Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?
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@bruceybruce29 said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@thongypu_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@thongypu_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@samguenther1987 said in Any Tigers fans Here?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here?:
@samguenther1987 said in Any Tigers fans Here?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here?:
@samguenther1987 said in Any Tigers fans Here?:
Not a Tiger fan but I am a fan of Miguel Cabrera. Any day now he's going to hit his 500th
I’m not going to watch, Jack Morris won’t be calling it.
️Yup, he screwed up. Has to live with it now.
He was suspended, not fired. IMO it sounded like he was referencing Looney Tunes and it was taken the wrong way. What has me fired up is that he was suspended AFTER he made a very sincere apology.
Shohei and Maddon aren’t offended by what he said. The majority of fans I’ve seen are against his suspension.
What really gets me is that Bob Brenly wasn’t suspended.
It certainly sounds to me like Morris meant no harm and was just having a bit of fun, but you have to be so careful these days. I think he'll be back just needs to take a break for a bit.
I agree, and that’s the sad part. It’s like nobody can say anything anymore without someone getting offended. IMO it’s not healthy to have to walk on eggshells with every word.
I think it was inappropriate but I don't think the punishment matches the 'crime'. Additionally, it's literally being labeled as Jack Morris uses racial slur on YouTube. That's simply ludicrous. Poor use of cultural appropriation to try to add a joking tone to how to pitch to Ohtani? Absolutely. Malicious racial slur? Not even close.
It’s not a slur! How could they call it that?? That video should be taken down because of the misleading title IMO.
Agreed. Google it. I'm really disappointed in society. I feel like it's mostly 'woke' Caucasian folks overcompensating. If we want to talk about Asian injustice let's talk about how we practically no coaches or managers of Asian descent in the major leagues. That's something to care about that actually impacts the Asian baseball community.
Ichiro was such a phenomenal player, I’m surprised he doesn’t have a coaching/managerial job (that I’m aware of).
I do agree that it’s Caucasians who are trying to overcompensate. Personally I don’t think it’s any of their business to determine what is best for another group—the same goes for all groups. Problems aside, we are a lot better off than we were 50 years ago, equality-wise. This kind of stuff threatens that achievement.
To Bally Sports and all the other people/corporations that are doing this kind of thing—how about instead of focusing on what makes us different, we focus on what makes us similar.
All they care about is the bottom line regarding $$$$ and the least amount of any sort of negative publicity as possible.
That’s true and it’s a shame. From what I’ve seen on social media—the pushback from baseball fans and Tigers fans for Morris’ suspension—Bally doesn’t have the best interests of the public (especially not the fans) at heart.
Fans pay the bills!
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Neither does Rob Manfred aka the Commisioner of Major League Baseball imo, but here we are
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@bruceybruce29 said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
Neither does Rob Manfred aka the Commisioner of Major League Baseball imo, but here we are
Manfred’s a dummy, for lack of a better word. XD
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@bruceybruce29 said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
Neither does Rob Manfred aka the Commisioner of Major League Baseball imo, but here we are
Manfred’s a dummy, for lack of a better word. XD
I consider him things I cannot say here in good will or by policies enforced. I'll leave it at that. Otherwise I do really like the Tigers. Hope the rebuild phase after Mr. I's passing all works out. Detroit is a great city with great fans, and they deserve a capable team again.
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@thongypu_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@jeezy-e_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@theblindrhino said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
I remember listening to Harry Caray call a game Hideo Nomo pitched. Y'all should see if you can find it. That guy would day drink and say horrific things.
Ah those were the days, a much simpler time, a time where a man could drink before, during and after work.
Wait, I thought working from home brought that back. Am I confused?
You aren’t, but I am sure if you went on a zoom meeting after a bottle of scotch your bosses might say something, Harry could do it while broadcasting to hundreds of thousands of people without a word being said
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When I heard the Morris clip the first thing that came to mind was Elmer Fudd. But hey, twitter wants to make mountains out of a mole hill these days.
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@slipknot-008_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
When I heard the Morris clip the first thing that came to mind was Elmer Fudd. But hey, twitter wants to make mountains out of a mole hill these days.
That’s why I never got a Twitter account. It’s too much of a toxic cesspool to bother
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He used an over the top stereotypical Asian voice on the air. Not sure what you would expect.
It wasn't the worst thing ever said, but you just can't do that on tge air in this day and age. As a broadcaster you have to know that.
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He’s not losing his job, organization took corrective action, he learned and will be back, and Shohei keeps hitting bombs. Seems all good to me.
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@maskedgrappler said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
He used an over the top stereotypical Asian voice on the air. Not sure what you would expect.
It wasn't the worst thing ever said, but you just can't do that on tge air in this day and age. As a broadcaster you have to know that.
It was an Elmer Fudd imitation that was taken out of context. That’s what it sounded like to me. It obviously wasn’t a slur, nor was it intended to be. Shohei and Maddon said that they weren’t offended, regardless of the intention. Morris’ apology was very sincere.
His suspension should be undone.
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@writetoshawn_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
He’s not losing his job, organization took corrective action, he learned and will be back, and Shohei keeps hitting bombs. Seems all good to me.
My concern is Bally Sport’s term to describe the suspension length. What do they mean by “indefinitely”? Indefinitely can either mean an unspecified period of time or forever.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@slipknot-008_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
When I heard the Morris clip the first thing that came to mind was Elmer Fudd. But hey, twitter wants to make mountains out of a mole hill these days.
That’s why I never got a Twitter account. It’s too much of a toxic cesspool to bother
You’re not wrong. The toilet bowl of society.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
Shohei and Maddon said that they weren’t offended, .Here's the thing about that, Shohei is one of the classiest, most professional of athletes in the world, whether it bothered him or not this is the response he'll give to avoid making it into something bigger distracting from the game. You can't use that to let Morris off the hook. He takes his suspension and tips his cap to Shohei for showing professional courtesy even after showing none himself, everyone moves on.
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You gotta be kidding me?! They suspended Morris for that?!!! Unbelievable!!
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@maskedgrappler said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
He used an over the top stereotypical Asian voice on the air. Not sure what you would expect.
It wasn't the worst thing ever said, but you just can't do that on tge air in this day and age. As a broadcaster you have to know that.
It was an Elmer Fudd imitation that was taken out of context. That’s what it sounded like to me. It obviously wasn’t a slur, nor was it intended to be. Shohei and Maddon said that they weren’t offended, regardless of the intention. Morris’ apology was very sincere.
His suspension should be undone.
It absolutely was an Asian voice joke. We did the voice as kids all the time. It's a mocking imitation of an Asian trying to speak English. A passing resemblance to Elmer Fudd is a coincidence.
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@maskedgrappler said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@maskedgrappler said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
He used an over the top stereotypical Asian voice on the air. Not sure what you would expect.
It wasn't the worst thing ever said, but you just can't do that on tge air in this day and age. As a broadcaster you have to know that.
It was an Elmer Fudd imitation that was taken out of context. That’s what it sounded like to me. It obviously wasn’t a slur, nor was it intended to be. Shohei and Maddon said that they weren’t offended, regardless of the intention. Morris’ apology was very sincere.
His suspension should be undone.
It absolutely was an Asian voice joke. We did the voice as kids all the time. It's a mocking imitation of an Asian trying to speak English. A passing resemblance to Elmer Fudd is a coincidence.
My point is that he didn’t intend for it to be anti-Asian. You can see that in his apology, there was no bad intent at all
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On another note, forget what I said about the Tigers bullpen.
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@skarmaen_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
On another note, forget what I said about the Tigers bullpen.
I love our offense explosion but it’s a close game, who messed up this time?
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@skarmaen_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
On another note, forget what I said about the Tigers bullpen.
I love our offense explosion but it’s a close game, who messed up this time?
Is it as bad as the Jays Bullpen. As soon as Charlie Yanktoyo walks out to the mound in the sixth, if the game is not a blowout I’m scared to watch the last three innings.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
@skarmaen_psn said in Any Tigers fans Here With Thoughts on the Situation?:
On another note, forget what I said about the Tigers bullpen.
I love our offense explosion but it’s a close game, who messed up this time?
Joe Jimenez, the human gas can.
