Jim Rome and Stern get into heated discussion

[King Sancho Fantastic]

Anybody see the exchange between Stern and Jim Rome?? Apparently it got heated.

[Bogg]

Originally Posted by King Sancho Fantastic

Anybody see the exchange between Stern and Jim Rome?? Apparently it got heated.

I did not. Care to explain?

[King Sancho Fantastic]

I didn't hear it, but apparently Rome was asking Stern about the lottery being fixed and Stern didn't take it too well. Stern then asked Rome if he still beats his wife. Lol

[King Sancho Fantastic]

http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2012...ing-your-wife/

Link to audio of the exchange.

[Sir Patchwork]

David Stern getting rightfully defensive. He is absolutely right that people would have claimed it was a fix regardless of who won, and he shouldn't have to entertain such ridiculous notions.

[Dre]

Moved

[girllovesthegame]

Owned.

"And now you are pouting, I love it."

"I've got to talk to someone important now, like Steven A. Smith."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dstZTHdMn8U

[Floods]

Anyone else but jackass Jim Rome and I might have had a problem with Stern's approach.

[MojoPin]

Originally Posted by Sir Patchwork

David Stern getting rightfully defensive. He is absolutely right that people would have claimed it was a fix regardless of who won, and he shouldn't have to entertain such ridiculous notions.

No "basketball reasons" = no conspiracy theories, or at least less of them.

[Hoodey]

Originally Posted by Sir Patchwork

David Stern getting rightfully defensive. He is absolutely right that people would have claimed it was a fix regardless of who won, and he shouldn't have to entertain such ridiculous notions.

Why?

Is he the king?

Rome is a media member. The media is paid for by advertising dollars in direct relation to the number of people watching. Therefore good media will try to give those people the information they are looking for; providing value.

There are a lot of people who think that lotteries get fixed. You have defenses as to what people would have said if Charlotte or Brooklyn won? Fine. But that's not what happens every year.

A lot of times there aren't other teams who get robbed where people are saying "oh yeah, you could have said the same thing about THAT team." A lot of times it comes off looking very shady.

Take my Bulls winning it. I really thought that it was kind of shady. Especially on the backs of teams like the Spurs in 97 and Magic in 93(?). How many teams can hit that 1% ball in 20 years before you say, "okay, a 1/100 shot is coming up every 6 years"? I'm too lazy to look up the exact percentages. You get the point.

It's a question people want asked. Before the consolidation of media and guys like Stern acting all royal as some elite ruling class, these kind of questions were asked all the time. See for example the entire 1960s and 1970s.

Stern wants the publicity the media gives him? Better get ready to be asked tough questions. And maybe Rome is a d-bag, but I don't care who it is ASKING good questions.

We don't need a tolerance of this royal elite attitude. If it smells like sh*t, then someone should be fine to at least ask you, "hey, is that sh*t?"

Now, you can disagree and explain why it isn't fixed, but the attitude that you're above the question. Seriously, are we pre Magna Carta in this country now?

[King Sancho Fantastic]

If Stern wants to stop the theories then broadcast the damn lottery. Problem solved. Until then, he can kiss my ass.

[JoeyJoJo]

It's ridiculous to actually think the lottery is fixed. Just because a lot of people believe it, doesn't make it reasonable. A lot of people believe in Big Foot or [insert any number of silly things].

And even if it was fixed, would he admit it? The question is pointless.

A good question would be if he was concerned about the perception of a conflict of interest. That would be something that could have an interesting answer.

[Dissonance]

Originally Posted by JoeyJoJo

It's ridiculous to actually think the lottery is fixed. Just because a lot of people believe it, doesn't make it reasonable. A lot of people believe in Big Foot or [insert any number of silly things].

And even if it was fixed, would he admit it? The question is pointless.

A good question would be if he was concerned about the perception of a conflict of interest. That would be something that could have an interesting answer.

[Hoodey]

Originally Posted by JoeyJoJo

It's ridiculous to actually think the lottery is fixed. Just because a lot of people believe it, doesn't make it reasonable. A lot of people believe in Big Foot or [insert any number of silly things].

You said it was ridiculous to actually think that the lottery is fixed. Then you gave an example of something unbelievable. What you didn't do was say why the lottery being fixed is anything like big foot in terms of believability.

We live in a world where Dick Cheney sought information to find out of it was possible to privatize a war, used a legitimate problem with Afghanistan to somehow link us to a conflict with Iraq, put us in war based on false pretenses (later proven false; no uranium), so that his company, Halliburton, could sell the US tax payers $100 loads of laundry and $50 six packs of Coca Cola.

And I'm supposed to believe that it's totally beyond the realm of possibility that a commissioner (who ironically won't just show the balls being drawn) would never fix a lottery to be in the interest of the success of his league?

And that's supposed to be as ridiculous as chewbacca running around in the wilderness?

And even if it was fixed, would he admit it? The question is pointless.

That doesn't make him above the question. There are enough consumers of the media who want to know that even if he doesn't admit it, perhaps you get cues that would suggest he's lying. Perhaps even he comes out with an excellent acquittal of the way his league does things.

Generally, I'm suspicious of anyone who doesn't want a question at least asked.

A good question would be if he was concerned about the perception of a conflict of interest. That would be something that could have an interesting answer.

That is a good question. That it's a good question doesn't make the one asked any less good.

[Hoodey]

Originally Posted by King Sancho Fantastic

If Stern wants to stop the theories then broadcast the damn lottery. Problem solved. Until then, he can kiss my ass.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a bingo.

Well done Sancho.