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Mariners' Steve Clevenger is suspended for the rest of the season after controversial tweets
Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/23/2016 | Chuck Schilken

Posted on 09/23/2016 11:17:36 AM PDT by Kazan

attle catcher Steve Clevenger was suspended without pay for the remainder of the season by the Mariners on Friday, a day after he apologized for a pair of controversial tweets he posted on the violent protests in Charlotte, N.C., and the Black Lives Matter movement.

One of those tweets stated that the people protesting a police shooting of a black man “should be locked behind bars like animals.”

His apology came several hours after Mariners General Manager Jerry Dipoto issued a statement of their own, saying he was “very disappointed at the tweets” and the team is “currently examining all internal options that are available to us as we determine appropriate next steps.”

"The Seattle Mariners are very disappointed at the tweets posted on Steve Clevenger’s account,” Dipoto stated. “While he is certainly free to express himself, his tweets do not in any way represent the opinions of the Seattle Mariners. We strongly disagree with the language and tone of his comments.” Friday morning, Dipoto released a statement on Clevenger’s suspension.

After two nights of violent protests that left at least 14 people injured, Clevenger weighed in with two tweets on Thursday. In one, he stated that the situation “cracks me up!”

“Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha,” he tweeted.

In the other one, Clevenger called President Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement “pathetic” before adding, “Everyone involved should be locked behind bars like animals!”

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: athletes; blm; mlb; policeshootings; riots; seattle; seattlemariners
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To: Kazan

Freedom of speech died many years ago.


41 posted on 09/23/2016 11:56:54 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Kazan

Shut up! They explained.


42 posted on 09/23/2016 12:06:27 PM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: Kazan

The Seattle Mariners is a leftwing domestic terrorist organization.


43 posted on 09/23/2016 12:15:15 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Kazan
He should have taken a knee injury the anthem and explained, “How can I honor a country that let's BLM thugs destroy all property and attack innocent people on the street and the DOJ claims sympathy for the rioters”?
44 posted on 09/23/2016 12:18:18 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: Kozy
Basic questions,”Why were there no rioters in Tulsa?”

Or Cleveland? IMHO that was a total outrage and if I lived there, I'd have protested. But that was peaceful. Charlotte is not a "protest".

45 posted on 09/23/2016 12:19:21 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: Kazan

Teetering on the edge of outright oppression...


46 posted on 09/23/2016 12:21:16 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Kazan

If he doesn’t sur and win for suspension without pay, then we officially live in a totalitarian country. The union better be all over that.


47 posted on 09/23/2016 12:22:00 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Kazan

Celebrating thugs and terrorists is okay, but condemning them will get you in trouble.


48 posted on 09/23/2016 12:24:00 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: cgbg
Pro athletes do have contracts that may limit their free speech rights or other activities while they are under contract since they are representing the team and are public figures. Of course that applies to athletes on any side of a public issue.

I guess have mixed feelings on the Clevenger/Kaepernick deal. I wanted Kaepernick to be told by his team or the NFL pretty much what you said - that the team and the league do not want to be part of his or anyone else's private causes. It seems unfair that the Mariners lowered the boom on Clevenger in light of Kaepernick getting away with it. But, they saw how the Kaepernick thing has snowballed in the NFL. If teams are perceived as coming down on one side of an issue they are going to piss off some portion of their fan base. For example, it is hard impossible for me to root for a team when I watch the players disrespect the flag.

This kerfuffle sort of reminds me of another forum I hang out at called the Home Theater Forum. I have no idea if the people who run it are conservative or liberal. But what I do like is that they don't allow political comments at all. They only want the site to be about home theater. They have off-topic forums but they cannot be political. If someone puts in a political jab (usually a snarky liberal), they delete the comment and issue a warning and sometimes ban the poster. I really appreciate that approach. I had to leave the Sinatra Family Forum because it was so full of DU types from Nancy S on down through most of their membership.

49 posted on 09/23/2016 12:25:01 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: xzins
What happened to ESPN’s vaunted support for “free speech”?

Only for ME, not for THEE.

50 posted on 09/23/2016 12:27:20 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Regulator

He should’ve tweeted during the national anthem


51 posted on 09/23/2016 12:31:30 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (when the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you Leary is this)
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To: Kazan

The monster vote that the Democrats are fearing is a large number of white Democrats and independents voting for Trump. Why else are they putting gas to the racial fire in Charlotte. Typical Democrats just look at blacks like a herd that can be gathered together to vote as one bloc. Expect the globalists to stoke the racial fires in the Hispanic, Asian and Arab communities too. Folks, this is all they got! Trump is running on the real issues affecting this country. Hillary is just dealing the racial cards, inflaming hate everywhere. The LA Slimes had the gall to say Trump is not talking policy but Hillary has so many ideas she put it in a book! Yeah that joke of a book by Hillary and Kaine written no doubt by Huma.


52 posted on 09/23/2016 12:39:25 PM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: Kazan

His civil right to free speech is being violated. If he had only tweeted this while sitting during a national anthem.....


53 posted on 09/23/2016 12:40:38 PM PDT by Demanwideplan
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To: DoughtyOne

Actually the First Amendment only applies when it’s the government telling you to pipe down - your employer has no such restriction.


54 posted on 09/23/2016 12:42:27 PM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

While that is a very valid point, I do not look favorably upon a business that supports unAmerican activity, and punishes for proAmerican activity.

I will mention the First Amendment in my complaint.

It is a time honored thing, citizens speaking their minds regarding issues.

If it’s talking down the business or revealing secrets, I believe the business has every right to take action.

If it’s this type of thing done on a person’s own time, the business has no business sticking it’s nose in the tent.


55 posted on 09/23/2016 12:52:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Forty-six days until we take measures to end this nightmare. Trump, for the Free World...)
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To: Luke21

Only if you agree with PC can someone speak freely.
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Yep. No different than the soft tyranny experienced in the Soviet Union and the Third Reich. And the transition to HARD tyranny will not be far behind if Donald Trump is defeated in the coming election.


56 posted on 09/23/2016 1:50:33 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (The Democrats are so lacking in class, especially the avant-garde.)
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To: Kazan

Looks like LAWYER TIME. Or has the first amendment been abandoned ?


57 posted on 09/23/2016 2:11:16 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: TBP

In all likelihood, their season will be over a week from Sunday.


58 posted on 09/23/2016 2:14:02 PM PDT by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Trump has won Oklahoma, no need to riot and bring out the black vote. North Carolina is a swing state. Bring in the Soros paid thugs to get the black vote out. Disgusting
59 posted on 09/23/2016 2:15:26 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: Kazan

Hail Obama! Or else....


60 posted on 09/23/2016 2:18:04 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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