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molson · 08-27-2008, 05:41 PM

I don't think either I nor JIMGA are really disagreeing with you.

Yes, maybe the world's too sensitive. Yes, it's obvious that the players didn't mean any offense. It's just really interesting (and kind of funny) that they (apparently) didn't think this would be a big story in the over-sensitive US and UK press.

I don't know the UK/Spain situation. But this would be major, front-page, round-the-clock coverage to the point of ridiculous if there was a team picture of say, the Boston Celtics doing this before an exhibition game in China. The US media isn't "picking" on Spain any more than they'd pick on anyone else who took a picture like that.

And at the end of the day, nobody really cares, it's harmless. But if you do that, you're going to make news. So the news becomes - how did they not know that?

08-27-2008, 05:41 PM	#1021
molson General Manager Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Mountains	I don't think either I nor JIMGA are really disagreeing with you. Yes, maybe the world's too sensitive. Yes, it's obvious that the players didn't mean any offense. It's just really interesting (and kind of funny) that they (apparently) didn't think this would be a big story in the over-sensitive US and UK press. I don't know the UK/Spain situation. But this would be major, front-page, round-the-clock coverage to the point of ridiculous if there was a team picture of say, the Boston Celtics doing this before an exhibition game in China. The US media isn't "picking" on Spain any more than they'd pick on anyone else who took a picture like that. And at the end of the day, nobody really cares, it's harmless. But if you do that, you're going to make news. So the news becomes - how did they not know that? Last edited by molson : 08-27-2008 at 06:08 PM.