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re: Orioles Adam Jones on Kaepernick: It's hard for black MLB players to speak out
Posted on 9/12/16 at 7:28 pm to Bench McElroy
Posted on 9/12/16 at 7:28 pm to Bench McElroy
From a clubhouse perspective, no the locker rooms aren't as culturally black as NFL or NBA.
I do wonder if that bugs black MLB players....but when you're making millions and millions and will be nice and healthy after retirement unlike those cool NFL players perhaps you should suck it up and be thankful.
I do wonder if that bugs black MLB players....but when you're making millions and millions and will be nice and healthy after retirement unlike those cool NFL players perhaps you should suck it up and be thankful.
This post was edited on 9/12/16 at 7:29 pm
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Posted on 9/12/16 at 7:30 pm to JLivermore
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perhaps you should suck it up and be thankful
American-born blacks don't really know how to do this . . . they perpetually want preferential treatment. A lot of it's not really their fault what with all the enabling and enfranchising the culture facilitates their worthless grievances with.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 1:34 pm to Jack Ruby
For what it's worth, most foreign darker skinned people I know are actually racist as hell. My boss back in the day was from Nigeria and he straight up told me he hated American blacks. He kicked a customer out for calling him "African American".
Posted on 9/13/16 at 1:45 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:lol wut.
Baseball is a white man’s sport."
Why do people say such stupid ignorant nonsense
Posted on 9/13/16 at 1:50 pm to Chillini
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Fixed. Sorry inner city kids flock to football and basketball over baseball. Nothing to do with race.
Baseball is a time based sport. How many parent(s) in the hood have time and money for travel baseball? That kills the pipeline right there
Posted on 9/13/16 at 1:52 pm to Bench McElroy
He's 100% right.
Day by day, I'm increasing perturbed and irked by the silence of our white American athletes. There isn't a more self centered group of famous people then this lot. They only pick "safe" causes to champion. It's pathetic because their success is by in large paced by the sacrifices of other (minority) athletes
Day by day, I'm increasing perturbed and irked by the silence of our white American athletes. There isn't a more self centered group of famous people then this lot. They only pick "safe" causes to champion. It's pathetic because their success is by in large paced by the sacrifices of other (minority) athletes
Posted on 9/13/16 at 1:54 pm to Jcorye1
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For what it's worth, most foreign darker skinned people I know are actually racist as hell. My boss back in the day was from Nigeria and he straight up told me he hated American blacks. He kicked a customer out for calling him "African American"
Who wants to be compared to the lowest on the totem pole? You can blame the media's depiction of black Americans for their rep worldwide. They don't receive good news about them overseas and they take those stereotypes verbatim
Posted on 9/13/16 at 1:56 pm to JLivermore
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I do wonder if that bugs black MLB players....but when you're making millions and millions and will be nice and healthy after retirement unlike those cool NFL players perhaps you should suck it up and be thankful.
Yes, it's best to be self centered and not raise awareness for good causes.
That mentality is 100% unamerican.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:01 pm to Goyas
Even if you accept that premise (which I don't) how does that explain all the poor as hell players coming out of the Dominican Republic?
Talent is talent. Travel Ball is not going to turn a kid into an MLB type player. It may help the fringe players stay on a roster, but people that are good enough for MLB are NOT dependent on travel ball to get there.
Talent is talent. Travel Ball is not going to turn a kid into an MLB type player. It may help the fringe players stay on a roster, but people that are good enough for MLB are NOT dependent on travel ball to get there.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:05 pm to JLivermore
I keep waiting for one of these guys who doesn't stand for the anthem to say "I'm trying to begin dialog on living in a country where black men leave their children at an 80% rate"......I guess ill have to keep waiting on that.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:09 pm to Goyas
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Baseball is a time based sport. How many parent(s) in the hood have time and money for travel baseball? That kills the pipeline right there
My kid plays football, baseball, basketball, and swimming. Football takes the most time by far. Football season is every night and games on sat. Swimming is next at four morning practices per week. Baseball and basketball is 2 night/week.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:38 pm to Jcorye1
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Even if you accept that premise (which I don't) how does that explain all the poor as hell players coming out of the Dominican Republic?
Talent is talent. Travel Ball is not going to turn a kid into an MLB type player. It may help the fringe players stay on a roster, but people that are good enough for MLB are NOT dependent on travel ball to get there.
They specialize and focus on it, plus their pro players go back to hold camps they. They put all their efforts into it and don't have other outlets. We have more feasible outlets here and quite frankly, black baseball players aren't going back to the hood to run clinic. I could be wrong, and correct me if I am, but the black American baseball players I know of mostly come from middle class backgrounds or they have lineage of MLB players in their immediate family
Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:39 pm to PT24-7
Your kids play travel ball too ?
Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:50 pm to Goyas
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We have more feasible outlets here and quite frankly, black baseball players aren't going back to the hood to run clinic
The player mentioned in the OP does exactly that, it's called R.B.I. Quite a few MLB players are involved in it.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 2:52 pm to Goyas
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Day by day, I'm increasing perturbed and irked by the silence of our white American athletes. There isn't a more self centered group of famous people then this lot. They only pick "safe" causes to champion.
What "unsafe" causes do you want them to promote if it irks you daily?
Posted on 9/13/16 at 3:54 pm to Goyas
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Your kids play travel ball too ?
Yes, what sports do your kids play?
Posted on 9/13/16 at 3:59 pm to Bench McElroy
All this is turning into is trying to prove that you are black enough. Kaep didn't have good intentions at all when he first did it. His first reasons matched the malcontent label that he's had the last few seasons. He cought hell, and to his credit, he spun it around. Now he's being treated as a political icon all because he hated the country and backtracked.
Posted on 9/13/16 at 4:18 pm to Ryan3232
quote:The unwritten rules are surely as heck white.
Baseball is a white man’s sport." lol wut. Why do people say such stupid ignorant nonsense
Posted on 9/13/16 at 4:19 pm to Goyas
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It's pathetic because their success is by in large paced by the sacrifices of other (minority) athletes
Posted on 9/13/16 at 4:25 pm to Goyas
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Day by day, I'm increasing perturbed and irked by the silence of our white American athletes. There isn't a more self centered group of famous people then this lot.
Jesus Christ you are a fool.
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