The Blue Jays to unveil new red alternate uniform to be worn on all Sunday home games

[wk680]

They're the Toronto Blue Jays as are the Toronto Raptors, no need to s*** on Southern Ontario... we know the Country's behind us. Get a f***ing grip.

 

People like wk680 and Grant77 and their comments, doesn't do our team's fans any justice. It's pretty much disgusting.

 

Like I said, it's not a sports thing. Seems I touched a nerve ........

 

ETA: I don't condone Grant's comment about Southern Ontario being a 'sh*thole". My brother lived in metro TO for 7 years and I visited several times. It is a very nice city, albeit overpopulated just like many of it's counterparts south of the border.

[Spanky99]

Like I said, it's not a sports thing. Seems I touched a nerve ........

 

So you're trolling... well played *******. It actually is a SPORTS thing, (just cause you don't think so, have at it, tard) doesn't mean it isn't.

[Spanky99]

At the same time I think Toronto fans have a separate inferiority complex with Americans. Like they want to distant themselves from the rest of Canada and be included in the American mainstream teams.

 

"Hey I know we're from a foreign country but really we're just like NY or Chicago! Please don't group us with people in Alberta and Manitoba!"

 

We all get really excited when Jays fans invade Seattle, Minny or Detroit but the reality is the invasion would be a lot less if those people were convinced the Jays were just Toronto's team.

 

This is idiotic, I haven't met a person yet, that has thought this way. You sir are dumn. I can't believe I'm defending this retarded ideology.

[Stangstag]

Awful pizza, too. I don't think a single actual Italian lives here.

 

Umm...

[Spanky99]

Umm...

 

whoosh

[wk680]

So you're trolling... well played *******. It actually is a SPORTS thing, (just cause you don't think so, have at it, tard) doesn't mean it isn't.

 

Actually the trolling started with post #54 of this thread. Then you just jumped on his bandwagon throwing haymakers at anyone who came in your path. Why don't you go back to trying to discuss baseball intelligently instead of hurling personal insults.

[TheHurl]

This is idiotic, I haven't met a person yet, that has thought this way. You sir are dumn. I can't believe I'm defending this retarded ideology.

 

In the same way I provide certain links to nohomophobes.com when people make certain homophobic statements. And Greenwood has his commentary when people refer to trades as rape...I will leave you with these words from a Special Olympian. It's an older letter but he's still been fighting the case on TV and the point still stands. I'm not going to ban words...just try and tell people that they could use some changes in the way they write and speak.

 

What’s the big deal about using the word “retard”?

 

A lot of people are talking about the movie “Tropic Thunder.” One of the reasons that it is being talked about is that the characters use the term “retard” over and over. They use it the same way that kids do all the time, to jokingly insult one another.

 

The people who made the movie, DreamWorks and Paramount, and many of the critics who have reviewed it, say that the term is being used by characters who are dumb and shallow themselves.

 

You see, we are supposed to get the joke that it is only the dumb and shallow people who use a term that means dumb and shallow. My dad tells me that this is called “irony.”

 

So, what’s the big deal?

 

Let me try to explain.

 

I am a 26-year-old man with Down Syndrome. I am very lucky. Even though I was born with this intellectual disability, I do pretty well and have a good life. I live and work in the community. I count as friends the people I went to school with and the people I meet in my job.

 

Every day I get closer to living a life like yours.

 

I am a Global Messenger for Special Olympics and make speeches to people all over the country. I once spoke to over 10,000 people at the Richmond Coliseum. I realize that I am a voice for other people with intellectual disabilities who cannot easily speak for themselves. I thank God that he gave me this chance to be someone’s voice.

 

The hardest thing about having an intellectual disability is the loneliness. We process information slower than everyone else. So even normal conversation is a constant battle for us not to lose touch with what the rest of you are saying. Most of the time the words and thoughts just go too fast for us to keep up, and when we finally say something it seems out of place.

 

We are aware when all the rest of you stop and just look at us. We are aware when you look at us and just say, “unh huh,” and then move on, talking to each other. You mean no harm, but you have no idea how alone we feel even when we are with you.

 

That is why I love being a Global Messenger. I work for days telling my dad what I want to talk about and he tries to write it down for me. Then we do it over and over until we have something that says what I mean. We wrote this letter the same way.

 

So, what’s wrong with “retard”? I can only tell you what it means to me and people like me when we hear it. It means that the rest of you are excluding us from your group. We are something that is not like you and something that none of you would ever want to be. We are something outside the “in” group. We are someone that is not your kind.

 

I want you to know that it hurts to be left out here, alone. Nothing scares me as much as feeling all alone in a world that moves so much faster than I do.

 

You don’t mean to make me feel that way. In fact, like I say in some of my speeches, “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers,” and it works out OK most of the time. Still, it hurts and scares me when I am the only person with intellectual disabilities on the bus and young people start making “retard” jokes or references.

 

Please put yourself on that bus and fill the bus with people who are different from you. Imagine that they start making jokes using a term that describes you. It hurts and it is scary.

 

Last, I get the joke — the irony — that only dumb and shallow people are using a term that means dumb and shallow. The problem is, it is only funny if you think a “retard” is someone dumb and shallow. I am not those things, but every time the term is used it tells young people that it is OK to think of me that way and to keep me on the outside.

 

That is why using “retard” is a big deal to people like me.

 

John Franklin Stephens is a Special Olympics Virginia athlete and Global Messenger who lives in Fairfax, Va.

[King]

Actually the trolling started with post #54 of this thread. Then you just jumped on his bandwagon throwing haymakers at anyone who came in your path. Why don't you go back to trying to discuss baseball intelligently instead of hurling personal insults.

 

Classic Spunky.

[Stangstag]

whoosh

 

Boxcar has already made some ridiculous statements in this thread, so its very difficult to tell when he's being sarcastic.

 

I'm still not entirely convinced he was joking.

[Boxcar]

His ignorance concerning South Ontario is astounding. Sudbury/Thunder Bay is soooo multi-cultured and a peg higher in life, than SO. f***ing joke I stood up for him in the past, and he swaps where I live in a brush.

 

lol who cares, relax a bit there bud. No need to be so insecure.

[Boxcar]

In the same way I provide certain links to nohomophobes.com when people make certain homophobic statements. And Greenwood has his commentary when people refer to trades as rape...I will leave you with these words from a Special Olympian. It's an older letter but he's still been fighting the case on TV and the point still stands. I'm not going to ban words...just try and tell people that they could use some changes in the way they write and speak.

 

Oh god

[Boxcar]

Boxcar has already made some ridiculous statements in this thread, so its very difficult to tell when he's being sarcastic.

 

I'm still not entirely convinced he was joking.

 

What ridiculous statements? That I'm tired of Canadian insecurity? Their need to be constantly validated?

 

That's not ridiculous. I'm not some nationalist, though so maybe it's different from some blindly patriotic type.

[Boxcar]

This is idiotic, I haven't met a person yet, that has thought this way. You sir are dumn. I can't believe I'm defending this retarded ideology.

 

Watch your language, man.

 

There are retards who find that offensive.

[Spanky99]

lol who cares, relax a bit there bud. No need to be so insecure.

 

I'm not?

[Spanky99]

In the same way I provide certain links to nohomophobes.com when people make certain homophobic statements. And Greenwood has his commentary when people refer to trades as rape...I will leave you with these words from a Special Olympian. It's an older letter but he's still been fighting the case on TV and the point still stands. I'm not going to ban words...just try and tell people that they could use some changes in the way they write and speak.

 

lol...

[TheHurl]

Boxy won't fight for his country but will fight everyone for his right to fight a fight that isn't a fight. See what happens when the Blue Jays put out a f***ing red shirt it causes fighting among DDL'ers. I can't close my eyes and make it go away. How long, how long must we sing this song?

 

I can't believe that Bono lyrics are the least offensive thing in this thread.

[Spanky99]

Actually the trolling started with post #54 of this thread. Then you just jumped on his bandwagon throwing haymakers at anyone who came in your path. Why don't you go back to trying to discuss baseball intelligently instead of hurling personal insults.

 

No... started waaaaaaaaay before, if you need to know. Thanks. Post #24, I do talk ball, everyday.

[King]

Boxy won't fight for his country but will fight everyone for his right to fight a fight that isn't a fight. See what happens when the Blue Jays put out a f***ing red shirt it causes fighting among DDL'ers. I can't close my eyes and make it go away. How long, how long must we sing this song?

 

I can't believe that Bono lyrics are the least offensive thing in this thread.

 

Square up Hurl.

[Spanky99]

Square up Hurl.

 

lol... keep trying. Unless you're talking about something else.

[Spanky99]

In the same way I provide certain links to nohomophobes.com when people make certain homophobic statements. And Greenwood has his commentary when people refer to trades as rape...I will leave you with these words from a Special Olympian. It's an older letter but he's still been fighting the case on TV and the point still stands. I'm not going to ban words...just try and tell people that they could use some changes in the way they write and speak.

 

Well, that's lame, I could be one of them. This doesn't change... local language as a joke or serious, won't change bro, seriously. Not for some time anyways. (I can't say I don't love the story, but a co-worker of mine asked we took him on as us, his brother)

[Pendleton]

I'm wearing a red Jays tshirt, should I look into witness protection or?

[Spanky99]

I'm wearing a red Jays tshirt, should I look into witness protection or?

 

lol... you're okay.

[L54]

Watch your language, man.

 

There are retards who find that offensive.

 

Lol you're a joke

[Rusty_Savage]

It's only 13 games. I'm not from southern Ontario and think the red jerseys are pretty lame but it's not like they will be worn that much.

 

About those blow jobs though....

 

Also, as far as major cities go Toronto is one of the nicest. Especially in N.A

[wamco]

Watch your language, man.

 

There are retards who find that offensive.

 

Sigh...

[BlueJayWay]

They've been unveiled. Ugh.

[G-Snarls]

[G-Snarls]

Why use Sanchez as your model

[G-Snarls]

[KingKat]

They've been unveiled. Ugh.

 

The are like REALLY red. Even the logo has a red wash on it. It's worse than I expected.

 

Ultimately whatever's good for the bottom line is good for the team but I agree with whoever said that competing colour schemes take away from crowd scenes. Best case scenario is for a bunch of people to impulse buy these while hardly ever wearing them. That would be the best of both worlds.

 

Let's go BLUE Jays!