Five Things Wrong With Sportsball

This morning on "America's First News," they did a story on Yasiel Puig circling the bases after his ground ball went through the center fielder's legs. It was Puig's second game back from the disabled list. The correspondent felt it important to notify us that he almost picked up Puig for his fantasy team.

If you spend more than one hour a week on your fantasy sports team, you have your head up your ass. And really, reporters who have fantasy teams or talk about their fantasy teams on the air are major league jock-sniffers. Confession: I had a fantasy football team. In 1986. After that it got a little lame.

There is no question that fantasy sports drives real sports, but it's really just gambling.

Another major thing wrong with sports is ESPN. You have people like Bomani Jones working there. When Jones isn't sporting a "Caucasians" jersey, he is lecturing people about why they should respect Cam Newton more, telling us, "America doesn't like black people very much."

ESPN tolerates Bomani Jones but not Curt Shilling. They fired Shilling for a social media post that read, in part, "men’s room was designed for the penis, women’s not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."

ESPN then went full Stalin on Shilling, airbrushing him from history. The ESPN documentary, "Four Days In October," completely removed all references to Shilling's Game 6 "bloody sock" performance.

A lot of what's wrong with sports is just ESPN. They are going to give a special humanitarian award to the black players of Missouri University. These players went on strike and refused to play because they felt their administration didn't react strongly enough to a poop swastika. The racial tension around this has caused enrollment at MU to drop by 25%.

Last year, ESPN gave an award for courage to "Caitlyn" Jenner.

And this year, ESPN went full social justice mode when they launched an all-black sports commentary site, The Undefeated. To understand what the intersection of race and sports looks like, look at Reese Waters' take on Mark Fuhrman and O.J. Simpson.

"The LAPD owes all Black people of Los Angeles an apology for keeping Mark Fuhrman on the force," Waters says. Fair enough. Then, "And they owe Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown's family an apology for keeping Mark Fuhrman on the force, 'cause that's exactly why O.J. got off."

The reason O.J. got off was because the jurors felt like they needed payback for Rodney King. So Mr. Waters, after years of wisecracks about O.J., don't pretend that you are Nicole's white knight.

Sports reporters are just like all other reporters, in that they have a progressive bias. Straight-news journalists need to disguise their bias, to give off a whiff of impartiality. Sports journalists have no such reluctance.

Are we up to five yet? Well, another thing that is wrong with sports is the Olympics. The Olympics suck, and I hope they blow big-time this year.