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.
MLB, Players Discussing How To ... Drive even more fans away
MLB is blm backwards. Just sayin’................
“Doesn’t anybody know how to play this game?”
Here’s a great idea: How about just playing baseball? You know, the ballgame? Yeah. Baseball.
Pro Sports are dead to me.
Looks like this family will be forced to write off all team sports.
Looks like this family will be forced to write off all team sports.
NASCAR is done- they are full on blm support now- Sadly- there’s a ton of fans that just don’t care- they will go back just as soon as they are allowed to attend- wish they owudl all, mostly, protest this crap and stop going for a year or two till NASCAR gets the message that their blm support crap sucks and is destroying their sport—
Maybe actually do something. Set up a college fund for black kids that are bright but financially cannot attend university, put your money where your mouth is not a dum patch on your jersey.
BASEBALL.
That’s what you should be discussing.
Yep, Baseball is the last sport I have been willing to watch. If it goes, I go.
It doesn’t matter to me, I’ve given up on professional sports, except for golf. But I have a sincere question. All of these idiots that are falling all over themselves to do some serious virtue signaling, don’t they realize that their core fans are turned off by this? The people they are impressing, likely never played ball, and just don’t care.
Odd form of suicide.
They didn’t get the memo either, did they?
We don’t give a flying “F” what you people think!!!!! I will NOT be lectured on morals by a bunch of dim-wit jocks one-third my age who can’t keep their mouths OR their zippers closed!!!!
Pro sports are dead. Just what the leftists want. Baseball and apple pie are evil to them. They are completely content with getting rid of anything that once was competitive.
All basemen must stay at least 6 feet from any runner..................
And as more and more rap stars and ex-athletes get into team ownership, that supposed "ceiling" is being eliminated.
The MLB gave us Jackie Robinson. They have nothing to be ashamed of or feel guilty about.
They should be celebrating their history rather than bowing to terrorists.
Read the Declaration before every game!
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