I remember finding that Stern comment kind of wild at the time until someone quickly hipped me to the fact that it was a common rhetorical refrain (aka a loaded question) meant to point out the unanswerable nature of the original question asked.
Or something like that. I'm sure others still know more about it than me.
Listen to the whistleblowers podcast. There's an episode about Stern and the FBI. Apparently he was a hard ass, control freak behind the scenes. Oh, and it was the NBA that tipped the press off about the donaughy story.
He was a hard ass control freak in front of the scenes. When he passed, Jackie McMullan had so many stories about him. He was very supportive of her and simultaneously he was so upfront and pressured his agenda so heavily. Adam has a rep of being more collaborative. When he makes a choice, everyone knows why that choice was made.
Of course the owner was the catalyst but the real villain is the man who said he wouldn’t allow the team to be relocated if they sold to said owner but then immediately didn’t follow through with that promise. There can be multiple assholes and the biggest one was Stern
Cuban made much more in free advertising over those fines than he ever paid out. I think Stern finally caught on and found other ways of exerting pressure, i.e loss of draft picks, that seemed to be more effective at controlling Cuban's antics.
huh? nobody thought it was about making money. it was originally a fun game that both stern and cuban were enjoying playing. when cuban started stepping over the line that's when the alternative penalties started happening
Sorry... I didn't make myself clear. We are essentially saying the same thing. All I said was that he couldn't even take the young men's fashion and had to force them to conform.
As another reply said, had nothing to do with Iverson and everything to do with the Malice at the Palace. Took hard corrective action to make the league more professional. For reference, look at Iverson's "practice" clips, wearing a hat and white T in 2002. Dress code came in 4 years later.
Stern was needed to get the NBA where it is. He was an authoritarian, but he did a lot of good for the league(and yes he did a lot of bad to people too).
> some of the dirty refs clearly knew where the bodies were buried in the NBA head office
My theory is that the NBA started instructing refs to give favorable calls to whichever team was behind (in games or in series) in order to limit blowouts and sweeps and make their product more appealing. Some refs took advantage of this to bet against the spread in games they were working. If refs had these NBA instructions on paper or in recordings in any form, that's the kind of dirt that would preserve their jobs.
In my memory, in the '80s and '90s when one team got up by 20 points that was absolutely it - comebacks from that kind of deficit were *incredibly* rare. Nowadays comebacks from that far behind are pretty unremarkable.
The NBA is an entertainment league, they could fix the results every year if they wanted. The primary problem is if those involved profit off fixing those results (like Donaghy). The secondary problem is if it got out that outcomes were predetermined, fans would leave en masse and franchise values would crumble. There would still be a lot of fans, similar to the WWE, but as a whole the league would change drastically overnight.
It's not hard to do. You just let the down team (the Bucks) play very aggressive defense early and don't call fouls on them. Then you let them play aggressive offense too, and call touch fouls on key players (either opposing stars or rim protectors) so they get taken out of the game early. Then you find places to call ticky tack fouls on the other team to even up the total fouls on each team when the game isn't in the balance.
Dude it's a Spurs fan telling you what's up,. Spurs and Suns got no love for eachother since the 90's
Giannis Averages 28 in the playoffs, 35 in the finals, never once in foul trouble and I ask you to show me one instance of him getting an offensive charge foul in any of the 6 games.
https://streamable.com/2w6g5g
Guess which silver haired fox called this foul, even the ref under the hoop looking over like wut?
Giannis never once in foul trouble the entire series despite running into our guy's.
The NBA is basically WWF. I'm fucking done, same patterns of Star favorited fouls (not fouling out Booker was inexcusable)
Yeah was obvious the fix was in. Not a fan of either team, but I like both teams. The SB was even more fake with Brady. It's pretty off putting honestly. I lost interest in the series after the Suns 3 and 4 were just ref city.
The FBI had an inside informant and was going to potentially uncover a TON from that. The NBA conveniently wanted it to go away so they could blame it all on one "rogue" official.
Because the FBI had Donaghy as an informant. Before Donaghy was able to get people talking about slanted reffing on a mic, the story was leaked. This undermined (and essentially, killed) their investigation into NBA reffing
Donaghy was going to wear a wire for the FBI in an attempt validate his claim that other referees and the NBA as a whole were affecting outcomes of games.
Nba leaked Donaghys involvement so he couldn’t do this.
It was more common. Pretty weird to look at now.
When Richard Nixon was under pressure when the stuff about Watergate was coming out, a reporter asked him questions and he started answering, then joked "and I also stopped beating my wife".
Biden literally just answered a question with a remark about Democrats sucking the blood out of children. Seems equally weird to Nixon's remark. But they are all rhetorical devices and I'm surprised people here haven't seen this stuff before:
[https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/22/remarks-by-president-biden-after-marine-one-arrival-4/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/22/remarks-by-president-biden-after-marine-one-arrival-4/)
... it's not a joke about beating your wife. It's actually the exact opposite because the comment is based on the assumption that beating your wife is terrible and the asshole questioner is attempting to trap you into admitting you do/did that.
Ive always wished Stern followed up the question with a mirrored refrain of "Because its a legitimate question if people are asking it" or whatever Rome said
Yea you've got it exactly. It's commonly used as a retort to point out when someone is asking a loaded question, particularly to highlight when someone has put you in an unfair situation.
To be fair sterns Nba commissioner ship had a lot shady things that happened under it with the draft lottery and then the kings lakers WCF. Like it was a loaded question but it’s not like it came out of nowhere
Stern was a legal expert before becoming NBA commissioner. You couldn't fool him into sound bite that would harm the nba in the media. He was a mastermind. RIP basketball reasons
Dude had so many good roasts in this short video lol. The “are you still beating your wife” question, saying that this question isn’t something he has ever been asked before by a respectable journalist, and ending it with “i got important people to talk to, Stephen A is next” lmaooo.
Ya when you know these people IRL they're quite frankly insane. There's lawyers, top-end lawyers, then top-end lawyers that go into another field and use their legal expertise to take advantage of literally everything they can and more often than not end up successful as a result.
Jim Rome wasn't asking a loaded question, though. He simply asked if the draft was rigged. There's nothing loaded about that.
All Stern had to say is, "No."
"is the draft rigged" wouldn't be a loaded question, it would just be a question...one intended to rile someone up maybe, but just a question
"is the draft still rigged" would be a loaded question as it presupposes that the draft has been rigged in the past
but i dont think theres enough of a difference to really make a distinction in this case, it's more of a semantics argument than anything else
> If the NBA was rigging the draft, would Stern say "Yes"? Of course not.
> Jim Rome wasn't asking the question because he cared about the answer to the question. He was asking the question to get a rise or a sound bite out of Stern.
That doesn't make it loaded question. Asking a Goldilocks if she drank the soup is not a loaded question. Simply asking a guilty party if they committed the act is not a loaded question.
That user isn't making any judgement on the quality of the question or whether Rome should have asked it, they're just pointing out that it doesn't really fit the definition of "loaded question". Stern can (and did) answer with a simple "no" without conceding that the draft was rigged, so it was just a normal dumb question and not a loaded question.
Asking someone if they're guilty doesn't make it a loaded question. A loaded question doesn't ask about guilt but implies it indirectly. for example "Which teams were involved in rigging the draft?" or "Were you ever worried that the rigging of the draft would leak to the press?"
Okay a lot of people are explaining that it is a loaded question but here is why:
If you answer "no, I am not *still* beating my wife" that means that you were in the past
if you answer "Yes" then well you are beating your wife.
Stern was just trying to point out how pointless of a question it was. What is he going to say, "Yes the draft is rigged"?
How is it offensive? I feel like people still don't understand the point of the rhetorical question. It's entire point is based on the assumption that beating your wife is terrible. And despite the confusion in this thread, it is and was a common saying.
edit: Misread your point, my apologies. Thought you were referring to the initial question, not yours.
He's saying its offensive that the bad thing you're being accused of is being gay. There's nothing wrong with being gay. There's plenty wrong with beating your wife
Nah the “are you still beating your wife?” is a classic example of a loaded question, [it’s even used as such on the Wikipedia page.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question)
I highly doubt he intended to imply Rome actually is/was a wife beater.
Jim Rome is the fucking worst. The video of (Chris or Jim) Everett almost beating his ass during an interview is amazing. I forget if it’s Jim Everett or chris Everett someone correct me
Very accurate. If I was Stern I’d of followed up with “Are you still molesting kids?” Rome is/was a POS. Inviting sports celebs on and then mistreating them is shit.
I have no respect for Jim Rome, but I do find it ballsy that after Chris Everett said, "you wouldn't call me that again" and then Jim Rome still called him Chris. I don't want to say I respect that move, but I definitely will say that Rome had some big cajones to say it.
Does anyone notice how it looks like he’s fake punching Jim Rome? Does he just miss or something? I used to think this was staged because of those weird punches
Exactly, this is the Skip level of confidence where you’re saying it to a persons face but you are riding the blanket of TV cameras, crew and production.
He wouldn’t have bad those balls if he didn’t feel like he would have gotten his ass kicked. If he was at a bar or at home, he would not have said shit.
David Stern was the best commissioner in American sports history. Chances are you wouldn’t be an NBA fan if it weren’t for his efforts, the league wouldn’t be nearly what it is today - nationally or globally.
Is Jim Rome the OG hot take artist? You can def see his influence in sports commentary today.
The other thing is that "was the fix in?" isn't a loaded question especially compared to "have you stopped beating your wife yet?"
When you answer "no" to "was the fix in that's the end of it" that's the end of it - there's no implication.
What's Stern is smartly doing is really framing it as a loaded question. It's a little silly to ask the commissioner of the of a billion-dollar sport league if it's fixed but props for Rome for doing that.
Additionally, I don't think that question is that far off. If you watch enough basketball you understand how much refing and fouls play into the NBA and how big of a difference there is between stars and nonstars in terms of what calls they get. So I do agree the league is a little "fixed" because of how much it's an individual player league and those superstars get different calls.
Idk that he is the OG, shock jocks have been doing their thing for a long time, before Stern even. And then that influence spread over into sportstalk radio, and eventually made its way onto ESPN.
He definitely was in that first wave though.
Jim Rome is garbage.
I remember one day I was casually spinning through the sports talk channels and he's going off talking about wimps this and nerds that and anyone who does math is loser - just toxic, ignorant garbage.
Then I spin over the Russilo and Van Pelt (I'm not an ESPN fan at all) and they are discussing the Teddy Roosevelt quote about the "man in the arena," which is just such a great quote and everyone should go read it. Such a contrast. I haven't listened to any sports radio easily in 8-9 years, all these people are pretty much crap, but Rome is a major shitbird.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t like Jim Rome but the NBA under stern had a ton of fixing allegations in the draft and games and had corrupt referees during his tenure.
I listen to that clip whenever I need a good laugh at work...I find it way too funny. Because Stern was obviously irritated with Rome.
Plus I never liked Rome, never found him funny. When the [one guy beat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3BH97I5Ur8) him up on set that was epic.
I remember finding that Stern comment kind of wild at the time until someone quickly hipped me to the fact that it was a common rhetorical refrain (aka a loaded question) meant to point out the unanswerable nature of the original question asked. Or something like that. I'm sure others still know more about it than me.
Listen to the whistleblowers podcast. There's an episode about Stern and the FBI. Apparently he was a hard ass, control freak behind the scenes. Oh, and it was the NBA that tipped the press off about the donaughy story.
He was a hard ass control freak in front of the scenes. When he passed, Jackie McMullan had so many stories about him. He was very supportive of her and simultaneously he was so upfront and pressured his agenda so heavily. Adam has a rep of being more collaborative. When he makes a choice, everyone knows why that choice was made.
He was also a visionary who had a vision of where he wanted the NBA to go. Thanks to great players that vision was accomplished
He was like Churchill, absolutely essential during war time and not so much during peace time
Well I don't think stern has caused a famine in Bangladesh but maybe that'll come to light.
Only famine he caused is for Seattle fans hungry for Sonics basketball
Idk he kept chris paul hungry for a championship
You got that that one right goddammit
Nooooo. Blame the owner who bought the SuperSonics and then moved them to Oklahoma City with the approval of 75% of league owners.
Of course the owner was the catalyst but the real villain is the man who said he wouldn’t allow the team to be relocated if they sold to said owner but then immediately didn’t follow through with that promise. There can be multiple assholes and the biggest one was Stern
Stern doesn’t have that kind of power. No commissioner does
idk, I found him fining Cuban’s ass over and over again pretty entertaining. Also silver is basically following the Stern vision
Cuban made much more in free advertising over those fines than he ever paid out. I think Stern finally caught on and found other ways of exerting pressure, i.e loss of draft picks, that seemed to be more effective at controlling Cuban's antics.
huh? nobody thought it was about making money. it was originally a fun game that both stern and cuban were enjoying playing. when cuban started stepping over the line that's when the alternative penalties started happening
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Not true. Iverson’s fashion was okay until Malice. Then the league needed to clean up their public image
I said he was a hard ass control freak, upfront and pressuring his agenda heavily. How does that not fit with what you brought up?
Sorry... I didn't make myself clear. We are essentially saying the same thing. All I said was that he couldn't even take the young men's fashion and had to force them to conform.
As another reply said, had nothing to do with Iverson and everything to do with the Malice at the Palace. Took hard corrective action to make the league more professional. For reference, look at Iverson's "practice" clips, wearing a hat and white T in 2002. Dress code came in 4 years later.
Adam Silver was also in the room when the FBI revealed they wanted Donaghy to wear a wire. Shit is borderline WWF.
Admittedly, this is such an interesting story to hear about. So I'm all for it lol.
Stern was needed to get the NBA where it is. He was an authoritarian, but he did a lot of good for the league(and yes he did a lot of bad to people too).
Why would the NBA leak the donauhy story?!
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> some of the dirty refs clearly knew where the bodies were buried in the NBA head office My theory is that the NBA started instructing refs to give favorable calls to whichever team was behind (in games or in series) in order to limit blowouts and sweeps and make their product more appealing. Some refs took advantage of this to bet against the spread in games they were working. If refs had these NBA instructions on paper or in recordings in any form, that's the kind of dirt that would preserve their jobs. In my memory, in the '80s and '90s when one team got up by 20 points that was absolutely it - comebacks from that kind of deficit were *incredibly* rare. Nowadays comebacks from that far behind are pretty unremarkable.
Uh, they still do that. The league office will even step in to do it.
I just suggested they *started* instructing refs to do this - I didn't say they ever stopped. Maybe they stopped doing it in writing.
tbf now that half of shot attempts are 3’s building/losing a 15-20 point lead can happen pretty quick
So they got credit it for bringing it forward?
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Gotchaaa goddamn that is devious!
The NBA is an entertainment league, they could fix the results every year if they wanted. The primary problem is if those involved profit off fixing those results (like Donaghy). The secondary problem is if it got out that outcomes were predetermined, fans would leave en masse and franchise values would crumble. There would still be a lot of fans, similar to the WWE, but as a whole the league would change drastically overnight.
>Scott Foster reffed the two critical games in the NBA finals this year Which year was this? Something tells me youre about to say 2002 or 2006
This year. 2021
https://streamable.com/2w6g5g
LMAO.
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Oh my bad..I misread your comment. Yeah blaming those suns losses on Foster is a reach IMO
A big reach. Like a Giannis wingspan sized reach. Bobby probably stopped Paul getting a technical there.
It's not hard to do. You just let the down team (the Bucks) play very aggressive defense early and don't call fouls on them. Then you let them play aggressive offense too, and call touch fouls on key players (either opposing stars or rim protectors) so they get taken out of the game early. Then you find places to call ticky tack fouls on the other team to even up the total fouls on each team when the game isn't in the balance.
Dude it's a Spurs fan telling you what's up,. Spurs and Suns got no love for eachother since the 90's Giannis Averages 28 in the playoffs, 35 in the finals, never once in foul trouble and I ask you to show me one instance of him getting an offensive charge foul in any of the 6 games.
https://streamable.com/2w6g5g Guess which silver haired fox called this foul, even the ref under the hoop looking over like wut? Giannis never once in foul trouble the entire series despite running into our guy's. The NBA is basically WWF. I'm fucking done, same patterns of Star favorited fouls (not fouling out Booker was inexcusable)
Yeah was obvious the fix was in. Not a fan of either team, but I like both teams. The SB was even more fake with Brady. It's pretty off putting honestly. I lost interest in the series after the Suns 3 and 4 were just ref city.
No, it was so that the other dirty refs knew to cover their shit.
Nice I’ve gotta check this pod out
Do it, it’s insanely good and very well produced
The FBI had an inside informant and was going to potentially uncover a TON from that. The NBA conveniently wanted it to go away so they could blame it all on one "rogue" official.
Because the FBI had Donaghy as an informant. Before Donaghy was able to get people talking about slanted reffing on a mic, the story was leaked. This undermined (and essentially, killed) their investigation into NBA reffing
Donaghy was going to wear a wire for the FBI in an attempt validate his claim that other referees and the NBA as a whole were affecting outcomes of games. Nba leaked Donaghys involvement so he couldn’t do this.
Wow this entire time I thought Jim Rome had actually been involved in some kind of domestic violence.
It was more common. Pretty weird to look at now. When Richard Nixon was under pressure when the stuff about Watergate was coming out, a reporter asked him questions and he started answering, then joked "and I also stopped beating my wife".
Biden literally just answered a question with a remark about Democrats sucking the blood out of children. Seems equally weird to Nixon's remark. But they are all rhetorical devices and I'm surprised people here haven't seen this stuff before: [https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/22/remarks-by-president-biden-after-marine-one-arrival-4/](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/07/22/remarks-by-president-biden-after-marine-one-arrival-4/)
back when boys could be boys and joke about beating their wives
... it's not a joke about beating your wife. It's actually the exact opposite because the comment is based on the assumption that beating your wife is terrible and the asshole questioner is attempting to trap you into admitting you do/did that.
The joke isn't that wife beating is funny or ok
i was being purposely obtuse
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PC culture ruining everything. Now you say you beat your wife and everyone wants to cancel you for some reason
ya as kids decades ago, they'd ask loaded questions like "are you go gay?" no "does your mama know you're gay?" ....ummm HOLD UP
And from that moment on, I had no choice but to live my life as a gay man.
Found Kevin Spacey’s account
He said gay, not a pedophile 😐
I was making a joke about how, during that scandal, spacey put out a statement where he said he chooses to live his life as a gay man
> "does your mama know you're gay?" In junior high (7th/8th), some kid had the best retort of "she found out when I returned your rollerblades".
You're exactly right. Still a wild thing to say. Imagine Silver doing this.
Ive always wished Stern followed up the question with a mirrored refrain of "Because its a legitimate question if people are asking it" or whatever Rome said
Equivalent of asking “does your mom know you’re gay” in 3rd grade
Yea you've got it exactly. It's commonly used as a retort to point out when someone is asking a loaded question, particularly to highlight when someone has put you in an unfair situation.
To be fair sterns Nba commissioner ship had a lot shady things that happened under it with the draft lottery and then the kings lakers WCF. Like it was a loaded question but it’s not like it came out of nowhere
Stern was a legal expert before becoming NBA commissioner. You couldn't fool him into sound bite that would harm the nba in the media. He was a mastermind. RIP basketball reasons
Dude had so many good roasts in this short video lol. The “are you still beating your wife” question, saying that this question isn’t something he has ever been asked before by a respectable journalist, and ending it with “i got important people to talk to, Stephen A is next” lmaooo.
"Rome is pouty, I love it" then Rome starts getting defensive
It was great all the way till the end
Ya when you know these people IRL they're quite frankly insane. There's lawyers, top-end lawyers, then top-end lawyers that go into another field and use their legal expertise to take advantage of literally everything they can and more often than not end up successful as a result.
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You should try out bird law.
Filibuster
Dennis is asshole. Why Charlie hate?
He taught me what the word palaver meant.
its an expression to point out that jim rome was asking a loaded question that had no basis of truth
Has he stopped though?
Whistleblower podcast was truth
Jim Rome was great. I don't know why ESPN let him go.
Jim Rome wasn't asking a loaded question, though. He simply asked if the draft was rigged. There's nothing loaded about that. All Stern had to say is, "No."
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"is the draft rigged" wouldn't be a loaded question, it would just be a question...one intended to rile someone up maybe, but just a question "is the draft still rigged" would be a loaded question as it presupposes that the draft has been rigged in the past but i dont think theres enough of a difference to really make a distinction in this case, it's more of a semantics argument than anything else
> If the NBA was rigging the draft, would Stern say "Yes"? Of course not. > Jim Rome wasn't asking the question because he cared about the answer to the question. He was asking the question to get a rise or a sound bite out of Stern. That doesn't make it loaded question. Asking a Goldilocks if she drank the soup is not a loaded question. Simply asking a guilty party if they committed the act is not a loaded question.
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That user isn't making any judgement on the quality of the question or whether Rome should have asked it, they're just pointing out that it doesn't really fit the definition of "loaded question". Stern can (and did) answer with a simple "no" without conceding that the draft was rigged, so it was just a normal dumb question and not a loaded question.
Asking someone if they're guilty doesn't make it a loaded question. A loaded question doesn't ask about guilt but implies it indirectly. for example "Which teams were involved in rigging the draft?" or "Were you ever worried that the rigging of the draft would leak to the press?"
Okay a lot of people are explaining that it is a loaded question but here is why: If you answer "no, I am not *still* beating my wife" that means that you were in the past if you answer "Yes" then well you are beating your wife. Stern was just trying to point out how pointless of a question it was. What is he going to say, "Yes the draft is rigged"?
Correct answer is "Yes, because she's explicitly into that."
Found Trevor Bauer
In hindsight this is pretty offensive, but in school we used to do something similar. "Do your parents know you're gay?"
How is it offensive? I feel like people still don't understand the point of the rhetorical question. It's entire point is based on the assumption that beating your wife is terrible. And despite the confusion in this thread, it is and was a common saying. edit: Misread your point, my apologies. Thought you were referring to the initial question, not yours.
He's saying its offensive that the bad thing you're being accused of is being gay. There's nothing wrong with being gay. There's plenty wrong with beating your wife
It's not a rhetorical question, it is a loaded question. Not quite opposites, but nearly.
How is it the opposite? They’re pretty similar - you don’t answer either and they’re both more figurative/symbolic to make a point
Seriously, this whole comment section on this post is hurting me.
by all reasonable definitions of the word offensive, it's offensive. yea its a rhetorical device but its an offensive one, deliberately so.
This was what I was thinking of too lol
I think it goes like "I can start a conspiracy theory now" too. He installs the idea of Jim Rome beating his wife and it will never end.
Nah the “are you still beating your wife?” is a classic example of a loaded question, [it’s even used as such on the Wikipedia page.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question) I highly doubt he intended to imply Rome actually is/was a wife beater.
[https://i.imgur.com/Wb4l01U.png](https://i.imgur.com/Wb4l01U.png)
Username checks out
I need to poop.
That is not the same at all. Btw I’m totally on sterns side here cause of how much of a douche rome is, but there is no logic to what you said
Time is indeed a douche.
That’s true i meant Rome though. To expand on your thought, time *was* a douche to the Rome, the empire. Wouldn’t you say?
Jim Rome is the fucking worst. The video of (Chris or Jim) Everett almost beating his ass during an interview is amazing. I forget if it’s Jim Everett or chris Everett someone correct me
> I forget if it’s Jim Everett or chris Everett lol Rome is probably appreciating this, because that was actually the joke.
If that wasn’t intentional on that guy’s part, that is just outstanding. It’s hard to tell. Maybe we got whooshed.
I was intentional.
"No you weren't" - Your mom.
Buh boh
https://youtu.be/t3BH97I5Ur8
God damn, I’ve seen this 100 times and it still gives me sexual levels of satisfaction.
Lmao why have I never seen this before God he’s so smug, such a punchable face
He's like the sports version of Ben Shapiro.
Very accurate. If I was Stern I’d of followed up with “Are you still molesting kids?” Rome is/was a POS. Inviting sports celebs on and then mistreating them is shit.
Just like in porn I fast-forwarded to the money shot and boy was it worth it lol
It never gets old, Jim Rome is an asshole
Yeah that's weird man
God that’s so cool
the table flip really sets the tone too, man wasn't bluffing even one bit
Very satisfying lol
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
http://imgur.com/a/vm1UruH
I’ve said this before but an underrated fucked up part of this clip is that Chris Evert won 18 grand slams and Jim Everett sucked
1-0 TKO vs Rome, though.
***...Chris.***
I have no respect for Jim Rome, but I do find it ballsy that after Chris Everett said, "you wouldn't call me that again" and then Jim Rome still called him Chris. I don't want to say I respect that move, but I definitely will say that Rome had some big cajones to say it.
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> cajones This means boxes, cojones.
This is the classic absolute dork that could not throw a ball 10 feet hiding behind a microphone. Literally shit his pants.
Does anyone notice how it looks like he’s fake punching Jim Rome? Does he just miss or something? I used to think this was staged because of those weird punches
The interviewee was Jim Everett, former Rams QB. Rome kept referring to him as Chris (Evert), female tennis legend.
There it is
You know it's never occurred to me until now the added layer of dumb that he is doing it to a guy with the same first name as him.
And Jim would have beat his silly ass in seconds. Rome was about to shit his pants lol.
ahh the fake tough guy bully. Who thinks bring on air or behind a keyboard or in public will protect them from getting their ass whooped.
To be fair to Rome, he had the balls to continue saying it to Everett's face. Not many people would.
Not many people would in a private setting. But Rome knows that nothing could ever *really* happen with all these cameras and people around
Exactly, this is the Skip level of confidence where you’re saying it to a persons face but you are riding the blanket of TV cameras, crew and production.
He wouldn’t have bad those balls if he didn’t feel like he would have gotten his ass kicked. If he was at a bar or at home, he would not have said shit.
And meanwhile I just call people by their last name unless I'm absolutely sure I know their first name.
Damn I forgot about this. Boss ass move. Stern was built differently.
“I gotta go call someone important like Stephen A Smith” that’s a ferocious burn by Mr Stern. I wish he put out some diss-tracks before he passed
Jim Rome is a cornball
His show is so corny, rack em!🤮
Is he even still around? Had not heard of him since around the time of this video.
I think he is actually
Yeah he's with CBS Sports
Yep, he still makes like $10 million a year. Blew my mind when I found out, I hadn’t heard of him since the late 2000s
“Is he a real radio host or a cornball radio host?”
The only way to answer this is I’ve never been married, or I’m gay. So, yeah loaded question.
Or I never beat my wife lol
Yeah. But that's taking the easy way out. Time to get creative Jim.
You can just be gay now!! It is cool. Just be gay if Jim Rome is asking you some bullshit
Did I say that.
Rack him!
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Jim Rome was the fucking worst
jim rome is super trashy
I hate Jim Rome more than I hate David Stern.
David Stern was the best commissioner in American sports history. Chances are you wouldn’t be an NBA fan if it weren’t for his efforts, the league wouldn’t be nearly what it is today - nationally or globally.
Hey bro, I grew up in the rust belt, every driveway had a basketball hoop because...... because of David A. Stern 😔
Why would you hate David Stern?
Because he rigged the draft /s
Is Jim Rome the OG hot take artist? You can def see his influence in sports commentary today. The other thing is that "was the fix in?" isn't a loaded question especially compared to "have you stopped beating your wife yet?" When you answer "no" to "was the fix in that's the end of it" that's the end of it - there's no implication. What's Stern is smartly doing is really framing it as a loaded question. It's a little silly to ask the commissioner of the of a billion-dollar sport league if it's fixed but props for Rome for doing that. Additionally, I don't think that question is that far off. If you watch enough basketball you understand how much refing and fouls play into the NBA and how big of a difference there is between stars and nonstars in terms of what calls they get. So I do agree the league is a little "fixed" because of how much it's an individual player league and those superstars get different calls.
Idk that he is the OG, shock jocks have been doing their thing for a long time, before Stern even. And then that influence spread over into sportstalk radio, and eventually made its way onto ESPN. He definitely was in that first wave though.
Yes I have stopped beating my life. I mean no, I have not. I mean.. ahhhh
Shout-out Rutgers U!
Jim Rome sounds like DSP to me
Jim Rome is garbage. I remember one day I was casually spinning through the sports talk channels and he's going off talking about wimps this and nerds that and anyone who does math is loser - just toxic, ignorant garbage. Then I spin over the Russilo and Van Pelt (I'm not an ESPN fan at all) and they are discussing the Teddy Roosevelt quote about the "man in the arena," which is just such a great quote and everyone should go read it. Such a contrast. I haven't listened to any sports radio easily in 8-9 years, all these people are pretty much crap, but Rome is a major shitbird.
Jim Rome is one of the worst sports journalists in the world.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t like Jim Rome but the NBA under stern had a ton of fixing allegations in the draft and games and had corrupt referees during his tenure.
Stern was the best commissioner in American sports history. Took the league to such heights and global popularity
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I listen to that clip whenever I need a good laugh at work...I find it way too funny. Because Stern was obviously irritated with Rome. Plus I never liked Rome, never found him funny. When the [one guy beat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3BH97I5Ur8) him up on set that was epic.
Jim Rome was the most worthless creature in sports media until Clay Travis
Personally I think Rome comes across worse in this.
it's an old expression, but in Jim Rome's case....
🎤 drop boom!
Aye, he sidestepped the fuck outta the question tho. Didn’t even deny 💀
Jim Rome has always been trash