Discussion for article #235717
All I can say is thank you.
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Epic righteous statement by a baseball exec without regard for his own personal career–I just became a huge John Angelos fan! Do–and say–the right thing!
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Well said, and I now have a team to root for in the A.L. East.
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ngelos, the son of the team’s owner, responded to comments made by a Baltimore radio broadcaster who complained the protests that shut down the baseball field were creating a hassle for fans and Baltimore residents.
Why is it that sports journalists, in general, are such troglodytes (there are exceptions. I’m looking at you, Keith Olbermann)?
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One of my main beefs with Twitter: I had to scroll too much to read the entirety of an outstanding statement that should appear in paragraph form. The entirety of the message is one of the best defenses of non-violent protests I’ve read in quite a while
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That was impressive.
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It’s absolutely remarkable that an executive in one of the major US sports wrote this. Wow.
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Isn’t Olbermann a leftist like most of us? Loud, rude, pompous for sure, but also quite intelligent. When he was at MSNBC he sure put on a good show outing so many of the idiots in the news. And his constant lampooning of Bill O. was usually pretty amusing.
A former sports journalist you might want to compare him to, however, is the esteemed Lt. Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick. He is a moronic TeaTurd of epic proportions. He is now opposing funding for pre-k in Texas as a tantrum because the (Full) Governor hasn’t been giving him enough "respect.’ Dan Patrick (Dumb-ass, TX)
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Guy probably should have just provided a link to his full statement elsewhere. But it’s a good statement, and one I didn’t expect to see from a professional sports exec.
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Beautiful message but disrupted by the delivery medium. Use twitlonger.com next time.
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Because most of their audience is troglodytes as well. I love sports. I loved playing sports. But it is by-and-large full of athletes, coaches and even execs, in spite of most having been in college and many even “graduating,” who are anti-intellectual and very conservative. Consider the trash who mocked and threatened those people protesting what happened in Ferguson outside a St. Louis play-off game last fall.
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I think it’s worth noting that he’s the son of the owner, which means he likely grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. I only bring that up because it seems that the children of the wealthy come out one of two ways: believing they’re entitled to their riches because they had to good sense to be born to wealthy people (Rand Paul, Romney, Trump) or embracing the fact that they were unbelievably lucky and others are exponentially more unlucky (Kennedys, Roosevelt, Rockefeller). Seriously, those tweets could’ve been written by David Simon, brilliant, deeply thoughtful man and creator, headwriter, and producer of The Wire, a show that’s been very much in my thoughts lately.
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Like this guy?
Like this guy?
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Yep. Olbermann’s one of the exceptions.
I despised the Orioles when they showed zero civic pride in not accommodating the Ravens by moving a game so they could play the first Thursday night game after their Super Bowl win. It showed a lot of spite and was an example of why Baseball is loosing popularity. If he really is speaking for the Orioles I might change my mind.
Brett, speaking only for myself, I agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela, and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical that in any democracy investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government or police members are judged responsible.
That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts group but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the US to 3rd world dictatorships like China and others plunged tens of millions of good hard working americans into economic devastation and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.
The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the bill of rights by government pay the true price, an ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importance of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards.
We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the US and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights and this is makes inconvenience at a ball game irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.
(Twitter is an abomination for rational discourse. This deserves better.)
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Wow. That is extremely well put.
Yes. Kudo’s to Angelos and those commenting here to keep the focus on the real problem-a young Black man was brutely murdered in police custody and we do not know what happened. It has nothing to do with baseball. It has to do with members of our police forces who routinely abuse and murder Blacks without consequence.
As Twitter rants go, this is a particularly awesome one.
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