Posted on 05/13/2010 10:42:04 AM PDT by C210N
Or Jackie Robinson like, he can force EVERY team to have a La Raza insignia on their shoulder, in perpetuity.....
Speaking of Jackie Robinson, Bud already scheduled a day of games where every player on every team wore Number 42. You can’t get much more stupid than that! (I’m sure Jackie would NOT have approved!)
VIVA ARIZONA THIS WILL BE THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS I WILL ACTUALLY WATCH THE ALL STAR GAME!
“Bud already scheduled a day of games where every player on every team wore Number 42. You can’t get much more stupid than that! (I’m sure Jackie would NOT have approved!)”
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Right. Heavy handed and WAY over the top.
Worse though, and what I was referring to, is the PERMANENT retiring of Jackie Robinson’s Dodger number from EVERY team in MLB. A “thank you sir, may I have another” moment of self flagellation if there ever was one.
More appropriate, because it more accurately addresses the discrimination issue as a whole, instead of funnelling it down to the single player who broke the “color barrier”, is the periodic donning of Old Negro League uniforms by MLB teams. A great hat tip to those long gone teams and players, and a real fan pleaser. And once per year of that, is MORE than enough.
It’s called America’s game. Piss off non-Americans.
42, pink bats, green it up, now this. Makes me wanna puke.
Can you see Ty Cobb or Rocky Colavito coming to the plate with a pink bat?
No reason to thank Selig. He is the devil. His position is clearly money based. He’s a flaming lib except when his lib policies interfere with cash flow. He knows that the overwhelming majority of people who attend MLB are suburban familes who also support secure borders. He does not want to risk the suburban goose that lays the golden egg.
But make no mistake, for what Selig has done to baseball in his tenure, he is the devil.
That's why they invented pine tar. (I know, I know. George Brett and all that)
Ping!
Hope is doesn’t get weak kneed... he’ws a big Democrat donor.
The website that lists how many businesses have left California in the past few years is a real eye-opener.
I read thru the list yesterday.
The reasons why busniesses left were varied, but hte Nanny attitudes of the California legislature was prevelant.
I lived there 40 years. I don’t miss Calif one little bit.
Selig also maintains an office in Milwaukee in the First Wisconsin/Firstar building.
Baseball Commissioner Office
777 East Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202-5302
(414) 225-8900
I think I have been in that stadium : )
And remember in 1990, I beleive it was, the NFL pulled the Super Bowl scheduled for 1993 out of Phoenix because Arizona didn’t have a state holiday for Martin Luther King. So the NFL can be politically correct. I hope baseball doesn’t go PC. The liberals are such bullies. We need to stand up to this horse*$*$*.
Do business with Arizona. Do not boycott Arizona. Send girls basketball teams to Arizona. Let’s send the liberals a strong message by doing business as usual with a great American state.
And remember in 1990, I beleive it was, the NFL pulled the Super Bowl scheduled for 1993 out of Phoenix because Arizona didn’t have a state holiday for Martin Luther King. So the NFL can be politically correct. I hope baseball doesn’t go PC. The liberals are such bullies. We need to stand up to this horse*$*$*.
Do business with Arizona. Do not boycott Arizona. Send girls basketball teams to Arizona. Let’s send the liberals a strong message by doing business as usual with a great American state.
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