Curt Schilling vs. Elizabeth Warren

Suddenly said:
Limited to US pro sports, there is a good argument that you have 3,2 and 1 completely backwards.

To be in the NFL, it is virtually unavoidable to have to spend at least three, usually four or five years maintaining academic eligibility at an accredited college.

The NBA is more avoidable as one could go overseas. Those that are clear NBA prospects only play one year, which in practice means they need to maintain eligibility for one semester. Still, that means they passed the NCAA minimum requirements and lasted one semester.

An MLB player can avoid higher education completely.

Same with the NHL.
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This is completely off base. First off, requirements for college do not dictate how intelligent you are. You can take ******** classes while chasing a liberal arts degree for years on end. Secondly, college doesn't mean you're intelligent. Trump went to college. Ted Cruz went to college. Neither of those men would be smart enough to dump piss out of a boot before putting it on. Meanwhile there are a ton of people that never went to higher education at all and have made a fortune. At best this college nonsense is a red herring.

Baseball players generally have more longevity than football players, meaning they can play longer. They don't have nearly the injury problems, especially mental health problems, that they do in football. I'd say that makes them pretty intelligent in and of itself.

Anyway, I don't think any sport is "more intelligent" than any other sport. They're athletes, if we gave a **** about their intelligence we wouldn't be watching them play sports. We'd be reading their papers in college.
 
plague311 said:
This is completely off base. First off, requirements for college do not dictate how intelligent you are. You can take ******** classes while chasing a liberal arts degree for years on end. Secondly, college doesn't mean you're intelligent. Trump went to college. Ted Cruz went to college. Neither of those men would be smart enough to dump piss out of a boot before putting it on. Meanwhile there are a ton of people that never went to higher education at all and have made a fortune. At best this college nonsense is a red herring.
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Picking out exceptions is meaningless, and anyway,Ted Cruz in particular is extremely intelligent, despite how I may feel about his politics. Saying Ted Cruz isn't smart requires a rather absurd definition of "smart" where managing to get into and graduate from Princeton and then Harvard Law, and then serving as solicitor general is possible while not being smart.

"Smart" is too vague of a concept to be particular about, so anyone taking this debate at all is at best silly. I still maintain, that all things being equal, a person with even a partial college education is going to be smarter than one without it. Of course, all things are pretty much never equal.

Baseball players generally have more longevity than football players, meaning they can play longer. They don't have nearly the injury problems, especially mental health problems, that they do in football. I'd say that makes them pretty intelligent in and of itself.
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If a person has the realistic choice between a star level major league baseball career and a star level NFL career, yes, it would be smart to play baseball. However, if we assume that a player chooses what sport to be elite in, basketball players are the smartest, and it isn't all that close. It is exceedingly rare for someone to have this sort of reasonable choice though.
 
Suddenly said:
Picking out exceptions is meaningless, and anyway,Ted Cruz in particular is extremely intelligent, despite how I may feel about his politics. Saying Ted Cruz isn't smart requires a rather absurd definition of "smart" where managing to get into and graduate from Princeton and then Harvard Law, and then serving as solicitor general is possible while not being smart.

"Smart" is too vague of a concept to be particular about, so anyone taking this debate at all is at best silly. I still maintain, that all things being equal, a person with even a partial college education is going to be smarter than one without it. Of course, all things are pretty much never equal.



If a person has the realistic choice between a star level major league baseball career and a star level NFL career, yes, it would be smart to play baseball. However, if we assume that a player chooses what sport to be elite in, basketball players are the smartest, and it isn't all that close. It is exceedingly rare for someone to have this sort of reasonable choice though.
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We'll just have to agree to disagree. There are plenty of baseball players with full college degrees, and I'm sure there are football players with the same. I think bringing up a requirement to do some college means you're more intelligent is a pretty poor way of judging intelligence.
 
If there was any doubt that Curt Schilling is a deplorable piece of ****.

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plague311 said:
I don't think I've ever hidden my absolute hatred for Curt Schilling. If not only because he's a moron, in my opinion, but also because he ate up a lot of money for a failed video game. Apparently, he's going to take on Elizabeth Warren for the Senate, not even pretending to start out small.

From what I can piece together he's basically going to run on a platform of, "Hey, remember that one time my ankle bled, but I still won a game. I can do that for you!"

I'm willing to bet that he'll get his ass handed to him.

ETA: This isn't until 2018, but I'll never pass up a chance to make fun of a Red Sox player.
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When Curt Schilling dies, nobody is going to freeze his head like they did for Ted Williams. He's just not freeze worthy material.
 
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