Around Baseball 2019

[Orgfiller]

Nick Burdi's arm died last night...

 

https://www.mlb.com/news/nick-burdi-exits-pirates-game-with-arm-injury

 

He somehow avoided a major injury and apparently won't need surgery. No biceps tear. That looked scary as hell.

[Spanky__99]

He somehow avoided a major injury and apparently won't need surgery. No biceps tear. That looked scary as hell.

 

Wow... I thought for sure he ripped his bicep to shreds, poor guy was in tears.

[G-Snarls]

Jake Arrietta rips Harper and other teammates

 

https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1762276

[wilko]

Jake Arrietta rips Harper and other teammates

 

https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/1762276

 

Just let the kids play.

 

[G-Snarls]

Pitchers just don't like Bryce Harper

 

Especially the ones on his own team it seems

 

LOL

[Spanky__99]

lulz...

 

Anderson doesn't regret profanity: People don't know what black men go through

Michael Bradburn

 

Tim Anderson served his one-game suspension last week for reportedly using profane language during a benches-clearing incident between the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals, and the shortstop doesn't regret accepting the ban without appeal.

 

"I would rather just flush it and keep going," Anderson told Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times. "Because it would have dragged on for another week or two if I appealed. I just didn't want to go through that process."

 

Anderson, 25, emphatically flipped his bat toward his own dugout after hitting a two-run home run against Brad Keller in the fourth inning. The Royals right-hander plunked Anderson in his next at-bat, which led to the benches being cleared. Both Keller and Anderson were ejected from the game, with the pitcher getting hit with a five-game suspension for his role.

 

The league announced Anderson's suspension was due to language he used but did not confirm what was said. However, reports suggested the umpiring crew ejected Anderson after he called Keller, who is white, a "weak-ass f------ n----."

 

"People don't know what we go through as black men and they don't know exactly where we come from being a black man, and the culture of being a black man," Anderson said. "What I said was one of those things that happens when black men get mad. When we're angry, that's like the go-to word. That lets them know that this guy is serious. It's a culture thing. I didn't mean anything by it, but that's just in my language."

 

Fellow athletes commented on Anderson's suspension, including Toronto Blue Jays starter Marcus Stroman and former second baseman Micah Johnson.

 

"You can't suspend someone for language. That's ridiculous," Stroman tweeted. "Also, what (Anderson) said is also normal slang trash talk in our culture."

 

Johnson, who spent parts of three seasons with the White Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Atlanta Braves, started his tweet with: "Dear white people offended by Tim Anderson using the N-Word."

 

"It's not your job to police how black people use it. ... You won't ever have to endure a barrage of N-words used to threaten you as you try to vote. And you won't ever have 100 camera angles catching your response as someone pegs you with 90-plus-mph rocks. ...

 

Suspending one of your few black players for language after getting hit ... will leave you with white benches."

 

League diversity has been on the decline in recent years. African-Americans accounted for 8.4 percent of major-leaguers in 2018, which is down from 18 percent in 1991, according to The Associated Press. It's a trend that Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. recently weighed in on.

 

"It's not a black problem or a white problem, but it's a baseball problem," Griffey said while crediting the NFL and NBA for doing a better job of appealing to a broader audience.

 

Anderson is off to a hot start in 2019, as he's hitting .418/.443/.642 with four home runs and nine stolen bases through 17 games. Prior to the 2017 season, he signed a six-year, $25-million extension with the White Sox after only 99 games played at the big-league level.

[wilko]

lulz...

 

[Deadpool]

lulz...

 

It's very, very important that all ballplayers maintain polite discourse or else the good name of the game will have been sullied and all the wealthy dowagers in the stands will faint from shock.

[G-Snarls]

Chris Sale 5 IP and 10K today 97 pitches

[glory]

I actually side with Anderson on this one. MLB is trying to be SJW to keep up with the times, but old white men suspending a black man for using the N Word is so ridiculous that there is no way that comes off well from an optics standpoint.

[Terminator]

What if he called him a faggot?

 

Black men telling me I can’t call them niggers but they can call white men one is one of the most hypocritical stances on earth. Being from the hood isn’t an excuse to act like a dipshit, especially when you’re in the top 1%. You’re not in the ghetto anymore. Tim Anderson is a douche and I hope he goes back to being a s***** hitter.

 

[wilko]

What if he called him a faggot?

 

Black men telling me I can’t call them niggers but they can call white men one is one of the most hypocritical stances on earth. Being from the hood isn’t an excuse to act like a dipshit, especially when you’re in the top 1%. You’re not in the ghetto anymore. Tim Anderson is a douche and I hope he goes back to being a s***** hitter.

 

[Boxcar]

What if he called him a faggot?

 

Black men telling me I can’t call them niggers but they can call white men one is one of the most hypocritical stances on earth. Being from the hood isn’t an excuse to act like a dipshit, especially when you’re in the top 1%. You’re not in the ghetto anymore. Tim Anderson is a douche and I hope he goes back to being a s***** hitter.

 

I think people might be interpreting this incorrectly but I get what you're saying

[Krylian]

What if he called him a faggot?

 

Black men telling me I can’t call them niggers but they can call white men one is one of the most hypocritical stances on earth. Being from the hood isn’t an excuse to act like a dipshit, especially when you’re in the top 1%. You’re not in the ghetto anymore. Tim Anderson is a douche and I hope he goes back to being a s***** hitter.

 

Would it be ok to say it if he was gay?

[Grant77]

It's not acceptable to have words that some people can use and others can not. MLB made the right decision.

[L54]

I think people might be interpreting this incorrectly but I get what you're saying

 

Thank you Boxy

 

Too many people afraid to call a spade a spade. Tim Anderson is stupid and so is Stroman’s take. I wonder what Adam Jones thanks of this tbh

[Spanky__99]

What if he called him a faggot?

 

Black men telling me I can’t call them niggers but they can call white men one is one of the most hypocritical stances on earth. Being from the hood isn’t an excuse to act like a dipshit, especially when you’re in the top 1%. You’re not in the ghetto anymore. Tim Anderson is a douche and I hope he goes back to being a s***** hitter.

 

Bwahahahaha...

[TheHurl]

It makes it much easier to just ban a word from on field use...but it's a slippery slope. What if a black player calls his teammate by the word in a positive way? Also, does it set a precedent now that it is a 1 game suspension for using it, regardless or the context? Do you have different levels for white players, for black players, what about mixed or Hispanic? I was asked to write a specific policy on banned words for a sport organization I was working for and I refused. It was left as a case by case basis.

[L54]

Oh wow Micah Johnson the most irrelevant player of all time also has an opinion on this. Nobody called you a n*gger while you were trying to vote. Don’t use the hardships black people ACTUALLY endured as a scapegoat so you can feel better about yourself acting like a donkey.

 

You’re not oppressed. Stop playing the victim and own up to your mistakes.

 

I wouldn’t give a s*** if Tim Anderson threw fists and broke Brad Keller’s nose. Throwing at guys because they mashed your s***** fastball isn’t right. But that doesn’t give you the right to call someone a n*gger, and it’s a special type of stupid when it’s directed at a white guy.

 

And no it won’t leave teams with white benches. I don’t think I’ve ever heard latinos refer to each other as n*ggers. They’re not leaving the game any time soon.

[L54]

It makes it much easier to just ban a word from on field use...but it's a slippery slope. What if a black player calls his teammate by the word in a positive way? Also, does it set a precedent now that it is a 1 game suspension for using it, regardless or the context? Do you have different levels for white players, for black players, what about mixed or Hispanic? I was asked to write a specific policy on banned words for a sport organization I was working for and I refused. It was left as a case by case basis.

 

What do you mean by different levels? Different levels of discipline for whites/latinos/blacks using the N word? Or for words deemed inappropriate in general?

 

Maybe I’m in the wrong but I don’t understand why the severity of this word should be lessened just because “you don’t get our culture”. Maybe your culture is f***ing backwards and you should stop acting like it should be treated as common practice amongst blacks only.

[TheHurl]

I'm going to probably take a s*** kicking as a mod for this but I'm going to ask all who wish to continue this conversation to take it to the off topic board. You have a problem with this PM me.

[L54]

I'm going to probably take a s*** kicking as a mod for this but I'm going to ask all who wish to continue this conversation to take it to the off topic board. You have a problem with this PM me.

 

I doubt you will. I don’t think many people care one way or the other- it just happens to be something I feel strongly about.

[Boxcar]

I'm going to probably take a s*** kicking as a mod for this but I'm going to ask all who wish to continue this conversation to take it to the off topic board. You have a problem with this PM me.

 

Don't worry guys, as future head moderator I deem this discussion perfectly valid

[BTS]

Don't worry guys, as future head moderator I deem this discussion perfectly valid

 

If Peter Alonso plays to his Steamer projections, you become a mod. I, for one, welcome you with open arms to the BJMB moderation team.

[TheHurl]

If Peter Alonso plays to his Steamer projections, you become a mod. I, for one, welcome you with open arms to the BJMB moderation team.

 

he's already asked if Mods can ban mods

[BTS]

Sonny Gray has been one of the best pitchers in baseball this year.

[BTS]

he's already asked if Mods can ban mods

 

That hurts

[John_Havok]

I'm going to probably take a s*** kicking as a mod for this but I'm going to ask all who wish to continue this conversation to take it to the off topic board. You have a problem with this PM me.

 

I have a problem with this you weak ass honky, white bread cracker.

[TheHurl]

I have a problem with this you weak ass honky, white bread cracker.

 

I appreciate that you also PM'd it.

[Boxcar]

That hurts

 

I'm sorry, I'm going to institute a no communist policy. You and Deadpool will be receiving permanent bans.