Comments from Wilbon on Taylor...(merged)

[joelvincent]

Sorry if this is a repeat but I did a search on Wilbon and didn't see it...

Anyway, WTF?

Wilbon on Sean Taylor:

McLean, Va.: Will your opinion of Taylor change if this does not turn out to be a random incident (e.g. home invasion)?

Michael Wilbon: No...People's opinions are shaped by the way they've grown up, the way they see the world, what they know about the world the person in question grew up in, etc. Sean Taylor isn't the only guy I know who fits his general profile. I've known guys like Taylor all my life, grew up with some. They still have shades of gray and shouldn't be painted in black and white...I know how I feel about Taylor, and this latest news isn't surprising in the least, not to me. Whether this incident is or isn't random, Taylor grew up in a violent world, embraced it, claimed it, loved to run in it and refused to divorce himself from it. He ain't the first and won't be the last. We have no idea what happened, or if what we know now will be revised later. It's sad, yes, but hardly surprising.

Columbia, Md.: What makes you think that Taylor was still embracing his old ways? Every thing we have heard from the Redskins and Portis is that this is a new Sean. Apparently the birth of his child really helped to straighten him out. Is this contrary to what you know?

Michael Wilbon: Sorry, but I'n not in the habit of having comapanies with their own public relations agenda tell me about black men and what they feel or don't feel. Pardon me if I'm not that easy.

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[CrazyZeb]

Watching PTI and the whole 1:30 was about his past and how they weren't surprised as opposed to the fact that he's clinging to life.

[Ellis]

Ouch... Wilbon should have reserved himself more.
Whether Wilbon is right or ot, it's classless and disrespectful to speak about anything other than prayers that Sean pulls out of this.

[Bacon]

Originally Posted by CrazyZeb

Watching PTI and the whole 1:30 was about his past and how they weren't surprised as opposed to the fact that he's clinging to life.

Definitely an unfortunate slant to take on the news.

[phishisthegreatstuff]

I don't even know what wilbon is talking about.

[Truant]

Jeez. Are you serious, Wilbon?

You are somehow going to paint this as he brought this upon himself? Shame on you.

A man sleeping with his girlfriend and daughter and his house gets invaded by a(n) armed man (men), and that is his fault?


Not leaving the general area where you have lived your entire life doesn't mean that you deserve or asking to be shot.

I'm disappointed to hear this.

[qb18_200400]

just saw it too and I'm pretty disgusted because they didn't mention but 2 seconds of how people around Taylor said he was a changed man. Instead they talked about how they were not suprised because of his past.

for them being washingtonpost writers, i expected much different.

[BuryYourDuke]

Wilbon was pretty off-base on this one.

[jferraro]

Wilbon = too cool for school

[DemSkinz]

I've lost a lot of respect for both Tony and Mike just now...

[Greek44]

Wilbon hardly ever watches his mouth. It's what got him in the position that he is in, period. He's always been critical of black athletes who get in trouble.

[SkinsNoles21]

wilbon is a duesche bag.

he thinks he can speak about the black public because he is black.

Sorry...but the bottom line is...Sean Taylor was a kid...A KID. He made mistakes, he did some things he wasnt proud of...like most of us...but at 24, he was beginning to turn the corner.

The difference between Sean and the rest of us is that he did some things he wasnt proud of in a a terrible area.

[Natmagic]

just saw them bash Sean on PTI

F them both for being so cold!! I guess that what happens when you have guys from Chicago and Long Island writing about DC sports... and don't even get me started and Mike freakin Wise

TOM BOSWELL -- A TRUE WASHINGTONIAN AND THE ONLY WASHINGTON POST SPORTS WRITER THAT REALLY MATTERS

[FedExFielder]

Originally Posted by jferraro

Wilbon = too cool for school

Dunno what context to take this in but you might wanna go a little more in depth as to why you said that

[Bacon]

Originally Posted by SkinsNoles21

Sorry...but the bottom line is...Sean Taylor was a kid...A KID. He made mistakes, he did some things he wasnt proud of...like most of us...but at 24, he was beginning to turn the corner.

And that's something else I fear is possible; ST could die and become remembered as this uber-talented thug who liked playing around with guns and the wrong people, when that isn't who he is trying to be at all. That would be a damn shame.