Monday, July 15, 2013

Gawker Publishes Tweets Complaining Of Bilingual Home Run Derby Interviews

During Monday night's Home Run Derby on ESPN, Pedro Gomez interviewed Aroldis Chapman and Yoenis Céspedes. Neither speak English, so Pedro spoke to them in Spanish and translated the interview. As with anything that ever happens in the world, people complained on Twitter. Now Deadspin's Timothy Burke is publishing any tweet (with username) that's negative on his sports blog. Timothy Burke has published tweets in this manner before, recently for anyone defending Paula Deen, any racist tweets about Sebastien De La Cruz's national anthem, and people complaining of a ESPN Deportes broadcast on the main ESPN channel.
Read more at Deadspin.

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