Seattle Mariners GM comments

anyone else see this?

he's under huge fire for some comments that seems pretty benign to me. secret or leaked recording.

 1) japanese player/scout couldn't speak english that well........ when they told him they'd have to hire an interpreter at $80k/year (and the presumption being they could pay scout more without this expense), his english got much better (i.e. he probably tried harder).

2) domincan player is great guy but english isn't the best........ others say he speaks english passably......... i don't see the problem here.

one of two others that i forgot..... are we not allowed to judge people/employees any longer by reasonable standards? are reasonable personal opinions not permitted any longer if they involve race/foreigners?

i've been in here alot bashing DJT, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley etc.

but frankly, a large degree of DJT's personal popularity is due to "cancel culture" garbage like this.

agree/disagree??

as per japanese scout, i have had encounters in my hometown with people who couldn't speak english. then, the same person, when they were motivated to speak english (i.e. someone owed them money and wasn't paying), their english was just fine. (see this mostly from quite old immigrant types - male and female,... younger immigrants i think want to assimilate alot more.... that's in canada, not necesarily in south texas)

Manny Ramirez and Sammy Sosa claimed to not speak english much during their careers, but when the microphones were shoved in their face, they spoke perfectly well 

Baseball racism is a whole different breed...more like inbred 

The world is an imperfect place ever since Adam took a bite out of that apple, im not sure why society expects everyone else to be perfect....for fuks sake, our prime minister was caught doing blackface on multiple occasions shortly before the election, and people still voted for him as if its okay for him to be a little racist, but no no no if anyone else would have done the same.

We are living in very fukked up times.

Will this Mariner Exec lose his job? Most likely yes.

Will he be forced to sell his stake in the team? Most likely yes.

Does any of that make 2 shiits worth of difference in the real world? No

He should know by now if you don't want something to go viral, you don't say it. Very little is sacred anymore especially one's speech.

I'm surprised the team was paying for the interpreter rather than the player.

Much Ado About Nothing IMO.

Congratulations on your enlightenment 

Your head just took a small peak out of your ass like Punxsutawney Phil on February 2nd. There’s hope for you yet