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Rockies’ Ian Desmond opts out of season, addresses MLB’s social injustice
New York Post ^ | June 30, 2020 | Joseph Staszewski

Posted on 06/30/2020 8:28:31 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement

I am a Rockies fan. This is just hard to accept. Not that Ian Desmond was necessary for success, but that he stepped out and refused to play with the team. The racial stuff I just don’t get. He quotes lack of black players, managers and CEO, but fails to accept that Baseball was the FIRST major sport to integrate.

So....is he suggesting that Baseball should have 19% blacks, as with the population, and we should move to ensure that every position and every job has essentially the same statistics as the general population? What are we going to do about the NBA or the NFL. Who was the last ‘White’ running back for the Pittsburgh Stealers, Dallas.......where does it end.?


41 posted on 06/30/2020 9:10:01 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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MLB versus US population

57.5 white vs 60.4
31.9 Hispanic vs 18.3
7.7 black vs 13.4
2.9 Asian vs 5.9

It’s the Hispanics bro. Dey taking our jobs. And it ain’t just baseball.

Build the wall!

Tyson Fury, Rhianna, Liam Neeson, even Bruno Mars. Now that Mariano Rivera is retired, I say send them all home.


42 posted on 06/30/2020 9:11:11 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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I’m sure the Rockies would thrilled if he just went and retired. If playing in Denver wasn’t inflating his stats, he’d be out of baseball already.


43 posted on 06/30/2020 9:35:27 AM PDT by Kazan
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Did you tell your black friend that hockey was invented by black people?


44 posted on 06/30/2020 9:38:25 AM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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“8% Black players”

He is not including black Hispanics as part of this percentage. Does not matter how dark skinned they are. To him, you are only a real “Black” if you are African American with slave roots.

He and his ilk are the real racist.


45 posted on 06/30/2020 9:43:24 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To him, you are only a real “Black” if you are African American with slave roots.

And you vote Democrat, Joe Biden agrees.

46 posted on 06/30/2020 9:44:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I once got ticketed for doing 28 in a 25 zone about 15 feet after the speed limit dropped from 30mph AND they gave me a seat belt ticket too.

It was a white female cop so obviously the reason I got the ticket was because of my blue eyes.

47 posted on 06/30/2020 9:57:15 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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Is he implying that brown skin players are over-represented?


48 posted on 06/30/2020 12:30:49 PM PDT by robel
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Maybe. Then again perhaps the people paying his salary are overwhelmingly white and maybe they should strep aside from doing that.


49 posted on 06/30/2020 12:51:38 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (We are NOT all in this together.)
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I once got a ticket for doing 42 in a 35 cornfield in Ohio.

I passed the last building in town, a Baptist church, and started to speed up. Unbeknownst to me the town limits stretched another half mile down into a cornfield. They were sitting in the church parking lot with their lights off and pulling over everyone who did this.

I had PA plates at the time. They also had a guy from Michigan pulled over. Curiously people with Ohio plates continued on at pretty much any speed. I later learned that it was not actually legal for them to be sitting with their lights off.


50 posted on 06/30/2020 1:46:06 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Stopped watching after multiple player strikes by pampered millionaires. Don’t care anymore.


51 posted on 06/30/2020 1:49:45 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deservesrouone. Hamilton)
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