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Finebaum interviews Clinton Yates, who broke story about "racial slurs"

Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:52 pm
Posted by El Mattadorr
Member since Mar 2019
2374 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:52 pm
Yates stated:

1. He regularly covers Vanderbilt's baseball team and, at every game, "he goes to check on the Vandy parents because they have 8 minority players on their team, and, as a black man, he wants to make sure they're okay."

2. Before the game, he went to "check on" the Vandy parents. He could "immediately see that it was a very hostile environment because they were outnumbered by MS State fans." There was "a lot of chirping coming from MS State fans to the Vandy parents." Yates stated that he "could tell that the environment could easily escalate into something dangerous for the Vandy parents." Yates leaves the Vandy section and goes back to his seat.

3. Yates stated that he returned to the Vandy section in the second inning (obviously after Vandy scored 7 runs). Yates said at this point, he heard MS State fans saying "completely inappropriate things" and "vitriol" at the Vandy parents. Asked to give an example, Yates said MS State fans were yelling at Vandy parents that their "kids should earn their scholarships like every other team." Yates goes back to his seat and does not return during the game.

4. After the game, so-and-so said to Yates, did you hear what happened? Yates asked what. The guy apparently told Yates that a bunch of MS State fans called the Vandy parents the N-word. Yates said, you mean the fans in [Section __]? "Yes, those fans."

Finebaum then asked Yates if any fans were kicked out of the stadium. Yates said no, but some were "moved around." Yates said that "this isn't the time for me to give you specifics as to what happened. But it happened. There is no reason to believe that it didn't happen based on the environment that I saw."

Guys, this is a "journalist" slandering an entire fanbase when he saw nothing racist with his own eyes. This is confirmation bias and race-baiting at its finest. frick this guy.
Posted by NYCAuburn
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Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:55 pm to
quote:

he goes to check on the Vandy parents because they have 8 minority players on their team, and, as a black man, he wants to make sure they're okay."
Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
33991 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 3:59 pm to


shite, at this point video might not even convince me that this happened.

Joking, but come the frick on.
Posted by VolsUberAlles
Member since Feb 2021
1724 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:02 pm to
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MS State fans were yelling at Vandy parents that their "kids should earn their scholarships like every other team."


They ain't wrong.
Posted by Sput
Member since Mar 2020
8014 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:04 pm to
quote:

he goes to check on the Vandy parents because they have 8 minority players on their team, and, as a black man, he wants to make sure they're okay."


If any of this is true I’m really sure Tracy Rocker is so glad he comes by to protect him.

Dumbass shite like this is why people hate Vandy and journalism as a whole
Posted by Pastor Mike
Florida
Member since Dec 2020
5207 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:05 pm to
quote:

Guys, this is a "journalist" slandering an entire fanbase when he saw nothing racist with his own eyes. This is confirmation bias and race-baiting at its finest. frick this guy.


Dude... this is the age in which we live.
Posted by UKWildcats
Lexington, KY
Member since Mar 2015
17289 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:06 pm to
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he goes to check on the Vandy parents because they have 8 minority players on their team, and, as a black man, he wants to make sure they're okay
What a crock of utter bullshite.
Posted by lastfan
Houston
Member since Nov 2015
7732 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:09 pm to
What a sad commentary this paints of our media. Their agenda is what’s most important to them and facts don’t really matter anymore. The end justifies the means…
Posted by geauxtigahs87
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2008
26270 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:09 pm to
quote:

Yates said MS State fans were yelling at Vandy parents that their "kids should earn their scholarships like every other team."

The horror
quote:

The guy apparently told Yates that a bunch of MS State fans called the Vandy parents the N-word. Yates said, you mean the fans in [Section __]? "Yes, those fans."

bullshite

The stands would have exploded had that happened. Those parents wouldn't have just sat there quietly, a hundred heads would turn, and phones would be popping up like crazy.
Posted by partsman103
Member since Sep 2008
8118 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:10 pm to
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"he goes to check on the Vandy parents because they have 8 minority players on their team, and, as a black man, he wants to make sure they're okay."


He was really checking on the safety of the white folks.

Posted by Trojan1998
Member since Oct 2004
1237 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:11 pm to
The first bullet point is asinine. What a damn snowflake. The Vandy parents can’t handle things for themselves? What’s some idiot SJW journalist going to do to help?

Secondly, I hope Mississippi Stste comes back and mud holes candy-arse Vandy. I’m sick of all of the made-up racial garbage from the Left in this country.
Posted by JPLSU1981
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
26400 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:14 pm to
I guarantee no one used racial slurs

Were there taunts?… sure, just like at every major sporting event. I can buy the scholarship taunts, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But I don’t buy that a single person used the N word. Don’t buy it at all

It’s merely Some thin-skinned Vandy fans crying about being heckled and creating a racist angle
This post was edited on 6/29/21 at 4:18 pm
Posted by Pastor Mike
Florida
Member since Dec 2020
5207 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:14 pm to
If you ever doubted what Finebaum is - this should remove that doubt for you
Posted by Old Money
Member since Sep 2012
36618 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:16 pm to
First the NC State covid situation, now racism. Vandy just touching every hot button issue trying to get people to explode

If it did happen, it’s drunk fans at a championship game. Words are gonna fly, really not that big of a deal.
This post was edited on 6/29/21 at 4:17 pm
Posted by RumHam
Huntsville
Member since Jun 2021
3741 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:16 pm to
Does this guy need a safe space?
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
36310 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:18 pm to
Vandy baseball is doing everything it can to become the most hated individual sports team in the conference.
Posted by KingOrange
Mayfair
Member since Aug 2018
8686 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:19 pm to
Used the see him on Around the Horn. Like most of the other guys on there He is a race bating Whore. Give us proof or it didn’t Happen.
Posted by TenTex
Member since Jan 2008
15949 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:19 pm to
Boys will play baseball tonight, fans will be fans, including the ignorant loud mouth drunk fans. Corbin and Vandy are completely unfazed, if anything it only fires them up.
Posted by DownSouthJukin
Coaching Changes Board
Member since Jan 2014
27496 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:25 pm to
quote:

"this isn't the time for me to give you specifics as to what happened. But it happened. There is no reason to believe that it didn't happen based on the environment that I saw."




And now we know it is all total and utter bullshite.
Posted by CrimsonClover
Member since Oct 2020
1063 posts
Posted on 6/29/21 at 4:39 pm to
Maybe being called a name is something that adults shouldn't care about
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