Posted on 09/24/2012 4:01:43 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
By Abby Ellin Sep 22, 2012 9:19pm Former Owner of Pittsburgh Pirates Comes Out Email 10 Smaller Font Text Larger Text | Print
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Kevin McClatchy, the former owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has an announcement: He’s gay.
After years of soul searching and hiding his sexuality, McClatchy, now 49, came out to the New York Times.
In the interview, McClatchy, who was the public face of the Pirates for 11 years, said that he felt obligated to go public.
“I’ve spent 30 years — or whatever the number is specifically — not talking about my personal life, lying about my personal life,” he said. “There’s no way I want to go into the rest of my existence and ever have to hide my personal life again.”
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Gay History month has a new item: gay owners produce horrible baseball teams.
I see he came out to a like minded audience in the nest of homosexuals known as the New York Times.
Who cares why do I have to know go away and be happy and leave me alone.
I am SO proud of you and slumber1, what brave and courageous people you are! Especially knowing how you will be attacked and ridiculed for this!
You’ve inspired me... I’m a heterosexual woman! How liberating! I’m straight, I’m straight, I’m straight! I will now start every conversation letting people know I am straight! Woohoo!!!
I’m still scared to call and tell my mother...I don’t know what she will think if I call and tell her this.
I think I will save it for the Thanksgiving family gathering, I will announce it to the WHOLE family!
Well, we know what kind of “pirate” he is, anyway.
PA Ping!
If you want on/off the PA Ping List, please freepmail me. Thanks!
Oh my.
I tried to find another S. Clay Wilson pirate that would be safe to post here....but I failed.
And you could have gone another 30, Sparky, and nobody would have cared. I forget who said but it's been observed this used to be "the love that dare not speak its name", but now it's the love which just won't shut up.
yeah... and that is WITH the safe search turned on!!! this one is about it
WGAS?
So there is a homosexual millionaire baseball owner.
Marge Schott was a cranky old woman....and George Steinbrenner was a hard ass who liked his scotch.
Neither one of them told us how they liked their sex. Nobody cared. The same principle applies here.
I could easily lived the rest of my life without this information and been happy.
Why can't 'the love that can't speak it's name' just STFU? Oh, that's right, because it's a narcissistic personality disorder, it's all about them.
” ‘news’ you can’t use”
Is this the pirate who visited the White Hut recently?
His next announcement will be about a pee wee baseball team he is starting to use his experience and knowledge “for the children”
Ahay Matey! Prepare to be boarded! Fabulous!
You’re a very brave woman! Congratulations!!
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