HERE'S TO JOHN ROCKER! liberal or conservative, falling all over themselves trying find new ways of being outraged at john rocker, a relief pitch for the Atlanta Braves baseball team http://www.whitefuture.com/html/rocker.html
Extractions: Here's to John Rocker! I MUST ADMIT THAT I NEVER HEARD JOHN ROCKER'S NAME before tonight, but he made a good impression already. I think it is great fun watching the leftists, no matter whether they call themselves liberal or conservative, falling all over themselves trying find new ways of being outraged at John Rocker, a relief pitch for the Atlanta Braves baseball team. The author of the web page Hoffstetter's Jerk of the Week at www.jerkoftheweek.com Let us look at what this young man said. He gave an interview to the Sport's Illustrated magazine, and in that interview he said about New York: Imagine having to take the 7 train to [Shea Stadium] looking like you're [in] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing. He went on to also say: "The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners," he said. "You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?" I fail to see one thing that John Rocker said that was false. Every word he said was true. The truth as we should know by now has nothing to do with liberals and what they value. Imagine the gall of this ball player getting up and stating that he would like to live and work around people who speak English as a first language. Imagine this guy who would rather work and live around Nonasians, and even White folks perhaps. Now is that not really scary? It must be, because you can see the terror in the eyes of all the professional Media Lord puppets tonight. They all want to make sure that they take their own personal little verbal piece out of the reputation of John Rocker, to demonstrate how solidly they are on the diversity bandwagon. They want to make sure that the Media Lords have no doubt at all about the political correctness of their own person position. Nobody is wandering anywhere near the admission that John Rocker just may have a point in what he says.
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Extractions: January 9, 2000 By The Associated Press KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) The Atlanta Braves came Sunday to sign autographs. Instead, they wound up answering questions about John Rocker. Outfielder Andruw Jones, shortstop Walt Weiss and manager Bobby Cox were among those taking part in the promotion at the Braves' spring training site, Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex. ``It's disappointing,'' Jones said of Rocker's remarks. ``But I lived with Rocker for one year and he always was kind of crazy, but not to say stuff like that. I don't know if it came from his heart, or it came from his head or just stupidness.'' Rocker told Sports Illustrated he would never play for a New York team because he didn't want to ride a train ``next to some queer with AIDS.'' He also said, ``I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. ... How the hell did they get in this country?'' He called a black teammate a ``fat monkey,'' mocked the driving skills of Asian women and insulted single mothers. Rocker apologized for the remarks published last month and said he was not a racist.
Article | Baseball Is Off Its Rocker, By Sally Satel baseball Is Off Its rocker The Wall Street Journal January 1, 2000. By Sally Satel. baseball s latest bad boy is Atlanta Braves pitcher john rocker. http://www.sallysatelmd.com/html/a-wsj03.html
Extractions: The Wall Street Journal By Sally Satel Baseball's latest bad boy is Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker. Last month he spoke disparagingly of foreigners, homosexuals and a black teammate in Sports Illustrated, and now there are cries that he should be dumped. But before Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig decides what to do with Mr. Rocker, he wants to hear from the mental health profession. On Friday, the pitcher had his first mandatory evaluation with psychiatrists. Psychiatrists? What is our role in helping Mr. Selig reprimand Mr. Rocker? The commissioner should decide what behavior the sport finds unacceptable, devise a sanction and implement it. Period. By effectively saying that anyone who uses bigoted language is mentally ill, Mr. Selig (who decided in cooperation with the Players Association to obtain the evaluation) is medicalizing behavior that we rightly object to on moral grounds. By asking psychiatrists to help him reprimand Mr. Rocker, Mr. Selig is hiding behind our couch. I cannot help suspect that, deep down, Mr. Selig and Company know that sending the 25-year-old Mr. Rocker to the shrink is an empty gesture. Perhaps they figure that a needless trip to the psychiatrist will be the first in a longer series of punitive steps. But the gesture still sends a disturbing message to young baseball fans: Offensive behavior is actually a deep pathology, one that individuals cannot control.
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Extractions: Account Signup Where Is the Left in John Rocker's Hour of Need? By Brian Carnell Thursday, January 13, 2000 The only thing The Nation did was one of Calvin Trillin's annoying little poems about Rocker. It is interesting how the people who usually whine and moan whenever employers fire or discipline employees for their political or social beliefs disappear when the discipline is directed at people who hold views diametrically opposed to the Left. Imagine, for example, that Rocker in his Sports Illustrated interview had decided to emulate NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and suggested he no longer wanted to appear on the field during the singing of the national anthem, and as a result Bud Selig had ordered psychological testing for Rocker. Is there really any doubt that magazines like The Nation would immediately run to Rocker's defense and talk about the horrors of corporate suppression of free speech (in fact Abdul-Rauf had many left-liberal defenders when the NBA suspended him). Instead the general consensus seems to be that Major League Baseball is doing a good thing by disciplining Rocker for his private conversation with a reporter during baseball's off-season. That's fine, but remember folks that you can't have it both ways. You can't applaud baseball for taking action against Rocker and then turn around and say an employer who might discipline or fire a worker because of his Left views and activism is overstepping the bounds of the employer-employee relationship.
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Extractions: John Rocker (2/11/00) Atlanta Pitcher John Rocker as quoted in Sports Illustrated Observations: This country goes absolutely crazy whenever a bigoted statement is made to the mass media. Based upon the reaction, you would think that John Rocker had degraded Jesus from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Dallas. Maybe its because we live in the South or in Texas, but his comments are similar to what is said every day in Decatur, Texas, over coffee. Come on, admit it.
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Extractions: Demande d'équipe Prochaine Simulation: DIMANCHE Players of the week Pedro Martinez Vladimir Guerrero LBNA NEWS LA 3ième SAISON DE LA LBNA DÉBUTE CE DIMANCHE! Rappel concernant les amendes... Les amendes données aux propriétaire iront directement dans le fond. Je ne vais pas constamment vérifier tous les points mais je vais tout de même checker au hasard quelques fois. Voici le détail des amendes: -Faire jouer un joueur a une position où 'il n'a pas de Range en Défensive (ligues mineures exclues): avertissement la première fois, 100000$ par joueur par simulation ensuite. -Faire lancer un lanceur à un poste où il ne possède pas de Duration (à part Mopup où vous pouvez mettre n'importe qui + ligues mineures exclues): avertissement la première fois, 100000$ par joueur par simulation ensuite. -Langage abusif envers un autre DG : cas par cas (minimum 500 000$).
Why I Like Baseball, By Cecilia Tan It would be more than a gesture, it would be helping to remake baseball. Even while helping john rocker to remake himself. Go On To The Next Entry http://www.ceciliatan.com/Entry16.html
Extractions: March 1 2000: John Rocker: Respectable? OK, I just had to send this to the Sporting News "Fan's View" column today: So, John Rocker's suspension has been trimmed in half, and his fine cut from a whopping $20,000 to a paltry $500. But just because Rocker's official penalty has been lightened, doesn't mean his road to respectability is any easier. I was going to say "road BACK TO respectability," but let's face it, Rocker was not a respectable character before this. If he was, then he wouldn't have been in the situation of having batteries and harsh words thrown at him by New York fans. The question now is, can Rocker survive without his "bad boy" image? Was the pumped-up snorting bull act necessary for those 95 mph fastballs? Or can Rocker still deliver the goods on the field even while changing his attitude off it? Just imagine Rocker as an elder statesman of baseball, able to look back on a long and storied career and maybe even comment intelligently on the "mistakes" of his youth. Think it will happen? Only if John Rocker can change "in his heart"and in the minds of those watching. If Rocker wants to gain respectability now, there are three places he needs to repair relations.
MLB And Braves Are Off Their Rockers completely. The Atlanta Braves and Major League baseball, not john rocker, are off their rockers for race relations in this sport. john http://www.austinreview.com/articles/88.html
Extractions: R EVIEW To find out more about the journalists and supporters of the Austin Review, please visit our Staff Page. Questions? Comments? Would you like to help support the Review? Please visit our Response Page for details. THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2000 By RANDY SAMUELSON As many know, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker made several controversial remarks about New York City in a December Sports Illustrated interview. His comments, dealing with racial issues, consisted of observations about certain subpopulations in New York City. For example, he commented about Times Squares Puerto Ricans and Cubans inability to speak English and the queers with AIDS on the Number 7 train to Shea Stadium. His opinions sent shock-waves through Major League Baseball and the Atlanta Braves organization, reviving racial issues that Major League Baseball has long tried to suppress. Like any other American, John Rocker has the right to speak his mind on any issue he wishes and to hold any opinion he so desires. Housed in the First Amendment, these free speech rights are the same rights liberals love to reference regarding art, journalism, and speech. Perhaps the way he phrased his comments could have been more tactful, but he broke no law by saying them.
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Extractions: It's a hard call to make. I personally feel that the whole story was beaten to death. I am not willing to judge Rocker based on one interview where the reporter did his best to goad the young man into making 'big bad' statements. I also think it's pathetic that people have wanted to do him harm based on his right to free speech. Before people go after Rocker, go after David Duke you morons! Rocker screwed up - nothing new for a baseball player. Al Martin beat the crap out of his wife but the story has faded. Bobby Choiunard waved a gun at his wife (which he'd done before) and THAT story vaporized. Pedro Astacio pleaded GUILTY to smacking his wife around and the story went POOF until they said they'd deport him, as all immigrants convicted of a felony can be, then the press kind of noticed. You know the rules: If it bleeds, it leads and Rocker is a bleeding mess.
Baseball Giving Rocker Too Much Thought He shouldn t be subjected to an office couch for them. If baseball really wanted to punish john rocker, it would make the Braves trade him to New York. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/01/07/spt_baseball_giving.html
Extractions: /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName="" var server="" var channel="" var pageType="" var pageValue="" var prop1="" var prop2="" var prop3="" var prop4="" var prop5="" var prop6="news" var prop7="" var prop8="" var prop9="" var prop10="" /********* INSERT THE DOMAIN AND PATH TO YOUR CODE BELOW ************/ /********** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING ELSE BELOW THIS LINE! *************/ var s_code=' ' E N Q U I R E R O P I N I O N The Cincinnati Enquirer In America, you have the right to be a moron. It's inalienable. That's why God gave us Jerry Glanville and pro wrestling. All In The Family. It was all about a moron. It revolved around a moron. It may have been the best show in the history of shows. Archie Bunker was a moron. Also a crank, a bigot and a homophobe. That was the point. A. Bunker said incredibly dumb things. We laughed. No one took him seriously. John Rocker, Atlanta Braves relief pitcher, is A. Bunker incarnate. He says the same incredibly dumb things. He is a moron. Why aren't we laughing?
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Extractions: Baseball in the 1900's is now history. The All-Century lists have been compiled and archived. When I think of the past 100 years in baseball, two events strike me as most significant: The Black Sox scandal of 1919 and the integration of minorities into professional baseball. We've come a long way. Baseball repaired the damage done after Chicago threw the World Series and moved forward, thanks to charismatic players like Babe Ruth. And baseball moved forward again, beginning with Jackie Robinson, by allowing minorities into the professional game. These two events seem to have taken us two giant steps forward in the 1900's. But just how far have we come? When John Rocker made his hideous comments to Sports Illustrated regarding gays, minorities and felons, we took one step back. Fifty years after Jackie Robinson entered professional baseball, blacks and whites were telling us that we still had a long way to go before minorities would be totally accepted within our national pastime. John Rocker pointed out to us that they were right. Three words describe the common thread that has run through baseball during the past 100 years: Money, power and greed.
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John Rocker Statistics - German Baseball League History john rocker, Bats Right Throws Left Height 6 3 Weight 220 Born October 17, 1974. Awards Accomplishments. AllStar Selections, 2003. http://www.gbl.ootp-leagues.com/archiv/players/r/rockerjohn936.html
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Extractions: E-Mail this story to a friend Illustrated in December, the band's representatives confirmed. Rocker was quoted making racist and homophobic statements in the magazine, comments for which he has since apologized; the pitcher was ordered to undergo psychiatric testing. "We don't want our music to be connected in any way with John Rocker," former guitarist and manager Jay Jay French said in a statement. "All five of us are the children of immigrants, so we find Rocker's tirade against 'foreigners' to be particularly offensive."
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Extractions: January 7, 2000 First John Rocker proved to the world that he was an idiot. Now it looks like Bud Selig's turn, but there's probably more to the story than meets the eye. According to the Associated Press, the Atlanta Braves pitcher has been "ordered by baseball to undergo psychological tests before deciding whether to punish the outspoken reliever for remarks he made disparaging gays, minorities and immigrants." Selig, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, says he will await the results of the evaluation before deciding on any disciplinary action. In case you've been off-planet, Rocker recently made a variety of racist, xenophobic, and homophobic remarks to a Sports Illustrated reporter interviewing him for a feature story. His willingness to say these things to
