Orioles CF Adam Jones: No Protests in MLB Because ‘Baseball Is a White Man’s Sport’

Breitbart - Sports ^ | 9-12-2016 | Robert J. Marlow

[Sir Napsalot]

Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones claims that you don’t see MLB players protesting the national anthem because “baseball is a white man’s sport.’’

In an interview with USA Today the 31-year-old veteran seems to suggest that unlike the NFL, the MLB doesn’t need black players. He contends that if you choose to make a political stand protesting “The Star Spangled Banner,” the league will kick you out.

“In football, you can’t kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they don’t need us,” Jones argues.

USA Today reports African Americans comprise 68% of the players in the NFL, and 74% in the NBA. Only 8% of the player population in baseball is African American. On Opening day 2016, just 69 African-Americans were on the opening-day rosters and disabled lists.

[Alberta's Child]

The real reason why there are no national anthem protests in MLB is actually simple:

Unlike football and basketball, baseball actually has the starting players for the home team take their positions in the field before the national anthem is played. If some mutant wanted to stage a protest, he'd either be out of the game or sitting on the bench as a backup player. In any case, nobody would even notice him.

[freefdny]

Apparently Whitey is on the moon and playing baseball. There was an uptick to 59.07 percent of the players being white in 2016. Whatever happened to the content of a man’s character being the standard used instead of race? Whatever happened to being able to hit a curveball or throw over 90 mph being used as the standard instead of race? The link is a study and report card on how MLB is doing racially.
https://nebula.wsimg.com/811d6cc2d0b42f3ff087ac2cb690ebeb?AccessKeyId=DAC3A56D8FB782449D2A&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

[Lonely Bull]

I looked at the article:

“Here’s my thing,’’ the career .279 hitter asserted, “there’s somebody on the 49ers’ team that commits an act like that, accosts a 70-year-old man and his kid, and nobody’s talking about that. But they talk about Kaepernick doing something that he believes in, as his right as an American citizen. People need to talk more about that guy than Kaepernick.”

The wording here is odd: if people weren't talking more about Kaepernick, something of his "effort" would've failed.

Or is he saying that more people shouldn't be talking about Kaepernick "negatively"? I can think of a few reasons that aren't race-related. In other words, the former teammate might've been black, or a black player might've done the same thing, and the amount of conversation would still be similar. A completely white player who sat as a "protest" during the National Anthem would still be controversial.

The two most prominent in my mind:

First, assault isn't that controversial and usually wouldn't lead to much debate.

Second, Colin Kaepernick has been by far the more famous and more discussed player, with some flashes of talent and a moderately interesting history. He'll get more attention than other people.

An "ordinary" man who is charged with felonious assault on "ordinary" people probably wouldn't appear on national news without some odd reason, and Adam Jones probably would've never heard of him. An "ordinary" murderer who kills an "ordinary" person has done something even worse than anything yet mentioned above--and without some "exceptional" reason, we probably wouldn't be talking about the case.

(We talk about the presidential candidates' health because what they seek is not some unimportant office in an unimportant country. If your 68-year-old aunt is an obscure woman with little "newsworthiness," you probably don't complain that her extremely serious health problems don't get the attention that Hillary Clinton's less severe problems do.)

[Sir Napsalot]

I didn’t excerpt that part because I do not know any background on the ex-team mate or his ‘alleged’ crime.

[Lonely Bull]

I didn’t excerpt that part because I do not know any background on the ex-team mate or his ‘alleged’ crime.

It's OK: I don't expect large excerpts often anyway because of copyright concerns. I just noticed this other thing that Adam Jones mentioned, and what he said needed a little rebutting.

[ought-six]

I stopped watching NFL, but I will never stop watching college football.

[TexasM1A]

I thought Baseball was a brown mans Sport.
The only White mans sport that I know of is Hockey.

[EEGator]

So, bootleg everything?...

[Svartalfiar]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3430890/posts?page=28#28

Whether you choose to watch or not watch baseball is a personal issue, and I won’t discuss it. But of all the games played in the US, baseball is the one game where race is rarely if ever an issue, and hasn’t been for at least 50 years. On the MLB diamond, men of every race and color can be found, and the way they get there is not because of privilege but because of merit. There are bullies in the game, but it is not because of their race, but because of their lack of integrity, and everyone know who they are.

If you want thugs, you go to football and basketball; if you want whiteness, you go to hockey. If you want what America is supposed to be, a land where people from the whole world come to be their best, you go to baseball.