Anti-Gay Rocker Returns To Baseball

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/05/050105rocker.htm


John Rocker, the one time Atlanta Braves pitcher who angered gays with a homophobic diatribe six years ago, has returned to baseball.

No longer in the majors, and no longer slamming gays and New Yorkers, Rocker is playing for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League.

In 1999, in a Sports Illustrated interview Rocker attacked gays, immigrants, people with AIDS, and New Yorkers.

In the interview he said that he would prefer retirement to playing for a New York team.



The Ducks???

How the mighty have fallen! LOL

[BR_Parkway]

1. Last I looked, Long Island was part of New York.... n/t

[Zenlitened]

2. Gee, another loudmouth who doesn't stand by his words

Is that a requirement of some sort in order to be a republican? Shoot your mouth off, then cave when there's a few dollars to be made? What an asshole. But then, we already knew that.

... Rocker is playing for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League.

In 1999, in a Sports Illustrated interview Rocker ... said that he would prefer retirement to playing for a New York team.

:puke:

[HockeyMom]

3. Ticket sales

Maybe they signed him to boost ticket sales. My daughter wants to go to a game just to boo him. She could care less about the Ducks.

[davidinalameda]

6. tell her to boo him for me as well

asshole

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[Bluzmann57]

5. He trashed more than homosexuals

He went off on people of color and basically all of New York. I am an avowed hetereosexual (a couple of women say too much so, but thats another story altogether) and I don't give a damn about Rocker, in part because of his comments. The odds against him ever returning to the big leagues are long. Very few guys make it, let alone make it back while pitching for an independent team.

[davidinalameda]

7. unforgiving trash?

you're half right

I'm pretty unforgiving when it comes to bigots

[joeybee12]

8. Sweet irony--he gets to play in New York! I loved his wife's defense

of him after he made those comments. She sais something to the effect that it's because John is so intelligent, and most other people aren't, so they can't understand his meaning!

Irony, Karma, or divine Intervention--he had it coming!