I don't know if I could have survived in this Twitter time where you don't have the privacy that you would want, and what seems to be very innocent could always be misinterpreted. | | | | The Indians have a PhD in misery.
(Jeff Haynes/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I don't know if I could have survived in this Twitter time where you don't have the privacy that you would want, and what seems to be very innocent could always be misinterpreted.”
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| | rantnrave:// The worst part about social media might be the cynicism. I suffer from it too. TWITTER lends itself to mockery too easily. KEVIN DURANT gets roasted for clapping back at critics while using a secret account. We'd get on BEN FRANKLIN if we found out @SILENCEDOGOOD was defending electricity from its critics. Now ROGER GOODELL's wife gets outed. She was tweeting from a fake account to support her husband, the NFL commissioner. Easy to make fun of? Definitely. Also, kinda sweet. This isn't the NFL shield being replaced by a Twitter egg. Sports stars and celebrities are under a lot of scrutiny. If they return fire, it'll only become worse. But they do need to vent. Family members are protective. What would you do if you were consistently criticized? Was the Goodell criticism fair? Yeah. Does that make it less painful for his wife to see? Empathy isn't a bad trait to have on the internet. Wouldn't you push back too? Sports stars, they're just like us... ROGER ANGELL on the YANKEES' GAME 5 win... UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI is undefeated. No. 11 team in the country. MARK RICHT might be the coach who brings the program back to glory. College football is so much better when the THE U is good. Miami plays GEORGIA TECH Saturday. Wouldn't blame you if you watch THE U instead. One of my favorite 30 FOR 30s. Those 80s Miami teams were wild. ALABAMA dominates now with a drone-like excellence. The U dominated by intimidation and swagger. Bring back the crop top... Heroes are celebrated but choke artists are never forgotten. It doesn't mean their careers are ruined. Failing on the biggest stage can break a person or it can build them up. For the INDIANS, it's history tugging at their jerseys. SportsSET: "The Art of the Choke"... ZACH RANDOLPH, MTV CRIBS... Reunited, and it probably feels kind of sticky... Hugs and a circle of trust are the new market inefficiency. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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