The Bigoted, Jew-Ranting Oriole Whom the Media Ignores

New York Post ^ | May 9, 2015 | Phil Mushnick

[nickcarraway]

For sustaining evidence of a world gone nuts with the media’s steady, selective and frightened compliance, there’s Delmon Young — now with the Orioles, who spent the week here playing the Mets, then Yankees.

But first the lasting legacy of John Rocker — the big, white, not too bright Braves pitcher quoted in Sports Illustrated making bigoted, ethnic and racist remarks about NYC’s inhabitants.

Though he broke no laws or jaws, Rocker, at 24, became a national symbol of hate, a pariah, too. On TV, radio and in print — “Saturday Night Live” to “The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” — it became requisite to condemn and/or mock Rocker.

[chajin]

I must confess, it makes me glad he left the Rays.

[Osage Orange]

It all depends on who you are, who you know..and what color skin you have.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Ironically John Rocker ended his baseball career with a minor league team on Long Island.

[Dr. Thorne]

Young and the Orioles got their butts kicked at Yankee Stadium yesterday when Michael Pineda struck out 16 of them in one game.

The Orioles lost three of four games in the Bronx.