Wednesday, July 09, 2003Double StandardI tried to post this in the Inner Office, but Blogger apparently doesn't like me...A couple days old... "It's easier for most Latin guys and it's easier for most minority people because most of us come from heat. You don't find too many brothers in New Hampshire and Maine and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ... We were brought over here for the heat, right? Isn't that history? Weren't we brought over because we could take the heat?" The words of Al Campanis? Jimmy the Greek? No, Cubs manager Dusty Baker. I know pointing out double standards like this is pretty much a worthless exercise, but how fast would a white manager have had to clean out his office after saying this? Remember after all that Campanis was a highly respected Dodger executive who, as a player, had been one of the most accepting and helpful teammates of Jackie Robinson. After some racially "insenstive" comments on Nightline (comments that were on par with Baker's), his career and rep were destroyed. (As context, Baker I'm sure was responding to a question about day games affecting his team's performance as the season wears on. As a lifelong Cubs fan, this is an annual event; as the Cubs go into a June swoon, the reporters begin to wonder whether the amount of day games affects their play.) Posted by Ryan at 12:30 AM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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