前ESPN主持人丹·勒·巴塔德在判断运动员何时应该或不该就体育以外的议题发表评论时，始终坚持一套标准。“赞同的事情就发声，不同意的就闭嘴打球”就是他的标准。
Former ESPN host Dan Le Batard is consistent in the standard he applies to when athletes should and should not comment on issues outside of sports. "Speak up for what I agree with or shut up and play ball" is his standard.
周一，勒·巴塔德公开指责堪萨斯城酋长队四分卫帕特里克·马霍姆斯，因其未公开反对《保护大学体育法案》——该法案得到唐纳德·特朗普总统及其政府的支持。
On Monday, Le Batard shamed Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes for not publicly opposing the Protect College Sports Act, legislation backed by President Donald Trump and his administration.
丹·勒·巴塔德虚假宣称ESPN只雇佣和付钱给白人“帕特里克·马霍姆斯，把你的头盔从你的屁股里拿出来。在这儿做点带头的事，”情绪激动的勒·巴塔德在YouTube上大喊。“你拥有很大的影响力……你是想参与成年人的游戏，还是只想打橄榄球？”为了回答这个问题，马霍姆斯只是想打橄榄球。他已经这样说过。
DAN LE BATARD FALSELY CLAIMS THAT ESPN ONLY HIRES AND PAYS WHITE PEOPLE "Patrick Mahomes, get your helmet out of your a--. Do some leading here," an emotional Le Batard shouted on YouTube. "You’ve got a lot of power ... do you want to participate in the adult games, or do you just want to play football?" To answer that question, Mahomes just wants to play football. He has said so.
在2024年酋长队超级碗游行枪击事件之后，马霍姆斯并没有以行动主义带头，而是以实际行动带头。他向受害者援助基金捐款，并前往医院探望了一些受伤者。
Following the 2024 shooting at the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade, Mahomes led not with activism but with actions. He donated money to an aid fund for victims and visited some of the wounded in the hospital.
他在《时代》杂志的一篇专访中后来解释说，他不认为自己有责任在诸如枪支管控这样复杂的政治议题上左右公众舆论。
He later explained in a Time Magazine profile that he does not believe it is his place to shift public opinion on complicated political issues like gun control.
“我一直在自我教育，”马霍姆斯谈到这个问题时说。“我不想对需要大量教育才能真正学习并基于此发表左右评论的事情做出快速反应。但我知道我们必须找到某种方式来制止这种情况。”同样，马霍姆斯在2024年总统选举中也拒绝背书任何候选人。
"I continue to educate myself," Mahomes said of the issue. "I don't want to make a quick response to something that takes a lot of education to really learn and make a swaying comment based off that. But I know we have to find a solution of some way to make this stuff stop." Likewise, Mahomes declined to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
“我不想施压任何人去投票给某位总统，”他对该媒体说。“我想让人们凭他们所相信的使用自己的声音。我想让他们去做研究。”也许正是这种克制，部分原因在于酋长队超越了达拉斯牛仔队，成为NFL全国吸引力最高的球队。就像迈克尔·乔丹一样，马霍姆斯之所以具有两极分化的特质，源于他的卓越表现，而不是因为他故意在政治立场上分裂自己的观众。
"I don’t want to pressure anyone to vote for a certain president," he told the outlet. "I want people to use their voice, whoever they believe in. I want them to do the research." Perhaps his restraint is partly why the Chiefs surpassed the Dallas Cowboys as the leading national draw in the NFL. Like Michael Jordan, Mahomes is polarizing because of his greatness, not because he has deliberately divided his audience along political lines.
乔丹和马霍姆斯可以说是他们各自运动项目历史上最具个人吸引力的两位运动员。这绝非偶然。
Jordan and Mahomes are arguably the two biggest individual draws in the recent history of their respective sports. That is not a coincidence.
更重要的是，帕特里克·马霍姆斯无需对任何立法发表意见。他只需对自己的行为负责。
More importantly, Patrick Mahomes does not owe anyone an opinion on legislation. He doesn't owe anyone an opinion on anything but his own actions.
有趣的是，如果马霍姆斯公开支持该法案，勒巴特几乎肯定会要求他保持沉默。随后，他会呼吁媒体让马霍姆斯承担责任。当贾克森·达特在舞台上介绍特朗普总统、亚伦·罗杰斯质疑新冠疫苗的有效性以及各种UFC选手拥抱特朗普时，勒巴特正是如此回应的。你注意到这种模式了吗？
The amusing part is that if Mahomes spoke out in support of the bill, Le Batard would almost certainly demand his silence. He'd then call on the media to hold Mahomes accountable. That's how Le Batard responded when Jaxson Dart introduced President Trump on stage, Aaron Rodgers questioned the effectiveness of the COVID vaccines and various UFC fighters embraced Trump. Do you notice a pattern?
勒巴特将他个人的政治偏好呈现为普遍的道德命令。当他希望运动员发声时，他将沉默视为懦弱；当他希望运动员保持沉默时，他将政治表达视为不负责任。丹·勒巴特是个伪君子。
Le Batard presents his personal political preferences as universal moral imperatives. He sees silence as cowardice when he wants an athlete to speak. He sees political expression as irresponsible when he wants an athlete to stay silent. Dan Le Batard is a hypocrite.
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他最近因指责ESPN偏爱白人运动员而黑人运动员而登上头条。然而，该说法几乎没有证据支持。根据ESPN最近的招聘趋势、裁员、晋升和播出时间分配，很难论证白人运动员获得了优待。
He recently made headlines by accusing ESPN of favoring White talent over Black talent. The evidence hardly supports that claim. Based on ESPN's recent hiring trends, layoffs, promotions, and allocation of airtime, it would be difficult to argue that white talent receives preferential treatment.
与此同时，即使粗略看一下勒巴特自己的媒体公司Meadowlark Media，就会发现如果白人特权在2026年的体育媒体中仍然存在，它显然就在迈阿密设有办公室。
Meanwhile, even a cursory glance at Le Batard's own media company, Meadowlark Media, reveals that if white privilege still exists anywhere in sports media in 2026, it apparently has an office in Miami.
在其他场合，勒·巴塔尔经常吹嘘自己对针对女性的暴力行为持零容忍态度。然而，在卡玛拉·哈里斯的丈夫道格·埃姆霍夫被指控殴打前女友后，勒·巴塔尔却成功获得了对后者的首次专访机会。可他从未问及这一指控，一次都没有。相反，他问埃姆霍夫“爱情是什么感觉”。后来，勒·巴塔尔还呼吁其他企业不要雇佣有家庭暴力前科的人。可紧接着他又聘请了霍华德·布莱恩特——此人曾因涉嫌殴打并勒窒息妻子而被捕，据警方称当时还有其他人目睹了这一事件。
Elsewhere, Le Batard frequently touts his supposed zero tolerance for violence against women. Yet he landed the first interview with Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, after Emhoff was accused of assaulting an ex-girlfriend. Le Batard never asked him about the allegation. Not once. He instead asked Emhoff what "love feels like." Le Batard later called on other companies not to employ people accused of domestic violence. He then hired Howard Bryant, who was arrested after allegedly beating and choking his wife in an incident authorities said was witnessed by others.
OutKick曾多次直接向勒·巴塔尔询问这些自相矛盾的行为。尽管勒·巴塔尔经常在节目中提及我，却始终没有给我们任何回复。
OutKick has asked Le Batard directly about these contradictions on multiple occasions. Despite frequently discussing me on his show, he has yet to provide us with a response.
此时，人们不得不思考：勒·巴塔尔是不是出了什么严重问题？我可不是开玩笑。他身上有基思·奥尔伯曼的影子。
At this point, one must consider if there is something seriously wrong with Le Batard. I don't say that jokingly. There are shades of Keith Olbermann in him.
这两人最初都是凭借远超同行水平的智商在缺乏思想深度的媒体行业中建立起声誉的。他们头脑敏锐、见解独到，提出的论点也比许多同行更为深刻。可后来情况发生了变化。他们身上发生了一些不好的事情。
Both men built their reputations in part on their unusually high intelligence amongst an industry lacking in intellectual depth. Both were sharp, original and capable of making arguments more sophisticated than those of many of their peers. Something changed. Something bad happened to them.
或许是对过往行为的悔恨，或许是人生中接连遭遇的悲剧，又或许是多年来的情绪煽动所致，又或许是无法适应这样一个现实：这个国家大约一半的选民始终不接受他们的世界观。总之，勒·巴塔尔与奥尔伯曼似乎越来越被自己所厌恶的人群所控制。
Whether it is remorse over the past, the accumulated tragedies of life, years of manufactured hysteria, or an inability to process living in a country where roughly half the electorate continues to reject their worldview, Le Batard and Olbermann increasingly appear consumed by the people they despise.
结果就是他们始终处于愤慨状态。他们语气焦虑且充满怨气，也越来越意识不到自己言论中的虚伪之处。
The result is perpetual indignation. They sound anxious and bitter, and increasingly incapable of recognizing the hypocrisy embedded in their own commentary.
这也就解释了为何勒·巴塔尔会对《保护大学体育法案》如此愤怒。
That helps explain Le Batard's fury over the Protect College Sports Act.
特朗普及其政府支持该立法。因此，反对它成为勒巴塔德道德框架的一部分。一个中立的观察者几乎不会注意到马霍姆斯决定不参与辩论。这不是他的战斗。勒巴塔德看法不同。在他看来，沉默即是共谋。
Trump and his administration support the legislation. Therefore, opposing it becomes part of Le Batard's moral framework. A neutral observer would hardly notice Mahomes' decision not to participate in the debate. It's not his battle. Le Batard sees it differently. To him, silence amounts to complicity.
正是如此，他才得出指责一名NFL四分卫因在足球赛季中未公开游说反对一项联邦立法而回避“成人游戏”的荒诞之举。
That is how he arrives at the spectacle of accusing an NFL quarterback of dodging the "adult games" because he hasn't publicly lobbied against a piece of federal legislation in the middle of the football season.