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[freshwest]

182. He should have mentioned all of that. But now to the industry he makes his living yakking about,

I'm sure he has been well schooled on not doing that on the air. If he had, it would have been his last network gig. It's like the veil of illusion between an actor and the audience. He's part of the magic show, and must not destroy the illusion.

The underbelly of sports scandals, the way tthe industry of the privately owned sporing franchises use public money for bringing along athletes to get into the professionals; the milking of property tax levees for decades and sales taxes for a private venue for private profit that the majority of people cannot afford, yet pay taxes on; the drugs and injuries and the reason players unionized and demand high salaries, as they are unable to do their work as long as other workers, and few survive in any condition to enjoy retirement.

It's out of balance, but that misery is supposed to be taken care of the unions and communities, but the game remains the same.

As far as crime, mental illness and poverty/inequality and the war of drugs, those are factors in violence of all kinds. Not just the 'sexy' crime with the gun or knife or fist; but the crime of lack of sane social policy and human rights. That is beyond Costa's pay grade and can't be brought up to people a half-time. Since they are there to have an 'experience,' not learn anything but some stats of how the teams that the public doesn't profit from watching, but diverts their minds from all those dreadful life lessons.

I don't think he's a moron. He's simply a symptom of the insanity of America, that millions or billions are being spent for this diversion, when the country's infrastructure is crumbling, schools are being lost, the environment destroyed and everyone's cheering and yelling for a ball they also don't own tossed by people they don't know, in a stadium they pay for and it goes on and one. There's a bit of the Roman sports arena in all of this, and it's all overhyped.

He didn't. by the criteria you are using here, dishonor the sporting industry, for the reasons you and I have just given here. He did bring up what has been on people's minds because of daily events and the media inducing fear.

This is not the beginning of confiscating the guns. That would be the only reason I'd see worth getting upset over.