Saturday, March 23, 2013
Freeman was set to play for Canada
(www.torontosun.com)
But does he know the lyrics to ” Let’s Go to the Mall” or the “Beaver Song”?
“LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. - How many national teams can boast having a suitable replacement for an MVP winner?
Had Joey Votto’s knee prevented him from playing in this month’s World Baseball Classic, Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman was ready and willing to wear the maple leaf.
“I told the players association to make sure they let the WBC know that both my parents were born in Canada,” Freeman ...
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1 2 3 4 >(1) Why is "No Problem" not an acceptable alternate to "You're Welcome" ?
(2) If you know the entire address for a website, why search with this entire address via google instead of entering it directly into the address bar?
(3) How on earth does the orientation of a baseball hat's brim correlate to respect or disrespect?
(4) How is "my bad" in an informal setting not an acceptable alternative to "I'm sorry" or "excuse me"?
It's part of a uniform, uniforms should be worn with pride and in the way that they were intended. The word uniform implies a uniform standard. Cutting the sleeves off (Yes I'm talking to you Kluszewski), hat backwards, not wearing the pants properly etc.. is a sign of disrespect to the organization you are working for or representing. I would expect no less from an employee at McDonalds or a US Marine.
Never met anyone who has a problem with that, plenty of people have a problem with "no problem" though.
From a literal interpretation, one says "It was not an imposition", and the latter says "I was happy to." In actual meaning, I don't think there's any difference.
(1) Use "No Problem" that way all the time.
(2) I do that, I no it is useless, but it feels right, although part of the reason is that Google is my main spell checker.
(3) One factor is the color of the face under the hat.
Reasonable answer, actually.
I had a couple of teachers in high school that would occasionally complain when someone would say "my bad". One of the teachers was older, so I didn't think much of it, but the other was much younger, probably in her early 30s.
Reasonable answer, actually.
Of course it is. One of my pet peeves is the way that every individual player is allowed to decide to wear his pants high (showing the socks) or all the way to the shoe. I've never understood why that is any different from allowing them to decide to, say, tuck in their uniform shirt or not, yet any player who goes five seconds on the field with his uniform shirt untucked is immediately required to tuck it in.
Either it's a uniform or not. Make up your mind.
Concur. When I see it my first though is "Fernando Rodney is an idiot".
Similar to guys wearing pants around their thighs so you see their shorts. I think "how dumb must you be to accept such an obviously uncomfortable and impractical setup for the sake of fashion?"
What about differences in the amount that the brim is curved/bent? or differences in whether the brim is angled up, or pulled down low over the eyes? These don't ever seem to provoke the reaction that side-to-side differences do.
Your hat wasn't right, Fernando.
They said you don't respect the game,
Just the same, Fernando.
Though I thought they should calm down,
You look like a clown,
If I had to wear a hat again,
I'd wear it right, Fernando.
Standards like this have nothing to do with moral issues, e.g. respect. He may be wearing a uniform wrong, but it's lame to infer any kind of ill motives or bad moral character from it. It's a hat.
The issue is that people create their own arbitrary and capricious standards and expect them to be normative on other people, which is ludicrous.
I'm always on the little leaguers in coach to bend the bill of their cap. Generally they just roll their eyes at me and at the end of the day if the most disrespectful thing they're doing is not bending their caps I can live with it .
But seriously, Rodney just looks like a clown there.
Isn't there an arguable practical reason for that? Field of vision for individuals, sunlight, and position can figure into some of that difference, enough that personal preference might have a legitimate say in which is correct. You don't expect a second baseman and first baseman to wear the same glove. Heck if Fernando argues he is having problems seeing with the hat the normal way, I can see accepting his take on it.
edit: ditto to #19's first part.
Other people's pet peeves is my pet peeve.
a) I think he looks like a complete idiot. I think if he was my teammate, I'd tell him that in as polite a way as I could.
b) I think people should lighten up - that as long as he's committed to being the best player he can be, he's not disrespecting anybody.
c) I think there are a lot of people in the world who get offended much too easily. It'll be okay. Baseball has survived segregation, the Black Sox scandal, and Bud Selig. A guy wearing his hat sideways in what's essentially an exhibition game will have approximately zero long-term impact on the sport. On the list of things that disrespect the game, I'd put this several miles behind Eddie Gaedel, MLB refusing to allow the Expos to make September call-ups, and the Marlins signing a guy and giving him an at-bat because he took a fastball to the face once.
But, as always, you're welcome to disagree with me.
Standards like this have nothing to do with moral issues, e.g. respect. He may be wearing a uniform wrong, but it's lame to infer any kind of ill motives or bad moral character from it. It's a hat.
The issue is that people create their own arbitrary and capricious standards and expect them to be normative on other people, which is ludicrous.
When I was a lad, we only adjusted the curvature of the brim so it looked cool.
I am sentencing myself to sit in the corner with a silly hat on.
I guess you can say that people should strive for an impossible uniform uniformity, but I would argue that so long as you're recognizably wearing the uniform and not actively subverting it, little differences in method of wearing don't constitute an affront to the concept of a uniform.
I do think that the half to the side cap makes you look like the "edgy one" in a late 90s boy band, and you should find a more appealing way of making the uniform your own.
Absolutely disagree with that opinion. Sorry but if you respect something, you adhere to it's edicts. If you disrespect something you don't give a #### about it's edicts. Not saying bad moral character, that is of course a strawman that nobody on the planet that has a functioning brain would ever say. We are saying it's disrespectful to the uniform, and therefore disrespectful to the team and therefore disrespectful to the game.
Generally pet peeves are violation of accepted standards that has degraded. It's not like me saying "One of my pet peeves is people who wear shirts with the Nike Logo on it, and not wearing Nike shoes"... that is just a cranky old man at that point in time. Of course the version you highlighted, is a perfectly reasonable pet peeve. It's a uniform standard, there should be a level of respect accorded to the uniform, and there should be some expectation of uniformity. Just because the expectations has dropped, doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with being bothered by the lowering of the expectations.
That's my meta-peeve.
I like it.
The point is, if you respect something, you spend the effort to show that respect.
Note: I don't agree with the Griffey hatred, as I do think that it's perfectly acceptable to lower the standards in situations such as practice and pre-game, which is what Griffey did.
I'll repeat my question from #23, do you actually think Rodney has disrespect for the Dominican team and/or the country itself?
And for the record, the tilt of the hat is NOT an edict of Rodney's baseball teams.
edit: posted this before #33, but you still didn't answer whether you think Rodney has an actual lack of respect for these institutions.
Slapping the Nike swoosh and the adidas logo on formerly pristine uniform space is far more "disrespectful" of the uniform than anything Rodney's even thought of doing.
As for that matter is teams foregoing their school colors for black uniforms.
Will you be wearing the silly hat sideways?
Show me where there is an edict requiring (and explaining how to) "respect" the Dominican uniform. If it's just floating in the ether out there, you can't expect the guy to abide by it. You can only EXPECT him to a) follow the law; and b) do whatever he says he will do. Peeves, "edicts," respect, etc., are all subjective measures of conduct that are not binding on anybody. If the guy has agreed to wear the uniform in a certain way in exchange for playing, he should abide by that.
Just for future reference, if you are wearing a Z-shirt, are you required to respect it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPBsYnzSOZQ (Warning: strawman)
Awesome. Rodney even has the chin-strap beard + goatee to complete the look.
No. But to be honest, I don't think there are many people on the planet who have disrespect for something. And when they do, it's generally bigger picture than their place of employment etc.
I also do not see how anyone could think that him wearing his hat funny and silly is disrespectful to his country. I can see how it could be disrespectful to the game of baseball though and/or his team. His respect for his country has nothing to do with this.
Basically I look it like this. If you have pride in wearing the uniform properly, you are showing respect. If you do not wear the uniform properly you are showing disrespect, whether you personally have disrespect or not isn't the point, your actions are indicating a lack of respect.
It depends upon the level of respect I have for my outfit at the particular time.
Only mongeese are free to play barelegged.
You are right, and my opinion on your attitude is also not binding. If you are a player and want to walk around like a putz, refusing to wear the uniform proper, then it should be expected that I'm going to infer you are disrespecting the uniform. Since I'm not likely to ever get a chance to meet you face to face, my opinion of you is going to be informed by your actions. In this case the actions of not wearing the uniform properly is indicative that you don't really take pride in the uniform. If you don't take pride in the uniform, I can infer you don't have much respect for the uniform, since you don't have much respect for the uniform, you obviously don't have much respect for the words or team on the uniform.
It's fairly straight forward to be honest.
It is your interpretation of both the propriety level of how he is wearing the uniform and that it is an indication of a lack of respect. After so much evidence piles up that the brim tilt is neither improper nor an intended display of disrespect, it is your responsibility to adjust your interpretation to reality and not Rodney's responsibility to adjust to out-dated social mores.
Your skills of inference are shitty.
That's fair. And you absolutely have a right to voice your opinion on it.
Did he ever cover "Frankie Teardrop"?
(I've read it was a major influence on "State Trooper.")
Come on. It's a piece of cloth. Salute your shorts!
Again, it's a uniform. It's not a social ####### statement. It's a uniform. Just like wearing a suit to work, or wearing a uniform at your McDonald's job, there is expectations on how it should be worn. There is limits on how much leeway you can personally exhibit, and people all the time are trying to push those limits, and there is going to be push back.
Edit: Of course there is the argument that the team who allows the players to get away with that, is showing just as much disrespect, and if anyone has a problem they should take it up with the team.
Then don't infer disrespect!
In this case, whose edict is the team defying? Whose definition of proper are they violating?
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