Posts Tagged racism in baseball
Angel Berroa … Again
Posted by Pork Flu Ribs in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
UPDATE, 11:15 p.m.: In what should be his final appearance as a Yankee, Angel Berroa is pinch running for Matsui.
I heard he’s on the juice anyway. Prune juice.
(I didn’t come up with that, somebody else in the press box did. But I will not divulge who.)
No. No one else in the press box came up with that. You are the only one propagating this stupid joke. It has never been funny, and it’s never made any sense. Angel Berroa looks exactly 31 years old.
You may think he looks like Uncle Remus from Disney’s foray into minstrelsy, Songs of the South, but we’ll say this again: growing up in Boston should not be an excuse for racism anymore.
Maybe Gannet Media should furlough you again, this time for sensitivity training. Or just to stop you from making dumb jokes.
Not Angel Berroa, Pete
They All Look Alike
Posted by Pork Flu Ribs in Uncategorized on May 24th, 2009
The Fox Saturday Baseball game between the Yankees and the Phillies featured yet another embarrassing episode of ‘when white sports broadcasters think black people all look the same.’ The context for this latest comedy of errors was the Major League debut of John Mayberry, Jr, the son of former Major Leaguer John Mayberry, Sr. For several innings the wretched Fox crew identified a man in the stands as John Mayberry, Sr, and appropriately showed him cheering when his “son” hit his first big league homerun.
The only problem is that man was not John Mayberry Sr.
John Mayberry, Maybe?
One would think the full Panama regalia would have been a dead giveaway?
Smarmy Joe Buck, Senile Tim McCarver, and Small Ken Rosenthal all had much yucks over their mistake. Overcompensating for the embarrassment, cameras kept returning to find Fake John Mayberry while Buck and McCarver shared laughs. Rosenthal found the ‘real’ John Mayberry and interviewed him about his son. All was made right.
Lost in this broadcasting mess was young John Mayberry. Congratulations are due to him for hitting his first big league homerun in Yankee Stadium. And he looks a little bit like Tony Clark, doesn’t he?