good point. But don’t give MLB any ideas. They already hired a guy as Director of Gay something or other.
And it wouldn’t surprise me in the least in the not too distant future if some players start some dancing/showboating crap after a hit and some old school pitcher nails the clown next time at bat. Pitcher is then suspended for infringing on the clowns “CULTURAL DISPLAY” and all the MSM piles on too.
No doubt it KILLS MLB that openly gay men have made their debut in the other big pro sports first. I think there are a lot more potential problems for MLB than the others, look at the discrete individual contests. If a position player, that’s 3-5 at bats or so where things like balls, strikes, throwing inside, will be have to be weighed against the gayness. It’s not like pitch f/x is going to lie for the gay player or ump.
As far as MLB players self policing, that’s the beauty of the 162 game season. It doesn’t even have to be that series, retaliation could happen months from then, and often does with the crummy warnings they give out. Not to mention just hitting everyone in the lineup but the showboat, and getting THEM to self police their own.
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Thankfully I can’t see baseball going in that direction anytime soon.
For starters, all this showboating comes mainly from Black players and it’s the Black spectators* who are drawn to it.
Baseball is handed down from father to son and takes lots of commitment, so the number of black players and fans has extremely dropped off.
I hoping Manny was the last Manny being Manny.
* - Side note. Speaking of Black spectators. I am not a big fan, but I often get tickets from companies I work with and might go to 1 or 2 football games a year. Surprisingly, I’ve been to several different stadiums and no matter what stadium or game I never see any Blacks in attendance, ever. Even in cities like Philadelphia and New Orleans. The crowd is always 99.9% White. With hat kind of attendance I am surprised Blacks are that into football.