On January 31, Bud Selig, the oh so sensitive commissioner of baseball, suspended John Rocker until May 1, because, the oh so sensitive Selig, didn't like Rocker's exercise of his free speech rights. Major league baseball takes seriously its role as an American institution and the important social responsibility that goes with it. The terrible example set by Mr. Rocker is not what our great game is about and, in fact, is a profound breach of the social compact we hold in such high regard. What a bunch of phony self-righteous pompous flatulence. Give Selig a Bronx cheer.
Baseball does have a lot of good people, but it also has wife beaters, drug users and criminals.
Of course many of those are given a pass because they're non-white. Not that anyone's heard. Rocker's sin was that he was a white guy who dared to speak his mind in the plain talking way of many blue collar folks of all races, in this country. If the brain washing takes, and as I've written in other columns, we may expect to see Rocker showing up on the day time TV shows to be embraced by bunches of fat non-white ladies who will shed tears and welcome Rocker back into the family of humanity. We don't need fewer John Rockers but many, many more lest we lose our rights to free speech in this country at the hands of the likes Selig.