Posted on 05/06/2010 4:35:24 AM PDT by catfish1957
Given our love of the game, its traditions and history, we are puzzled as to why the greatness that is Major League Baseball, allows Keith Olbermann to tarnish its blog pages with his musings. True, Keith Olbermann is a gifted speaker with a respectable grasp of the great game, but his nightly tirades on MSNBC are often aimed at the very people that fill the stands of baseball parks across our great land. In light of this we have put this site together to ask a very basic question, “Why does Major League Baseball allow an individual who relishes hate speech to be associated with it?”
(Excerpt) Read more at respectthegreatgame.com ...
If you are a baseball fan like me, signed the petition. Let's get this ah out of there.
Professional athletics are taken far too seriously.
No doubt, but don’t dilute the intent.
The liberal faction lives on double standards and the ridicule of others.
I know for a fact that there are many talent-rich journalists who would provide better analysis and presentations than Herr Olbermann - - they need to be given the chance.
Rush was also blacklisted from buying a sports franchise by a Stalinist smear, fabrication of “wikiquotes”.
Boycott major league sports. Your tax dollars fund liberalism. Conservatives need not apply.
I have vowed not to spend another dime going to a professional sports game (for many reasons). Does this make me a bad father?
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