I apologize in advance that this is my first post on SOSH. I've been following these forums for a long time.For what it's worth, Bob Nightengale did tweet out that Red Sox officials confirmed the incident.
I was there in Center Field tonight, freezing my butt off. No one called Adam Jones the 'N' Word from straight away center field. Yes I saw peanuts get thrown at him. I didn't see that as anything racial, I saw it as someone throwing the first available thing at someone who was being a pompous ass. Adam Jones was jawing with the crowd all night and calling people 'bitc***' and bragging about his money. To falsely accuse someone of racism is just as bad as someone using a racial slur if not worse. This isn't the first time I've heard of Adam Jones pulling the race card. 2/3 of the Red Sox outfield is black!
They 'N' word ending in an A instead of an er was heard about 100x tonight... but as usual it was not in a derogatory form... rather... uneducated people who get angry and use it every other word.
I saw the guy get kicked out by the dugout. I did not hear him use the N word (of course, I was about 500 feet away.). I assume he was the peanut thrower... or maybe the peanu thrower was just another fenway worker throwing peanuts... PEANUTS HERE!
“We already have two strikes against us already,’’ Baltimore Orioles All-Star center fielder Adam Jones told USA TODAY Sports, “so you might as well not kick yourself out of the game. In football, you can’t kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they don’t need us.
“Baseball is a white man’s sport."
“The outside world doesn’t really respect athletes,’’ Jones says, “unless they talk about what they want them to talk about. Society doesn’t think we deserve the right to have an opinion on social issues.
“We make a lot of money, so we just have to talk baseball, talk football. But most athletes, especially if you’re tenured in your sport, you’re educated on life, and on more things than most people on the outside. But because Donald Trump is a billionaire, he can say whatever he wants, because he’s older and has more money?
“And when Kaepernick does something, or says something, he’s ridiculed. Why is that? ’’
I was there and I heard what I heard. Adam Jones pulling the race card is disgusting. As a fan of Baseball, I believe this story needs to be corrected and Adam Jones should be suspended for a lot longer than PED users.
This is the 2nd time USA Today has made Adam Jones out to be a victim over what?
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