Media Assail Red Sox Slugger Martinez and Other ‘Racists’ for Supporting Second Amendment
When sports media stray from sports, what do they like to report on? Guns were a huge topic on Monday, the day after David Katz is alleged to have shot and killed three people and wounded 11 at a Madden 19 video football tournament in Jacksonville. They criticized Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez for an Instagram post supporting the Second Amendment, gave former NBA player Roy Hibbert an anti-gun forum and called gun supporters "racists." Hibbert, a two-time NBA all-star center who played for four teams and is an avid video gamer, told TMZ Sports (scroll down for the story) not to blame violent video games for the violence. Guns are the real issue: "The conversation shouldn’t be on video games. … It should be on the other thing. And you know what the other thing is." It also appears that in place of covering sports yesterday, the media must have been doing internet searches on "athletes and guns." Earlier this summer, they used old SM posts to figuratively tar and feather baseball and football players for their old and controversial posts. As part of the sports media’s ongoing social media witch hunts, they timed the Jacksonville shootings with this Martinez Instagram post from 2013: To The New York Post , standing up for the Second Amendment makes Martinez a "controversial star" as soon as his old IG post just mysteriously surfaced. To Alex Raskin of the UK Daily Mail , "Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez has […]
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