This all got started on Monday night in the series opener between the O's and Sox. Some idiot fan, or fans as the case may be we don't know the exact details yet, start off by throwing Peanuts and O's center fielder Adam Jones. Then to make matters worse one, or possibly more, decided to start dropping the N word in Jones direction and at Jones. A number of fans were thrown out of Fenway because of this incident. Although Jones noted that racism exists everywhere, he cited "a long history of these incidents in Boston." Speaking to reporters in New York, Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia said Boston is the only place he has heard the N-word. The Red Sox were the last major league team to integrate, this coming 12 years after Jackie Robinson's debut. Jones mentioned the intolerance that Boston Celtics great Bill Russell dealt with during his career.
Now we live in a day and age where, I would love to think, that stuff like this had been taken out of society. I mean come on people grow up! This kind of stupidity and idiotic action has no place in public, in any way shape or form whatsoever. People really need to check themselves before going outside everyday. Its just sad that there's still this kind of hate and ignorance in society today. In sports, you get a lot of hate from fans to players, but more often then not it has to do with a good player hurting the team you root for. I will be the first to admit I bash players on other teams in all of sports. I'll yell things like you suck, just go away and leave us all alone stuff like that. Stuff like that is supposed to be all in good fun, or at least I hope it is. Bringing in race to ripping into a player is not good natured fun, its disgusting and has no place in sports or the rest of the world for that matter.
I will give Mookie Betts all the credit in the world for taking a stand and getting Boston to rally against this type of stuff. It worked, because Jones got a standing ovation during his first at bat in the game between the two teams on Tuesday. That goes to show that there are good still left in the world, and what happened on Monday should be a reflection on all of the city of Boston, just an idiotic few.
Now for the other bizzaro story from this series. Tuesday night, Chris Sale, one of the best control pitchers in the game, threw behind Baltimore third baseman Manny Machado. This happened once already after what happened with Mike Napoli getting spiked, on accident, by Machado, last week in a game in Baltimore. Some think this had to do with the spiking, while others feel this was in response to Mookie Betts getting hit on Monday. Whatever the reason, it didn't sit too well with Manny. He let the press around him know he was not happy about the whole situation. The following is an exact quote from Machado after the game, according to the Sporting News:
“That’s stuff that you don’t f— do. But I’m not on that side, not in that organization. They are still thinking about that same slide [into Dustin Pedroia]. I had no intention on hurting anybody and I’m still paying — trying to get hit at. Getting thrown at my f— head, you’re throwing at f— everywhere. It’s f— bulls—. It's f—ing bulls—. I’ve lost respect for that organization, for that coaching staff, for everyone over there. “If you’re going to f—hit me, hit me, go ahead. Don’t let the s— keep f— lingering around and keep trying to f— hit people. It’s f— bulls—. MLB should do something about it. F— pitchers out there with f— balls in their hands throwing 100 mph trying to hit people. I’ve got a f— bat too. I could go up there and crush somebody if I wanted to. But you know what? I’ll get suspended for a year and the pitcher only gets suspended for two games. That’s not cool.”
Think there will be more fuel on this fire as the season goes along. It makes for must see TV that's for sure!
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