David Stern Asked Jim Rome “Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Yet?”
 

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Jim Rome: Was the Lottery Fixed? David Stern: You still beat your wife Jim? #WWE Stern feeling the pressure now huh #IBN we got em nervous

Chris Everett?...

I always assumed Rome would be the wife in any relationship.

LMAO Just heard it on 610. That's hilarious. That pause between the question and answer is hilarious. That question shook him to the core ROFL
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EPIC douchebag.

Stern should have ended the call with "thanks or the vine Rome!" then hung up.

Stern is the biggest ass hole on Earth

I like Jim Rome a lot...but he sounded like Nick Wright in the second half of that audio!

I was really surprised that Stern's attitude got under his skin like that!

ROFLROFL

MAD RESPECT for that NBA jew.

:hail:

Stern is a greedy asshole. I'm not anti- semetic but what a jackasss.

Stern has officially lost it. He needed to retire like 5 years ago

He reminds me of those Jew space Aliens in South Park. I can see him going to a strip club in New York and doing blow with Spreewell

I don't like Stern, but NO ONE should take Rome's shit.

That was kind of funny.

Here's how I heard it:

Rome asked the question. Stern gives a terse, nonanswer, then the 'wife beating' thing. Rome presses him for a while and gets a real answer. Jim Rome should have moved on at this point. But, he tried to go back and do kind of a 'it's all good, let's shake hands' thing by going back and justifying why he asked the question. This was supposed to clear the air, but instead Stern got more prickly and it blew up. Stern started tossing out insults about making a career out of such questions, etc, and it couldn't be salvaged at that point.

JR sounded upset, but was still trying to keep the peace.

He should have interviewed Croyle!!!! Asked about her bewbies!!!! Maybe even motorboated em!!

**** Rome, I'd much rather listen to the 'what's your favorite bbq place in KC' our local media presses interviewees with.

Sounded like a reasonable questioned

Signed

Hal Mcrae's gin bottle

**** them both.

Rome is worse than Fescoe

What's with the Rome hate? He's the only guy with the balls to ask the question.

Hey now ... Nobody is that bad!

It's a signal that the questioner is asking a loaded question. It's not an accusation. Unless there is a history of domestic violence by Jim Rome. Also, Rome did not ask a loaded question, so it's really a poor answer.

Rome's question is more than fair because a lot of people had that reaction. Media members, on some level, are the investigative arm of the general public.

"I have to go call someone important now. Stephen A. Smith is up next."

ROFL

Exactly. There were no questionable assumptions loaded in the question unless Stern denies that there was a draft lottery.

You still can't have Kevin Love, bree.

True.....true. When I would catch his show a while back; I couldn't stand how after every interview he would suck off the guest for like 5 minutes talking about how good of a call it was. Plus, he would repeat the same shit like thirty times. Plus, he would repeat the same shit like thirty times. Then sometimes, he would say the same shit over and over again.

Rome asked respectfully, handled himself accordingly, and Stern showed his ass. Shocking.

Wonder why Stern got so defensive about a simple question that required a simple answer.... "No."

I'd give the same answer that Stern gave because the reality is Rome is insulting him by asking him the question. Rome got insulted back. Seems like standard old testiment to me.

you guys do realize that he negotiates on behalf of the league, right?

he doesn't keep the money from the labor contracts

Romes a dick. Just like the people that call his show and talk that schtick. One of the coolest things Ive ever seen is when Jim Evert gave him a taste of the beatdown he could've easily delivered. Pure Gold!!!

What was insulting about the question?

Would it have been insulting if he was asked five years ago if there were officials on the take?

I'm glad Rome asked the question. He tried to do it in a joking manner, but Stern was clearly upset by it. Tells a lot.

He insulted his integraity and that of the NBA by saying that the lottery was fixed. He basically accused him of fraud.

He never claimed the lottery was fixed, idiot.

No...because an offical was actually found to be betting on games.

By asking that queation...he did. Don't be obtuse.

Exactly the point.

And if Rome asked before this was known fact?

It's insulting the integrity of the game absent of fact.

How long have you been dating Mr. Stern?

Save the personal stuff for somebody else.

Tell that to your boyfriend.

A game that has demonstrated some problems with integrity already, right?

See: ref scandal.

he shouldn't ask BEFORE the fact

he goes and finds the fact so he can ask

Then why ever ask a question? If it's already been proven, there's no point in asking. If you can't ask a question about it until it's proven, then see my previous sentence.

The NBA has not earned the right to be above this sort of question.

A little food for thought when it comes to Stern and fixing the draft.

Exactly. If facts were uncovered that proved the lottery was fixed, I don't think ANYONE would be shocked.

fyp

I disagree. further....let's say you did that to your boss over a promotion or raise you didn't get. What would be a bad result of that? It's just not professional on Rome's part, who has a history of getting beat-up by a guest on his show.

that's every sport in America. Every major sport has had some kind of integrity problem in the past.

Holy smokes...you just described actual journalism.

Terribly stupid comparison...

This wasn't a performance review with my employer. This was an interviewer asking the commissioner of the NBA a pointed but valid question that was on the minds of millions of people.

It does compare under the topic of professionalism. Which was the part I was comparing. You are correct that they are not mutually inclusive.

That was a huge scandal under Stern's watch.

I have no doubts that shit in the NBA is fixed. But I was speaking from Sterns POV.

Ewing.
Lebron.
Rose.
Cavs following Lebrons departure.
Refs.
Stern vetoing trades.

Defeating the odd happens too often in the NBA under Stern.

It was...however I believe he took the steps to make sure it didn't happen again. It's ashame that some cannot be trusted when they give their word.

It isn't my place to question how my employer metes out raises. It is an interviewer's place to ask the guest questions that are on the public's minds.

Jim Rome's show is infantile at best.

He, however, is usually one of the best at interviews.

In this case, however, he should have framed the question differently.

with no facts AT ALL, it wasn't valid question.

it was a cheap shot ala jason whitlock

Rome just trying to get attention

If he really wants to do something then tell him to do some real investigation and find some proof.

He didn't give his word. He could have, but he chose to take the "I won't even dignify that with a response" route, and he simply hasn't earned that right.

Doesn't an investigation start with asking Stern that very question?

The referee gave his word that he would be honest and not gamble by taking the job. I wasn't talking about Stern himself.

Yes it is as it pertains to you and no that isn't always the case. Especially when the question is framed in such a way to defame the interviewee.

And that's a job for law enforcement should there actually be a case. But there isn't. this is just a bunch of people butt hurt because someting they expected to happen...didn't happen.

"Commissioner Stern, there are many fans around the league that question the validity of the NBA Lottery. The word 'fixed' seems to be the most common word used. What do you say in response to all the NBA fans about the Lottery?"


I'm sure one of you writer types can phrase it a lot better than i but you get the main idea. This is phrasing the question like the rumor and pr crap that it is, not like a legit question with some kind of factual basis.

Pistachio - Stern does it honestly.

Law enforcement? LMAO. It's the stupid ****ing lottery.

Congress should get involved.

And it happened under Stern's watch. When something like that happens, you lose the right not to be asked questions when other fishy things happen.

The NBA, and Boxing are getting closer to being a joke like wrestlilng.

Stern didn't like the question and he showed his ass in response.
Instead of taking the opportunity to dispel wide-spread speculation in a factual manner Stern went idiot.

:rolleyes:

I'm not a big fan of Stern, but Rome can DIAF. What little I've seen of him leaves me unimpressed to say the least.

Lack of integrity in the system is the reason there's a draft lottery to begin with.

I don't think Stern's question about Jim's wife really rattled him. He didn't even address it on his show until much later, and that was just to say it was a rhetorical question. He seemed more rattled my the accusation that he was a sort of Skip Bayless style shit-stirrer.

Rome was hilarious the first few times I listened to his show, but his style gets old really fast.

Personally, I think Rome its great. It's the losers who email and text him that suck, amirite?

BTW, is he off the air in KC?

Yeah. I don't live in KC anymore, anyway, but he is off the air there.