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Suspended without pay! Free speech for Kaepernick, but not white baseball player Steve Clevenger
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Posted on 09/25/2016 7:50:14 AM PDT by Cubs Fan

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To: SoCal Pubbie

Then he should consider it nothing more than a case of returning money he didn’t really earn.


21 posted on 09/25/2016 8:39:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: ilovesarah2012
??

Or maybe I didn't.

22 posted on 09/25/2016 8:40:20 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Sometimes I feel like I've been tied to the whipping post.")
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To: ichabod1

What some guy does on his personal e mail or blog is his business. What someone does on the field is the team’s business. In that regard, this suspension is out of bounds, period.


23 posted on 09/25/2016 8:45:26 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: Cubs Fan
Blacks are the “useful idiots.” Whenever they stir, the elites get something else they want at the expense of the ordinary folks. Free speech and freedom of religion eroding every time.
Somebody should post a pair of photos: Kaepernick kneeling okay. Praying coach kneeling: fired.
24 posted on 09/25/2016 8:53:09 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: Alberta's Child

Is it even a “suspension” if the guy has only played 22 games this year anyway?

never realized major leaguers got paid by the game; thanks for opening my eyes...


25 posted on 09/25/2016 9:01:32 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: jjotto

Corruption, licentiousness, alcohol & drugs, irresponsible sex, infanticide, child abuse. I was going to say we hit the trifecta, but then I kept thinking of more and more.


26 posted on 09/25/2016 9:03:58 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: bk1000

The wrath of the awakened Saxon.


27 posted on 09/25/2016 9:05:52 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: Cubs Fan

Clevenger expressing his opinion on his own dime
Kaepernick was doing his thing in the workplace

What a triple standard


28 posted on 09/25/2016 9:28:54 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: rovenstinez

rovenstinez,

I find it interesting that you would use that phrase, Rio Linda. (I’ve been there by the way)

The person who uses it regularly is Rush Limbaugh and the interesting part is that he was hired by ABC to do an editorial on the ESPN NFL pregame show and he lasted one week. He resigned because because he pointed out that the NFL’s love affair with Donovan McNabb and that he was over rated and the NFL was using him as a racial object and some of the crew, basically Tom Jackson, didn’t like it.

But because all of the Sea Hawks joined in a shaming anthem protest, and Cleavenger told the truth with his freedom of speech. he was punished.

So, now I don’t support any of the Mariner’s products or games, I don’t support any of the Sea Hawks games or products. And because the owner of the Hawks is Paul Allen, and he owns the Portland Trailblazers, I don’t support them or their products either. I hope others follow.

You don’t get respect by disrespecting those that earned it by bravely giving the ultimate price for this country. Such real brave millionaires playing a game as pampered athletes. You sure deserve respect. don’t you?

red


29 posted on 09/25/2016 9:31:10 AM PDT by Redwood71 (uad.)
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To: Cubs Fan

If anyone didn’t already know, these incidents show that professional sports are just the elite’s bread and circuses to pacify the masses. There is no better time to cut the cord on ESPN, turn off Monday Night Football, and boycott the World Series. Continuing to watch this cr-p is just pushing what’s left of free society over the brink.

This is the year to say, “No more!” and try to save the country.


30 posted on 09/25/2016 9:44:41 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: rovenstinez
There is no more logic in a certain segment of the population. These are deranged dems/liberals.
31 posted on 09/25/2016 9:47:47 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Iron Munro

Bookmark


32 posted on 09/25/2016 9:48:20 AM PDT by JDoutrider
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To: Cubs Fan

Sue them until they drop.


33 posted on 09/25/2016 10:04:12 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: rovenstinez

Clear case of Outright Discrimination, IMO.


34 posted on 09/25/2016 10:04:54 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Cubs Fan

Boycott major league professional sports.


35 posted on 09/25/2016 10:07:12 AM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: blam

BTW, businesses affected by the BLM BS ought to be sueing them too...”””

The 49er’s have a brand new, large, EXPENSIVE stadium to pay for. How much are their revenues being hit with Kaepernick’s actions? Even in Liberal San Francisco, many fans come from more conservative parts of Calif.


36 posted on 09/25/2016 10:10:30 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Cubs Fan

I have suspended both the NFL and MLB from my viewing on TV. MLB is on probation, but the NFL is suspended for good. It’s freed up my Sunday afternoons.

I used to watch the NFL on TV as a way to escape from, if only for a few hours each week, political commentary or being lectured at one way or another about political or social issues. The disrespecting the National Anthem was the final straw. I haven’t watched a single second of NFL this fall. Don’t plan to watch any, either.


37 posted on 09/25/2016 10:33:38 AM PDT by Jay W
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To: Cubs Fan

Imagine what would happen to these “totally critical” organizations if the awful, privileged, racist white folks stopped giving them their mountains of money each year.

People always say what the hell can we do?

This is about the easiest darn thing in the world to do.

Don’t give them any of your money. IF you have to watch, watch your tv. Drop the tickets. Don’t buy merchandise. If you want, send them an email or text that you are done with them.

LEt these people have their free speech. You have yours. They need to be the big boys and girls they are pretending to be, and deal with the consequences of their free speech and political correctness.


38 posted on 09/25/2016 11:49:47 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jay W

You are going to get so much more done. Lots of time better spent.


39 posted on 09/25/2016 11:50:26 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Cubs Fan
As well as their fascist double standards regarding free speech

First of all, they're not fascists. They're communists. Fascism arose in response to communism, and the way things are going, it may happen again.

Second of all, they DO NOT have a double standard! If it furthers the revolution and tears down America, it's good. If it retards the revolution and strengthens America, it's bad. That's one single, clear, bright-line standard, to which they always adhere, no matter what.

40 posted on 09/25/2016 11:57:51 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Rise)
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