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Yunel Escobar suspended by Blue Jays for wearing eye black with anti-gay slur
National Post [Canada] ^ | Sep 18, 2012 3:30 PM ET | National Post Staff

Posted on 09/18/2012 2:05:19 PM PDT by Hunton Peck

The Toronto Blue Jays suspended Yunel Escobar for three games on Tuesday after he wore eye-black tape inscribed with an anti-gay slur during Saturday’s game at the Rogers Centre. The salary forfeited by Escobar during his suspension will go to You Can Play and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

“Honestly it’s been a terrible experience in my life and career,” Escobar said through a translator. “It’s something I’m sorry for and something I won’t do again.”

The player said he was embarrassed by his actions.

“It was just a joke,” Escobar said through the translator. “It was my idea but it wasn’t directed at anyone in particular.”

Escobar said he has friends who are gay and has nothing against homosexuals.

“The person who decorates my house...

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TOPICS: Canada; Cuba; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: baseball; canada; homosexualagenda; torontobluejays; yunelescobar
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To: freedumb2003
I agree about the boring part, the homo part, I dunno. Do not pay any attention to them. Judging from the rabid replies you get downthread, a lot of baseball fans here?

I recall when the Iranian hostages were returned, someone suggested giving them lifetime season passes to some baseball team. Some wag replied: "Haven't they suffered enough?" Sums it up.

41 posted on 09/18/2012 3:30:57 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: trisham

My late mother was Canadian.


42 posted on 09/18/2012 3:40:31 PM PDT by Mears
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To: freedumb2003
That is why I enjoyed firing your types.

You hire people just so you can enjoy screwing up their livelihoods by firing them? And then you complain about bullies??? That's messed up.

43 posted on 09/18/2012 3:41:35 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: freedumb2003
Baseball has always been boring and gay.

Baseball has long been referred to as the thinking man's game. Perhaps that's why you don't enjoy baseball.

44 posted on 09/18/2012 3:44:22 PM PDT by Isabel C.
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To: trisham

Canada is a country in North America,as are the USA and Mexico.

They are all Americans,along with a whole bunch of other countries.

There are Europeans,and Asians,and Africans,and Americans-—all encompassing different countries.


45 posted on 09/18/2012 3:46:02 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Hunton Peck

Bread and Circus has gone Tofu and Theater.


46 posted on 09/18/2012 4:14:38 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: Mears
Canada is in America.

I don't know about that, but I was recently in Vancouver and asked someone "what it was like to be Canadian." I got a rather peeved look from her and she responded, "I'm NOT Canadian! I'm British Columbian!"

Mark

47 posted on 09/18/2012 5:04:58 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: freedumb2003

Quotation marks and other stuff don’t seem to work in the tag box. As a died-in-the-wool baseball fan, I do resent the challenge to my masculinity, you brute.


48 posted on 09/18/2012 5:12:44 PM PDT by Misterioso (Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture. -- Thelonious Monk)
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To: cripplecreek

Does it really say “mamma”? When was the last time you checked?


49 posted on 09/18/2012 5:14:24 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: Hunton Peck

...these sodomites sure are a thin-skinned bunch, eh?


50 posted on 09/18/2012 5:24:27 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: stevio

Sometimes it says m a m m a.


51 posted on 09/18/2012 5:25:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Hunton Peck
The salary forfeited by Escobar during his suspension will go to You Can Play and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

Somebody must have studied under Jesse Jackson at some point...they've got the shakedown down to a science.

52 posted on 09/18/2012 5:26:51 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Mears

Excellent.


53 posted on 09/18/2012 5:54:39 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MarkL

“”I’m NOT Canadian! I’m British Columbian!””

==

Funny! Sometimes you just can’t win.:-)


54 posted on 09/18/2012 5:56:04 PM PDT by Mears
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To: freedumb2003
That is why I enjoyed firing your types.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that the only managerial experience you likely ever had was in your fantasy world over at "KingsAge".........LOL!

55 posted on 09/18/2012 5:57:20 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: freedumb2003
If you are a starting pitcher..losing 2 out of 3 ain't success, friend. And if you are a relief pitcher losing 2 out of 3 ain't success either. In fact you will be shipped off...and maybe out of a job.

As a batter...it's much different....33 hits out of 100 is great hitting. Why, do you ask? Because that's the standard. That's how hard it is.

Boring? I dunno...golf, tennis, soccer anyone? They are sports...and you like them or you don't.

So you don't like baseball....Fair enough.

56 posted on 09/18/2012 6:05:00 PM PDT by Osage Orange ( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

>>You hire people just so you can enjoy screwing up their livelihoods by firing them? And then you complain about bullies??? That’s messed up.<<

What comes around goes around...


57 posted on 09/18/2012 7:00:13 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (“We can’t just leave it (food choice) up to the parents.” moochele obozo 2/12/2012 (cnsnews))
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To: Hot Tabasco

>>In fact, I would go so far as to say that the only managerial experience you likely ever had was in your fantasy world over at “KingsAge”.........LOL!<<

You would be wrong.

But if it pleases your ego to think otherwise there isn’t any point in pursuing this discussion.

But I think we all can see why you are a gas station attendant who spells the slurpee guy when he goes on break.


58 posted on 09/18/2012 7:03:28 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (We canÂ’t just leave it (food choice) up to the parents. -- moochele obozo 2/12/2012 (cnsnews))
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To: Misterioso

>>Quotation marks and other stuff don’t seem to work in the tag box. As a died-in-the-wool baseball fan, I do resent the challenge to my masculinity, you brute.<<

Thanks for the heads up — I removed the quotation marks.

No amount of discourse will ever make baseball macho. So, if I linked pastoral with gay, it does make logical sense.

But I am a brute and I hang my head in shame.


59 posted on 09/18/2012 7:06:46 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (We canÂ’t just leave it (food choice) up to the parents. -- moochele obozo 2/12/2012 (cnsnews))
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To: cripplecreek

LOL!


60 posted on 09/18/2012 7:54:15 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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