Padres' Adrian Gonzalez speaks out against AZ law

mlbdailydish ^ | 5/2/10 | Eli Greenspan

[Breyean]

Recent legislation to stem the flow of illegal immigration in Arizona is causing uproar across the country. Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzalez spoke about the issue, in large part because the 2011 All-Star game will be held in Phoenix next year. One New York congressman already said that Major League Baseball should pull the ASG from Arizona because of the new law, and Gonzalez is only reinforcing the issue by hinting at a boycott.

"I'll support the Players Association 100 percent," said Gonzalez, who grew up in both Tijuana and a suburb south of San Diego. "If they leave it up to the players and the law is still there, I'll probably not play in the All-Star Game. Because it's a discriminating law.

Gonzalez is hitting .286 so far this season with 6 home runs and a .402 on-base percentage. Gonzalez and Royals closer Joakim Soria are arguably the most well-known Mexican baseball players currently at the major league level.

[Breyean]

A better article is in USA Today. Here's the link.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2010/05/adrian-gonzalez-threatens-all-star-boycott-in-arizona-/1

Where is Selig to tell the players if they don't play for this reason if chosen they will be fined or suspended?

[pissant]

Go back to Mexico then, idiot

[rbosque]

It does discriminate. It discriminates against criminals and sends them back to where ever it is they came from.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Has anyone polled the Jonas Brothers, KC & the Sunshine Band, former contestants on the Gong Show or Flo from the Progressive Insurance commercials? How about the GEICO cavemen, aren’t they immigrants?

[freedumb2003]

IOW: “Illegal should never be against the law!”

[FlingWingFlyer]

Gonzalez sounds like he might be a racist. He definitely isn’t an American. He believes that it’s okay for foreigners to invade America.

[fightinJAG]

But baseball has been very, very good to him.

[wac3rd]

2 Mexican players in MLB? That sounds low, but maybe Dominicans are better.

[GregoTX]

Did he speak out against the federal law prohibiting illegal aliens? The Arizona state law mirrors it on a state level. If he has a problem with the state law, he needs to be consistent and speak out against the federal law, unless he thinks that somehow violates the 10th Amendment.

[Stayingawayfromthedarkside]

Does that mean he won’t go to Arizona when the Padres play the Diamondbacks? Probably not, the All-Star game is a mostly meaningless game. Somebody should go start the Mexican Baseball Leauge in Mexico. I hope he likes the pay cut. LOL!!!

[max americana]

F him. He can stay home against the D Backs and lose his gringo dollars. Cant these players just STFU and hit the ball like the mindless freaks that they really are?

[Wisconsinlady]

Gonzalez, who grew up in both Tijuana and a suburb south of San Diego

Then hop on a bus to Tijuana if you don;t like our laws.

[A message]

"If they leave it up to the players and the law is still there, I'll probably not play in the All-Star Game. Because it's a discriminating law.

Wow, tough talk from a ... a... baseball player. I guess that is what happens when one is too stupid to understand the AZ law is not discriminating.

[FreeReign]

"If they leave it up to the players and the law is still there, I'll probably not play in the All-Star Game. Because it's a discriminating law."

Oh shaddup already.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Doncha just love these multi-millionaire entertainers telling the rest of us how to live and what our priorities should be?

[Godwin1]

If MLB decides to punish Arizona, I'll never go to another game—and, living in two-team Chicago, I go to 6-10 a year. If MLB boycotts Arizona, real Americans should boycott MLB.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I am sure Adrian will not only forfeit any money made playing in Arizona this year...but, really, he should pay back all money made in previous years in Arizona so he can clear his conscience...LOL

[eyedigress]

F MLB. This is the Country, DO NOT SPEND A DAMN DIME ON MLB. If I want MLB calling the shots I would elect them so.

As far anyone entering this arena, kick them to the curb. I don't need Jose anybody telling me how great the country he ran from is a play palace.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Remember in 1990, or ‘91, around in there, the NFL pulled the scheduled 1993 Super Bowl out of Arizona because Arizona didn’t have a state holiday for Martin Luther King at that time? They gave Phoenix the ‘96 Super Bowl after the state did make MLK Day a state holiday.

So this politically correct sports boycott stuff has happened before. I wouldn’t be surprised if the sports world goes PC regarding Arizona.

Why has no one done a boycott on another favorite PC issue, homosexual marriage? Is it because 30 states have passed marriage amendments, and you would end up boycotting most of the country?

I had to laugh at San Francisco boycotting Arizona, when San Francisco is in a state which has a marriage amendment. So should we all boycott San Francisco because their state banned homosexual marriage??? Where do boycotts stop if you start this nonsense??????

[Hoodat]

"I'll support the Players Association 100 percent," said Gonzalez

It is comical watching unions support continued illegal immigration considering how an influx of illegal labor depresses wages for their members.