Vindictive sportswriter pretty pleased with himself for (he thinks) ending career of backup catcher

Canada Free Press ^ | 09/26/16 | DAN Calabrese

[Sean_Anthony]

For writing a few conservative social media posts, Steve Clevenger became the target of obsessive stalker Bob Nightengale

We told you Friday about the disgusting attack leveled against Seattle Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger by USA Today columnist Bob Nightengale. Because Clevenger had made a couple of posts on social media criticizing Black Lives Matter, President Obama and the Charlotte rioters, Nightengale went on the warpath, demanding that the Mariners release Clevenger. The posts were harshly worded, but they weren’t inaccurate and they certainly weren’t racist. Didn’t matter. Nightengale simply labeled them as such and that’s apparently all that needs to happen for someone’s career to be thrown into the shredder.

The cowardly Mariners mostly complied with Nightengale’s demands, suspending Clevenger without pay for the rest of the season - not because he actually did anything wrong, but because the Mariners felt the negative media pressure they know will keep coming from a cockroach like Bob Nightengale.

[Henchster]

They guy looks like a cockroach, if you know what I mean:

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Losing one’s job is a risk for any of us who voice opinions contrary to the accepted PC gospel. Exercising one’s freedom of speech is risky.

[Wneighbor]

So the “journalist’s first amendment rights are intact but the catcher’s first amendment right to free speech is null.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I hope Steve Clevenger sues the idiot Mariners for wrongful termination.

As for Bob Nightengale....he is a worm (that’s probably insulting....to worms, that is).

[ptsal]

...reminds me of Chrissy Matthews....

/not a compliment

[Political Junkie Too]

John Rocker was only suspended for 14 games. That was back in 1999-2000, before the George W Bush election permanently froze the liberal Left.

-PJ

[montag813]

As Steve Sailer said over the weekend, “America is now an open-air prison for White people”

[AC Beach Patrol]

As Steve Sailer said over the weekend, “America is now an open-air prison for White people”

LMAO, that's a good one!

[ADemocratNoMore]

FWIW, the M’s have been getting hammered on Facebook.

[Major Matt Mason]

Have spent some time around sports scribes - not baseball but they are all the same - and they mostly are some of the most miserable, self-righteous people you would ever meet. I'm sure that some of them wish they were covering politics since everything is political to them, so some of the anger might be at their being relegated to covering sports.

[Maverick68]

You know, one of these days a Social Justice Warrior is going to destroy the life of the wrong person and pay the ultimate price for it....I won’t shed a tear or cast an ounce of blame when it happens.

[Gil4]

I hope Steve Clevenger sues the idiot Mariners for wrongful termination.

Probably not an option. They didn't terminate, they suspended w/o pay for the final few games of the season. He is a free agent after the season and the will not offer a new contract.

[jmaroneps37]

This guy gets pretty beat up here http://deadspin.com/moron-usa-today-columnist-thinks-the-cardinals-poop-van-1689616561