MLB suspends New York Yankees Josh Donaldson (Brown, compared, state)

[Mathguy]

OMG....mocking another player for comparing themselves to Jackie Robinson is now racist?

#smack

Welcome to woke proper think 2022.

P.S. From now on everyone here has to refer to me as Master Malcom x Ruth Ginsberg Chavez Zhang the Hun....or you're racist.

I only have one pronoun, "Master Malcom x Ruth Ginsberg Chavez Zhang the Hun Let me buy your lunch"

Again, say it or be racist...and I'd like a nice club sandwich with side salad.

[SanJuanStar]

That's an insult to Jackie. I guess calling someone M.J. on the court is a national racial crisis and reason to suspend and fine. I guess of all the words they say to each other at the heat of a game from weak, you suck, You are my b, the F bombs and the rest of what these athletes say to each other calling someone Jackie deserves a suspension and fine.


This country is going down the drain quick!

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by mascoma

For calling a black player "Jackie". So is that now another racial epithet that no one can use?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...e=featurephone

WTF?

He called him "Jackie" (reference to Jackie Robinson) which I would take as a compliment.

Why would someone be offended by being compared to Jackie Robinson?

I'm white and would certainly take it as a compliment if I was a baseball player.

[SanJuanStar]

Even if it was sarcastic , how calling somebody a baseball legend's name an insult. It's like calling somebody in the court in a sarcastic way, Larry Bird or Magic, or M.J. These are the multi-millionaire whiners in the MLB that the league has to jump in and make it into a race crisis? The Commissioner made it worse. This should have been handle right there by the clubs and move on. MLB is the problem.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by SanJuanStar

Even if it was sarcastic , how calling somebody a baseball legend's name an insult. It's like calling somebody in the court in a sarcastic way, Larry Bird or Magic, or M.J. These are the multi-millionaire whiners in the MLB that the league has to jump in and make it into a race crisis? The Commissioner made it worse. This should have been handle right there by the clubs and move on. MLB is the problem.

Yeah, I stopped watching MLB back during the strike over 20 years ago.

I'm done the rest of the way now.

This is absolutely *woketarded*.

With all the trash talk that goes on in the MLB, NBA, NFL etc? They're going to make this *racist*?

No, they're just slapping a 1 game undeserved suspension on someone to hope it goes away.

But what message does that send?

[Marv95]

This is a joke, right?

Good grief. Not the biggest fan of the guy(his hitting approach changed the game but not in a good way) but damn. I'm black and I'm not offended. No wonder MLB is struggling.

[Lillie767]

I'm glad I'm old and won't have to see how far this insanity goes before everyone has slid down the rabbit hole.

So sad for those still young - but then again, maybe they agree with this nonsense and the world has lost its sense.

[fruityfred11]

Wow, so so stupid.

So if Tim Anderson had (equally foolishly) decided to compare himself to Babe Ruth, and Josh Donaldson had jokingly said "Hey Babe!" it would have been okay?

Completely ignoring any actual context and feigning offense for the sake of virtue signal points is the #1 reason why no one takes the woke movement seriously.

[Leona Valley]

Montrezl Harrell of the L.A. Clippers called Luka Doncic a “Bi**h A** White Boy” during an NBA playoff game last season and the NBA did nothing.

https://itsgame7.com/montrezl-harrel...e-be-punished/

[TXstate0fmind]

TA is well known as a pain in the ass and Donaldson is also known as being a dick.

I'm sure the logic goes like this: white guy laughs at black guys self comparison to a legendary black player = put down of black guy, hence racism.