re white and black racism was about the phillies in article p psilink com dennis g parslow p psilink com writes from dan campbell dan c jhunix hcf jhu edu in article apr ulkyvx louisville edu pjtier ulkyvx louisville edu writes in article apr pilot njin net gajarsky pilot njin net bob gajarsky hobokenite writes here s the hard working black players none here s the lazy white players mcreynolds now that time has passed what would the posts be like if rickey were driving his boat drunk killing himself and one of his teammates what would people say if bonds drunk out of his skull smashed his car into a tree disabling himself say willie mcgee for the season i can tell you they would be considered spoiled lazy say it niggers this awfully presumptious of you to assume you can read our minds and predict the future what makes you so sure i would be thinking these things what makes you think that there s not a lot of people out there don t think crews is a god anyone who is dead because of a mistake deserves sympathy be it crews olin bonds mcgee rickey or you or me why does it bother you so much that two dead white men are getting a little sympathy would it make you feel better if we only mourned dead black baseball players to beat a dead horse i seem to remember a fair amount of sympathy for some black fringe player named roberto clemente and for roy campanella and for thurman munson and for just about anyone else who we may not even have liked as players but mourned for dying too young wiggins alan but that s besides the point i m sure people would feel slightly sympathetic for rickey if he were killed but they would also be criticizing him a lot more for his actions example how about jose canseco he gets a couple of speeding tickets and all of the sudden his attitude is awful what the hell do speeding tickets have to do with clubhouse influence anyway so why do sportswriters talk about it all the time or brian hunter and keith mitchell both of whom had dwi problems towards the end of last year two years ago it was cited as a sign of their immaturity etc meanwhile dykstra almost killed both himself and daulton and i didn t read any sportswriter complaining about that they may have talked about how bad it was for the phillies but i never read anywhere criticism of dykstra s character or daulton s intelligence for that matter based on this incident david m nieporent only one thing wrong with theory niepornt phoenix is stupid is stupidest theory i ever heard princeton edu baltimore orioles who s the dangerous cult the bds or the batf
