Faithless
06-06-2007, 08:07 PM
I didn't know that Sheffield ran off at the mouth.
I thought you had to be a better athlete to do that. :rolleyes:
Sheffield is one dangerous moron (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/070605&%20amp;sportCat=mlb)
By Jeff Pearlman | Special to Page 2
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Yet the greatest example of Sheffield's dangerous moroninity (a moronic word I just moronically invented) comes in this month's GQ magazine, in which the Tigers slugger offers his theory as to why the percentage of African-Americans in the majors is at an all-time low.
Says Sheffield: "I called it years ago. What I called is that you're going to see more black faces, but there ain't no English going to be coming out. … [It's about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do -- being able to control them. Where I'm from, you can't control us. You might get a guy to do it that way for a while because he wants to benefit, but in the end, he is going to go back to being who he is. And that's a person that you're going to talk to with respect, you're going to talk to like a man. These are the things my race demands. So, if you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys."
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I thought you had to be a better athlete to do that. :rolleyes:
Sheffield is one dangerous moron (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=pearlman/070605&%20amp;sportCat=mlb)
By Jeff Pearlman | Special to Page 2
...
Yet the greatest example of Sheffield's dangerous moroninity (a moronic word I just moronically invented) comes in this month's GQ magazine, in which the Tigers slugger offers his theory as to why the percentage of African-Americans in the majors is at an all-time low.
Says Sheffield: "I called it years ago. What I called is that you're going to see more black faces, but there ain't no English going to be coming out. … [It's about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do -- being able to control them. Where I'm from, you can't control us. You might get a guy to do it that way for a while because he wants to benefit, but in the end, he is going to go back to being who he is. And that's a person that you're going to talk to with respect, you're going to talk to like a man. These are the things my race demands. So, if you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys."
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