full article: https://www.outkick.com/mark-cuban-megyn-kelly/
Sounds like Megyn wiped the floor with this dolt.
Reminds me of the bulldog Megyn Kelly of old before fame went to her head. Too bad she screwed herself.
Megyn knows a little about collapsing ratings. Cuban should pay attention, but I guess BLM is, “just an idea”...
Is the NBA on its way to catching the NFL
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Seems to be a race to the bottom and bankruptcy.
Oh noes snot Me Again...ask accusatory questions...attack/interrupt...attack/interrept...attack/interrupt. How’d Chrissy learn how to fire Kelly’s machine gun so well. Was the FOX in the henhouse? How are the hairs on Chrissy’s legs, JoeJoe?
Spectator sports are popular because they are an escaped the from worldly concerns like politics.
Steep them in divisive politics and you destroy their value to spectators.
Mark is obviously not a rocket scientist.
He also mentioned horse racing’s decline.
Basketball, football, baseball should be having record numbers of viewers since so much of the nation is stuck at home a lot more than in years previous. Yet viewership/interest is way down. I wonder what the difference can be?
Wow, Megyn crushed his balls in a vise. Is she trying to reclaim her conservative bona-fides since her messy (but very well-compensated) downfall from FoxNews and NBC?
BTW, Megyn was disappointing to us when she was fettered by the suits, especially at NBC. But I’ve started to listen to her on her podcast and she’s excellent. Her hour-long interview with Candace Owens was particularly good, so was the one with Sen. Cruz.
The NBA ratings are dropping “for reasons not clear”.
Like the NFL, they gave control of the asylum to the inmates and they are betting this will all blow over by next year. They are wrong.
They are catering to liberals, most of whom don’t like sports anyway. They are running off normal people who do like sports.
There is a technical term for what they will gain by doing this:
Doodley-Squat.
I like horse racing. Horse racing decline is actually in many ways (though not for exactly the same reasons) the same as for the NBA - neglect and bad decisions by management. Nobody likes to see a horse tumble and die right in front of them. But you have tracks that have been redone very poorly (oddly, with the aim of lessening harm to the horses it has caused more spills) and the trainers and owners are running broken down horses against the advice of veterinarians.
I had an interest in a race horse once many years ago. I loved that little filly. She ran for a couple of years but when the vet x-ray was was showing signs of hairline fracture in her front legs, we immediately stopped racing her and sent her out to breeding. Many trainers and owners would have kept her on the track until the problem worsened, only perhaps to watch her break down and die in front of thousands of spectators. And that’s a major turn off to everyone and certainly doesn’t help build support for the sport.
Same is true for the NBA. We don’t change channels from the News to Sports just to get more News and opinion. The NBA and other leagues have turned off major portions of their own audience and with few exceptions they have nobody to blame but their own poor decisions. And the networks that paid great sums of cash to air their games are doing the same, injecting politics into their ‘color commentary’. Sure, every player has an absolute right to their own opinion. But show me any office that allows political or religious contentiousness to fester - I’ll show you an office full of dysfunction and discontent. That is why many policy manuals actively discourage this type of conversation on company time.
And Kelly is right, there is a major difference between wearing a pink ribbon to remind people of breast cancer and the need for awareness and early diagnosis vs painting “BLM” in the middle of the court. She is even more correct - and where it gets interesting - is that BLM means different things to different people. Nobody disagrees with the statement that “black lives matter”, of course they do, but that is completely different from the political movement and the political aims of the organizers and leaders of the movement - who really do cloud their true agenda behind the sorrow of very grim incidents that occur in society. The NBA and other sports audiences are not fools. The leagues are fooling themselves.
Freepers love to hate on Kelly, because she didn’t give puff piece interviews to their favorite people. But she was always a tough interviewer, regardless of party affiliation. She was like a female O’Reilly. A bit arrogant and very self absorbed. It was like her and O’Reilly actually cared about the fallout from going too easy on someone. O’Reilly actually OVERcompensated, and was much harder on conservatives than liberals, while Kelly was tough on both.
Calling out BLM’s Marxist, anti-family, anti-cop roots would get most journalists put on “vacation”, if not out of a job.
Mark Cuban is a perfect example of how you can be a genius in business and yet also be a MORON AND A SC*MBAG as a human being.
What he is encouraging with his support and defense of BLM is a nightmare for hundreds of millions of Americans.
I will not shed a tear when BLM/antifa burn his house to the ground with him in it (I hope his family and staff get out because they, like America, don’t deserve to be punished for his stupidity.
How did he get so rich and still be a Dunce?
Maybe clueless idiots should just keep their mouths shut about politics, Mark?
“And nobody cared.”
How about this?
1. We are going to keep politics out of our workplace. We are a sports/entertainment business, we do not have a political point of view. We are here to entertain. Players can do what they want politically on their own time. On our time, they are here to work, not make statements.
2. We realize we are not essential. We realize a lot of people are having a hard time right now. We want to support the front line workers and the people who may have lost their jobs or be working from home. We will make some of our previously paid programing games free to everyone. We just want to support our fellow citizens, entertain you, and get your minds off your problems for a little while.
Do this, take this attitude, and the response would be overwhelmingly positive. People would never forget it.
But, they can’t, because they think they are very important and critical to social functioning. That they somehow have a high place in our social structure, where they must use their position to progress a cause out of some moral obligation.
They are not important. They play a game with a ball. No matter how much money they make, it doesn’t qualify them to be statesmen. It’s entertainment. It’s not essential. It’s easily replaceable with other forms of entertainment.
No one else gets to advocate their favorite causes while they are working. The mailman doesn’t knock on your door when he is delivering the male to educate you about the plight of whales. He would be fired for doing that.
And the mail is more important to our property functioning society than professional basketball is.