<![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Dear Jason Whitlock, you are a horse. You can not read. These will not be read TO you. Nevertheless, show everyone how brave and noble you are for wanting to go out there and start mounting some mares. May your colts have firm and sturdy legs.

Kid Canada

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> So much animosity for the Sports Reporters. I don't like a lot of the reporters themselves, but I love the semi-informed debate they present. Come on, people, it's far more intelligent than yet another overproduced highlight package.

UNC_Samurai

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Something that I will always remember Scoop Jackson with goes back to one day at work. I had some time to kill and hadn't found out about Deadspin at this time. I joined a Scoop Jackson chat. I believe 3 of my questions made the chat, and two of them were ragging on the Blazers. Hell, I'm not even a good poster on there, but I was the cream of the crop in his chat. Attitude reflect leadership, or something of that nature.

Shoopmonster

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Jason Whitlock is black?!? My world has just been thrown into upheaval. I did not know this.

shtickless

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I've never read Whitlock, but I always had a hunch that there was a lurking intelligence that we couldn't fully glean from his appearances on PTI. I'm now convinced of that.

Jason, best of luck to you. You're one of the good ones.

The Ghost of Lucky

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Since Mr. Whitlock could end up reading these comments, I'd like to address him directly:

Let's fuck.

Greg Brady

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I haven't read his columns in years, but I always though Whitlock was the most egregious hack ever to appear on Page 2. What is it about Page 2 that turns people into caricatures?

If their writers weren't already cartoons (Hunter S., Scoop) before they got there, they certainly become them fast (Quickie, Simmons).

thebristolkid

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I agree with Jason on the Flavor Flav part....and I'm white.

Bort

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Couldn't he have sat on Jim Caple before he left?

Harry Pelotas

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> The 10 NFL truths thing can come off as condescending but I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously.

The Peoples CHAMP

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I'd pay to see Bill Jauss and Whitlock wrestle. But then I have a Doug Tucker and Whitlock fantasy too.

MattoonGreenWave

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Leabo misses you, JW.

Skittles and lox empanada

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Man, I haven't had that much fun since Aunt Jamima took that rag off her head.

Hot Carl Monday

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> To Jason:

I thought you were good... at least a FEW of your NFL Truths were actually true!

And ESPN TV appearances - at least you were better than Mariotti.

Good luck with everything, Big Sexy!

supermike3

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Roy,

I don't think anyone is saying that Whitlock isn't an arrogant asshole at times. It's just that compared to the rest of dung out there impersonating the Gammons of the world, he's pretty good. As somenone earlier stated, watch that Around the Horn garbage for a segment and you have to respect the few writers who at least have something relevant and insightful to say.

Big Hairy Sack

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> If I look the song "Mr. Bojangles," am I a racist? Seriously, I need to know.

Loved the take on Scoop Jackson; finally someone with a voice is saying what everyone else is thinking. Scoop Jackson can single-handedly roll back the civil rights movement 50 years.

Will Leitchs Unfinished Novel

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Fair enough, tripleBowden...I'm probably too judgemental about him. He just rubs me the wrong way, for some reason.

I remember that he had a "10 truths" column last year in which he guaranteed that Green Bay would win their division.

Do sportswriters often predict stuff that doesn't come true? Yes. Do any of them do so as arrogantly as Whitlock? Probably, but I've never found one.

Roy Keane

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I had the bojangles once, something fierce. Sitting down was an adventure. Took weeks to finally reduce itself to occassionally soft-shoe with instances of scat.

Page 2 no longer exists. And Whitlock is alright. I'll read him.

Jagr is a Tranny

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Roy Keane and Fennis - I don't agree with everything Whitlock writes by any stretch of the imagination, but he's infinitely more coherent than Scoop Jackson.

The "10 Truths" column structure is irritating though. I hope that doesn't follow him to AOL.

BowdenBowdenBowden

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I was just talking about the interview. Your right though, that's not one of his pieces. My bad.

Billy H

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I've never read a single word written by "Scoop Jackson". I never needed to. The lame-ass retarded faux-ghetto What's Happening? pseudonym told me all I needed to know.

Whitlock, I can take or leave. Won't kill myself getting to AOL to read him, although this interview was good. Vitriol always is.

Carmen McFanzone

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> On Jeff George: "mmmmm..slurp...slurp. That's how you like it, big boy, isn't it? Talk about high school again...talk about kicking June Jones ass...say I LOVE THE RUN 'N SHOOT...do the dirty bird for me Jeffy...do it do it DO IT!!!!!"

I disgust myself.

Larry Bird Flu

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> For people that said they'd read Whitlock for his interview, you really should go back and read his columns.

By the way, has anybody looked at the line up of writers for Page 2 these days? Who fuck ARE those people?

Ladies love Fennis

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I know I'm biased, as I think Whitlock is just about the most self-promoting gasbag in the history of sportwriters appearing on television but, seriously - doesn't he do every thing he accuses Scoop Jackson of?

I'd say it's like the pot calling the kettle black, but I don't want Whitlock to accuse me of racism.

Roy Keane

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Whitlock never wrote like a thug, see his latest:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/0...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/0...
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=whitlock/0...

SOME of those things are true!

supermike3

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Scoop Jackson, as described by the Wizznutzz:

The only man who can type in blackface.

TheElectricZarko

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Bojangling for Dollars!

"Sounds Retarded" - Tom Jackson

HappyFeltonsGloryHole

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> it interferes with intelligent discussion of important racial issues.

When did Whitlock ever do that?

Billy Clyde Puckett

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> The worst part of the Sports Reporters is currently William C. Rhoden of the New York Times. It is physically painful to watch him speak. However, it is enjoyable to watch Lupica's blood pressure rise when Rhoden is speaking.

Roy Hobbs

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Welcome to AOL Sports, Jason. We'll try to be more Bill Simmons than Scoop Jackson, I suppose.

Mr. Irrelevant

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> "Bojangling for Dollars" is my favorite reality show.

colinsmith

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I think I saw the episode of sports reporters that Whitlock refers to with the Barry Bonds thing. (By the way, that show sucks and I don't watch anymore. Is it still on?) They were all blaming Barry for destroying baseball and Whitlock was like "Hey, aren't steroids affecting football stats too?" And they shot him down like "Nobody cares about football stats. Baseball numbers are sacred." Whitlock responded "Why?" And they just ignored him and moved on. It was uncomfortable

The Peoples CHAMP

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> "Fuck you, grammar."

God, this is my new favorite quote. Danke, MMP.

ZiggyStardust

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Curses.

BowdenBowdenBowden

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> LLLB - Nat X was a character in an SNL skit played by Chris Rock.

BowdenBowdenBowden

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Nat X : an SNL sketch from the mid-90s starring Chris Rock.

jane

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I like Whitlock a lot. He has common sense and isn't in someones ass all the time or kissing his own.

Fearson

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Sportswriters on TV was great stuff. Only place in the world you could catch a 10 minute argument about 16 inch softball and who invented the hesitation pitch. Bill Gleason was the man, and every passable columnist in Chicago passed through that show at some point.

Criminal Appeal

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Wow...that fat tub of lard is one angry black man.

Confused though...what on earth does "Nat X" mean? I'm so white and lame. Please put your hands up in the air if you are truly are a player, please.

Lindsay Lohans Left Boob

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Q: Will you remain a sports columnist? And isn't it time you moved out of the sticks in Kansas City?

Real answer: No Gates Short Ends anywhere else.

rombuu

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I get the bojangles just thinking about his upcoming AOL articles.

The Dude

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I will go to AOL Sports to read JW, especially if his stuff holds up to this interview.

Lt. Exley

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Wow, I actually have a bit of respect for Whitlock now (just stop writing like a fucking thug. It's not African-American culture or tradition. It's terrible grammar, plain simple). Anyway, it's good to see another black celebrity (is he a celebrity?) has realized how the current black culture is being buried by itself, not white people. Now do something about it.

Billy H

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Hahaha Big Ricks.

Do you like drinkin?! Aww hell I know ya do.

AwfulAnnouncing

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Good job networking Rusty.

AwfulAnnouncing

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Is anyone else looking forward to his AOL Sports articles after reading this interview?

BowdenBowdenBowden

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I fucking hate Mike Lupica. It's like someone taught a Chihuahua how to speak English, then pinned his ears back, stuck him in a suit and had him strategically shaved.

Chamomiles Davis

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Whitlock reads Deadspin? Who cares....just tell me who Jeff George reads, fatass.

Roy Keane

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I always say that black folk ain't exactly swellin' up with pride on account of yo' flippin' flapjacks

BigRicks

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> "And now, a man so black, he's navy... Nat X!"

Ball State pride, J-Whitlock. Much love for the Cardinals.

JackieTreehorn

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> that interview might be the best thing he's ever done.

The Chin

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Any guy that calls Flavor Flav a "minstrel show" is ok in my book.

Get Him A Body Bag, Yeah!

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> aa, nothing is worse than George Michael's insufferable ass.

that's the most sense whitlock has made in years. the downfall of Sports Reporters has really damaged Lupica's stranglehold on his colleagues. I wonder if they'll let Feinstein back in the building.

KOGOD

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Also, name checking Nat X... that's just priceless.

jake(ymon)

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> I thought fat people were supposed to be jolly.

jake(ymon)

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> AA - George Michael just rolled over in his grave.

GTB

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Since Mr. Whitlock could end up reading these comments, I'd like to address him directly:

Mr. Whitlock, thank you for being an insightful and humorous writer. I wish you all the best; especially concerning your jihad against Scoop Jackson. You're probably the best writer Page 2 had to offer and I look forward to you columns on AOL Sports.

~Rusty

Rusty

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Top Five Reasons Brothers Don't Play Hockey:

5. It's cold out there!
4. Scared to get their gold tooth knocked out.
3. Don't want to be around white guys with sticks.
2. Don't want to be around white guys with masks.
1. Don't feel the need to dominate yet another sport.

the magah

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Lupica is a gas bag, so is Bob Ryan. Mitch Cumstein is OK, though his ears frighten me. But the little soliloquies are painfully hokey. Still, it's much better than Around the Horn, in which some Scott Baio-lookalike in his older brother's Michael Jordan suit awards arbitrary points to guys like Mariotti. Around the Horn is terrible,just terrible. One time I'd like someone to mute that smarmy host.

Crookednose

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> He couldn't be more right on about Scoop Jackson and his street poet bullshit. Scoop's writing, above all else, is an impersonation of consequence, and most of the time takes any serious subject and reduces it to a caricature simply by treating it so immaturely.

Doxidan, Gentle Doxidan

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Why only 15 minutes? Because if it were any longer, The Man would consider it welfare

BigRicks

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> The Sports Reporters is the worst show ever. Even worse than the Sports Machine.

AwfulAnnouncing

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Unless they swear upon their entrance into the blogosphere, nobody will be cooler than Shanoff

BigRicks

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> A Sportswriters on TV reference! Man, I loved that show. The Sports Reporters couldn't hold its jock.

Nice interview. Too bad HST died before he could give his going away interview.

Dweeze

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> On Skip Bayless: "I roasted him over an open spit and then swallowed him whole."

Tickenest

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, he wasn't black, but he sure got treated like he was.

GTB

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Dammit!

Rob Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Can I get one more "bojangle" in that interview?

Drew Magary

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Damn, I wish people would leave ESPN every day. This is better than their actual content.

Spaceman Bill Leah needs a full-length puffy coat

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> The ultimate Sports Reporters lineup: Mikey Lupica, Bob Ryan, Stephen A. Smith, and Dick Schaap's corpse.

I think my head would explode.

Rob Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Whitlock's writing has actually improved over the past couple of years. You have to give him credit for that.

BowdenBowdenBowden

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> "And now, the man so black, he urinates oil..."

Drew Magary

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Another quote from the article:

"Who do I read? Simmons, TJ Simers, Wilbon, Deadspin, John Feinstein's books, message boards and Scoop Jackson whenever I've overeaten and want to purge."

Yinka Double Dare

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Page 2 is dying a death of a thousand cuts.

bizzo5000

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> The ultimate Sports Reporters lineup:

Mikey Lupica, Bob Ryan, Stephen A. Smith, and Dick Schaap's corpse. I think my head would explode.

Rob Iracane

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Nat X?

"And now, the man so black, he goes to funerals naked..."

Drew Magary

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> had. Fuck you, grammar.

Josh Zerkle

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> The Sports Reporters is a shitfuck panel show that sucked enormous stegasaurus balls to "The Sportswriters on TV." Bill Jauss's prostate is more insightful than Lupica.

Whitlock has a pretty sweet 4th quarter at the WWL if you ask me.

Josh Zerkle

]]> <![CDATA[Jason Whitlock Leaves ESPN With Guns Ablaze]]> Wait... Scoop Jackson is black?

Sh!tShow

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