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re: Hank Aaron compares GOP to the Klan
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:09 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:09 am to Ace Midnight
Damn, I liked Hank, but racist gona racist , I guess.
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:10 am to dante
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that is the true irony of these types of comments by Aaron because without the support of "whitey", Obama never gets elected.
Yeah, but apparently those whites that have changed their minds about him have only just discovered he was black.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:10 am to Ace Midnight
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If we just limit the discussion to offensive players
I should have said I was just looking at the offensive side of baseball. My fault for not being more specific. Surely there were other parts of the game that Babe did not play as well as players.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:12 am to Godfather1
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To this day still holds a share (with Ron Guidry) of the AL record for most shutouts in a season by a southpaw with 9.
Damn, something I didn't know about Babe. Thanks
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:12 am to Ace Midnight
Let's get Ja Rule's thoughts on this...
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:13 am to Ace Midnight
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I would put his own teammate, Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio and perhaps even Willie Mays ahead of Ruth as the GOAT.
Dayum. No love for Ted Williams who took 5 years out of his baseball career to serve his country?
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:13 am to sugar71
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Did you sit down and pen some of those nasty letters to the Hammer? You & your dad?
You're really an incredibly angry guy. All he was saying is that Babe had a much better AB/HR ratio than Hank. Babe is second place all time to Mark McGwire. Hank Aaron is 35th... But IMHO, he's still the HR King.
He wasn't the greatest home run hitter of all time though.
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Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:15 am to PrimeTime Money
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Let's get Ja Rule's thoughts on this...
Who give a frick about what Ja Rule thinks! I need some real answers.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:16 am to upgrayedd
I ain't trying to dance I'm scare to death! 
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:17 am to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:17 am to Holden Caulfield
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Damn, something I didn't know about Babe. Thanks
Here's another tidbit you may not know. In HS Babe Ruth was used often as a catcher. That's right, a left handed catcher. Since they didn't make left handed mitts he used something like a 1B mitt.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:19 am to son of arlo
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No love for Ted Williams who took 5 years out of his baseball career to serve his country?
Great singles hitter - Ted Williams himself said, "The All-Star game was made for Willie Mays."
He was not the defensive player any of the three guys I named, though. Mays hit 660 home runs and won 12 Gold Gloves - an award that was not introduced until 6 years into his career.
Dimaggio stole home 5 times - and could have played any position on defense.
Gehrig was almost an automatic to drive runs in, and was a great first baseman. If he could have just played until his late 30s (retired at 35, died at 37) - he would have easily approached 600 HRs and 3500 hits. Pretty sure he was the GOAT.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:21 am to Holden Caulfield
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Damn, something I didn't know about Babe. Thanks
Ruth also held the record for consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play (all with the Red Sox) until Whitey Ford broke it sometime in the early 60s.
Ruth was a stud on the hill.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:24 am to Ace Midnight
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Dimaggio stole home 5 times - and could have played any position on defense.
Maybe in the outfield.
Stengel tried him at 1B late in his career for one game and he was terrible. And Joe hated it. Said he couldn't get comfortable with the footwork required to play the position.
This post was edited on 4/9/14 at 10:24 am
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:30 am to Zach
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Here's another tidbit you may not know. In HS Babe Ruth was used often as a catcher. That's right, a left handed catcher
I may not be the Babe Ruth fan I thought I was. You and Godfather are bringing the goods.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:33 am to Ace Midnight
Hank Aaron has never been comfortable with his race. He feels inferior and projects it out onto the world, to people of perfectly good-will. He's a tiny man who once could hit a baseball. frick him and all like him. I'm done with this shite. frick em. 
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:38 am to Lsupimp
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Hank Aaron has never been comfortable with his race
I've often wondered if it had to do with his first minor league assignment. He was from Mobile, Ala. Lots of blacks there. His first minor league club was Eau Claire, Wisc. I've been to Eau Claire. There are no black people there.
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:40 am to Lsupimp
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Hank Aaron has never been comfortable with his race.
He was a star during a time of definitive transition. If he were resentful against whites, even to this day, perhaps I could understand. However, that's not the case - he is completely buying into, and espousing this whole equating of the modern GOP to the KKK - when we all know that the KKK was 99% Democrat - and, in fact an unofficial organ of the southern democrats until the late 1960s.
Republican reformers were the main defense against the Klan until they largely disappeared in the dustbin of history. A few democrats here and there (Truman) took stances against them, but that's not the point. In this case, opposition to Barack Obama is equated, directly, with racism and I cannot fathom that is seriously argued.
I don't agree with all of Dr. Ben Carson's positions. That makes me neither a racist, nor, necessarily a vote against him in 2016 - should he eventually decide to run. Conversely, there are SCADS of white politicians with whom I disagree.
It is a dangerous tool to equate loyal opposition to a politician, with racism or any -ism. The Dems - however, are all in.
(Which is why I strongly believe that any credible black candidate in 2016 will take the nomination from HRC - likewise, the right black GOP candidate would be very, very formidable.)
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:42 am to Lsupimp
I didn't 'hammer' an aging Charlton Heston for his Americans 'mixed ethnicity' /gun violence comments.
Hammering Hank is an octogenarian as well. Keep on Hammering Hank
Hammering Hank is an octogenarian as well. Keep on Hammering Hank
Posted on 4/9/14 at 10:48 am to sugar71
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I didn't 'hammer' an aging Charlton Heston for his Americans 'mixed ethnicity' /gun violence comments.
Wow. A white person you didn't attack.
Somebody alert the media.
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