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  1. Baseball's Bigmouth.(John Rocker, baseball player): An article from: New York Times Upfront
  2. How About Psychological Testing for the Media?(Brief Article): An article from: Columbia Journalism Review by Gene Collier, 2000-03-01

81. John Rocker Replaces Newt Gingrich As Poster Boy For The Satanic Church Of The A
game? Or john rocker who missed the spirit of Jackie Robinson s struggle with baseball s history and evolution? Probably so. But
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John Rocker agreed to have his brains examined after his disparaging comments about almost everyone except white males. While we have some First Amendment concerns about Major League Baseball bothering John about being such a jerk, his having spoken out loud and saying what most "got mine, to hell with everybody else Americans" think but don't say out loud in this politically correct world was worth the price - an admission of sorts and certainly an insight to the white male American psyche's racism, sexism, bigotry, ethnocentricity and homophobic freedom of expression.
Out of context or not, Rocker told SI, "Imagine having to take the Number 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing."
"The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. 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?" Rocker also took a verbal shot at Japanese women who drive Toyotas. It could even be suggested Rocker might be unpatriotic for his blasting four-time losers. The criminal justice industry in this country, namely lawyers, judges, prison guards and construction companies could know no such boon without crime generally, the war on drugs specifically and a whole lot of people getting busted more than once.

82. John Montgomery Presents - The Creep Of The Week - 6/10/00 - John Rocker
baseball gave john rocker a second chance after he came out of the closet and revealed himself to be a juvenile, homophobic bigot in a Sports Illustrated
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Creep Logo by Alan Fraser John Rocker Just Another Redneck
Don't you hate it when you give a guy a second chance and he ends up showing his gratitude by rudely biting you in the ass? Baseball gave John Rocker a second chance after he came out of the closet and revealed himself to be a juvenile, homophobic bigot in a Sports Illustrated interview last year. John, a star relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves, was also given a second chance by his teammates, one of whom he had called a "fat monkey" in the magazine article. Even I gave John a second chance, declaring that the punishment Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig handed down was way out of line for a prejudiced prick who was trash talking off the field. Why did everyone cut John so much slack? Because he could throw a baseball 100 miles per hour and strike guys out. In sports these days, you can publicly sodomize old men on the History Channel as long as you do your job on the field. Exceptional athletic ability is the only thing that separates a lot of these fat monkeys from a life of cleaning toilets at Taco Bell. And let's face it: John is great box office. Later this month, his team was scheduled to return to New York, the target of his most intense hate-spewing. That four game series would have been a media madhouse. Tickets would have been sold. Ratings would have zoomed. Everybody involved would gotten a little richer and fatter. American enterprise at its finest!

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84. Steve Sailer - "Rocker On The Rack" - National Post, 1/10/2000
In the grand tradition of the Brezhnev regime, Major League baseball is forcing Atlanta Braves relief pitcher john rocker to undergo psychiatric testing for
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Rocker on the Rack by Steve Sailer
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In the grand tradition of the Brezhnev regime, Major League Baseball is forcing Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker to undergo psychiatric testing for expressing dissident political and social opinions. Rocker is on the rack for the neo-Orwellian crime of hating New York. "It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the [Number] 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing." Saturday Night Live 's Colin Quinn commented, "I hate Rocker, but I have to admit the guy has ridden the 7 train." Of course, when the charge is "multicultural insensitivity," the fact that one is telling the truth only worsens one's guilt. No doubt, baseball commissioner Bud Selig and the rest of the thought police will be shocked, shocked, to learn from the shrinks that a young closer whose job is to intimidate batters by throwing 95 mph fastballs right under their chins is hot-headed and hostile.

85. John Rocker (100030702)
They boo him at baseball games. There is even a site called rockersucks.com that is nothing but a huge hate board aimed at john rocker.
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My hero. If you haven't guessed by now, it was some schmoe out of Michigan State Univ. who was really tearing into Rocker for his comments in the December issue of Sports Illustrated. According to the writer, Rocker made, "racist and insensitive remarks about ethnic and other groups" In talking about playing in New York, he said

86. AskMen.com : John Rocker
rocker needs to understand that he is in the public eye. When he decided to become a baseball player, he was well aware that he would be in the spotlight and
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87. Baseball Star John Rocker At Belz Factory Outlet World – Orlando
Collectibles Show Featuring baseball Star john rocker at Belz Factory Outlet World Orlando. WHAT Belz Factory Outlet World – Orlando
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Special guest John Rocker of the Atlanta Braves will be on hand on Saturday to sign autographs for a nominal fee.
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89. Salon.com News | John Rocker, Whipping Boy
john rocker, whipping boy He was torched for talking about New York the way baseball executives do. But he d still be in the majors
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  • John Rocker, whipping boy He was torched for talking about New York the way baseball executives do. But he'd still be in the majors if he'd been getting people out. By Allen Barra I must be the only person in America who believes the Atlanta Braves. I think the only reason John Rocker is currently pitching for East Podunk is because he has been pitching lousy for the Braves. Never, ever forget that professional athletes are property, and as long as a property has value its owner isn't going to discard it. Ask Latrell Sprewell.

    90. Salon.com News | John Rocker, Whipping Boy
    Punch Bradley, Judy Gore and the injustice being done john rocker By Camille Paglia 01/11/00. Table Talk Off his rocker Did baseball s bad boy get a bum rap?
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    By Allen Barra June 09, 2000 I must be the only person in America who believes the Atlanta Braves. I think the only reason John Rocker is currently pitching for East Podunk is because he has been pitching lousy for the Braves. Never, ever forget that professional athletes are property, and as long as a property has value its owner isn't going to discard it. Ask Latrell Sprewell. Here's a guy who tried to kill his coach twice! just a couple of years ago. By the end of the playoffs this season, New York call-in radio fans had gone from asking why the Knicks had ever acquired such a thug to praising him for not letting all the past turmoil interfere with his jump shot. The bottom line, the only line, with the Knicks' front office and the majority of New York area fans and sportswriters was that Sprewell was valuable to his team. Rocker didn't even choke anybody: He just choked. He couldn't handle all the post-apocalyptic flak. If Rocker had been throwing strikes this season, I guarantee you that by fall we'd be seeing editorials on his "newfound maturity" and "how good a job he did putting it all behind him."

    91. Scotty Kowall's Weekly Tirade John Rocker Honest Southern Yahoo
    All he has to know is how to throw a baseball at an opposing player, a difficult task but not one requiring intelligence. john rocker is a moron.
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    The one stereotype John Rocker hurt the most was the southerner. John Rocker is not a mean man. He is an insensitive dumb southern yahoo that lacks social skills and intelligence. The old redneck southerner is alive and well and living inside John Rocker.
    Some feel he should be punished for his statements. Major League Baseball has in the past suspended owner Marge Schott for her statements and will have too do the same to Rocker. I would urge the league as punishment to have the Braves trade John Rocker to the Mets and give him the choice of retiring as he said he would if traded to New York or playing there and learning from New Yorkers about the positives other cultures contribute in an advanced society. Let him choose his punishment, retire or live and play in New York. That would be great. Rocker in a Mets uniform and the Mets fans having to throw their batteries somewhere else as they cheer for the man they love to hate. Now that is poetic justice. Read the Jeff Pearlman Sports Illustrated interview of John Rocker
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    92. John Rocker, Defender Of The Second Generation Lebanese, February 1, 2000
    The point is, john rocker’s repugnant manifesto was offensive and indefensible, but it Major League baseball and the media (and much of America) have decided
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    February 1, 2000 John Rocker, Defender of the Second Generation Lebanese "Should Andy Rooney be allowed to make homophobic comments to a newspaper? Sure. Is he right? Of course not. Should CBS fire him? Absolutely. Not for the homophobic comments but because that motherfucker hasn't said anything funny in fifteen years."
    Dennis Miller, The Rants They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. The same can be said for being a free speech advocate, and I just found myself in bed with John Rocker. Man, am I gonna hate myself in the morning! Rocker, for those who have managed to avoid the media overkill, is a young pitcher for the Atlanta Braves whose hate-filled tirade against New York City in Sports Illustrated has made him a national punching bag. "Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you’re [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids…" "The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. I’m not a very big fan of foreigners. 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?"

    93. Observer Newspaper - Viewpoint
    Braves pitcher john rocker made disparaging and racist remarks with respect to the fans of the Braves hated rivals, the New York Mets. baseball Commissioner
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    In an interview for Sports Illustrated last December, Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker made disparaging and racist remarks with respect to the fans of the Braves' hated rivals, the New York Mets. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig suspended Rocker for 28 games and fined him $20,000 for his comments. An arbitrator recently reduced Rocker's suspension to a few games and 500 bucks. Even that slap on the wrist is too heavy a punishment. Rocker should be left alone by Major League Baseball. He has broken no law. This is America, after all. Free speech is as American as apple pie and, yes, baseball. It is the Bill of Rights that makes America such a great place to live. It gives us the freedoms to say whatever we want, tote shootin' irons, associate with whomever we choose, worship God in any manner and especially not have soldiers quartered in our homes. Mr. Rocker's freedoms are our own. Should he be punished for speaking his mind, however reprehensible his ideas, then all of us will become less free.

    94. Welcome
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    95. Rediff On The NeT: Sack John Rocker, Turner Told
    Indian Americans joined fellow Americans in criticizing the decision of baseball officials for ordering loudmouth pitcher john rocker to undergo psychological
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    J M Shenoy Indian Americans joined fellow Americans in criticizing the decision of baseball officials for ordering loudmouth pitcher John Rocker to undergo psychological testing. "This man has poison in his heart, and he hates minorities, including Indian immigrants," said Indian community leader Subhash Razdan. Sending him to a psychiatrist will be like treating cancer with aspirin, a Rocker critic said. Rocker had made derogatory comments about Indians and other Asians, gays and lesbians in an interview with Sports Illustrated. His remarks were confined to his visit to New York a few months ago. The 25-year-old Rocker painted New Yorkers as degenerates and criminals, and sneered at immigrants, saying, "I'm not a very big fan of foreigners." "How the hell did they get in this country?" he asked. Subhash Razdan, who is also a Census 2000 official in Atlanta, joined thousands of others who had demanded that Ted Turner, the media mogul who owns the Atlanta Braves, either suspend Rocker or sack him for his bigotry. "Atlanta is a cosmopolitan city, and it is sad that someone who lives in this city should make racist remarks," Razdan said.

    96. Baseball Digest: National League Pre-Season Rosters For 2000 - Baseball - Illust
    League PreSeason Rosters For 2000.(baseball)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included) baseball Digest, April Luis R R 6-3 163 6/21/78 49 rocker, john R L 6-4
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    97. I Wanna Rock
    Tribute to baseballs bad boy, john rocker. Includes news, photos, quotes and interviews.
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    Welcome! to my Tribute to that "Bad Boy" of Baseball, Atlanta Braves closer John Rocker. I decided since there we're only negative sites out for him, I would create a fun and positive site for his fans to come and find info, quotes, pictures, links and much more.
    I know some of you maybe asking, Why on earth would you want to create a page for John Rocker? Well.... besides the fact that he has the most beautiful blue eyes, or the cutest smile, or the sweetest southern accent. John is a VERY talented ball player and should not be judge by a mistake but on his ball playing ability.
    My reason for creating this page was to show Rocker my support. It is human to make mistakes and John is human. We've all said and done things we've regretted. It's time for everyone to forgive and forget. It's time for the media to just BACK OFF and let John concentrate on what he does best, saving the game.
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    98. Big League Forums -> JOHN ROCKER Returns ?
    Tampa may sign john Boy to a minor league You ve read rocker s comments about foreigners (excerpted Forum Home.
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