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Tigers fire pitching coach Chris Bosio over racially charged comments
NBC Sports Baseball ^ | June 27, 2018 | Craig Calcaterra

Posted on 06/28/2018 5:27:24 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

The Detroit Tigers have just issued a press release saying that they have fired pitching coach Chris Bosio, citing “insensitive comments that violated Club policy and his Uniform Employee Contract.” The comments are not specified, but I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about them later. Jason Beck reports that the comments were made to a team employee.

(Excerpt) Read more at mlb.nbcsports.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: 247watching; chrisbosio; detroittigers; mlb; race; slur; testingthewaters; tigers
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1 posted on 06/28/2018 5:27:24 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

“White men can’t jump.”


2 posted on 06/28/2018 5:29:56 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

And no doubt the sissy team employee complained.


3 posted on 06/28/2018 5:30:47 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/23938797/chris-bosio-says-was-sued-tigers-misunderstanding

...”Someone in our coaches’ room asked me [Monday afternoon] about Stumpf,’’ Bosio told USA Today. “And I said, “Oh, you mean ‘Spider Monkey.’ That’s his nickname. He’s a skinny little white kid who makes all of these funny faces when he works out.

“The kid [clubhouse attendant] thought we were talking about him. He got all upset. He assumed we were talking about him. I said, ‘No, no, no. We’re talking about Stumpf.’

“And that was it. I swear on my mom and dad’s graves, there was nothing else to it.’’...


4 posted on 06/28/2018 5:33:22 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM! for sure!)
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To: jjotto

Is that all there is to a Firing Offense?
Is that all there is?


5 posted on 06/28/2018 5:37:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: jjotto

Sounds totally innocuous. Tigers management over-reacted?


6 posted on 06/28/2018 5:37:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: jjotto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aor2eMbXbhI


7 posted on 06/28/2018 5:38:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: jjotto

But Maxine Waters says whatever she wants as does Peter Fonda.


8 posted on 06/28/2018 5:38:38 PM PDT by Luke21 (p til)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Maybe Bosio would still have a job if he had called the team employee a feckless c**t.


9 posted on 06/28/2018 5:41:17 PM PDT by CheneyClone
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Given the Tiger’s performance this year, no big loss.


10 posted on 06/28/2018 5:42:27 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: EEGator

heh heh

I’ve heard baseball players talk like that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aor2eMbXbhI


11 posted on 06/28/2018 5:42:53 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM! for sure!)
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To: Yo-Yo

today was 9 losses in a row and two back to back sweeps

Gardenhire

Gardenfire


12 posted on 06/28/2018 5:46:55 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Gotta be queers or women.
Neither of which should be anywhere near a ball field.


13 posted on 06/28/2018 5:47:23 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: EEGator

I’ve never watched that movie but I’ve seen enough memes and clips to make me want to.


14 posted on 06/28/2018 5:50:48 PM PDT by BBell (says stupid things posts dumber things)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Screwball , Spitball ?


15 posted on 06/28/2018 5:51:09 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

So now the rule is you can’t refer to a white person in a way that would be offensive to a black person?


16 posted on 06/28/2018 5:51:30 PM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Yo-Yo

True.

The Tigers are finished.


17 posted on 06/28/2018 5:52:28 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

This sh!t over misunderstanding who can say what needs to end

People of every color picked cotton and “cotton pickin”
as in “wait a cotton pickin’ minute “ was never a slur
but a euphemism and that announcer got reamed for it

Now if you say anything regarding apes monkeys within
10 feet of a black they feel slighted

So...pack the court with Gorsuch types Donald.
Let’s roll back all the unconstitutional lib nonsense from abortion to
Affirmative Action to anchor babies to gay marriage

Forget about Lee no need to lose another Conservative senator
and forget about Pirro her ex’s mob ties will poison her


18 posted on 06/28/2018 5:54:41 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: butlerweave

He sexually harassed the whole rotation by slapping each of them upon the buttocks.

Freegards


19 posted on 06/28/2018 5:55:24 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Yo-Yo
Yep, Tigers have a "sticks and stones" problem...

Can't hit with the stick, and can't throw the stone worth a crap.

20 posted on 06/28/2018 5:56:30 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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