Jun
18
“First of all, sliding head-first is stupid, and most coaches will tell you that. Bryce Harper seems a nice enough lad, but he’s the product of a two-parent Mormon home in Las Vegas, Nevada, and he has been on a very comfortable sleigh-ride to success since he was 17. When Barack Obama was 17, his father was long gone, and he was one of three black students at Punahou Academy in Honolulu. We have moved in our parade of Nasty Racial Archetypes from the Lazy Black Ballplayer to the Unqualified Affirmative Action Hire. On the basepath of polite conservative racism, Judge is playing station-to-station ball.”
Bryce Harper Conservative Hero Column - Our Athletes Are Not Meant to Fit Our Ideologies - Esquire
So so very difficult to pick out the most stinging line in this takedown of a dumb Daily Caller piece OMG YES THERE WAS A DUMB DAILY CALLER PIECE! So that’s news, and even though all the baseball facts I know come from NYT crosswords clues, all I need to know about the validity of Judge’s “clown analysis” is that he aligns conservatives with punk rock, to which I say I WANNA BE ANARCHY.
