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More pandering from people who just need to show us the sport we came to see, and nothing more, especially this kind of phony horse shit.


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Changed the channel when that shit started. No idea what I changed it to, walked down to the end of the driveway and talked to the neighbor for a few.


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Sports (particularly sports media) have become almost as lib as academics.



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I was saying the same thing to my Cousin.


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I miss the days of Dizzy Dean & Pee Wee Reese.
 
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i did not see. how bad was it?



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It was a bunch of rich Corinthian leather.
 
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Baseball been berry berry good to me

 
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Part of the cultural war to push identity politics. Two groups lap this pandering up, and they think that ignorant trump supporting nazis are the marginal group, despite evidence to the contrary.
 
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Was thinking the same thing as the pregame first pitch became first toss off to Latin players. I have nothing against Latinos at all but picking one race is just trying to get latinos to fill seats there in Miami. I thought I was the only one irked by that.
 
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As someone who is of Hispanic descent, I've never understood all the bullshit. "Latino" is not a race... it's literally a description of people from a particular location (South America, some include Spain in the definition).

There's a shitload of white people in LatAm, and black, and indigenous, and any mix of the above.

I don't get the distinction.
 
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Seems like everything is about race today... if not, you're sleeping.




 
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Way before all this talk of race & who's this & who's that, my favorite players were Minnie Minoso & Roberto Clemente. I was just a kid & sportscasters just called ball games, we've went backwards.
 
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Cause social justice! And kill whitey! And something something.
 
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Some of this feels similar to when I go to my mother in law's house and she feels the need to point out any and all things wrong with the place. Like if she mentions all the stuff shes ashamed of FIRST then, I can't. I've also seen people do this with their personal appearance. Insecurity breeds the need to be self depricating.

Mindset: "If I mention all these things I 'Think' you're noticing that's wrong with me/my belongings, I take the 'power' from you being able to do so." Thing is, YOU'RE THE ONE STUCK ON IT. No one else would notice or think there's something wrong.

Side bar; Most don't know "Hispanic/Latino" is ethnicity not race.


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Cause social justice! And kill whitey! And something something.


This is about it. I'm surprised Colin Kapernik wasn't there telling them to take a knee.


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The main reason I never made it through Ken Burns' baseball doc.




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Glad I didn't see any of it. I quit watching baseball in 1992.



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Sports (particularly sports media) have become almost as lib as academics.


The stereotype from the 50s was that jocks were frat boy types, Republicans. Therefore, bigots and racists. The sports writers have been working overtime to show that they are progressive! All about diversity and tolerance!

The local boob sports writer just did a piece on the upcoming boxing match between Mayweather and McGregor and based it on the premise that McGregor was "the Great White Hope." That is a term that dates from a black-white boxing match in 1910 involving the champ Jack Johnson. The term has been revived a few times over the decades, most recently as far as I recall in a fight involving Muhammad Ali and Jerry Quarry.

In 2017, McGregor is "the Great White Hope"?? His match with Mayweather is all about
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race??

It is a stupid match up, a scam of a boxing match, something closer to pro wrestling than a real boxing match, but to this dolt the main thing is that it is a remnant of white racism. :roll eyes:

The libs took what was once their most potent cause, racism, and their most devastating insult, racist, and just flogged that nag to death. Americans are sick and tired of it. I know that I am, and I know that I'm far from alone.


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Cause social justice! And kill whitey! And something something.


I think you have a point. Seems to me one underlying goal is to promote disunity/disharmony/contention in America along ethnic lines; to promote "us against them" mentality.




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