I don't have any and never said I did.
The statements in the Dallas Voice were attributed and were gay "publicity" quotes. I'd say that they were authentic. Nothing I have seen gives reason to doubt them.
They may have been authentic and you're perfectly welcome to believe it. All I say is that any statement made by the Dallas Voice is suspect because it is a junk publication. If you live in Dallas, pick a copy up of the Dallas Voice in Oak Lawn and you'll see what I mean. Plus, the article as a whole has been shown to be in error -- there is no "Gay Day" for the Texas Rangers, which is the whole thrust of the article. I think that the statements are suspicious but I'm not going to the mat one way or the other.
Until then, I am of the mind that the ticket guy initiated Rangers' (unofficial) Gay Day. He was a member of the organization.
There's no doubt that a member of the gay community who works for the Texas Rangers initiated the ticket sale. He's allowed to do that. The Rangers CEO stated as much in the interview with Scott Wilder.
If they choose to terminate him for engaging in public Rangers' Organization announcements that fall outside of his job scope, fine.
The quote is:
Andy Silverman, the Rangers’ vice president of ticket sales, said the “sheer earning potential” of the gay community was a factor in the team’s decision to sponsor Gay Day. The gay community has tremendous buying power, and “we can’t ignore that."
We already know that the team did not sponsor Gay Day, despite the first sentence above. Andy Silverman says exactly 7 words out of the above excerpt from the article and it's wrapped up in something that is demonstrably false. Who knows whether or how his words were taken out of context? That's why I'm agnostic on what he did or didn't say. And even if he did say those words, there's nothing untrue about them -- a lot of gays have a lot of money and the Texas Rangers wouldn't mind relieving them of some of it.
The man obviously is not going to refuse to sell tickets to gays just like the company that I work for is not going to refuse to sell software to gays. There's nothing here that looks bad when you look at his actual words. You're looking too much at the article and too little at what Andy Silverman actually said.
Mr. Silverman initiated a Gay Days event during Pride Week. Despite your belief that it is coincidental and just an effort to sell tickets. Mr. Silverman is a homosexual activist in this regard.
There is much more money to be made in encouraging people of all demographics to come to the park every day. I am unaware of many groups that buy 1,000 tickets as a block seating section to ANY games (even the homosexual crowd here is an alliance of several homosexual organizations to get the numbers high enough to be visible).