A Twitter war took place yesterday involving Jason Whitlock after he referred to SI’s Jim Tressel story as a “typical slave-catcher investigation.”
Whitlock was perhaps the only person in the professional media who didn’t like George Dohrmann‘s Sports Illustrated story about the circumstances that led to Tressel’s resignation as Ohio State’s football coach.
Contrary to what Whitlock may think, student athletes who are given scholarships to universities that provide them with a free education doesn’t qualify as slavery, unless of course you subscribe to his long standing position calling for redistribution of wealth in college athletics.
Following his “slave-catcher” tweet, Whitlock posted another tweet writing, “this is laughable watching SI pretend it brought down Jim Tressel and unearthed something shocking. U gotta be kidding me!!”
Apparently thinking he hadn’t made his point, Whitlock tweeted that “it’s an insult to comedians to call that SI story a joke. Every coach in college football and men’s/women’s hoops is willfully ignorant.”
But Whitlock showed his own ignorance when he tweeted that “Tatts for memorabilia is quite possibly one of the more honorable things in CFB.”
Here’s Whitlock, an “esteemed” member of the professional media who was once listed among the top 25 sports bloggers by SportsGrid (snicker much), saying that selling team memorabilia for tattoos is honorable.
And he’s calling the SI story a joke?
In the end, it was Chris Jones of Esquire magazine who put it best regarding Whitlock’s tweets.
Via his Twitter account @MySecondEmpire, Jones tweeted, “Hilarious that @whitlockjason is shitting on the Tressel story. Man wouldn’t know breaking news if it was asleep on the couch next to him.”
I officially have a man crush on Chris Jones.
