I guess they do.
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Posted on 08/23/2017 3:04:06 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
Major League Baseball is implementing a league-wide fan code of conduct starting in the 2018 season, ESPN’s Scott Lauber reports. “We are working with the clubs on security and fan conduct initiatives at all of our ballparks. We will be issuing a league-wide fan code of conduct for the 2018 season,” says MLB spokesman Michael Teevan of the decision.
Although teams handle things themselves right now, sources say MLB is looking to make things even across the entire league with set standards and consequences for misbehaving at all parks.
A major precipitating factor for baseball’s shift seems to be Adam Jones’ experience with hate speech and derogatory language coming from fans in the stands at Fenway Park earlier this year. A day later, a white man was banned for life after directing a racial slur at a national anthem performer in the same park.
Shortly after, the team specifically added “hate speech” to its fan code of conduct. Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy said of the fallout from the incident(s) in the spring:
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Who is to determine exactly what “HATE SPEECH” is?
I guess they do.
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Funny how a bastion of liberalism and the home turf of the Kennedy clan (Boston) seems to be involved in a disproportionate number of these outright racist incidents. I’ll bet they have no statues of Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson there, either.
Because Boston and Chicago, for starters.
Bring back nickel beer night!
Wasn’t there a beat down homocide in California from some hispanic males attacking a white fan in a parking lot?
Aren’t New Yorker beat downs of fans of visiting teams (like Boston) a recurrence if you happen to wear the colors/shirt/hat of the visiting team?
...and Bat Day.
Blowing up disco records in a ballpark would now be considered hate speech.
Seinfeld
MBGA!
Not disco....rap.
They do.
My Cub Scouts visited the Charlotte Motor Speedway recently, and the tour guide mentioned that they have alcohol-free family areas in various parts of the stadium. Nice, but it doesn't keep you from encountering raucous drunks on trips to the bathroom or the food vendors.
Shouldn’t they just dispatch players into the stands to enforce all the unwritten rules? Good enough for the field good enough for the stands.
Back around 1970 a bunch of us were attending a game in Asheville, NC. One of our group had just returned with his family from Brazil. They were missionaries.
The pitcher for the visiting team had a Spanish sounding name but Jack told us it was Brazilian because of how it was spelled in the program.
Jack ragged him in Portuguese the entire game. I had good Nikon binocular and watched the pitcher. Sure enough, he kept staring at the catcher but moving his eyes toward us. I guess he was trying to figure out who it was.
Re #14:
I once read that Ty Cobb went into the stands and beat up a guy in a wheelchair who was heckling him.
The talking point I’ve heard for the last 20 years is that “people hated disco because of a fear/dislike of gay and black people”.
Except that just isn’t so. “Northern Soul” dance enthusiasts in England didn’t like the new sounds of disco either. They did like American soul records of the 1960s though. Scratch the dislike of black people.
I don’t like dubstep, rap, or hickhop country either.
Is that what is it? BLEAH!
Except this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeW_WtsDuPo
Right? Am I right?
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