Minnesota Twins did too.
If one person is punished for using the same word others use with impunity every day, you’re not really free.
Let’s see. Chairman of the board uses racial slur.
He thus gets kicked out of the position and off the board.
Baseball teams in turn severe relationship.
Seems backwards, as if the company is being punished for getting rid of the executive who used a racial slur.
So if I order papa johns tonight am I supporting him or the idiots that are trying to destroy him?
Used the word during a media training exercise.
Media uses the word every day in movies and music as entertainment.
This wasn’t “for fun”.
You want a training exercise on dealing with media? FU the media. They hate all American traditions including baseball. They think the sport is too slow, the fanbase too white, too old, and no outed gay players on any trams.
Do you suppose this is another attack on our culture, this time pro sports?
Ok. I’ve read the article and concluded that he’s done nothing to warrant all this negativity. What did he do wrong ?
He said, “New York?”
Let’s put this in perspective.
He did not CALL someone the slur.
He was QUOTING ANOTHER person.
This fake liberal outrage is like getting mad when a white person sings rap lyrics including the N-word. You’re mad the white person said it and all outraged, but you don’t care about blacks singing it along with ho and other curse words? Shut up, hypocrite.
He was quoting someone else.
People are idiots.
The rule used to be that it was bad to call another person the dreaded “n-word”. Now it’s death to even say the word in the context of mentioning that another person said it, as this Papa John guy did. He himself did not call anyone anything. What nonsense - and the Yankees are idiots for condoning it.
Just imitating my dark cousins.
Compare that to some of things these Hollywood types have said about Trump and voters like me but there’s virtually no punishment.
I’m betting some of the guys on plaques at Yankee Stadium used that word also. Will they distance their relationship from them?
No outrage of Col. Sanders and good ‘ol KFC who allegedly did use the “N” word with impunity back in the day? I really have no correct context or audio but I care less. The NFL was after Papa Johns because of words said about the anthem so I figure it was only a matter of time when the knives strike another company to shreds. I really feel bad for people who work for the company.
This was blown way out of proportion. An anthill made into a mountain. PC sucks.
I wonder if the team promo codes still work.
Breaking News!!!
All baseball teams, and all NFL teams, and all NBA teams, will also suspend relations with all black players who use the “N” word. It’s expected that all teams will lose approximately 50% of their players.
All black singers and rappers, are also on notice that, they too could get suspended from the music industry, meaning that, most music will suffer from “clean lyrics”.