Posted on 01/28/2005 1:10:46 PM PST by hipaatwo
MIAMI (AP) -- Carlos Delgado is willing to stand up for his beliefs -- or, in his case, not stand up. At his introductory news conference Thursday with the Florida Marlins, Delgado said he'll continue to not stand up this season during the playing of God Bless America. An opponent of the war in Iraq, Delgado refused to stand when God Bless America was played last season at games involving his Toronto Blue Jays.
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He's gonna get booed.
I'm no expert (and someone will correct me if I'm wrong), but it seems like SI is usually pretty comfortable writing about anti-Americanism.
The writer obviously thinks that God Bless America is the national anthem.
One almost hates to disillusion him.
I am sick and tired of these jerks. Why don't they just get lost ?
As long as he hits homeruns, he won't get booed. He'll be playing in Miami where one of two things happen with the Marlins: 1) The lose and no one shows up, or 2) They win and the 'fans' are willing to ignore everything else.
The Red Sox were looking at Delgado at one time. Something tells me they knew about his little protest. Sox fans would have ripped him unmercifully. Libs tend to get outnumbered during games at Fenway.
I wish all the best for Carlos (despite his idiotic anti-American rant). He was a class-act with the Jays and put up with ten years of missing the playoffs. He was fantastic in our community and devastating at the plate. My best memory from last season was when he blasted a Pedro pitch. Just get ready for some 0 for 4's.
Wasn't God Bless America based on the English anthem of 'God Save the Queen'?
Carlos Delgado is a jerk, plain and simple. He doesn't seem to realize that he's getting paid to play baseball, not to make idiotic anti-American statements. He'll get his 15 minutes, with the knee-jerk hatemongering leftists blindly kissing his butt, then he'll be forgotten as soon as the next anti-American athlete/singer/actor/actress says or does something even more extremist.
Ted Williams's team should not offer its uniform to Carlos who has also exhibited anti-Americanism by protesting the US Navy's weapons testing facility at Vieques, Puerto Rico. George Steinbrenner was actually born on the Fourth of July. 'Nuff said.
When we need Carlos's political advice, we will be sure to ask.
Hey, Carlos, shut up, stand up and play and thank God you can make that much money playing the game for as long as your career may last. Now that you are in the National League, don't hang your head in Mr. Clemens's neighborhood if you know what's good for you. He spends his winters visiting the troops.
I agree. SI would be a great magazine if they just stuck to writing about sports, but they have to crap it up by injecting politics into it. SI has the same anti-American bias as Time.
SI's leftist bent is surprising, because a lot of athletes tend to be conservative. I remember the whole Anaheim Angels team being excited about meeting President Bush when they won the World Series in 2002. Even Curt Schilling, who's with the Red Sox of liberal Boston, campaigned for Bush in 2004.
If NOT for them, the punk Delgado would be picking bananas in the Domincan today.
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And I'll refuse to watch Delgado and his team each and every time they play.
As a follower of the AL East, you undoubtedly watched this mutt turn one good season into a ridiculously overpriced contract with Toronto. Boston's flirtation stemmed from a recommendation by one P.Martinez.
I hope someone like Clemens puts one in this joker's earhole, but I won't hold my breath.
BTW - For the uninitiated, you know this guy is a POS if you can get Sox and Yankee fans to agree about it!
Sports writers in general tend to be lefties (think John Finestein, Mitch Albom, Tony Kornheiser), as bad or worse than the newsies. Look at the Rush/McNabb flap, they are taking it out of mothballs this week (and disorting it, as usual
I'm sure none of them asked him about the fact that Iraqis are voting free for the first time in 50 yrs on Sunday. I think his father is a big socialist leader in PR.
Maybe Roger Clemens will exercise his "right" to buzz Carlos' head with a 98MPH fastball the first time they play Houston.
Translation: "As long as the guy hits 30+ hrs and knocks in 100+ rbis every year and he's not breaking the law, we couldn't care less what Delgado does."
I suspect that they'll consider Carlos' actions to be far more offensive once his off-ensive #'s start to suffer.
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