Mike Greenberg isn’t a fan of debating politics. He’d rather debate sports instead.
On Monday’s edition of Greeny, Greenberg said one of the things he loved about the new book he and producer Paul “Hembo” Hembekides put together was that it encourages debate, which he knows typically is all in good fun and rarely gets personal.
“The best thing about sports conversation is that it ascends into debate. And I use that word advisedly. It doesn’t descend,” Greenberg said of the book “Got Your Number”. “Our political discourse in this country in this day and age stinks. It’s awful. It descends into the lowest common denominator all the time. It descends into nastiness. It descends into people calling each other names and separating themselves and drawing themselves further apart rather than having an actual intellectual conversation.”
Greenberg added that the thing about sports debates is that it ultimately doesn’t seek to divide people in a harsh way. He saw that play out after an appearance on Good Morning America this week.
“Sports debate brings us together because someone might feel we got Clemente right, and someone might have thought we were wrong and it should’ve been Deion,” he said. “And someone else might have thought it was Tim Duncan. But none of us thought that the other person was a bad human being for thinking that.”
