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Milwaukee Brewers join Bucks in protest, will sit out game vs. Reds after Jacob Blake shooting, per report
CBS Sports ^ | August 26, 2020 | Dayn Perry

Posted on 08/26/2020 3:14:44 PM PDT by Stravinsky

After the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks refused to play their Wednesday afternoon playoff game in protest of a recent shooting by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Brewers have joined them by deciding as a team not to take the field on Tuesday night, per Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal. The Brewers had been scheduled to play the Reds at home at 8:10 p.m. ET on Wednesday night.

Earlier on Wednesday, Milwaukee reliever Josh Hader suggested that not playing the game was a possibility.

On Monday night, Brewers reliever Devin Williams scrawled "BLM," the acronym for the Black Lives Matter movement, into the Miller Park mound before he pitched.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbssports.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; blackthugsmatter; blm; brewers; marxism; mlb; negrobaseballleague; sports; wisconsin
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1 posted on 08/26/2020 3:14:44 PM PDT by Stravinsky
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Meh. I supposed maybe I would slightly care if I liked Basketball.


2 posted on 08/26/2020 3:15:32 PM PDT by Intar
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If a team won’t play that should be a forfeit.


3 posted on 08/26/2020 3:15:33 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Intar

And I realized it’s baseball. I need to get more sleep.


4 posted on 08/26/2020 3:16:01 PM PDT by Intar
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Looks like this is the next mass protest for the anti-American sports teams.


5 posted on 08/26/2020 3:16:08 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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“Brewers reliever Devin Williams scrawled ‘BLM,’ the acronym for the Black Lives Matter...”

No, it means Baseball Lost Me.


6 posted on 08/26/2020 3:17:18 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: Stravinsky

The NBA=NOTHIN BUT A-HOLES


7 posted on 08/26/2020 3:18:16 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Intar

Cancel it all. Basketball, Football, Hockey, Baseball.


8 posted on 08/26/2020 3:18:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Stravinsky

They’ll have to send all the fans home—oh, wait a minute...


9 posted on 08/26/2020 3:18:58 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Screw all pro sports.


10 posted on 08/26/2020 3:19:09 PM PDT by exnavy (american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
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I’ll Boycott sports now for the 100th time...


11 posted on 08/26/2020 3:19:54 PM PDT by Professional
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Cancel it all. Basketball, Football, Hockey, Baseball.

Amen brother! Until they "wake" up from the Communist delusion they are supporting and join the side of Liberty!

12 posted on 08/26/2020 3:20:07 PM PDT by Intar
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To: Stravinsky

Since the NBA and MLB shot these people, I think they should be boycotted.


13 posted on 08/26/2020 3:20:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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A bunch of millionaire black athletes protest on behalf of BLM, because a white kid defended himself against violent white antifa thugs. ?


14 posted on 08/26/2020 3:21:00 PM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: rdl6989

That’s what I wonder, if these teams have to forfeit if they refuse to play.


15 posted on 08/26/2020 3:21:03 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Stravinsky

When they resume the Brewers should play the Bucks.


16 posted on 08/26/2020 3:21:59 PM PDT by stevem
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So sit.

But no food, beverages, internet, television, NOTHING.


17 posted on 08/26/2020 3:22:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Well just another nail in the coffin...for MLB.

They are done..to me.

18 posted on 08/26/2020 3:22:35 PM PDT by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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I can see millions of Americans placing cardboard cutouts in front of their TVs for all professional sports now.


19 posted on 08/26/2020 3:24:16 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Stravinsky

Blake isn’t dead.


20 posted on 08/26/2020 3:24:27 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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