Baseball has no hip-hop culture, the number of black professional baseball players is in rapid decline, yet baseball has far more all-out brawls and has had more incidents of players getting in brawls with fans, throwing chairs at fans, or getting in brawls with security guards.
But, doesn't seem to bother people much if the perps aren't "street rap ghetto thugs." Catcher Chad Kreuter went into the stands to brawl with fans (who had stolen his cap) at Wrigley Field a few years ago and was suspended for 8 games. I did a search on FR to see if the incident was mentioned and couldn't turn anything up.
The vicious Todd Bertuzzi hit in Hockey, as an act of vile violence, alone, was about 100 times worse than every single thing combinedthat happened at that Pistons game. Is he from the ghetto rap culture?
The vicious Todd Bertuzzi hit in Hockey, as an act of vile violence, alone, was about 100 times worse than every single thing combinedthat happened at that Pistons game. Is he from the ghetto rap culture?
You're mistaken when you say that it doesn't bother people if the athlete who gets into a fight isn't a "street rap ghetto thug". Bill Laimbeer of the Pistons (a white guy) was one of the most hated players in the NBA during his playing days because he was always getting into scuffles with other players. As far as hockey goes, fighting has been ingrained in that sport ever since its origin. That doesn't make it right, it just means that the fans have come to accept hockey as a rough sport. Every sport has it's own set of rules governing how they deal with disciplinary problems involving their players. How baseball, football, or hockey decides to disipline their players has no bearing on how basketball chooses to discipline its players.