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Homosexuality and Baseball
LifeSiteNews ^ | 29th July 2019 | Doug Mainwaring

Posted on 07/30/2019 7:13:33 AM PDT by Ennis85

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To: Ennis85

Pitchers and catchers report each February. Make February pride month for baseball


41 posted on 07/30/2019 7:57:08 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Ennis85

I look at “Pride Night” at the ballpark much the same way as “Jewish American Night” or “Italian American Night” or even “Bring your Dog to the Ballgame Night”.

The front offices of most teams have huge staffs of marketeers, same as a lot of other businesses. They understand that LGBTQRSTUVWXYZs buy tickets to the games, same as Jews, Italians, and Dog lovers. Why not “salute” their groups for a game? It’s added revenue for the teams in terms of increased attendance. And increased attendance in the park has a lot of added effects in parking lot fees, concession stand revenue, souvenir revenue, etc., etc., etc.

If you don’t agree with the group being saluted, don’t go to that game. Stay home and read a book, or play with your kids. Just don’t sit here and whine that you’ll never go to a (insert team name here)’s game again because they had a “Pride Night”. You might as well make that a New Year’s resolution, next to the “lose 30 pounds” or “drink more water and less beer” resolutions that last until mid-January of each year.


42 posted on 07/30/2019 8:05:20 AM PDT by ssaftler (The opinions expressed here have not been peer reviewed, fact checked or focus group tested.)
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To: ssaftler

“If you don’t agree with the group being saluted, don’t go to that game.”

Except they’re doing more than saluting a group. They’ve outright embraced a partisan political ideology.


43 posted on 07/30/2019 8:08:45 AM PDT by Ennis85
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To: cdcdawg

“The players don’t want this. The fans don’t want this. Somebody does. Who are they, and why do they get to decide?”

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Satan wants it. He owns all the marketing, TV, and entertainment people. They do the works of their father.

And the average consumer doesn’t have the nads to turn it off.

So everything continues in a slow slide into depravity.


44 posted on 07/30/2019 8:16:21 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: ecomcon

Corporate America calls the shots.


45 posted on 07/30/2019 8:19:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

‘and that one was in the final days of the old Yankee stadium...’

remember the shock and outrage over Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich swapping spouses...?

oh for the old days..


46 posted on 07/30/2019 8:37:26 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Vaquero

When I lived in San Diego, years ago, a pitcher came out as gay. The local rock and roll station DJ’s were discussing it and one of them asked the other “When do you suppose he knew when he was gay?” the other responded “The first time he took a couple of balls on the chin.”


47 posted on 07/30/2019 8:40:58 AM PDT by spudville
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To: Ennis85
My hometown team, the Washington Nationals (Nats), boasts the longest running “Pride Night” of all major league teams. “On the scoreboard..

There was a posting awhile ago on FR that said the density of homosexuals is higher in the beltway than in San Francisco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United_States#State-by-state_summary

This chart shows DC at 8.6% vs 4.8% in California vs 3.8% nationally.

48 posted on 07/30/2019 8:45:35 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Ennis85

You know people are severely stunted socially, when they start heralding something about themselves.

If you’re insecure about something, you mention your issue and expect a few others to identify with you, or at least offer up some nice comments in support.

So this begs the question, if these folks are so proud, why is it necessary for them to raise the issue constantly?

Answer: They are desperate for affirmation.

These events reveal a community within our nation that is very unhappy with itself. It’s so unhappy, that it seeks to cheer itself with other people’s acts of approval.

You know, so far it isn’t working.

When all this nonsense about having to talk about your sexual preference subsides, it will be clear they have all grown up, accepted who they are, and the fact that we don’t really give a damn who the hell they are, or what the hell they are.

We have our own lives to live, and don’t feel the need to push it off on anyone else.

The day can’t come soon enough, when they can live their lives without their need to be approved of every damned second of every damned day.


49 posted on 07/30/2019 8:45:56 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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To: spudville

” The local rock and roll station DJ’s were discussing it and one of them asked the other “When do you suppose he knew when he was gay?” the other responded “The first time he took a couple of balls on the chin.””

The joke usually went, “he took more balls to the chin than Yogi Berra.”


50 posted on 07/30/2019 8:47:40 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: BenLurkin

There's no homos in baseball!................

51 posted on 07/30/2019 8:47:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Ennis85

LGBTQ’s have disposable income that is way above the mean. Hence everybody in marketing continually sucks-up to them.

To coin a phrase.


52 posted on 07/30/2019 8:48:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Ennis85

“The in-game marriage proposal shown on the scoreboard in between the sixth and seventh innings featured a man proposing to another man,” continued the MLB News report, “and the 32,573 fans in attendance stood for a round of applause when he said, ‘Yes.’”

Among those fans would have been many innocent children who, though they came to watch a baseball game, ended up witnessing the absurdity of a bearded man down on one knee, proposing marriage to another man.”

When Muslims finally take over, it will be an improvement.

Christians have been turning their endless supply of other cheeks for decades, and the left and perverts have gladly slapped them.


53 posted on 07/30/2019 8:49:48 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Ennis85

The more progress made towards diversity and tolerance for deviant lifestyles, the less tolerance their is for traditional morals and lifestyle.


54 posted on 07/30/2019 8:52:45 AM PDT by robel
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To: Ennis85

WTF do they have to be “proud” about?


55 posted on 07/30/2019 8:57:44 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Ennis85

Now we know what goes on in the dugout.


56 posted on 07/30/2019 9:01:41 AM PDT by bgill
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To: JBW1949
All this for 3-5% of the population...

More like 1.5-3%. They just screech so loudly and so often that they become the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. As in constant attention from the enemedia.

57 posted on 07/30/2019 9:03:28 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed
More like 1.5-3%. They just screech so loudly and so often that they become the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. As in constant attention from the enemedia.

But since they control the media, they can paint the illusion that there are many more of them.

58 posted on 07/30/2019 9:06:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Vaquero
Make February pride month for baseball

Sorry, it's taken by Black History month.

59 posted on 07/30/2019 9:07:27 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed
Sorry, it's taken by Black History month.

Of course, it's just like "The Man" to make Black History Month, the shortest month of the year.

60 posted on 07/30/2019 9:08:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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