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dave's iran from edge of sports dot com is with us a lot to talk about with dave
we have the kobe bryant anti-gay slur we have any child player sean avery
supporting same sex marriage and then being ridiculed by sports agent and then
of course we have roger mcdowell uh... using a bats and to simulate *** and
make fun of people how is this all happening in the visits to its own
breezes and dave
yeah yeah
mean obviously there's a huge amount of coincidence in happenstance all these
things taking place
but at the same time it shouldn't be a that surprising because we've seen a
growing serious movement rows he bt rights over the last several years we've
seen several n_f_l_ players like stockton gina and brandon i a m today
show both of them came out in favor of same sex marriage
we've seen several polls taken that showed that
majorities of pro athletes
would have no problem with having a_t_t_ made in the locker room
so given all the attention
based on these issues it shouldn't be too surprising that it becomes something
that then are generates this level of discussion
after the kobe bryant incident their we talked to former n_b_a_ player johnny g
and he pointed out something that i also noticed about the initial coby apology
which was he was apologizing for people being upset as opposed to our college
ising because he said something incredibly anti gay uh... is that that's
kind of par for the course with a lot of these athletes and apologies isn't it
i guess par for the course of a lot of public figures it never ceases to amaze
me 'cause anybody who's been in any kind of
relationship with somebody knows that you never apologize by saying i'm sorry
you were offended bradbury who were upset that slight
uh... the first thing you are
if at any kind of relationship with anybody
and kolbe in the aftermath of bats
debated a p_s_a_ him in the other lakers teammates and i think the thing about
chloe is we have to remember is that if there's not a microphone there
it's not caught
and it's not even discussed
and
when it shines a light on is that even though
a lot of male athletes will say privately that they won't care
if they have a gay teammates when they have to answer a poll question
homophobia is still very accepted
in the locker room and it says something that there are more
uh... k_d_
maybe she'll spend there are active male professional athletes i mean out
k_a_b_c_ apps
and there are professional athletes and it says something about the level of
michi smile and the level of abs i don't know the what where do you support of
the clone it
is called it says
that being gay
is equated with the weakness and being with each
means that it is the speech for you
in the world of men's athletics we're still played with this
in men's sports and
case incredibly harmful i mean it's harmful to women
colo are label with the palestinians say if they're interested in sports
and it's hard for them and we don't measure up to some kind of masculine
ideal
that colby bryant uh... perpetuates
with regard to roger mcdowell of the the long and short of it is that he said to
some fans are you a *** couple or a threesome
and then he used the bat and then his hands it to simulate sex and what i
think that what made the situation exponentially worse was when gloria
allred infront of kids reenacted the entire thing
with a baseball bat with some guy in making a circle with his with his
fingers
when i saw that i thought what on earth is gloria allred thinking bite by
re-enacting this whole thing
well there are those who say that gloria are at risk or not mister attorney rush
limbaugh happy
pat
the worst kind of stereotype of what it means to stand up
for liberal causes i mean i put on my face book page for all of us who wanna
fight homophobia in sports gate gloria allred you're not helping
valiantly that the worst part about it is that it puts the focus on gloria
allred
and not on the focus of what occurred coming right from the mcdowell
in one fell swoop
at ended
elegy bt people
appended
baseball fans in offending cheats i mean one of the things he said was that not
just uh... the the gay slurs
but he also pointed to this family any query the kids he said
you had no place here
make every baseball state that's right i think that what happened was one of the
but those who overheard the said hey there's kids here and he responded that
kids have no place in the baseball stadium without it
yeah i mean if they're other witnesses said that he was referencing the
operably cher's without back when he said it is at this table on the way way
up there and not disclosed to the field veto that is horrific like the idea that
you can't go down
an error in your appetite pitching coach before a game and it's one of the things
they want to say get over yourself and but you know the other issue at work
here and this is i talked about this i'm on e_s_p_n_ and i wonder this means i
won't get back but i'm yes pianists
is that this is also an issue that the atlanta braves franchise
and i got some lovely act emails and famous but
he led a greater it seemed that in recent years they had of course that
they really can't retire rocker infamous lee
went off without a homophobic tirade
they had their detroit hopping pitcher john smoltz
uh... compared to a marriage to somebody marrying an animal the thread with uh...
its mark on his face
and you have the team itself
organize a series of these things called faith nights at the park and they have
issued an apology
when one of their faces nights involved the organization to focus on the family
yeah it
family in organization that promotes in
uh... and believes in things like reparative e therapy araceli tabling
infront uh... the atlanta braves stadium with leaflets about armand hammer
carrier gay son
or or ear gaidar and that issue an apology and issue a statement that in
future eight nights
focus on the family would never be a part of that
again so what i said is
you don't like it get at the atlanta braves major league baseball really
wanna show that they can't get this the answers dot
suspending roger mcdowell even expelling roger kicked out
why not make analogy bt rights analogy to be sensibility bt
people when i make that apart barbecue orientation
why not
put out a statement that says if any of our players glad to be gay wanna come at
the positive majored in baseball's supporting one hundred percent quietly
something like that yeah pins
glad we did not take that that that happened though given given the
situation that you've described
um... pave real quick
role models some we hear very often
athletes are inevitably role models and famously charles barkley eaten mohan
said eyes should not be your kids role model he wrote that in one of his books
he said in a number of times
inevitably is there some
sense that you have that if someone chooses to be a professional athlete at
the top level they are agreeing to be a role model even if they don't want to be
and therefore have to act based on that or is it ok to just
shirts that responsibility completely
uh... you can share irresponsibility all you want but it's sort of like shirking
the laws of gravity
it should be in the acceptance that the earth is around or that the sky is blue
mean you can go out there and act like a horse's *** and not a role model but
guess what you are role modeling being a horse's ***
and doing and not doing all the rest of it armenia and that that's something i
learned when i was a teacher in uh... d_c_ public schools right out of college
is that whether athletes consider themselves role models are not biggest
are
incident newcastle question what are they modeling
that's why with my writing a teddy bear support of athletes like johnny g or
other athletes who take political stance because if u model the kids hey you're
gonna be a professional athlete
that's a pretty
also modeling because of ninety-nine point nine percent of the will never
respect like so
but if your model indicates
and what you think matters standing on principle matters having a political
thought your head matters not being like roger mcdowell matters
and then i think you're actually doing something very positive and it's
something that should be supported by and immediate back its
desire an edge of sports dot com hey nice job with carson daley i was
surprised he knew so much about the intersection of politics and sports
unless a producer was feeding it to amend the brakes
i don't know what you're talking about a letter all right thanks dave protestant
if they're fantastic job sorry take care