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MLB's hiring of minority and women front office staff has remained flat
Fox News Latino ^ | April 16, 2015

Posted on 04/17/2015 6:27:03 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Major League Baseball maintained its grades for its racial and gender hiring practices, while its percentage of African-American players remained only slightly above a study's low set in the 2007 season.

The annual report issued Wednesday by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida gave MLB an A grade in racial hiring and C in gender hiring.

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; minorities; women
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So, when it comes to minorities, the front offices should reflect the faces of players but when it comes to players the front offices should not reflect players and be more feminized? Wonderful way to express discrimination against white males I suppose. And Lapchick should resign his position for a woman or minority and practice what he preaches. Typical Democrat bigot.
1 posted on 04/17/2015 6:27:03 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

There are only 3 things the AP reports: issues about homos, minorities and illegals. That’s it.


2 posted on 04/17/2015 6:30:19 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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MLB needs to force wimmin' and minorities to apply for these jobs.

Sarc/

3 posted on 04/17/2015 6:34:34 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just Say NO To Hillary.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

From what I can tell based on prior attempts on these matters, front office staffs should represent the faces of players. Thus, if 80% of players are “minorities” then 80% of executives should be the same.

If that is the theory they possess, then 100% of the front office staffs should be men since women don’t play MLB. Or do they now want baseball teams to set aside positions for women to represent the percentage of females in baseball?

America is cracking because of liberalism and their “forced” beliefs. In any shade, Lapchick is a hypocrite.


4 posted on 04/17/2015 6:39:49 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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I’ll get all up in the air about this after they make the pro basketball teams racially correct. Ho hum


5 posted on 04/17/2015 6:51:37 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Never in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Not that I particularly care one way or the other, but I’ve always wondered why there were no women umpires in MLB. It would seem like a lawsuit waiting to happen.


6 posted on 04/17/2015 7:05:26 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: ConservativeStatement

This professional sport team is composed of individual players who will satisfy our ticket-holders the most competent group who play the game. The support of patrons is revealed in their continuing purchase of gameday tickets. Our hiring practices are justified by this team attaining playoff status. This is known as “merit hiring”.

On the other hand, our executive and administrative employees are hired only according to their ethnicity. We care little for competency and performance as long as we satisfy the government decree for “representation”.

It is a singular honor that our team can point to the front-office and say, “we reflect the over-representation of local racial composition” because, well...rayciss.


7 posted on 04/17/2015 7:05:40 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: max americana

Might I inquire...

One might find it easy to exhibit oneself as a “minority” or “wymyn”.

What must I do to obtain employment while claiming “homosexual” or LGBTQ protection?


8 posted on 04/17/2015 7:07:50 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I think that the White SoX VP of HR is female. Does that count at “front office”?


9 posted on 04/17/2015 7:14:34 AM PDT by glorgau
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Whatever happened to hiring the most qualified person for the job, regardless of the sex or race?


10 posted on 04/17/2015 7:37:11 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: ConservativeStatement

The MLB is probably the most racially diverse sport there is. There are many females in administration and employed in the individual ballparks.


11 posted on 04/17/2015 7:38:44 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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I think every affirmative action hire needs to be told point blank “We are hiring you because you are black. Not because you’re the best candidate, not because you’re competent, not because you are qualified. Only because you’re black.”

How can any self respecting person accept affirmative action jobs?


12 posted on 04/17/2015 7:43:22 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Its a woman who is in charge of hospitality at Comerica park. If I recall correctly she’s in charge of everything from ticket takers to vendors and information services. She probably makes a nice 6 figure salary and does a fine job.

It doesn’t mean that Al Kaline should be pushed out of his PR position to make some black lesbian feel included.


13 posted on 04/17/2015 7:52:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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Where exactly would woman go to gain the kind of experience needed to become GM of a Major League Baseball team?


14 posted on 04/17/2015 7:52:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: All

Now some black woman scientist is claiming that space colonization of Mars idea is “racist”...

What is going on in this country????


15 posted on 04/17/2015 7:57:00 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: cripplecreek
OH!
MY!
GAWD!

You're a mysogenist/rayciss/bigot.
Quelle surprise!


16 posted on 04/17/2015 8:15:07 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Well I try.


17 posted on 04/17/2015 8:16:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

Major League Baseball may be very diverse racially, but it’s a complete failure when it comes to gender. There is not a single female player on any of the MLB teams. Nor in the minors, for that matter.


18 posted on 04/17/2015 11:42:16 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: cripplecreek

Major League Baseball may be very diverse racially, but it’s a complete failure when it comes to gender. There is not a single female player on any of the MLB teams. Nor in the minors, for that matter.


19 posted on 04/17/2015 11:42:16 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

I’d like to say Thank you to the White Sox manager for today’s Detroit win. He should have challenged the call at second but didn’t and it left a man in scoring position in the bottom of the 9th in a 1-1 game.

The 9 and 1 record is a pretty respectable start to the season.


20 posted on 04/17/2015 12:56:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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