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

[doorgunner69]

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.

[Mears]

My late mother was Canadian.

[Cyber Liberty]

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.

[Isabel C.]

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.

[Mears]

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.

[bmwcyle]

Bread and Circus has gone Tofu and Theater.

[MarkL]

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

[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.

[stevio]

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

[who knows what evil?]

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

[cripplecreek]

Sometimes it says m a m m a.

[who knows what evil?]

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.

[trisham]

Excellent.

[Mears]

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

==

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

[Hot Tabasco]

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!

[Osage Orange]

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.

[freedumb2003]

>>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...

[freedumb2003]

>>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.

[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.<<

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.

[stevio]

LOL!