Posted on 06/30/2020 8:28:31 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
“In clubhouses we’ve got racist, sexist, homophobic jokes or flat-out problems,” Desmond wrote. “We’ve got cheating. We’ve got a minority issue from the top down. One African American GM. Two African American managers. Less than 8% Black players. No Black majority team owners.”
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Oh be still my aching heart!! An over the hill washed up constantly injured crybaby makes a stand!!!!
Virtue signaling prima donna.
I honestly cannot name one single BB player.
Don’t care if they play or not.
Maybe while he’s home he’ll find a noose in a closet, who knows.
“ In clubhouses we’ve got racist, sexist, homophobic jokes or flat-out problems,”
And none of y’all ever use the N word in there, do you? Poor innocent victims.....
8% black? I don’t believe it, but let’s hurry then and get another 4% to make it “fair”.
Blacks are 12% of the population. Some % of them will be great athletes. lack athletes are overrepresented in basketball, football, running. They are underrepresented in golf, swimming, hockey. Black athletes choose their sport, and as they overwhelmingly pick basketball and football, they are bound to be underrepresented in other sports. Baseball would happily take all the Bo Jacksons and Deion Sanders out there.
I saw in an article where he complained because he was ticketed for going 71 in a 70 zone. Alluding to his race. Well, boo hoo. Grow up spoiled brat. And for the record, I once got ticketed for leaving a parking lot two minutes beyond the maximum time allowed.
I’ll bet the Rockies are really happy they sign this malcontent. Shut up and play!
He’s got Kaepernick Syndrome. No doubt.
“Less than 8% Black players.”
If the concern is basically numbers, I remember when Michael Jordan did something that would have helped balance racial disparities in two sports.
Didn’t work out.
Oh yeah, we need parity in baseball for black players. Good grief, blacks make up 14% of the population, why would they make up the largest percentage in baseball? (Basketball is a different story, but it’s racist to mention the disparity there.)
Lord Jesus, please come back soon.
MLB has spent tens of millions of dollars in recent years trying to recruit black players and management.
A huge percent of drafted black players opt for trying other pro sports instead of baseball, leaving MLB reliant on Hispanics for ‘diversity’.
You are correct. Man I loved watching Bo Jackson play. It was alwayso fun.
Are there relatively few black players because of discrimination? Of course not.
Why are there relatively few black general managers? Is that because of discrimination?
Why are there disproportionate numbers of Latin American players in baseball nowadays? Are they taking playing jobs from black players?
Does Magic Johnson and his group still own the Dodgers? Magic Johnson happens to be black, and if he’s there, it would be false to say there are no black team owners. And as some teams are owned by ownership groups as opposed to by one individual person, there are probably blacks in ownership or other executive positions on teams and we, the general public never see them.
As far as ownership is concerned the Discrimination is not going to be racial it’s going to be based on money. If you and a few of your closest friends have a couple billion dollars lying around, then you too can own a major league baseball franchise
They are underrepresented in hockey.
My dad used to say that was because everyone on the ice has a stick.
Whoa, whoa, who. Do tell.
I know the other 92% aren't white. So what is the racial make-up that bothers you so much, Ian?
That was Hank Aaron’s job for a long time.
Looking at his age and stats, he probably has played his last MLB game
Back in the 80s, I went to a hockey game with a black friend. He told me point blank that black people will not follow hockey because they see no black faces on the ice. In private we spoke deeper and he told me blacks would rarely idolize a white athlete if ever that it was part of the black community to only support their own kind.
Since then, I noticed that in large crowded areas where people — especially men — tend to wear jerseys of athletes, few blacks will don the name of a white man. Even in places like New England with Tom Brady or Miami when Dan Marino was “the man” or anywhere else my travels took me, blacks rarely wore the names of white athletes.
When I was a kid, I was a fan of the Big Red Machine. It didn’t matter if it was Morgan, Bench, Rose, Perez, Foster, Griffey, I liked them as little boys often do with the admiration of athletes. That was then. I stopped watching most sports some time in the mid-90s. Other things entertained and enlightened, Hopefully the majority of Americans will see through these athletes.
I watch a lot of symphony orchestra and opera recordings, and I almost never see blacks in any orchestra. I see some black opera singers, but pretty much no blacks in orchestras. They obviously do not choose to study music and become proficient enough to join an orchestra. Only a matter of time before we hear they are under-represented in that.
How many of those blacks are Dominicans?
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