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Sunsfan4life wrote:

Indy wrote:

Sunsfan4life wrote:

Indy wrote:

carey wrote:The Suns are being very aggressive with the media from what I have heard. If you listen to that sham of an interview on KTAR or even go to BrightSide where the only thing is a article with a link to the original KPHO story with no commentary. King himself has limited his comments in the comment section to one word replies. Coro won't touch it. I'm pretty sure we can all put 2 & 2 together here.

That's a really good point. If it wasn't bad, the Suns would be all over it saying how it wasn't bad. The writing on the wall. Hopefully the silence is because they are being shopped and they don't want to ruin it.

Thats not really true. The suns are probabaly just cooperating with police while they gather all the info. It might be really bad or it might not. Like Mori said, I don't understand how anyone could draw conclusions from what we know which is basically there was some sort of altercation.

There was something very similar involving the Pouncey Twins (I'm a huge Dolphins fan which has Mike Pouncey on it) that happened outiside a club and it turned out to be nothing more then basically a money grab, infact Mike had nothing to do with it at all and the Dolphins were silent on the whole thing until they gathered all the facts. So I don't like to jump to conclusions on issues like this....

I think we can both agree, as fellow Dolphins fans, that the current Suns FO and the Dolphins FO go about handling the media very differently.

I am actually concerned that there is almost zero local reporting on it, more so than if it was reported, and the Suns came out and said, we are not going to comment on active investigations, and we, along with the Morri, are cooperating fully.

First off, great to have a fellow fin fan on the board. Yes they are very secretive bout that stuff but i think the morri prob get more benefit of the doubt then the pouncys who have been involved in other dumb stuff. Off topic bit u think the release mike wallace after the crap he pulled?

Indy wrote:The only reason it is different is because we are guessing on what already happened, but don't know yet.

Cap wrote:

Indy wrote:The only reason it is different is because we are guessing on what already happened, but don't know yet.

There's another noteworthy difference: this is more emotionally charged, with anger, than those other predictions usually are. The vague but apparently severe nature of the transgression (Sunsoholic mused that Marcus would be certainly suspended and likely jailed) combined with the fact that some of us were already sick of the twins' antics has generated anger, which is understandable, but it's also understandable that the anger is a little discomfiting to those who don't share it.

Sunsfan4life wrote:Yea...I think people need to chill on this. I don't live in AZ, So if I didn't frequent this board I would not even know the incident existed. ESPN hasn't picked it up and they live on controversy. Roto mentioned it briefly. That tells me that its probably being overblown or what we know is only a small part of the story. The guy could of came at Marcus he could of thrown a punch and the guy could of went to the hospital. They could still say he "beat him down".

Sunsfan4life wrote:ESPN hasn't picked it up and they live on controversy.

Nodack wrote:If any player beat up a civillian, it would be news to ESPN. Green gets sidelined for a game and the twins play. No news anywhere has picked up this story. It was on KPHO for a brief time and then pulled? Could it be we are guilty of buying into a hoax?

Cap wrote:I hope I don't come across sounding like one of those Men's Rights assholes, but...

If the victim were a woman, this would be huge news, wouldn't it? But when a professional athlete beats the hell out of out another man, the story is barely covered.

To some extent a double standard is understandable, but this seems extreme.

Nodack wrote:Yes, but have you heard of the Mogollon Monster?

Cap wrote:I hope I don't come across sounding like one of those Men's Rights assholes, but...

If the victim were a woman, this would be huge news, wouldn't it? Even if we had only vague reports and few actual details, the speculation and discussion would be on the front page of every major sports site. But when a professional athlete beats the hell out of out another man, the story is barely mentioned.

To some extent a double standard is understandable, but this seems extreme.

Xylus wrote:

Cap wrote:I hope I don't come across sounding like one of those Men's Rights assholes, but...

If the victim were a woman, this would be huge news, wouldn't it? Even if we had only vague reports and few actual details, the speculation and discussion would be on the front page of every major sports site. But when a professional athlete beats the hell out of out another man, the story is barely mentioned.

To some extent a double standard is understandable, but this seems extreme.

Are you saying the story should be bigger news? Maybe so, but a professional athlete beating up a woman or beating up a child or a pet or a defenseless fire extinguisher is significantly more newsworthy, from a journalistic standpoint. It's less common and socially unacceptable for a man to beat up a person who is biologically much weaker than they are. Dudes beating up other dudes happens all the time. This story will pick up more traction as more details are released, I'm sure, especially if the victim's injuries were significant.