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MLB, Players Discussing How To Add Social Justice Elements This Season
ESPN ^ | Buster Olney

Posted on 07/20/2020 10:53:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Major League Baseball and players have been in conversation about how to incorporate social justice elements into the sport, according to league and player sources, with the most recent conversation scheduled for Sunday.

It's unclear what form the elements will take, whether it be some kind of logo placed on uniforms or something shared and fronted by players.

Since the killing of George Floyd on May 25, many of the sport's players and teams have joined the national conversation about social justice. Andrew McCutchen, the Philadelphia Phillies' veteran, was among athletes and coaches who shared a byline and thoughts in a USA Today editorial in early June.

Los Angeles Dodgers players recently held a Zoom call led by Clayton Kershaw to talk about racial injustice, and their discussion resulted in a video released last week in support of Black Lives Matter.

Baseball mostly did not participate in the social justice conversation in sports after NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began to kneel during the national anthem in 2016. Bruce Maxwell, a catcher with the Oakland Athletics, kneeled during the anthem in 2017, but he has since said that he felt unsupported by peers and by those in the sport.

Baseball has rarely tackled issues of racial inequality with industry-wide uniformity. Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, but a full 12 years would pass before the Boston Red Sox became the last team to sign its first Black player, Pumpsie Green.

At the 1972 World Series, Robinson called for the hiring of the first Black manager in the major leagues, something that didn't happen until 1975 when Frank Robinson took over the Cleveland Indians.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: baseball; duplicate; elements; majorleague; socialjustice
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To: Enlightened1

Only black players are allowed to score runs.


21 posted on 07/20/2020 11:05:26 AM PDT by xp38
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To: DaxtonBrown

Roger that. Including “motor” sports.


22 posted on 07/20/2020 11:06:15 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Liberals ruin and destroy anything they touch. Who watches ESPN anyway?


23 posted on 07/20/2020 11:06:53 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: DaxtonBrown

Ditto that..pretty much.


24 posted on 07/20/2020 11:07:13 AM PDT by Osage Orange (qcsi)
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To: DaxtonBrown

25 posted on 07/20/2020 11:07:18 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Enlightened1

I even gave up on the 5AM Korean baseball games.

The games were fine, but I could not stand the increasingly woke commentary of the ESPN announcing crews.


26 posted on 07/20/2020 11:08:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Luke21
Who watches ESPN anyway?

Who has cable anyway? I don't. I'm not sending my money to ComCrap to work against my interests.

27 posted on 07/20/2020 11:10:22 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Enlightened1

Take the #42 off of every jersey if that is what they are going to do.

MLB already supports blacks.


28 posted on 07/20/2020 11:11:20 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: Enlightened1

You know what America’s pastime was missing? Cultural Marxism.


29 posted on 07/20/2020 11:12:36 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Enlightened1

I dunno. Maybe slash ticket and concessions prices so low and moderate income dads can afford to bring their kids to the game?


30 posted on 07/20/2020 11:16:02 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Enlightened1

Black players of African American descent get four strikes and three balls.

Of course, that is a very low percentage of MLB players.


31 posted on 07/20/2020 11:20:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: sphinx

It’s all about online betting.

What’s the over/under on how many games are played before Clint Frazier passes out on the field running in his mask in the 90 degree heat?


32 posted on 07/20/2020 11:21:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Enlightened1

If they really cared they would donate their salaries.


33 posted on 07/20/2020 11:25:00 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: NobleFree

Batters of color when facing a white devil pitcher will be given 1 extra strike and 1 fewer ball, and the strike zone will be shrunk. White umpires are not allowed to call players of color out


34 posted on 07/20/2020 11:35:13 AM PDT by nhbob1
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To: xp38

You definitely missed the Dodgers versus D-Backs last night. Cody Bellinger had 3 hits. The first hit was a grand slam.


35 posted on 07/20/2020 11:35:54 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Don't be a pinhead.)
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To: Enlightened1

They are too insulated and stupid to see how damaged the NFL is?


36 posted on 07/20/2020 11:37:22 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Enlightened1

maybe they can discuss how not to lose me as a possible returning fan.

or not.


37 posted on 07/20/2020 11:40:33 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Enlightened1

Damn the media for cramming this garbage down our throats.


38 posted on 07/20/2020 11:41:09 AM PDT by glasseye ("A policeman's job is only easy in a police state." Orson Welles)
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To: Enlightened1

What, will they only put 8 men on the field against black batters?


39 posted on 07/20/2020 11:48:49 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: Enlightened1

Maybe they could let POC in for free and charge melanin-challenged fans double. It’s only fair.


40 posted on 07/20/2020 11:53:28 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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