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’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’.
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
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?
Looking at his age and stats, he probably has played his last MLB game
“Ian Desmond”
Who??
Next comes his Tell-All Book, “Bad Stuff ‘Bout The Rockies”
I suspect he will be happy when the MLB attains the level of black participation in the NBA (@ 80%) and NFL (@ 75%).
Systemic racism much??
So go play basketball where you will feel more at home...
They make racial choices but want to deny us ours especially when it comes to speech
Never heard of this loser so good riddance
Sounds like this guy has never heard of Wally Pipp.
Like I’d be upset if there was only Golf this season, NOT.
I am a Rockies fan. This is just hard to accept. Not that Ian Desmond was necessary for success, but that he stepped out and refused to play with the team. The racial stuff I just don’t get. He quotes lack of black players, managers and CEO, but fails to accept that Baseball was the FIRST major sport to integrate.
So....is he suggesting that Baseball should have 19% blacks, as with the population, and we should move to ensure that every position and every job has essentially the same statistics as the general population? What are we going to do about the NBA or the NFL. Who was the last ‘White’ running back for the Pittsburgh Stealers, Dallas.......where does it end.?