Most baseball teams have a healthy contingent of rednecks who made more money than most people on earth before their 30th birthday. I’m gonna assume they aren’t the most socially liberal people on earth.

That’s the way it’s been since the days of “Ball Four.” Bouton was the only liberal on the team. The rest felt the hippies needed a good kick in the ass.

For a variety of reasons. They’re more concerned about what’s happening in their home country, they’re too obsessed with baseball to talk about anything else, they’d rather concentrate on the hotel, the restaurant, or the blonde at the bar.

Plus, if you get too deep into controversial political statements, you can potentially torpedo your post-career earning power.

If you can smile, listen to the same stories over and over, and appear at fan conventions..you’re on easier street (easy street having been found after signing an MLB contract or two). Ask Ron Kittle.

that guy is damn proud of his African-American heritage

And some came in blackface. I wonder what is worse, receiving it from one of your teammates or the fans? That being said, I’m sure plenty of shit gets said in the Cell. I remember seeing a guy at The Cell stacking his beer cups without his shirt on with some very obvious White Supremacist tattoos, this was in about 2007.

Are lucky when compared to Europe and South America when it comes to racism in sports. Over there, segments of fan “ultras/firms” often are as involved in politics as they are the game itself. Often those politics are over the extreme side, while they have been trying to combat it, it obviously hasn’t been totally effective.

Here is a documentary on the Chelsea Headhunters, a fan frim with many ties to the racist far right:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2218940492996010738#

http://deadspin.com/#!5796295/anonymous-baltimore-orioles-employee-goes-to-great-lengths-to-inform-us-that-coworkers-wives-also-hate-obama

Click Here

and he’s not done.

also, maybe he’s injured. that would be a shame.

“Obama … was not born here. That’s my belief.”

Sarah Vowell said: “The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.”

Just this week, Scott was in Chicago playing the White Sox and heard all sorts of comments in the wake of the White House releasing Obama’s birth certificate.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/03/2847923/being-an-athlete-doesnt-make-you.html#ixzz1LXlyqjy7

(oh neat, that read more link was automatically stuck in my paste)

went up for the last O’s -M’s game. First time in Baltimore since learning the horrible truth about Luke. He just made a pinch hit appearance and grounded out. Unfortunately the O’s won in the 12th, 2-1, after the game looked like a heartbreaker for them and their fans.

I think now that Lukey emanated from an uncharted island in the Caribbean where Sidney Ponson, now three times as big as Jabba the Hut, rules malevolently. Luke was developed to end up in Ballamore all along, as kind of the perfect Bizarro to Adam Dunn’s flawed Superman, and his pre-Baltimore career was all subterfuge.

That’s my belief.