So if you had 2013 in the pool, you won,

[Jim Lane]

11. You got me curious so I looked in on the FReakshow.

I didn't wade through every post (five threads with a total of 376 replies, if I was manipulating the clunky Free Republic search function correctly). From the sample that I read before terminal repetition set in, three main themes emerged:

1) Why should I care about this?
2) He's a borderline player who's making this announcement now in the hope that it will help him get a contract with some team next year.
3) It's a sign of the moral ruin of America -- not so much that there's a gay player, but that he gets featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, praised from the White House, etc.

There were also a few scattered references to the cutting of a fine, upstanding Christian, Tim Tebow.

Expression of all of these points was, as you'd expect, heavily laced with expressions of bigotry.