chrisab123 wrote:Fencer reregistered wrote:Zeroforwinger wrote:
These Trump folks are despicable but anyone calling for punishment to McHale for his political choices is worse.
Actually, the Trump folks are so despicable that I disagree with your rating scale. Indeed, they're worse just on First Amendment kinds of rights alone.
I don't like him either but calling for him to lose his job or for Hayward to do the same because he follows Fox News on Twitter or his wife donated to Trump or whatever is crazy. We're talking about people who are multi millionaires and billionaires. I'm not naive enough to believe that the majority of people in power in pro sports aren't Trump supporters. It will be interesting to see if the Gordon stuff picks up more steam.
Absent some kind of special case equating partners to each other, we certainly shouldn't condemn folks for their spouses' political views. The most famous sports example in Boston is probably Brady/Bundchen, who have made it pretty clear they disagree about Trump, and are each staying relatively quiet about their views.
Now, if a guy and his homemaker wife each donate the max to somebody's campaign, it's pretty clear what happened. And the Mrs. McHale tweets above were pretty egregious; it's hard to imagine that Mr. McHale doesn't sympathize with them given that he didn't, in fact, publicly contradict her. But I can still appreciate their sports contributions, as long as they keep their noxious political stances relatively low-key, rather than leveraging their professional reputations to promote them.
E.g., I'm negative now on Bill Belichick, Rob Gronkowski and Matt Light, but not on other Patriots who may or may not be Trump voters or donors.
Banned temporarily for, among other sins, being "Extremely Deviant".
I actually really like him on TNT.
