Posted on 09/18/2012 2:05:19 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
The Toronto Blue Jays suspended Yunel Escobar for three games on Tuesday after he wore eye-black tape inscribed with an anti-gay slur during Saturday’s game at the Rogers Centre. The salary forfeited by Escobar during his suspension will go to You Can Play and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
“Honestly it’s been a terrible experience in my life and career,” Escobar said through a translator. “It’s something I’m sorry for and something I won’t do again.”
The player said he was embarrassed by his actions.
“It was just a joke,” Escobar said through the translator. “It was my idea but it wasn’t directed at anyone in particular.”
Escobar said he has friends who are gay and has nothing against homosexuals.
“The person who decorates my house...
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I recall when the Iranian hostages were returned, someone suggested giving them lifetime season passes to some baseball team. Some wag replied: "Haven't they suffered enough?" Sums it up.
My late mother was Canadian.
You hire people just so you can enjoy screwing up their livelihoods by firing them? And then you complain about bullies??? That's messed up.
Baseball has long been referred to as the thinking man's game. Perhaps that's why you don't enjoy baseball.
Canada is a country in North America,as are the USA and Mexico.
They are all Americans,along with a whole bunch of other countries.
There are Europeans,and Asians,and Africans,and Americans-—all encompassing different countries.
Bread and Circus has gone Tofu and Theater.
I don't know about that, but I was recently in Vancouver and asked someone "what it was like to be Canadian." I got a rather peeved look from her and she responded, "I'm NOT Canadian! I'm British Columbian!"
Mark
Quotation marks and other stuff don’t seem to work in the tag box. As a died-in-the-wool baseball fan, I do resent the challenge to my masculinity, you brute.
Does it really say “mamma”? When was the last time you checked?
...these sodomites sure are a thin-skinned bunch, eh?
Sometimes it says m a m m a.
Somebody must have studied under Jesse Jackson at some point...they've got the shakedown down to a science.
Excellent.
“”I’m NOT Canadian! I’m British Columbian!””
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Funny! Sometimes you just can’t win.:-)
In fact, I would go so far as to say that the only managerial experience you likely ever had was in your fantasy world over at "KingsAge".........LOL!
As a batter...it's much different....33 hits out of 100 is great hitting. Why, do you ask? Because that's the standard. That's how hard it is.
Boring? I dunno...golf, tennis, soccer anyone? They are sports...and you like them or you don't.
So you don't like baseball....Fair enough.
>>You hire people just so you can enjoy screwing up their livelihoods by firing them? And then you complain about bullies??? That’s messed up.<<
What comes around goes around...
>>In fact, I would go so far as to say that the only managerial experience you likely ever had was in your fantasy world over at “KingsAge”.........LOL!<<
You would be wrong.
But if it pleases your ego to think otherwise there isn’t any point in pursuing this discussion.
But I think we all can see why you are a gas station attendant who spells the slurpee guy when he goes on break.
>>Quotation marks and other stuff don’t seem to work in the tag box. As a died-in-the-wool baseball fan, I do resent the challenge to my masculinity, you brute.<<
Thanks for the heads up — I removed the quotation marks.
No amount of discourse will ever make baseball macho. So, if I linked pastoral with gay, it does make logical sense.
But I am a brute and I hang my head in shame.
LOL!
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