MLB investigating homophobic slur

Associated Press ^ | Sep 17, 2012, 9:19 PM EDT | unattributed

[Hunton Peck]

TORONTO (AP) -- Major League Baseball is checking reports that Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar played Saturday's game against Boston wearing eye-black displaying a homophobic slur written in Spanish.

Pictures posted online show Escobar with the message written in his eye-black, a sticker players wear under their eyes to reduce glare from the sun. The slur did not appear to be directed at any person in particular.

MLB spokesman Pat Courtney confirmed the...

[Hunton Peck]

"Homophobic slur" reported as fact -- no "alleged" and no way to judge whether it was anything at all, much less a "slur" against homosexuals or whether there was anything irrationally fearful about it.

[hole_n_one]

"you're a faggot"

[ConservativeStatement]

Perhaps it was misinterpreted as “Blew gays.”

[M-cubed]

That's what pisses me off about the Amish...They always show their hand......../s

[cardinal4]

*sigh* when does it stop?

[carlo3b]

Who was he talking to, and was it true? jus sayin..

[Charles Henrickson]

Maybe he was trying to COMPLIMENT the other players. “Congratulations, you are a homosexual!” Gay pride, you know.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The witchhunt has begun.

[hole_n_one]

What does it read when he looks in the mirror?

[Frank_2001]

“Diversity Central, we’ve got a problem...”/s;)

[JoeDetweiler]

No way he wrote that himself. I suspect someone was having a little jike at his expense.

At least.....that’s the story he oughta stick to....

[JoeDetweiler]

“Jike” being a homosexual dogwhistle for.....dogwhistle.

[Hunton Peck]

So, when the AP says “[t]he slur did not appear to be directed at any person in particular”, they’re saying he called everyone a faggot, I guess...

[Moonman62]

Homophobic shouldn’t even be a word.

[justlurking]

Actually, the message refers to a British meatball commonly made of pork offal.

(look it up. :)

[lyby]

And in the scheme of this fallout political season with our national debt in the trillions, jihadists killing innocent people, WHO REALLY GIVES A RAT’S A**.

[Isabel C.]

Homophobic shouldn’t even be a word.

I guess homophobic is supposed to mean an abnormal fear of homos.

[LaserJock]

“I guess homophobic is supposed to mean an abnormal fear of homos.”

But in practical parlance today, it means: Anyone who disagrees with a liberal.

[xrmusn]

Well, about the only way one would really spot this is if they were trying to look deep into his eyes.....
And read Spanish - should not affect non Spanish speaking (reading) people.
Then again, maybe he was ‘advertising’

Much ado about nothing.

[PLMerite]

Without my glasses I thought the headline said “hoplophobic slur.” For a moment, there was hope.