point across. I know some people don't like his style but he is okay.
Shit. You're right. Who the hell was I thinking of? I was thinking of a bigger dude with dreds. He had a tv show too. Dammit. Of all the things I lost I miss my mind the most.
You are thinking Dhani Jones ex-Giant backup linebacker i believe
Pedro is a very bright man
