Baseball Hall of Famer on the hot seat for on-air joke about women, #MeToo movement

The Blaze ^ | April 30, 2018 | Aaron Colen

[Tallguy]

When Pete Rose joined the Phillies as a free agent his contract paid him $900K a year — the highest paid player in baseball at the time. Schmidt had already been a Phillies for 6 years. About 1/3rd of his career was behind him. I don’t know if Mike Schmidt was ever the “Highest Paid Player”. Probably he was at one point, but that title changed every year, if not more often. Bottom line: the $17 million figure that you threw out about Schmidt’s career earnings doesn’t surprise me at all.

[MUDDOG]

Ah! Fencer. One of the attributes Watson ascribes to Sherlock Holmes in “The Five Orange Pips” (as well as “self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco”!).

The inclusion ideal (and reality, as you describe) of the 1960’s has been replaced by racial/gender/who-knows-what fragmentation.

You could see the transition as early as the TV shows of the decade — in the early 60’s, blacks were portrayed as hard-working people who just wanted an equal chance at the American dream. By the end of the 60’s, they were angry black power advocates.

[4yearlurker]

Growing up in South Jersey I loved watching the 1970s Phillies! Mike Schmidt was the greatest. It was a treat watching him walk into the batters box and swing away. We would say "Put a stamp on it Schmitty!"

[a fool in paradise]

>>Some fans watching the game took to Twitter to call for Schmidt’s removal from the broadcast.

Like all of those seminar callers who profess to have been long time listeners and fans of the Rush Limbaugh show?

I doubt that the twitterbots were launched by fans watching the game.

[a fool in paradise]

Controversial is the industry term for click-bait.

On MSN.com’s headlines you will often see tease bait with no indication of what the actual controversy is.

Tabloid trash journalism at its worst.

[MUDDOG]

1970s Phillies

And before that, in the 1960s:

In Philly town
A slugger played
Hit the baseball far past tellin'.
Made the pitchers all
Cry well-a-way
And his name was Richie Allen.

[Palio di Siena]

Brooks Robinson

[MUDDOG]

Brooks kept Clete Boyer from winning a gold glove in the AL.

Had to go to the NL to win one (1969).

[Fightin Whitey]

Dishes??

The question is does she wash his balls before he pitches!

[Dr. Sivana]

Brooks Roninson

Robinson and Graig Nettles were both better fielders, but Schmidt was a 50 hr hitter in an era where most power hitters werr good for 30-35 hr. He was also a consistent 300+ hitter.

[MUDDOG]

I’d take Santo over Brooks as well.

[Dr. Sivana]

During his baseball career he made around $17 million dollars

He made it in the '70s and early '80s, when a NICE house was $500K, a new Porsche 911 was $32,000, and a year at an Ivy League college was $15K. Conservative investments in either real estate or the Fortune 500 would have ballooned by now, and Schmidt was not known for blowing his money up his nose or anything like that.

And he can still sell his old laundry for $300 apiece or thereabouts.

[daler]

The dangers of having a simple conversation in today's America.