Posted on 09/12/2016 6:06:00 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
With racial issues in the United States coming to the forefront in the sports world, Major League Baseball players generally have been absent from the growing chorus of athletes who have publicly spoken out about problems they may see in the United States, and Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones thinks he knows why.
"Baseball is a white man's sport," the Orioles star told USA Today.
"We already have two strikes against us already,'' Jones told the newspaper, "so you might as well not kick yourself out of the game. In football, you can't kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they don't need us."
(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...
"It (NYC) is the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing."
The Baseball World Before 1890
While it would be quite a stretch to say that professional baseball in the North was integrated between the end of the Civil War and 1890, quite a number of African-Americans played alongside white athletes on minor league and major league teams during the period. Although the original National Association of Base Ball Players, formed in 1867, had banned black athletes, by the late 1870s several African-American players were active on the rosters of white, minor league teams. Most of these players fell victim to regional prejudices and an unofficial color ban after brief stays with white teams, but some notable exceptions built long and solid careers in white professional baseball
http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com/history101.html
Freekin’ auto correct. Tear down our way of life. Typing this on my phone doesn’t help, either.
Jones is the captain of the team, he’s a highly paid player, and more importantly the Orioles have generously supported his programs to help inner city kids. And yet he is resentful. What a POS.
Baseball players are smarter then football players.
Naw. I think he means”American” black man sport, ie: smoking crack, stealing cars, and running from the police. Oh and fathering children with any random shank that will stand still looking enough.
“Well, please enlighten us as to what a “Black man’s sport” might be”
Bowling. A black ball knocking down a bunch of white pins with red necks.
Long, darn it, the word is “long.”
(Cleveland Brown) "The black ball's done nothing wrong."
(Joe Swanson) "The black ball's in my neighborhood!"
Hey Adam stop being a hypocrite. You are getting handsomely paid by a white owner. Somehow it was a never problem for you before Colin Kaepernick. Put your money where your mouth is and quit the game. After all how are you gonna have cred with the BLM folks when you’re playing a “white man’s” sport and taking the white man’s money. That makes you a sellout, doesn’t it?
Somehow the left has sold this idea that every time they pull a stunt it is supposed to be celebrated. When they yell obscenities we aren't supposed to call them assholes. What's up with that?
Well maybe that says something about the decency of white folks?? It doesn’t matter what color you are, decency is universal and so is being a jerk Mr Adams.
Have you looked at the NBA?
Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones thinks he knows ...
Let me see.. Baltimore Oriole Maryland state bird, black eye Susan state flower. Equals four if smart.
Pro sports slime
Funny!
So is basketball, which was created by a white phys ed instructor at the YMCA training school in Massachusetts (never a slave holding state) for his (presumably) white students:
In early December 1891, Canadian Dr. James Naismith,[4] a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School[5] (YMCA) (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.
He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.0 m) elevated track.
In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point scored; this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed,[allowing the balls to be poked out with a long dowel each time.
-- Wikipedia
Black people who play basketball are therefore committing cultural appropriation, which as we all know is widely recognized as a horrific racist microaggression.
Therefore, black athletes should not be allowed to play basketball, and any black college student caught playing basketball should be immediately expelled.
Meanwhile.....Orioles getting boned by the Red Sox 12 to 2 in the eighth
in the most important series of the year for them.
Dude. STFU and play ball.
Black men’s sport: Drive by shooting
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