Posted on 09/12/2016 12:00:16 PM PDT by Nachum
Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones thinks he knows why no Major League Baseball player has publicly refused to stand during the national anthem like San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others around the world of sports.
"Baseball is a white man’s sport," Jones told USA Today.
In the NFL, 68% of the players are African American; that compares with just 8% in the MLB. On opening day this spring, just 69 African American players were on teams’ rosters or disabled lists.
"We already have two strikes against us already, so you might as well not kick yourself out of the game,” Jones said of African American players in baseball. “In football, you can’t kick them out; you need those players. In baseball, they don’t need us.”
Jones was vocal last year following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, using his experience of growing up in San Diego to relate to the young people rioting in Baltimore and try to help them find a more peaceful way to express their frustration.
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I’m fighting back tears of guilt as he makes 2.5 mil per year by standing out there in the yard 2 hrs at a time.
Why is that?
Its why I’m awaiting hockey season - yes its nearly all white, and also Canadian, Swedish, and Russian.
No chance of BLM empty cliches and stupidity there
That’ll come as news to a lot of non-white players in MLB.
Maybe he should have said that baseball is a Caribbean sport.
Not by the complexions of a good chunk of the players.
Why is that?
Football & basketball is way more popular than baseball among black kids. That trickles up to pro sports.
68 + 8 = 76. who are the other 24% ???
Jackie Robinson would be shocked to hear that as would scores of African-Dominican players.
I wouldn’t count on it....................
We don’t “need” anyone in any sport.... if those NFL bozos keep disrespecting our flag and anthem then fans should boycott, permanently.
We don’t “need” anyone in any sport.... if those NFL bozos keep disrespecting our flag and anthem then fans should boycott, permanently.
Adam Jones is misguided.
Baseball has gone out of it’s way to not discriminate, and the 8% figure is more bogus than BILLARY’S Pneumonia, because there are easily 40% black Latino players on top of the 8% black players.
Pffft. Maybe i will start watching Hockey?
Somewhere, Jackie Robinson is shaking his head in shame at these azz*oles.
More like 15 minutes at a time x 8-9 times per day if he is in the lineup. With a 15 minute or so break in the dugout between each stint.
Yeah, all those guys from Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are white as lilies. Don’t forget about the guys from China, Korea and other places as well.
“Baseball is a white man’s sport,”
Basketball is a black man’s sport..
Soccer is a Hispanic Man’s Sport...
What is football, and what are Asians supposed to play?
Yeah,baseball is Hispanic,not black.
Hispanics don’t care about the African American incessant whining either.
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Probably Dominicans. At least two teams have their training camps in the Dominican Republic. Baseball is HUGELY popular - and people in the DR are primarily of African ancestry.
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