Freddie Freeman won the fan voting for the final NL All Star spot with a record 19.7 million votes. He's hitting .313/9/60. I found this out while channel surfing and watching a few minutes of Sports Center, an extreme rarity for me. After announcing Freeman's win and the record vote total, ESPN then cut to a follow-up report -- which was not about Freeman, who suffers from being of the race that lacks upside and charisma, but rather on the reaction of Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig, the latest media love child, to not winning the vote despite a frenzied media campaign on his behalf.
Puig has played all of 36 games so far, but as I learned further from an AP story in today's fishwrap, "Puig-mania is sweeping the country."
Puig is 6'3" and 245 pounds and has a gaudy .397 batting average thus far, but only 19 RBIs to go with 8 homers. A nice start to a rookie season, but hardly worthy of "Puig-mania." Someone named Ted Berg wrote an article for McPaper (USA Today) titled "Yasiel Puig is the reason we have the All-Star Game." http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/07/yasiel-puig-is-what-the-all-star-game-is-for/ Yes, of course, the All Star game exists only to lionize blacks who have yet to play a quarter of a season's worth of games in their MLB career.
I recall hearing something in passing the other day about Mark McGwire lecturing or politely castigating Puig, an indicator that he likely has "character issues," but the only thing that counts with ESPN and the rest of the corporate media is following the communist line on race.
Puig is 6'3" and 245 pounds and has a gaudy .397 batting average thus far, but only 19 RBIs to go with 8 homers. A nice start to a rookie season, but hardly worthy of "Puig-mania."
During 2007 spring training, Shelton started and finished spring training with the Tigers and by the end of spring training there was one spot left on the team's roster and the fight was between Marcus Thames and Chris Shelton. Shelton did not make the roster, which left him heading to Toledo for the 2007 season.
Quite a different reaction from when the first public accusations were made against Roger Clemens. After all, how could anyone look at Pujols, his physique and rapid decline after MLB finally cracked down on illegal drug use, and think he may have used steroids or PEDs?
Jack Clark fired for PED comment about Albert Pujols
Former St. Louis Cardinals star Jack Clark is out of his sports talk radio job along with co-host after saying Albert Pujols took performance-enhancing drugs.
Clark said on the air last week on WGNU in St. Louis that Pujols’ former trainer, Chris Mihlfeld, told him 10 years ago that he injected PEDs into Pujols, the former Cardinals great now in his second season with the Angels but sidelined by a foot injury.
full article: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/2188...ired-for-ped-comment-about-albert-pujols.html
Am watching the Red Sox - Yankees game now and it is a veritable caste match. All the Sox I have seen so far are white and the Yanks have all Negroes or blackish Hispanics (save for two players) so far.
Anybody been following the classless Puig? Throwing temper tantrums, declaring himself the greatest hitter in baseball, blowing off legend Luis Gonzalez, etc. This guy seems to be every modern day black athlete rolled into one.
I'm hoping the fact that I look like a slow white guy is working in my favor right now!"
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