Posted on 09/13/2016 1:42:31 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones claims that you don’t see MLB players protesting the national anthem because “baseball is a white man’s sport.’’
In an interview with USA Today the 31-year-old veteran seems to suggest that unlike the NFL, the MLB doesn’t need black players. He contends that if you choose to make a political stand protesting “The Star Spangled Banner,” the league will kick you out.
“In football, you can’t kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they don’t need us,” Jones argues.
USA Today reports African Americans comprise 68% of the players in the NFL, and 74% in the NBA. Only 8% of the player population in baseball is African American. On Opening day 2016, just 69 African-Americans were on the opening-day rosters and disabled lists.
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The USA Today report didn't break down the percentage of the Asians, Latin Americans, and/or other nationalities/races in MLB. It made it sounded like all the rest of the players are 'white men', instead, MLB are just as diverse as any other sports.
Screw these people.
The Black mans sport is played out on the streets of Chicago on a daily basis.
Jackie Robinson might disagree.
Ditto your remark...I'm fed up with these "victims".
Leni
If any moron in MLB pulls this stunt, I would hope for FReepers to give watching the sport up, until it stops.
I feel myself and a few other FReepers are the only ones who love football who stopped watching.
Countless black and Hispanic MLB players would beg to differ.
MLB seems to have a heck of a lot of brown players. MUCH more than when I was a kid.
White-Hispanics?
So he’s saying football is the sport of rich black crybabies.
by my eye only, MLB is the most integrated of sports.
It’s not virtually all black as the NBA nor mostly black as the NFL. Perhaps making the MLB so is what the goal really is? Now THAT”S deplorable!
The Orioles have always backed the various inner city causes he promotes. And this is the thanks they get.
In 2012 Jones got what was the largest contract in club history: $85.5 million.
The “White Man’s Sport” has been pretty good to him. But you can never satisfy some people who are going to hold grudges and resentment forever.
If the numbers are as he says they are, a protest from him would be more meaningful. So not only is he a racist, he’s a pussy too.
Then white people should not be allowed to buy NFL tickets or merchandise. Let em survive on black support
Bullsh*t.
Tell it to the South Americans and Latin Americans who are represented in such huge numbers.
In America’s Black, inner city, neighborhoods, it’s much easier for those inclined to sports to find a basketball court for a pickup game, and even a football field represents less real estate than a baseball field.
Very good! Yep!
I thought something like what you wrote.
In an interview with USA Today the 31-year-old veteran seems to suggest that unlike the NFL, the MLB doesn’t need black players. He contends that if you choose to make a political stand protesting “The Star Spangled Banner,” the league will kick you out.
“In football, you can’t kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they don’t need us,” Jones argues.
Is he implying that such things are happening in the NFL simply because there's a sort of safety in numbers?
What is the actual percentage of players participating in "politican stands," anyway? If it were the case that all "black players" were doing so, I probably would've heard already. I haven't been looking closely at news, but it seems to me that such actions form a lower percentage of players than some would like.
Enough already!!!!!! Just play ball!!! Sports Fans Lives Matter especially the ones paying the big admission ticket prices not to mention the money thrown down for overpriced concessions.
I’ve been done with sport for quite some time. I know exactly when too...the last time the Buffalo Bills lost their last Super Bowl.
I was done with all of it right then. MLB, NFL, NASCAR, NHL, IRL, CART, PGA. Haven’t looked back.
With his policy of flooding the U.S. with immigrants from Latin America to replace blacks as our largest minority, Barack Obama is just continuing a long tradition that began in Major League Baseball.
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