Photo: old Giants Melvin, Matt Williams, Brett Butler, Spring Training Diamondbacks around 2004
Posted on 03/03/2024 2:11:41 PM PST by canuck_conservative
New San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin has instituted a new rule for his club in his first year with the the franchise, and it’s difficult to miss during spring training. Melvin is requiring every person in the team’s dugout to stand for the national anthem, and he explained why.
“It’s all about the perception that we’re out there ready to play,” Melvin said, per The Athletic. “That’s it. You want your team ready to play, and I want the other team to notice it, too. It’s really as simple as that.”
Melvin also made it clear his reasoning has nothing to do with politics, which would contrast with the team’s former manager, Gabe Kapler, who stopped taking the field during the national anthem in 2022 after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and kneeled in protest for several games in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd sparked protests across the country.
“Look, we’re a new team here. We got some good players here,” Melvin said Friday, per USA Today. “It’s more about letting the other side know that we’re ready to play. I want guys out here ready to go. There’s a personality to that.” ...
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Have people had enough of the useless kneeling?
Send the Giants back to Tampa Bay! Screw them.
Keep this up, and I might become a Giants fan.
Good. Maybe I’ll watch a game again, probably not.
“Melvin also made it clear his reasoning has nothing to do with politics . . .”
Or patriotism, he could have added to soothe the sore San Francisco population.
No, standing for the anthem is to show players are ready to play, to win, and by winning to make even more money.
Anything but patriotism.
The team manager is doing the right thing but has to frame it so it just seems like secular commercial logic.
He didn’t need to make up that stupid reason
BECAUSE ITS THE USA!!!!
is all he needed to say
Sadly, he doesn't have the guts to say it's for the respect of the country and its veterans. Probably some far-left SF judge will rule that he can't require his team to stand.
Kneeling for the National Anthem
The Star-Spangled Banner and National Anthem provide the majestic musical/visual symbol of the Constitution I swore to support and defend as a Navy officer. My binding oath requires standing for the National Anthem and kneeling to pray for the country.
Now most pro sports plus ESPN, Nike, et al endorse kneeling when playing the anthem, as if disparaging the country could promote social justice. Instead, veterans understand settling grievances requires revering, defending the essence of our country found in the truths of the Declaration of Independence and preamble to our Constitution.
Veterans know that when Armed Forces members make the ultimate sacrifice, their remains are wrapped in the Star-Spangled Banner in remembrance of intangible personal liberties so ably represented by these documents. When buried the flag is removed, elegantly folded, and given to a spouse, child, sibling, or parent.
Previously success was defined by marriage, raising kids, careers, etc. Now a fashionable consensus defines success around one group adjusting behaviors to validate the emotional damage others have decided to inflict upon themselves for endless perceived aggressions, insults, and prejudices. The instigators gain prestige but lack dreams to pursue or accomplishments to celebrate. The subservient parties embrace costless moral superiority by holding themselves and the country in disgust. Both share peaceful defilement.
I will always choose success through the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedom over sheltering within codependent relationships. This country needs “a new birth of freedom” and must remain faithful to the Constitution as the embodiment of American ideals.>p?\> Partial Bibliography:
The Liberal Mind by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
Meaning of the Folding of the American flag
https://www.truthorfiction.com/foldsoftheflag/
The Case Against Liberal Compassion
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-case-against-liberal-compassion/
Constitution Society: John Locke CHAP. V Of Property
. http://www.constitution.org/jl/2ndtr05.htm
Property by James Madison
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/property-by-james-madison-march-29-1792.html
I wonder what he’ll be doing next year during Spring training.
I’m pretty sure Melvin is a typical Bay-area Leftwinger. Born Jewish, but became Catholic, and has a Muslim boss. I’d be surprised if standing for the Anthem is actually carried out.
The National Anthem was put in place by a congress that wanted Americans to take their minds off the Great Depression in 1938. It has nothing to do with sports. It has to do with the public being played.
Kapernick just may have done the right thing.
Maybe we should have the national anthem before the football game on Veterans Day. But what about other days? Maybe that’s not necessary unless it’s a special occasion?
“It’s all about the perception that we’re out there ready to play,” Melvin said, per The Athletic. “That’s it. You want your team ready to play, and I want the other team to notice it, too. It’s really as simple as that.”
So it has nothing to do with respecting the flag or the country, just a bit of physical exercise.
That’s a good letter. Thanks for sharing from one veteran to another.
You are welcome.
Screw them. Stand. Don’t stand. Kneel. I’ll never watch another pro sports team/event. Ever. Corrupt, illiterate, stupid participants who couldn’t perform a job flipping burgers.
How many of the players are actually US citizens.
Ironic that the least patriotic league is the one with the highest pecentage of US players.
Good news...
First year will be his last year...
Photo: old Giants Melvin, Matt Williams, Brett Butler, Spring Training Diamondbacks around 2004
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