INSANITY Mets, Marlins walk off field after 42-second moment of silence

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Mets, Marlins walk off field after 42-second moment of silence

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Yahoo SportsAug 27, 2020, 7:26 PM








Mets’ Dominic Smith on racism in America: ‘The most difficult part is…people still don’t care’



Mets’ Dominic Smith on racism in America: ‘The most difficult part is…people still don’t care’

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As team after team announced they would refuse to play games in protest of Jacob Blake’s shooting, the New York Mets and Miami Marlins still decided to take the field on Thursday.
And then they walked off.

After rumblings of a potential player protest, the Mets took their places on the field as scheduled. However, starting pitcher Michael Wacha did not throw a warm-up pitch, and the teams did not exchange lineup cards.
Marlins outfielder Lewis Brinson stepped into the box and both teams seemed in position to start playing, but only 42 seconds of silence, likely in honor of Jackie Robinson, followed. Both teams then exited the field, with Brinson leaving a “Black Lives Matter” shirt at home plate.


The protest had been preceded by Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen getting caught on a hot mic discussing a brewing protest among players, along with some criticism of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.

Miami Marlins center fielder Lewis Brinson walks away after placing a "Black Lives Matter" shirt on home plate as teammates and the New York Mets walk off the field at the start of their baseball game on Thursday. The teams jointly walked off the field after a moment of silence as they chose not to start their scheduled game. (John Minchillo/AP)
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Another day of protests for MLB
MLB saw its first wave of protests on Wednesday when the Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds, Seattle Marines, San Diego Padres, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants opted to not play, following a trend sparked by the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks in protest of Blake’s shooting.
That continued into Thursday, with games featuring 14 other teams having to be postponed due to player protests, including the Mets and Marlins.
After playing Wednesday, Mets slugger Dominic Smith delivered the league’s most emotional response. Through tears, Smith lamented the treatment of Black men in America:

“I think the most difficult part is to see people still don’t care. For this to just continuously happen, it just shows the hate in people’s heart. That just sucks, you know? Black men in America, it’s not easy. Like I said, I just wasn’t there today, but I’ll bounce back, I’ll be fine.”

As the Mets walked off Thursday, Smith was seen with his arm around his teammates.

The Mets and Marlins became the latest team to refuse to play on Thursday. (John Minchillo/AP)
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[Doc1]

Good! Let 'em all walk off the field - and go bankrupt. These professional athlete idiots - did you hear me? I said IDIOTS - don't realize that they possess a very perishable skill. This is true in all of the big sports, baseball, football and basketball.

Why perishable?

1.) First, they only have a limited number of prime playing years in their youth, after which they're washed up and have to go into retirement. Wanna be an old man playing professional sports? Take up golf.

2.) Their fantastic salaries rely entirely on fan goodwill and loyalty. Lose that and you'll be lucky to find a miserly wage in the minor leagues or Burger King. Maybe they could write a book, but a lot of these guys are functionally illiterate.

3.) Racial alienation is a huge factor in the waning professional sports arena. When large numbers of Black athletes intentionally insult and condemn their largely White fan base, the results are, er, predictable. Fans - of any race - don't like being told to eat sh*t and like it. They won't respond by rioting or tearing down sports arenas. They'll withhold support from the teams.

Hey! Idiot players! Yes, you over there in the BLM shirt. The withholding of support means the withholding of Dollars. Get it? Your gravy train is ending. When your athletic skills are no longer marketable, what's your fallback plan? You have a degree in dentistry or accounting, right?

IMHO the demise of American professional sports is a good thing. For too long Americans have idolized barely literate overgrown children who have a talent for playing ball. Otherwise sane people actually have fights over 'watching the game' and the sports obsession often breaks friendships and causes strife within families. Over what? Watching athletes handle a ball on the screen? Sheesh...

I say it's high time Americans did away with their professional sports obsession. It's well past high time!

Best
Doc

 

[bw]

meh

 

[dstraito]

It is not true that people don't care

I hate major league sports more than ever

I am getting more and more racist with each unconscionable act these people perform.

I do not think that was what they were going for but there it is.

 

[dvo]

Did any fans get to pay for the privilege to watch them walk off the field after several minutes? Or were these so called professionals playing to an empty stadium? And...does anyone care anymore?

 

[Raggedyman]

well a WALK OFF is a good start . . . now if we can just get these over paid ASSKLOWNS to STAY OFF we'll be well on our way to ridding AMERICA of time wasting modern day bread and circuses BULLSHIT

if we're really lucky the NEEE-gro Babyshit Assholes and the NEEE-gro Fellon League will stay home too . . .

 

[nehimama]

Mets’ Dominic Smith on racism in America: ‘The most difficult part is…people still don’t care’

And the more you biotch and whine about it, THE LESS WE CARE! You're creating a whole new population of racists; people who, before all this $#!t, had not a racist bone in their bodies. Number me in that new population.

 

[Hfcomms]

These idiot players have bought into the notion of systemic racism and that the cops are targeting black men for execution. I think most of those black players really buy into that. All they know is what the media and apologists tell them.

But if they were capable of independent thought it might occur to them to say to themselves, ‘I’m a black man and came from a single parent home, I am not really that smart and didn’t do well in school but I got a full scholarship and preferential treatment. I’m good at ball and had a lot of teams owned by white men throwing money at me to play for them. I make more money than doctors, lawyers and even the President of the United States.’

If they would stop and think they would realize that only in this country can an impoverished black boy work hard at the one thing he can do and be rewarded far beyond what most of us can imagine. And then maybe he would consider that virtually none of the shootings would happen if the people involved would stop doing stupid things like fighting the police and resisting arrest.

These dummies are being used as tools and pawns to destroy not only their livelihood but this country for a false narrative.

 

[Ta-wo-di]

All professional sports can collapse. I don't give a sheeeet anymore. I am sick of the high paid crybabies that can't be grateful for what they have been given living in this country. The can all go to HE double hockey sticks.

 

[Sub-Zero]

Did any fans get to pay for the privilege to watch them walk off the field after several minutes? Or were these so called professionals playing to an empty stadium? And...does anyone care anymore?

Don't forget the advertisers. They pay the broadcast stations. No game, no advertising revenue. No game, broadcasters don't pay the teams. I'm sure it's in the contract between them. The teams themselves only have so much in reserve.

 

[BassMan]

To the PC sports teams: it is OK to let the door slam you on the rear as you exit...

 

[Blacknarwhal]

Is there nothing in their contracts that prevents these kinds of tantrums?

 

[mourningdove]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

 

[packyderms_wife]

These dummies are being used as tools and pawns to destroy not only their livelihood but this country for a false narrative.

It's all about putting the blacks back onto the plantation and if ole camel toe gets elected it'll happen even faster than anyone thought possible.

 

[packyderms_wife]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

BLM is a marxist organization... get that into your head because they want you dead!

 

[Kathy in FL]

Hit ‘em in the wallet. Make them have to repay all of the costs, direct and indirect, of their so-called protest. Once the idiots figure out where the money really comes from maybe they’ll grow up and wise up. It is what needs to happen to all protesters. You want to make a statement? Fine. You don’t get to do it on someone else’s dime.

 

[et2]

It just shows the low IQ of these morons. They’re some of the highest paid racists in this country. Now we have to kneel for them ...

Stupid is as stupid does.

 

[nehimama]

Someone PLEASE name ONE country on this planet where blacks (I will NOT capitalize that word!) have it better than, or even as good as they have it here in the USA.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Someone PLEASE name ONE country on this planet where blacks (I will NOT capitalize that word!) have it better than, or even as good as they have it here in the USA.

Switzerland last I heard.

 

[Border Collie Dad]

I'm not a hockey fan.
Don't know or care if the puck is blown or stuffed.

It did surprise me that the NHL has also bought into this crap

 

[RB Martin]

...Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.
The one is.
I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.....

This is a statistical lie. Straight out of hell.

Blacks are threatened and killed more by other non-police blacks than anything else.

Whites are more statistically prone to be shot by cops than blacks by a large margin. BLM is a Big League of Marxists and is a terrorist organization.

I don't support communists I oppose them.

 

[TheSearcher]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

You forgot the rest of the story,

Jesus reaches the sheep, which proceeds to shit all over his robes, bites his hands and feet and face, and bleats in his ear as he tries to take the creature back to the flock.

Jesus says "Oh, it's the possessed pig thing again. Where's a cliff?"

 

[wvstuck]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

Have you ever visited blacklivesmatter.com Maybe no one wants to support the non-Godly, socialist agenda of this group, it is a political organization. Criticizing it does not mean we don't have black friends or support them. We simply put down the evil, socialist nature of the organization.

By the way there is always a verse to throw at someone, but remember the sheep in your example are the children of Christ, he is not herding the sinners that refuse to acknowledge him... It wasn't a flock of sheep that were beating people in the street, burning businesses and trying to overthrow a government.

I'll say what Christ says, All lives matter to the Father (The Jew first and then the Gentile)

 

[et2]

Should be a lot of athletes losing their jobs. Time for ownerships to start cutting heads. You don’t support the team and the owners income ... GTFO.

I’m done with sports. Will never watch them again or pay to go to a game.

 

[TammyinWI]

But...but...bread and circuses!!

Get them all for breach of their contracts. They are being lazy and feel they have a good excuse...to whine and cry.

 

[Bubble Head]

To the PC sports teams: it is OK to let the door slam you on the rear as you exit...

Then lock the doors so they can't come back. We don't need them in our lives.

 

[Dennis Olson]

F’em all.

 

[wvstuck]

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

This is how the bible is so often misused... This is the same example running around Facebook that heathens are using and putting in memes... However is is just another case of using the bible to try and shame someone, which is far from the spirit of Christ.

Second, of course all of the sheep are in danger, if they weren't they wouldn't have a Shepard and they would be free ranging all alone. Also when the sheep is returned to the flock it does not become more important than the others, there are no signs reading this sheep matters... It is returned to the flock. The flock is a collective not a divided group of individuals that think one group is more important than the others. Imagine what this story would read like in the bible if the sheep started forming groups and claiming one group was the most important... What do you think Jesus would have said to that?

 

[emiliozapata]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

What you mean to say is Black Criminal Lives Matter

 

[Vulture45-70]

60 + more days.

 

[mistaken1]

Mets, Marlins walk off field after 42-second moment of silence

So?

 

[mistaken1]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

Way to Christian splain ... just sayin.

 

[Blacknarwhal]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

Took me a minute but I think I spotted the fail in your logic.

JESUS left to get the sheep. The sheep, meanwhile, went nowhere.

For the sheep, ALL lives matter. Not just the one that left the flock.

 

[FROG]

I wish people would read their Bible in context

 

[Murt]

a big part of their problem is that they believe what the media says about them
their relevance is much less than what they are told

 

[naturallysweet]

There is nothing more pathetic than a group of millionaire entitled privileged people loudly complaining about how they are oppressed.

 

[CaryC]

If you are a Christian, and can’t hear #BlackLivesMatter without feeling the need to respond with a criticism that “All Live Matter,” then crack open your Bible and hit up Luke 15.

Don’t have it handy? Let me summarize.

There are 100 sheep, but one goes missing.
Jesus leaves the 99 and goes after the one.

The 99: “But… what about us? Don’t we matter?”

Of course the 99 still matter, but they’re not the ones in danger.

The one is.

I’ll say it again, #BlackLivesMatter.

* Inspired by the original post by @manny_arteaga from Twitter.

I am very much a Christian, and instead of lecturing us on what it says maybe you should read more of it yourself.

And an emphatic NO the one is NOT BLM a marxist organization. It is the one, an individual, that is lost, of any color.

I can get a tad snarky and say the one sheep that was lost was white, how about that?

And just so YOU get it straight. I've got black friends, and they have been to, and into my house and I in theirs's. We've eaten together, prayed together, and studied the Bible together. How about YOU.

 

[EMICT]

It is always noble trying to convince others that their logic may not be sound, but if one's logic remains incoherent in light of all that has occurred during 2020, then you'all are...

 

[Doat]

Now the paying fans need to show them just who has the control.

 

[bcingu]

Please walk off and stay off. Stopped watching baseball decades ago, stopped watching basketball 15 years ago, stopped watching football 5 years ago. No respect for a bunch of thug wannabes.
Good riddance.