GDT 4/18/16-Cubs (Lackey) @ Cardinals (Leake) 7:09 CDT

[heyzeus]

Worth noting that a Blackhawks player likely used a gay slur during the game last night?

[MrCrowesGarden]

Worth noting that a Blackhawks player likely used a gay slur during the game last night?

It's been fun seeing the cognitive dissonance on Twitter.

And there's no maybe about it. Pretty easy lip reading will tell you.

[Cheddar Tom]

Worth noting that a Blackhawks player likely used a gay slur during the game last night?

But Chicago fans do not cover themselves in glory so no one cares.

[go birds]

can you imagine the real outrage if he used the n-word?

[MrCrowesGarden]

The whole Shaw ordeal has been a fun refresher in giving the Internet DERP squad a lesson in when the First Amendment does and doesn't apply. Of course it's going to fall on deaf ears.

[letsgocards89]

Blogger blogs on reporter's failings at reporting

http://www.double-birds.com/2016/04/21/ ... edia-into/

[Cheddar Tom]

Blogger blogs on reporter's failings at reporting

http://www.double-birds.com/2016/04/21/ ... edia-into/

This was perfect....this fiasco has been an embarrassment and everyone responsible for amplifying it is a disgrace to their profession.

[Hoot45]

Blogger blogs on reporter's failings at reporting

http://www.double-birds.com/2016/04/21/ ... edia-into/

This was perfect....this fiasco has been an embarrassment and everyone responsible for amplifying it is a disgrace to their profession.

I appreciated how this concluded. Nice article.

[Cronos]

Wow, Deadspin had the opportunity to [expletive] on St. Louis, and it passed based on a lack of any credible evidence?

Up is down, the sky is green, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.

They got their little dig in at the end.

But when Deadspin is pointing out how your accusations are baseless and un-just? Time to find a different profession and you deserve to be called out for it.

[ghostrunner]

Blogger blogs on reporter's failings at reporting

http://www.double-birds.com/2016/04/21/ ... edia-into/

This was perfect....this fiasco has been an embarrassment and everyone responsible for amplifying it is a disgrace to their profession.

I appreciated how this concluded. Nice article.

Yeah, at first I was kind of thinking "why bother" but this is a great point:

The crucial, categorical difference in the anti-Cardinals sentiment that @BestFansStLouis, Deadspin, and others have tapped into in the last few years is the way that expressing contempt for the Cardinals has become an act of political signaling. Cards fans, to the average Deadspin reader or BFSTL follower, aren’t just smug and obnoxious but racist, sexist, homophobic, gun-humping meth-addicted proto-fascist Trump voters; to hate the Cardinals is to align yourself against these things (and a convenient substitute for actually doing anything to combat them). Lots of teams get hated on, but no team’s fans have been made unwilling participants in a proxy culture war as much as Cards fans have, and ultimately, that’s the sole reason an anonymous Cubs fan was able to reach millions of people with a single trollish tweet Monday night.

It’s also toxic and corrosive and wrong, as Adam Felder laid out in this space earlier this week. People should be repulsed that a group of (largely white) Cubs fans hurled frivolous charges of racism essentially as trash-talk, as if racism just abstract fodder for their dumb sports grudge and not the deadly serious issue that it is. They should be repulsed that this is more or less what @BestFansStLouis has done consistently for four years now. At a minimum, any journalist who took part in any stage of this sordid news cycle should be asking how and why it went down the way it did. Not even that seems to be happening, unfortunately. Who knows how many more times a story like this will have to play out before it does.