One last word about Alexi Lalas and his heirloom tomato face and then I promise I’ll stop talking about him until the next time he does something dumb. Of course Alexi Lalas has the right to say what he wants to say, everybody on Twitter who was insulted by my previous entry in this saga, in which I mostly just provided a brief synopsis of 8 Mile, which should have told you how serious that article was, but WHATEVER. He’s a paid television pundit and former international soccer player. Go say what you like.
The reason people took issue with what Alexi said was because of how banal his “pep talk” actually was, which makes the entire thing seem incredibly disingenuous.