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10-30-2019, 10:23 PM | #61 |
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I think Zadorov just killed a man.
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11-11-2019, 05:56 PM | #62 |
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Just saw Cherry got fired. It's never a good idea to continue a sentence that starts with "you people"...
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11-12-2019, 09:05 AM | #64 | |
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My assumption after reading a couple of articles is if he would have apologized, he'd still have a job... but, he totally seems like the type of guy who would stand by what he said to the point of being fired over it. |
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11-12-2019, 09:24 AM | #65 |
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And that whole thing is so odd. People are crying 'racist!!!' but they also neglect to talk about who an 'immigrant' in Canada often is. Their immigrant population has a lot of Chinese and European imports.
So even if you give his rant it's most negative interpretation, you still have to make yet ANOTHER leap to assume he's just blasting away at non-white immigrants. And to get there you just have to...state it. There was nothing else in there referring to any kind of line of demarcation between 'brown people' and any other immigrants. I dunno - maybe there's a history there. I mean he's an 85 year old curmudgeon so there's PROBABLY a history there. But on its face I didn't see anything fireable there. Just an old guy being pissy that 'kids these days' don't support their veterans the way previous generations did. And man, axing the guy on Remembrance Day just seems brutally harsh. After 40+ years on the air, you couldn't have let the guy at least make a farewell broadcast? I wonder if Bearcat's right and the 'debriefing' went really really poorly. If they brought him in a room and he said "hell yeah - !@#$ those sand jockeys...", I could see it ending this way. He almost had to have signed his own death warrant off the air.
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As dumb as it is to give idiots on Twitter such power to get people fired, he should have just stuck to hockey and perhaps swallowed a bit of his pride. I'll miss the suits and things like "bunch of jerks", crazy old guy. |
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11-12-2019, 10:02 AM | #67 |
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Yeah, Cherry's history is foreign to me. He's always just been that grumpy old goat on Hockey Night that wears suits and shakes his fist at guys that wear visors. He's as crotchety as they come.
He's the walking embodiment of 'die a hero or live long enough to become a villain'. Guys like him rarely exit gracefully.
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Who is "you people"?
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11-12-2019, 05:59 PM | #71 |
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Hell, he could be talking about tourists. Summer vacationers. Kinda vague really.
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11-12-2019, 06:29 PM | #72 |
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I blame the whole cancel culture sprung from social media. People have been calling for Cherry's head for years. He's a very polarizing character.
IMO - He represented the "old school" Canadian hockey mentality. Sure he'd call players "chicken Swedes", "bums" or "jerks", but he also did a ton for junior hockey, player safety, animal rights, etc... He makes a poorly stated comment about supporting veterans, and because it could be construed as being anti-immigrant, he's fired. I also think Sportsnet has been having some financial difficulties and this was an easy way to get rid of his contract. (They gotten rid of a bunch of older, more expensive, personalities over the past year). |
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11-12-2019, 06:48 PM | #74 |
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Maybe be was tired of it, (I doubt it). Seems to me, he's one a stubborn old goat who refused to kowtow to a management group who were looking to get rid of his contract anyway.
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Hey, I get to watch (most of) a Blues game tonight! First of the year! Gotta make some Ro-tel dip!
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