The premier of Overreacting

In the spirit of this blog (this spirit includes fighting racism and two month long hiatuses), I am taking it upon myself to catalog the overreactions of the sports media. You've all seen these stupid things - arrests, pictures at strip clubs, marijuana use. The things that get Skip Bayless real riled up (other things that get Skip Bayless real riled up: ping pong, Denny's breakfast, new born babies). 

This is Marvin William's fouling Rajon Rondo. Hard. If you are getting all up in arms (preferably muskets) about me putting this in something called Overreacting, calm down. This is an example. This allllmost made the cut. In fact, it could make the cut if people continue to talk about it. However, so far the only people actually overreacting about this are the announcers (sort of) and the commenters on youtube, who fall to pieces over much less. 

Mostly I believe this is how all Celtic players should be treated, and I think this video is hi-lar-i-ous. (jk bff Rondo) (not really)

This 

...this is overreacting. Not what these people are doing. These trainers and jockeys and whatnot are doing what you sadly must do when a horse suffers that type of injury. Not take it to a hospital and have massive surgery done on it like Barbaro (perhaps if Eight Belles had won, it would be a different story), but euthanized. It's a shame, to be sure. Totally sure. Completely 100% sure. 

However, 

why is this considered a tragedy? This is a sport where people are paid money to ride atop animals and hit them with riding crops. This is not a great sport when it comes to animal rights or health. Hell, another damn trainer seems to agree: 

...to horse people like Rick Dutrow Jr., who trains Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown, it wasn't all that simple.

"To make it safer, don't race the horses, don't train them, then they'll live good lives out on the farm," Dutrow Jr. said.

"But you have to train them for races, you have to run them and that's where the problems start to set in. They have to be asked to run and sometimes in a particular minute, they're asked to run when they're not ready to give it and then it hurts."

These things have to be expected from horse racing. Sure it sucks, but it's not a tragedy. It's a horse running really hard and then breaking its ankle and having to be put down. It's a horse some people thought was pretty, which turns it into a tragedy. 

Also, fuck horses. 

This is stupid. Horses get way more love than any other animal combined. It's disgusting when they're eaten, it's sad when they die, one horse breaks its leg after winning a horse race and the entire world loses their shit over the thing. Most people don't care when they eat a cow! Wearing leather doesn't seem to mind to most of these people. So what makes this different? Is it just because they saw it on TV? Is it just because they 

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Sorry, I take it all back. 

RIP Eight Belles. You're in horse heaven with Barbaro, Mr. Ed, Bandit, and every other horse that gets to spend eternity shitting on cow heaven.