2013 MLB Playoffs

[Carolina Speed]

Cards lead Dodgers 3-2, 5th inning. Matt Holliday 2 run homerun!

Cards Shane Robinson pinch-hit HR. Cards 4-2, 7th inning!

 

[PhillyFanatic]

How Much Does Racism Affect Team Building Today?
http://www.stlcardinalbaseball.com/how-much-does-racism-affect-team-building-today

Yesterday afternoon I had a chance to speak with a source (who, of course, wishes to remain anonymous) in Florida who knows Miami Marlins owner Jeff Loria. He had an interesting story about the negotiations between Albert Pujols and Loria that occurred on Tuesday December 6, 2011. According to this source, Deidre Pujols (Wife of Albert Pujols) spoke with Loria by telephone at one point that Tuesday afternoon and allegedly made the following demand:

“Albert wants at least three Dominican players on the team. He likes to associate with Dominican people.”


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One of the primary complaints regarding Pujols’ clubhouse presence was his tendency to segregate himself within a small clique of Dominican or Hispanic players and coaches. Of course, this is somewhat natural; everyone would prefer to speak their native language if possible. But it often seemed to come at the expense of leadership within the team.

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But to answer the question posed by the title, it’s clear that the teams in Miami and Anaheim are built to appeal to their Latino bases. This is a subtle form of racism in which wealthy white owners profit from discriminating in favor of Latin players.

 

[Average American]

Good article on the culture clash between Dodgers & Cards. I think the writer does a good job summarizing it, up to the glaring omission of ethnic contrast between the two squads.. still a good read.
& I agree with him, the differences are making the series interesting.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/...can-coexist-pastime-cultural-collision-101713

Anyone notice, article looks like they used a pic with a lot of Dodger Whiteboys, maybe to willfully downplay the ethnic underwriting of LA's style.. or am I getting too conspiratorial.

 

[PhillyFanatic]

Yasiel Puig's TNB

 

[Carolina Speed]

Yasiel Puig's TNB

Oh yeah, puig finally got a hit after going 0 for his first 11 with 7 punch-outs, so he was 1-12 to that point. The idiot cost himself and his team. He could have gotten an inside the park HR, if he wasn't too busy celebrating what he thought was a HR!

 

[Liverlips]

Detroit starting exactly ZERO white players tonight.

The Red Sox inexplicably sat Millbanks tonight and his backup is a darkish Hispanic. But if they played Milbanks it would have been 8 whites in the field (and one half white/half Hawaiian) against nine blacks and Hispanics.

And of course the Red Sox are up 4-0.

It is looking like a Cardinals v. Red Sox series and you can already see the articles crying and yodeling about there being almost no "diversity" on the field save for Big (meaning fat) Papi.

 

[white is right]

Detroit starting exactly ZERO white players tonight.

The Red Sox inexplicably sat Millbanks tonight and his backup is a darkish Hispanic. But if they played Milbanks it would have been 8 whites in the field (and one half white/half Hawaiian) against nine blacks and Hispanics.

And of course the Red Sox are up 4-0.

It is looking like a Cardinals v. Red Sox series and you can already see the articles crying and yodeling about there being almost no "diversity" on the field save for Big (meaning fat) Papi.

Alex Avila is probably a White Cuban and is White by a Latino standard.

 

[PhillyFanatic]

There are no African-Americans on the St Louis Cardinals.

Jon Jay was born in Miami and some Cardinal fans believe he is African-American. However, Rick Hummel pointed out in a Post-Dispatch article the following day that 2/3 of a century since Jackie Robinson arrived on the MLB scene there are no black players on the Cards roster. Hummel attempted to clear up any possible confusion by noting that Jon Jay is of Cuban ancestry. http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ml-cardinals&tid=109575


Four major-league teams opened the season without an African-American player on their opening-day roster — the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23025791/jackie-robinson-day-concern-over-lack-african-american

 

[Leonardfan]

There are no African-Americans on the St Louis Cardinals.

Jon Jay was born in Miami and some Cardinal fans believe he is African-American. However, Rick Hummel pointed out in a Post-Dispatch article the following day that 2/3 of a century since Jackie Robinson arrived on the MLB scene there are no black players on the Cards roster. Hummel attempted to clear up any possible confusion by noting that Jon Jay is of Cuban ancestry. http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ml-cardinals&tid=109575


Four major-league teams opened the season without an African-American player on their opening-day roster — the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23025791/jackie-robinson-day-concern-over-lack-african-american

Who Cares? No one on this board cares about the "lack" of blacks in baseball. It's pure and utter b.s.

 

[PhillyFanatic]

Who Cares? No one on this board cares about the "lack" of blacks in baseball. It's pure and utter b.s.

Everyone on here cares. That's the main reason we're rooting for the Cardinals and Redsox.

 

[Leonardfan]

Everyone on here cares. That's the main reason we're rooting for the Cardinals and Redsox.

Yea we care about that by why bother posting those two articles complaining about the lack of black baseball players.

 

[PhillyFanatic]

Yea we care about that by why bother posting those two articles complaining about the lack of black baseball players.

Because the Media writes it that way.

This article has 331 comments. Most of the people are on our side.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_011a2213-e60d-5f85-bf48-de32c2d05e82.html

 

[davidholly]

I don't know much about baseball but this Wacha kid is a beast.

 

[davidholly]

Cardinals up 9-0, they're destroying them.

 

[Westside]

There are no African-Americans on the St Louis Cardinals.

Jon Jay was born in Miami and some Cardinal fans believe he is African-American. However, Rick Hummel pointed out in a Post-Dispatch article the following day that 2/3 of a century since Jackie Robinson arrived on the MLB scene there are no black players on the Cards roster. Hummel attempted to clear up any possible confusion by noting that Jon Jay is of Cuban ancestry. http://www.forums.mlb.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&webtag=ml-cardinals&tid=109575


Four major-league teams opened the season without an African-American player on their opening-day roster — the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23025791/jackie-robinson-day-concern-over-lack-african-american

Really do not know why Don is letting you troll here. I am flummoxed? You should be emailing the NFL about the lack of Whites on almost all the teams and the NBA more so. WTF is going on here at CF!

 

[PhillyFanatic]

Really do not know why Don is letting you troll here. I am flummoxed? You should be emailing the NFL about the lack of Whites on almost all the teams and the NBA more so. WTF is going on here at CF!

F*ck you too Westside. You f*ggot. Obsessed with me like I am your boyfriend.

 

[Tannehill17]

I saw that play by Puig. What an idiot. Of course the media talking heads put a positive spin on it by saying he was just being true to his latin roots by celebrating. To top it off, this guy doesn't speak a word of English. Seriously what the hell are these players doing in this country if they can't speak the language. At least Europeans in the NHL pretty much all speak English. Even the Russians make an attempt to learn it but guys like Puig act like they just got off the boat yesterday.

 

[davidholly]

Barring some miracle the Red Sox are going to the World Series. Wonderful outcome, go Cards.

 

[PhillyFanatic]

Yahoo! Baseball Columnist Says Boston-St. Louis Matchup Will Be About Which City "Is More Racist"

Read more at: http://nesn.com/2013/10/yahoo-baseb...chup-will-be-about-which-city-is-more-racist/

 

[knightedsoldier5000]

Porky Puig fell flat on his face this series, to destroy the Dodgers hopes of moving on. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on...he-nlcs-the-low-point-for-dodgers-yasiel-puig

Friday night's in Game 6 of the NLCS -- an eventual 9-0 win by the World Series-bound Cardinals -- Puig reached new depths. At the plate, Puig, who often struggled in the series, went 0-for-3 with two strikeouts. But nothing crystallized his night and his story quite like his unfocused performance in the field. In the third, he made an ill-advised throw to the hinterlands of the infield, which didn't seriously threaten the plate-bound runner and also allowed Carlos Beltran to advance to second. Beltran would soon thereafter score on a two-out hit by Yadier Molina.
Later that inning, Puig made his first of two errors and perhaps his most definitive misstep of the night. With the bases loaded, Shane Robinson slashed a single to right, and Puig chambered the ball and did this ...

Video at link

In the fifth, Puig again committed a foul, this time by booting away Yadier Molina's lead-off single -- a misplay that allowed the sloth-paced Molina to advance into scoring position. He'd later score the fifth run of the game.

 

[knightedsoldier5000]

Why were Dodgers president Stan Kasten and MLB executive Joe Torre in a heated conversation during batting practice before Game 6 of the National League Championship Series? It probably has something to do with Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig and umpires, according to a baseball source. Puig has enraged the crew, which believes he is showing up umpires at home plate. It nearly came to a head in Game 5 when Puig was called out on strikes by plate umpire Ted Barrett and stood in the batter's box, left hand on hip, staring at Barrett. Earlier in the at-bat, Puig said something to Barrett, who came out from behind the plate, brushed off the plate and apparently said something to Puig.

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/403195?eref=sircrc

 

[knightedsoldier5000]

Dodgers rookie sensation Yasiel Puig had an extremely rough go of it in Friday’s season-ending loss to the Cardinals, going 0-for-3 with a pair of strikeouts.
He also made several costly defensive miscues in the ballgame. While the 22-year-old outfielder had a tremendous rookie campaign, he finishes the season on a sour note, hitting just .227 (5-for-22) with two RBI and 10 strikeouts in the NLCS.

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/7172/yasiel-puig

 

[knightedsoldier5000]

I'm dreaming of a white World Series ! Just like the ones I used to know..... And guess what, dreams do come true! The 2 whitest teams in baseball in the World Series !!! Hip hip hooray. Now we just have to put up with the ghetto commercials, but at least the games will be TNB-free!

 

[Liverlips]

Only one Negro in the whole starting 20 for this World Series.

Cards start 8 whites, 2 mestizo Hispanics

Red Sox starting 7 whites, 2 black Hispanics and 1 half white/half Asian. Normally they would start 8 whites too but they are playing the Hispanic 3rd baseman tonight.

Essentially we have an 80% World Series. The NBA finals are often 80% (or more) black.

 

[Liverlips]

Of course there was the obligatory black (Mary J. Blige) yodeling the national anthem. So maybe the SPLC won't be filing charge against MLB.