Posted on 05/03/2017 12:51:13 PM PDT by C19fan
I don’t follow MLB very closely, but there are a lot of black players. Is there some reason this guy Jones was singled out? Thanks, just curious.
On topic: Smith is an arrogant idiot. Always has been.
PS: Does Smith realize that virtually every city in America is run by Democrats?
YOU’RE the racist, Smith...just like most black Americans. Voted for Zero, didn’t you, Smith? Because he’s one of your people, right? Projection is a bitch.
I love watching MLB baseball, HS and College football and PBA (pro bowling).
The NFL is dead to me.
NBA is nothing but parolees or future parolees goin’ squeaky squeaky squeaky... shoot. However, NCAA is fun near the end.
NHL is BORING except during the Stanly Cup playoffs. Sorry Canada.
Women’s Curling makes me smile, don’t know why.
That’s just my screwed up opinion.
Forgotten in this story is the history of the behavior of Boston fans. Back in the 50s “fans” used to buy tickets for the left field stands just so they could taunt and harass one of the greatest, Ted Williams. Williams, of course, being white no cries of racism arose, but questions about the crude conduct of Red Sox “fans” certainly did then as well as now.
Harry Truman is said to have described a prominent Pubbie with “the son-of-a-bitch is no good.”
Every person has color.
I agree 100%. Because they're like soccer moms with personality and chutzpah.
But...I'll watch a Bruins game no matter what the time of season.
Why would Boston fans harass Ted Williams?
I just don’t get it.....
MOST US sports fans watch, Football, baseball, basketball, and hockey.
White Americans make up 65% of the population. Blacks slightly less than 12%....
It is stupidity to piss off the vast majority of your customer base.
The fans were just idiots.
Adam Jones is widely regarded as one of the good guys in baseball and was the defacto captain of the United States team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic
Thank you for that info. I do not follow baseball anymore, so I do not know the players these days.
Based on that generalization, Mike Smith is a bigot.
ESPN is stuck with the unwatchable SC6 forever. How do you ever fire Michael and Jemmima? No matter the ratings that show is here to stay.
BTW, laughing to think that not only were a 100 folks laid off, most of who remained took pay cuts!
ESPN is reacting like those rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic after it struck the iceberg. Which, come to think about it, was RACISM! A BLACK boat sunk by a WHITE iceberg!!!!!!
Boston is a very racist city. Take a walk down Blue Hill Ave and see what happens if you’re a cracker.
The Angel broadcasters were saying that Jones is well liked by everyone in baseball. Not at all someone who is rude or abusive to anyone. This is just some fans being jerks, yelling racial slurs and throwing peanuts at him.
They must have been pitchers...
Good question given that Ted was one of the best who ever played the game and was a war hero to boot. Here's a partial answer from Wikipedia:
Ted Williams was on uncomfortable terms with the Boston newspapers for nearly twenty years, as he felt they liked to discuss his personal life as much as his baseball performance. He maintained a career-long feud with SPORT magazine due to a 1948 feature article in which the SPORT reporter included a quote from Williams' mother. Insecure about his upbringing, and stubborn because of immense confidence in his own talent, Williams made up his mind that the "knights of the Press Box" were against him. After having hit for the league's Triple Crown in 1947, Williams narrowly lost the MVP award in a vote where one midwestern newspaper writer left Williams entirely off his ten-player ballot.
He treated most of the press accordingly, as he described in his memoir, My Turn at Bat. Williams also had an uneasy relationship with the Boston fans, though he could be very cordial one-on-one. He felt at times a good deal of gratitude for their passion and their knowledge of the game. On the other hand, Williams was temperamental, high-strung, and at times tactless. In his biography, Ronald Reis relates how Williams committed two fielding miscues in a doubleheader in 1950 and was roundly booed by Boston fans. He bowed three times to various sections of Fenway Park and made an obscene gesture. When he came to bat he spit in the direction of fans near the dugout. The incident caused an avalanche of negative media reaction, and inspired sportswriter Austen Lake's famous comment that when Williams name was announced the sound was like "autumn wind moaning through an apple orchard."
Another incident occurred in 1958 in a game against the Washington Senators. Williams struck out, and as he stepped from the batter's box swung his bat violently in anger. The bat slipped from his hands, was launched into the stands and struck a 60-year-old woman — one who turned out to be the housekeeper of the Red Sox general manager Joe Cronin. While the incident was an accident and Williams apologized to the woman personally, to all appearances it seemed at the time that Williams had hurled the bat in a fit of temper.
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Williams demanded loyalty from those around him. He could not forgive the fickle nature of the fans — booing a player for booting a ground ball, then turning around and roaring approval of the same player for hitting a home run. Despite the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgement after a home run.
Williams maintained this policy up to and including his swan song in 1960. After hitting a home run in his last career at-bat in Fenway Park, Williams characteristically refused either to tip his cap as he circled the bases or to respond to prolonged cheers of "We want Ted!" from the crowd by making an appearance from the dugout. The Boston manager Pinky Higgins sent Williams to his fielding position in left field to start the ninth inning, but then immediately recalled him for his back-up Carroll Hardy, thus allowing Williams to receive one last ovation as he jogged on and off the field, but he did so without reacting to the crowd. Williams' aloof attitude led the writer John Updike to observe wryly that "Gods do not answer letters."
There are 62 black players in MLB. That’s about two/team. Jones is highly respected in the game. This was in now way his fault. A couple black players have come out and said this happens every time they play in Boston.
Make sure that you catch an Angel game to watch Mike Trout. A once in a generation ball player. Some who played with Mantle and Kaline compare him to them.
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