Friday, May 17, 2013
Powerball odds? Juan Pierre’s homers are long shots, too
(www.al.com)
Odds of being attacked by a shark marlin: 1 in 11.5 million.
Read More...Pierre’s clout came leading off the bottom of the first for the Miami Marlins against the Cincinnati Reds.
Pierre’s homer was his first since June 23. He whooped when the ball went over the fence down the right-field line.
“I don’t know how to react to those things, so it’s just a spur-of-the-moment deal,” Pierre told reporters of his homer reaction. “That’s about the only time you’ll see me smiling on the baseball field.”
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1 2 >edit: Which reminds me of that scene from The Office when Michael starts quoting from Chris Rock's routine. That was good stuff, especially for a white guy that likes Chris Rock's stand up. In fairness to me, I also quote the masturbation jokes, too. That bit about leaving the porn movie in the VCR is gold, people!
That's impossible - there are no jokes on Tosh.O.
No good ones, anyway.
Presented without comment...
Hey now, Scotty may be a corn fed honkey but the man was head of engineering on the Federation's flagship!
I'll take your word for it, but he seemed to take great umbrage after Phillips' nonchalant reaction to the HBP. Then he threw over to first even though Phillips' foot was literally on the bag.
"you play like a young Mick, ehh, man-tool".
Whatever Hughes said next could only been justified by that blatent anti-irish Tosh.o reference.
but seriously, all I could pick up was Brandon Phillips saying to the ump "My boy", probably in relation to saying "I was just telling my boy (Andrew) what happened"
But "Boy" does seem like the likely term. I have a hard time seeing someone right on the field saying "Take your base ######\".
Now the huntsman, he can't hunt the fox
Nor loudly blow his horn
And the tinker, he can't mend his pots
Without John Barleycorn
Phillips isn't really that big of an ass, more of a guy who still remembers that it's a game often times and has a tendency to rub people the wrong way in that he's not fully serious about everything he says. He got in trouble with Cardinal fans for an off hand remark, the Cardinal announcers hate him because he "smiles during a game" (which they interpret to mean he doesn't care) etc. (The Molina tap was him not realizing that the two teams were volatile, and him thinking this is somewhat of a joke thing. It was never intended to fire up the Cardinals the way it did, just Brandon being Brandon)
If you pay attention to Phillips though, you have a guy who plays hard while remembering that the word play is in the expression of play hard. He's vocal and more or less very honest with his comments and ultimately seems like a decent enough guy. (again, any player who randomly shows up to a twitter follower's baseball game because he is in the neighborhood, cannot be a bad guy)
I don't ever doubt that a person who claims to have heard a racist remark, thinks that is what he heard, but oftentimes it seems that it's taken out of context or intent is put into a response that was never intended.
The news in Pittsburgh tonight reported that indeed, the word that upset Phillips was "boy". Personally I'd have been more upset to be called a motherf$*@er, which Hughes clearly called him. But then again I can't vouch for the intelligence of someone who thought that he got hit intentionally in the bottom of the eight inning in a tie game that the Pirates absolutely needed to win.
Sometime this afternoon McCutchen got Phillips and Hughes together on the phone and supposedly they worked this all out.
You're insulting his intelligence because he was offended by a racist remark? Unless Hughes is 60-years old, there's no other way that he meant it.
I usually go with 'son' in any verbal altercation. That's seems to piss of everybody. I wonder how long until society somehow decides it's racist as well.
Boy is racist when spoken by a white guy to a black guy..... just like pretty much every other harmless words if someone wants to find offense with it.
To me its more of a challenge to his manhood.
Phillips' nonchalant reaction to the HBP.
Flipping the ball towards second is a dick move.
I do remember a midnight thanksgiving football game between restaurants about 13 years back in which one of the dishwashers brought his crackhead friends along to play as well and they were a little too rough for an asphalt friendly. One of our sous chefs told the dishwasher that he'd better get his boys in line and one of the crackheads took offense to it. It was rather comical but the sous chef didn't mean it the way the guy took it nor did he back down.
I remember being confused when I saw this line in a movie...the reversal of racial roles didn't compute. But given stuff like that in today's culture (wait, that movie is 16 years old?!) and the fact that Jared Hughes was born in 1985 leads me to believe it's at least plausible that he didn't recognize the racial implications. Certainly disrespect was intended, and I don't think there's anything wrong with Philips for perceiving racism there - but that's why you get the guys on the phone to talk it out afterwards.
Which was my point. Sometimes people say things that can be taken two ways, and what really matters is intent. Projecting your belief of their intent is where the conflict starts.
And some people would argue that it doesn't matter what your intent was and the only thing that matters is how they perceived it. Something I don't agree with.
I remember being in a conversation with somebody and to try and get the point across I mentioned used their grandmother and her medicines as an example. The guy got all mad because his grandmother was dead and even though I had said nothing insulting about his grandmother he told me that he was insulted and that it didn't matter what I intended but that the only thing that matters was how he took it. At that point I told him to take it and shove it up his dead grandmother's rotting eye socket. The internet can be fun sometimes.
And they are clearly wrong. Just to be blunt.
Someone can say something insensitive(as the example you gave points out) and should apologize for insensitivity(even if they didn't have knowledge, and the apology should be accepted without reservation--generally speaking) but without the intent to insult someone, the insult doesn't exist except in the fevered imagination of the perceiver. Mind you there is a reasonable limit to unintentional offensive remarks. (You can't throw out racial/sexual epithets and expect to get away with it because you weren't intending to insult, there is an acceptable cultural norm that should be followed. It's arguable that boy is one of those words, but it's also a word that has been massively desensitized over the past 30 years, to the point that intent really should matter)
I was born in 1985. In fact, Jared Hughes is a couple months older than I am. I know damn well and have known so for a very long time that boy is not an appropriate thing to say to a black person unless they're six. Phillips is four years older, it's hardly the first insult that is going to come to mind when you're in a conflict with someone older.
"Boy" was used in the past to refer to or address any young male servant or service type person of any color. It's not only inappropriate to say to black people, it's inappropriate to say to anyone. I have no idea what color you are, or even if you're a young male, but I would never call you "boy" unless I meant to really piss you off.
If it's inappropriate to say to someone regardless of their race, then its inappropriateness is not dependent on race and it can't be "racist."
You're cheating. Either the word is applied and evaluated in context -- i.e., the literally tens of thousands (*) of ears that hear the n-word daily today -- or it's not. You can't claim "context, context, context" with the n-word and then demand that we evaluate "boy" in the 2012 North in the way it was used in the 1950s South.
(*) Millions, really, but I don't want to get hung up on the number.
I agree with this. 'Boy' is an insult to anyone, same as 'son' mentioned above. If Hughes said 'boy, go pick my cotton' or something like that directly referencing slavery or JC South then it would be racist.
But he took off his hat!
But "boy" is a term used to demean blacks particularly for so long that it's both generally demeaning and pointedly racist.
If I call a friend "my n!gger", it's OK (same as if I called him a "d!ck swollower"); if I call someone I don't know, or someone I don't like a "n!gger", that's the lowest of the low. That's the context - Hughes and Phillips aren't friends (Hughes had just drilled him, after all), and then called him "boy". I'd be pissed if I were Phillips, too.
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