Posted on 09/03/2011 8:55:25 PM PDT by massmike
The Red Sox by now certainly understand why people are upset about their public support for the vulgar, homosexual website "It Gets Better". Over the last three weeks the organization has been flooded with complaints -- many of them quite descriptive -- via phone, email, and US mail. We have personally talked to their representatives and explained in detail what that site entails. We also mailed a fairly descriptive letter to the Red Sox vice president of public relations.
But instead of doing the right thing, the reaction by the Red Sox has been to dig in their heels.
The Red Sox people we talked to have reacted much the same way that liberal school officials, politicians, reporters, and others react. When confronted with this obscene, graphic material being presented to kids, they initially act a little shocked, but you can quickly tell that it doesn't really bother them. Sometimes they'll give lip service to "telling people higher up." But it's clear they're not particularly interested in it -- and that they think we're the kooks for pursuing it. (Does all this seem familiar?)
As a gesture of defiance, the Red Sox now have the It Gets Better video as an "Editor's Choice" on their movie page.
They've also written a rather insulting canned statement which they send to complainers as a reply. It does not address our concerns but instead accuses us of supporting "discrimination" and "acts of hatred."
(Excerpt) Read more at massresistance.com ...
when the all star game was won by the national league we next knew game 6 and 7 would be back in Phoenix
and I’m rootin fo Rickie Fowler on the links today and tomorrow
It is ‘Sign Day’ at Fenway...wonder if any pro-gay groups will have any signs promoting ‘It Gets Better’ at the ball park today?
Seems like an anti-bullying project to me. Very distasteful on the sexual orientation concept, which has no place in kids’ thinking. And this is oriented to kids for sure, sickening.
If they did, half of the fans would think they were referring to the pitching staff.
11-4 LOL!
Sounds like she got Big Footed by Steve Buckley.
I noticed the ad features two Lesbians because “It Gets Better” isn’t true for Gay men.
All they have to do is post a picture of Janet Reno, and let aspiring lesbians know what their future holds.
BLO-Sox...
..the story was released on Sept.3, weren't the Sox 9 games up(.5 out of first) on that date?
"Is very bad"...to make Bambino mad...
A lack of clubhouse leadership was almost certainly one concern.
“They don’t need a leader,” one prominent Red Sox player said Friday on the condition of anonymity. “They need a babysitter.”
The Boston Herald reported another divisive issue, citing sources as saying that pitchers were allowed to drink beer in the clubhouse on their off days. A Red Sox source not only confirmed to ESPNBoston.com that was the case, but also said that it “has been going on for two years.”
Francona didn’t want to go there Friday afternoon, reasoning that if as manager, he’d never singled out players before for petty crimes and misdemeanors, including the poster boy for such behavior, Manny Ramirez, he wasn’t about to start now.
“Lucchino said after Friday’s news conference he had a “low” level of awareness “until very recently” that this had been going on. His reaction when he did find out?
“Surprise,” he said, before adding, “Yeah, there were some other emotions, but I’d rather just leave it at that.”
A third issue of concern that has circulated widely was a perceived indifference to conditioning by some players — “gluttony,” one Red Sox executive called it.”
http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/7040260/terry-francona-boston-red-sox-part-ways-two-titles
It really makes you wonder, doesn’t it? “Club house factors”— euphemism or maybe “youphemism?” Shut everybody up who doesn’t play along, or is uncomfortable with behavior intolerable to them , then expect championship performance. How will it play out in the military?
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