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Major League Baseball Defends Anthem Kneeling, Supports Black Lives Matter
Breitbart ^ | 07.21.2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 07/21/2020 2:51:24 AM PDT by USA Conservative

Major League Baseball came out in defense of players who knelt during the national anthem on Monday evening, taking on critics and tweeting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. As Breitbart News reported, several members of the San Francisco Giants took a knee during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner during a preseason game hosted by the Oakland Athletics before an empty stadium filled with cardboard cutouts. The Giants proudly tweeted out the protest: https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1285405863478390784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1285405863478390784%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fsports%2F2020%2F07%2F20%2Fmajor-league-baseball-defends-anthem-kneeling-supports-black-lives-matter%2F Amidst much criticism online, the league’s Twitter account began defending the protest and issued tweets in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1285398301022486528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1285398301022486528%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fsports%2F2020%2F07%2F20%2Fmajor-league-baseball-defends-anthem-kneeling-supports-black-lives-matter%2F The league is set to launch a 60-game season later this week, shortened because of the coronavirus pandemic. Games will be played before empty stadiums, and several rule changes have been adopted for players’ safety.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anthem; baseball; blm; flag; mlb; mlb4china; mlb4communists; walloftext
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To: raccoonradio

The Giants story focused on their new manager kneeling with some players but since they named some players thinking it wasn’t the entire roster or anything close.


21 posted on 07/21/2020 3:15:50 AM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: USA Conservative

Done! Let BLM support thier salaries


22 posted on 07/21/2020 3:22:11 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: USA Conservative

Done! Let BLM support thier salaries


23 posted on 07/21/2020 3:22:11 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: USA Conservative

No! Not baseball too! Say it ain’t so!


24 posted on 07/21/2020 3:34:28 AM PDT by Jack023
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To: RummyChick
One of my great loves is to sit at my dining room table in the evening and listen to a Red Sox game on the radio while I read a good book.

We will never be able to go back to that.

Damn the Left.

25 posted on 07/21/2020 3:38:20 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: USA Conservative

Baseball is dead to me.


26 posted on 07/21/2020 3:39:47 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
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To: cba123

No, the question is what league will replace the NFL? The NFL is not football. The NFL must die. Long live football.


27 posted on 07/21/2020 3:41:51 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: USA Conservative

MLB: Major League Bitches.


28 posted on 07/21/2020 3:42:00 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Psalm 73

You can still do that..recognise that a lot of this is going to be forced on players like drew brees..and just put the politics aside for 9 innings. Of course you will have to listen to announcers talk about it

Bubba wallace is getting booed by nascar fans now...

they also booed kyle busch...because he is a jerk...so its not like its just bubba


29 posted on 07/21/2020 3:43:10 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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To: USA Conservative

I quit major league sports including baseball back when overpaid (aka rich) players started charging little boys and some girls I suppose fee’s for their signatures at signing events. Their core values changed. They no longer played the sport for sports sake and started acting like greedy capitalist pigs. They ruined the sport for me.


30 posted on 07/21/2020 3:46:03 AM PDT by Ron H. (Gab.com)
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To: RummyChick
"You can still do that..."

Technically, sure.

But they have sucked all of the joy and wonder out of the game.

The little boy walking around Cooperstown awe-struck at the living history before him.
All of the classic moments he has seen in his life, the heartbreaks and the elation.
The beauty of a game where nothing much happens for 20 or thirty minutes, all of a sudden a spectacular double-play, or a mammoth home run, or a play (and crash) at the plate.

THAT game has been destroyed.
Oh sure, we can still watch or listen - but not to THAT game. It's now a relic of the past.

31 posted on 07/21/2020 3:52:33 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: USA Conservative

Let’s have a sports memorabilia bonfire!


32 posted on 07/21/2020 3:57:38 AM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Psalm 73

The cheating scandal got to me. Oh sure..its happened all along in sports
.but i rooted for that clown and his backstory..the one that wouldnt let players touch his shirt because..ahem..his wife.


33 posted on 07/21/2020 3:59:06 AM PDT by RummyChick (Stop Apologizing for things you didn't do. Stop Demanding Apologies when refuse to forgive)
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To: cba123

I channel surfed past a soccer game from Turkey and...you guessed it, a Black Lives Matter protest on the field.

This madness has swept the globe.


34 posted on 07/21/2020 3:59:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: USA Conservative

Will the cardboard fans have to follow social distancing and wear masks? :-)


35 posted on 07/21/2020 3:59:53 AM PDT by FreedomGuru (ALL Lives Matter)
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To: kickstart

Another Sport goes spiraling down the drain of PC.


36 posted on 07/21/2020 4:00:35 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald Trump, President for Life (heh, heh))
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To: kickstart; MinuteGal

Another Sport goes spiraling down the drain of PC.


37 posted on 07/21/2020 4:01:07 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald Trump, President for Life (heh, heh))
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To: Ron H.
I’m kind of with the players on that one. They started charging for autograph sessions only because collectors were making fortunes selling autographed memorabilia.

Former Yankee great Don Mattingly was an interesting exception, from what I’ve heard. He made a number of paid appearances at card/memorabilia shows, but then the organizers stopped inviting him after a while. It turns out he was so generous in signing his autograph for free outside the shows that the collectors couldn’t make any money on it. LOL.

38 posted on 07/21/2020 4:01:20 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("We're human beings ... we're not f#%&ing animals." -- Dennis Rodman, 6/1/2020)
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To: USA Conservative

AMF


39 posted on 07/21/2020 4:02:48 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: joshua c

I agree.

Once coronavirus has been cleared, hold on.

;)


40 posted on 07/21/2020 4:03:56 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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