Posted on 09/13/2016 1:42:31 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones claims that you dont see MLB players protesting the national anthem because baseball is a white mans sport.
In an interview with USA Today the 31-year-old veteran seems to suggest that unlike the NFL, the MLB doesnt need black players. He contends that if you choose to make a political stand protesting The Star Spangled Banner, the league will kick you out.
In football, you cant kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they dont need us, Jones argues.
USA Today reports African Americans comprise 68% of the players in the NFL, and 74% in the NBA. Only 8% of the player population in baseball is African American. On Opening day 2016, just 69 African-Americans were on the opening-day rosters and disabled lists.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Unlike football and basketball, baseball actually has the starting players for the home team take their positions in the field before the national anthem is played. If some mutant wanted to stage a protest, he'd either be out of the game or sitting on the bench as a backup player. In any case, nobody would even notice him.
Apparently Whitey is on the moon and playing baseball. There was an uptick to 59.07 percent of the players being white in 2016. Whatever happened to the content of a man’s character being the standard used instead of race? Whatever happened to being able to hit a curveball or throw over 90 mph being used as the standard instead of race? The link is a study and report card on how MLB is doing racially.
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Heres my thing, the career .279 hitter asserted, theres somebody on the 49ers team that commits an act like that, accosts a 70-year-old man and his kid, and nobodys talking about that. But they talk about Kaepernick doing something that he believes in, as his right as an American citizen. People need to talk more about that guy than Kaepernick.
The wording here is odd: if people weren't talking more about Kaepernick, something of his "effort" would've failed.
Or is he saying that more people shouldn't be talking about Kaepernick "negatively"? I can think of a few reasons that aren't race-related. In other words, the former teammate might've been black, or a black player might've done the same thing, and the amount of conversation would still be similar. A completely white player who sat as a "protest" during the National Anthem would still be controversial.
The two most prominent in my mind:
First, assault isn't that controversial and usually wouldn't lead to much debate.
Second, Colin Kaepernick has been by far the more famous and more discussed player, with some flashes of talent and a moderately interesting history. He'll get more attention than other people.
An "ordinary" man who is charged with felonious assault on "ordinary" people probably wouldn't appear on national news without some odd reason, and Adam Jones probably would've never heard of him. An "ordinary" murderer who kills an "ordinary" person has done something even worse than anything yet mentioned above--and without some "exceptional" reason, we probably wouldn't be talking about the case.
(We talk about the presidential candidates' health because what they seek is not some unimportant office in an unimportant country. If your 68-year-old aunt is an obscure woman with little "newsworthiness," you probably don't complain that her extremely serious health problems don't get the attention that Hillary Clinton's less severe problems do.)
I didn’t excerpt that part because I do not know any background on the ex-team mate or his ‘alleged’ crime.
It's OK: I don't expect large excerpts often anyway because of copyright concerns. I just noticed this other thing that Adam Jones mentioned, and what he said needed a little rebutting.
I stopped watching NFL, but I will never stop watching college football.
I thought Baseball was a brown mans Sport.
The only White mans sport that I know of is Hockey.
So, bootleg everything?...
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