Posted on 09/02/2021 2:15:46 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Washington Nationals vice president Bob Boone has informed the team that he will resign instead of complying with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all non-uniformed employees, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.
Boone, 73, has been with the organization since 2005 and serves as a senior adviser to general manager Mike Rizzo. Boone was assistant GM and vice president of player development from 2006 to 2013.
News of Boone's resignation was first reported by The Washington Post.
Boone was a star catcher for the Phillies, Angels and Royals from 1972 to 1990 and also managed the Royals and Reds between 1995 and 2003. He is the father of New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone and former MLB infielder Bret Boone.
Aaron Boone announced in March that he was vaccinated against COVID-19.
In addition to the resignation of Boone, two scouts will not be with the Nationals organization next season due to the vaccine policy, according to a report by The Athletic.
The Nationals were one of the first teams in baseball to require vaccines for non-playing, full-time employees, including coaches, executives and staff. The policy went into effect Aug. 12 and employees needed to meet an Aug. 26 deadline to provide proof of first shot or apply for an exemption.
"As a company, we have a responsibility to do everything we can to keep one another safe and felt that mandating vaccines was the absolute right thing to do for our employees and our community," the Nationals said in a statement on Friday.
Just say NO to Pfascism.
“do everything we can to keep one another safe”
Uh…no. You can wear multiple masks even when no one is within miles of you or get all of the vaccinations, but you are responsible for your own health, not me. If I am sick, I will stay home, but that’s about it, folks.
“do everything we can to keep one another safe”
Every religion needs its mantras
Watched Boone play for the Eugene Emeralds in AAA. Strong statement. The Vax and Masks don’t work.
Visiting Philly in July I went to a Phillies game and one of the opposing
Nationals tested positive for Covid and got pulled after first inning. Next day 12
players or staffers on the Nats tested positive so that day’s game was cancelled but forced a doubleheader to take place the day after. 11 of those 12 had been fully vaccinated, but they tested positive.
Probably mild symptoms at most.
I think Boston Red Sox are the least vaccinated team but have had many test positive including Xander Boegarts most recently.
How many tests have been false positives???
Tweet by Dan Shaughnessy, Boston Globe
[full disclosure: team’s owner John
Henry also owns paper]
“Way to go, anti-vaxxer, Red Sox. One of six teams not on board. Now they have lost Xander Bogaerts. Official dumpster fire. Great leadership. They totally deserve what is happening to them.”
(The team is struggling...)
Shaughnessy also quotes Andrew Callahan
“Per league data, unvaccinated players tested positive for COVID-19 at a rate 7x higher than those who were vaccinated from Aug. 1 to Aug. 21. Vaccinated players tested positive at a rate of 0.3%, compared to 2.2% for unvaccinated players.”
(Note though that many vaccinated can
also test positive though mild symptoms at most. 2.2 per cent. ..Wow...)
Good point—some cases have been “got a
(false) positive then tested again and got
a negative”. Two teams in Little League World Series were disqualified because one adult coach tested positive—and it was indeed a case of getting a false positive
then getting a second test that was negative.
For this, the team was unable to compete
in the LLWS playoff.
Vaccine mandates are pure magic.
They make employees disappear!
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