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McClendon: MLB not reaching blacks
ESPN Dallas ^
| September 7, 2014
| Calvin Watkins
Posted on 09/07/2014 6:47:28 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Seattle Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said Sunday he's concerned about the lack of African-American players and managers in baseball.
In the last few weeks, two African-American managers left the game in Houston's Bo Porter, who was fired, and on Friday, Texas' Ron Washington resigned, leaving McClendon as the only black man as a manager.
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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; blacks
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Imagine the uproar if a white insider minimized basketball players in terms of color or lack thereof in such a manner.
To: ConservativeStatement
Dammit Lloyd, not you too.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:49:20 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: ConservativeStatement
It’s very true though. After a decade or so of some excellent black baseball players, everyone wants to be a football or basketball player and no one wants to play baseball.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:49:25 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: ConservativeStatement
They’ll have a field day with the NHL. LOL
To: ConservativeStatement
Oh please. Enough of the crybabies and their demands for yet a larger “piece of the pie”.
Earn it like the rest of us or STFU and go to hell.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:50:26 PM PDT
by
Pox
(Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Hasn’t MLB been taken over by Hispanic players from Central America and the Caribbean?
To: ConservativeStatement
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Seattle Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said Sunday he's concerned about the lack of African-American players and managers in baseball.Translation: MLB is racist. I am more of a hockey fan. Translation number two: The NHL is even more racist. I hate these slime bags.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:52:34 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(If I have a son, I am going to name him Bill, George, Sue, anything but Barack Hussein Obama)
To: struggle
Baseball is a long road to the big show and McClendon should know that.
As it is baseball is probably the most racially mixed sport there is.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:52:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: ConservativeStatement
these wite bases ....must GO!!!!
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:53:25 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
To: ConservativeStatement
No place to play baseball in the inner cities, so why is this a surprise?
Besides, football and basketball offer much better opportunities for a college education than baseball, assuming the player goes to class and works at it.
To: ConservativeStatement
Lloyd McClendon has too much time. Or he is a neurotic worrier. Maybe black just prefer going into basketball and football and some other activities.
To: MeshugeMikey
To: Cry if I Wanna
Not really, there are quite a few of them, but baseball doesn’t really seem to be dominated by any one race.
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:57:01 PM PDT
by
Bill93
To: StoneWall Brigade
Id always thought that stealing a base was just ..A TERM......
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posted on
09/07/2014 6:59:12 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
(Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
To: ConservativeStatement
Does anyone ever express concern about the lack of white players in the NBA?
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:00:03 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: cripplecreek
I don’t disagree.
I simply see the black community abandoning baseball for basketball and football.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:00:06 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Charles Barkley? /sarcasm.
To: ConservativeStatement
The number of African-American players in the game is down to 7.8 percent. In 1995, African-Americans comprised of 19 percent of the big league rosters and in 1975 it was its highest at 27 percent. The number of European-American players is down also. The number of American players, period, is down. Meanwhile, the number of African-Dominicans is way, way up.
To: Bill93
Most teams even have Asian players. My Tigers don’t have any Asian players on the active roster but manager Brad Ausmus is Jewish along with Ian Kinsler.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:01:16 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Baseball clearly needs more black, Muslim, homosexual, illegal, vegan, climate sensitive players and managers.
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posted on
09/07/2014 7:01:44 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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