Posts Tagged ‘hate speech’

Baseball is called the great game for many reasons. Baseball embodies the spirit of America, the greatest nation in history. Its membership currently includes players from seventeen different countries. Its parks are considered shrines by many. In 1919, philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen described baseball as America’s national religion. Baseball movies have won Academy Awards, baseball players have become elected officials, and presidents throw out the first pitch to start the season.

Apparently we’ve struck a nerve.

Friends/Fans of Keith Olbermann have attacked our site in order to prevent us from expressing our opinion. Funny how that never happens to Olby, huh? But this just means we are making our point and that when you can’t win on facts you go all Alinsky and attack the messenger.

Enjoy our Olbermann video montage, because everything is better with a montage.

Given our love of the game, its traditions and history, we are puzzled as to why the greatness that is Major League Baseball, allows Keith Olbermann to tarnish its blog pages with his musings. True, Keith Olbermann is a gifted speaker with a respectable grasp of the great game, but his nightly tirades on MSNBC are often aimed at the very people that fill the stands of baseball parks across our great land. In light of this we have put this site together to ask a very basic question, “Why does Major League Baseball allow an individual who relishes hate speech to be associated with it?”

This is not about restricting free speech. Olbermann has every right to speak his mind, and so do we. We have heard time and time again that those in the limelight should be held to a higher standard. This applies to politicians, athletes, musicians, actors and other highly visible personalities including people with daily television shows used to trumpet personal opinions. When your platform of choice is used to smear, distort, and stoke anger, you need to be called on it. Facts are important things that cannot be ignored; if Obermann actually engaged in thoughtful discussion and legitimate debate, this site might not even exist. But he doesn’t.

Please consider taking a moment to sign our petition that we will take to the Commissioner of Baseball to let our concerns be known. We are not suggesting a boycott of ANYTHING baseball related. We just want to submit our concerns and receive a thoughtful response from those who are entrusted to protect this game that is at the very heart of being an American.