Posted on 07/16/2014 5:22:11 AM PDT by massmike
Major League Baseball has hired openly gay former ballplayer Billy Bean as their new Ambassador For Inclusion. Bean's job will be to assure all MLB stakeholders of an inclusive and equitable workplace and provide awareness and educational resources that help mandate the league's workplace code of conduct.
"It's ironic that I am returning to baseball to help erase the same reason I left," Bean told Outsports in an exclusive interview. Bean left baseball in 1995 shortly after his then-partner passed away. Bean skipped his partner's funeral to play in a game for the Padres, lest someone discover he was gay.
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but when I was playing no one stood at home plate and watched a homerun sail over the fences or they would have been delivered some chin music next plate appearance.
...anyone deliberately aiming a baseball at someone’s head due to miffed feelings is, in my estimation, lower than whale dung...
Your list is a good one. I wish I would have thought to add the outrageous concession prices to my list. They’re downright insulting.
And then there are the various “convenience fees” when ordering tickets on line and the high parking fees at the stadium when you arrive.
Its all becoming a giant scam. There’s a sucker born every minute.
Can it be long before the bases or foul lines are painted in trendy new pastels? lol
I lost interest because of the problems that you cite many years ago. The only sports I watch now are hockey which is not so politically correct and tennis which I don’t find to be too far gone either. When I was growing up tennis was considered to be a sissy (faggot) sport. I was in the sporting goods business and that led me to take up tennis at 40 years of age. I found out that it was not a sissy sport and was very grueling. I still play competitively at 73 years old.
I like your line about “allowing him to dive over the plate
after whatever he wants”.
Somehow I missed that part of the Brad Pitt movie.
LOL!
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