An anti-gay slur was recently tweeted, and subsequently deleted, from a Twitter account belonging to one of the prospects the Mets acquired from Toronto for R.A. Dickey.
Righthanded pitcher Noah Syndergaard, 20, acquired along with catcher Travis d’Arnaud in the deal that sent the Cy Young Award winner to the Blue Jays, tweets from the account @Noahsyndergaard.
On Dec. 9, this tweet appeared from that account: “@DMarze89 nice crocs f—lol”
The tweet no longer appears on the timeline for the account.
A Mets spokesman said that the team was looking into the matter. The full context of the tweet was not immediately clear; Syndergaard might be available on a conference call introducing him and d’Arnaud on Tuesday.
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Posted: December 18, 2012 at 12:50 PM |
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Hilarious. On his first day as a Met, too!
Look, this is a dumb thing to say. It's also how a lot of young men talk to one another. It's classless and particularly stupid for someone in the public eye like him to do, but is this now going to be the Next Big Controversy?
Not sure if serious.
No.
Naw, we're just funning. Relax!
It's true that I have never seen Tom Cruise wearing crocs.
I agree. It's my understanding that at this point, minor leaguers are regularly coached on how not use/not use social media. Maybe the lesson just didn't stick in this case.
Some idiot minor leaguer doing this would normally draw a lot less attention than what Escobar did, but I'm sure you're right that they're very relieved this didn't hit the press until after he was no longer their problem.
Dickey must have hacked into his Twitter account. That's the only explanation.
Good job, guys. It's the Mets, so I guess we need to have our jokes ready.
It's the only word in the first KITH sketch I ever saw.
Of course it was.
Even so, nice thread y'all. 8 was simple genius, 19 rang a nice variation on a moldy theme, and Jose set exactly the right tone with,
Still, it feels like shooty's just mailing it in. What's up with that?
Exactly. He's 20 years old and should start learning now. It's not excusable, but it's a "teachable moment"; he'll learn. As opposed, say, to 37-year-old media-savvy John Smoltz saying considerably worse.
I'm a bit confused? Am I supposed to be angrier? Or was my Mets snark lacking? Honestly, the Mets have worn me out as a subject of snark. I'm like Dustin Hoffman after the 5th Indian girl when it comes to Mets snark.
He does have a woman's haircut.
Not unless the woman has a pretty bad case of alopecia.
...with shoelaces no less.
Don't shoelaces sort of defeat the purpose of the crocs?
It's for people who want to wear regular shoes but still have incredibly smelly feet?
Some days the magic works.....
Are you going to kill yourself now, or do you want us to handle it?
On the other hand, a league that features the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves (with the oh-so-classy tomahawk chop as a cheer, no less),...
Physician, heal thyself?
Have we had a "rename-these-franchises" thread?
Spiders is obvious. Crackers won't fly … I nominate "Peaches."
/Andy Messersmith
You have evidence that he respects himself?
Neckstabbers.
And Mike Crudale.
The paradigm has been broken. A guy who *wants* to be called Coco Crisp has like 5000 plate appearances. A dude named Paul Goldschmidt had an .850 OPS. Fausto Carmona became Roberto Hernandez and will suck even more now, I bet.
How about Travis D'Arnaud?
"Idiot" and "moron" come to mind:-)
Well a pretty easy place to start would be with any terms that demonstrate hatred toward a group of people based on things like race, religion, or sexual orientation. That would seem to pretty clearly cover our case here.
As to terms like "midget", if a group wants to be called something else, I don't see why we can't placate them in the vast majority of cases. How would you feel if we came up with a term for people who put zero thought into caring for their fellow man that you didn't happen to like?
ust last a moron congressman was forced to apologize for using the word midget
Forced...at gunpoint?
*GASP*
But yes, generally speaking I have contempt for people who sling epithets based on your listed criteria.
Buy this 383 page book and enjoy the ride. It's got everything from a "Portagee lawnmower"** to "Moustache Pete"***. You can insult every nationality in scores of different languages, and at only $1.18 even a "Brooklyn Indian" can afford it.
**a goat used by Portuguese immigrants to cut the grass
***an early 20th century Italian immigrant
Spoken like a damn, dirty Norwegian.
Or, you could just watch this.
Great, finally the media can give the Papists and their Jesus-freak brethren the open contempt they deserve.
I believe you mean the Papists and their Jesus-freak breeding brethren."
Help?
That's what Twitter is for. Idiots self-immolate in the most public forum available, when before they kept their stupid sh!t to themselves or their close friends.
off the top of my head I thought midget would be more insulting...
...and doubtless, a Norwegian discovered by your international scout playing in Aruba...
Can't we just stick with "Asians"?
Can we get a ruling on 'Mexicans'? I used it in casual conversation today and felt like a got a couple of looks. Not that it would stop me from using it, but it would be pretty remarkable if that term were somehow on the other side of this ridiculous line. Somehow Mexico is out of control that simply describing someone as Mexican is racist. And to be fair, the folks in my story that I labeled Mexicans could have been Guatemalan, I didn't check passports, I played the odds.
I believe the currently-approved term is "wee folk".
No, no, wait, it's "twerps" isn't it?
Guilty of ridiculous footware.
And to be fair, the folks in my story that I labeled Mexicans could have been Guatemalan, I didn't check passports, I played the odds.
I think this is why you might have raised some eyebrows. Mexican as a descriptive term for people from Mexico is obviously fine. If someone makes an honest mistake it's not a big deal.
Michael: Um, let me ask you, is there a term besides Mexican that you prefer? Something less offensive?
Oscar: Mexican isn't offensive.
Michael: Well, it has certain connotations.
My wife tends to refer to all brown-skinned Hispanics as "Mexicans"; she doesn't check passports either. Her father was the same way, so it must be a family thing.
In the future you could go with "people."
If you didn't know if they were Mexican or Guatemalan or something else then it probably wasn't important to the story.
From the movie of "Little Big Man," I assume: the Hoffman character's wife asks him very nicely if he will have sex with her three widowed sisters so that they might bear children; he accomplishes the feat in one long night.
Or, maybe that should read,
Work, work, work, work.
The word "midget" is considered insulting these days, I think, because it was formerly used as a reference to little people with so-called normal proportions. The word "dwarf" was generally used for those with relatively short or otherwise misshapen limbs, while "midget" was reserved for people who looked more like miniature versions of typical taller folk. Distinguishing (very unscientifically) between two types of little people in an attempt to subtly declare one group as better seems to be what led to the disfavor.
For reals.
You don't call retarded people retards. It's in bad taste. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded.
Let's not forget the Mets have also had can't miss prospects like yusmeiro petit and lastings milledge. They clearly haven't figured out how this works.
No, it makes you awesome.
But not "you people".
Both terms are infinitely preferable to "David Samson," I gather.
It went like this: "The last time I was on a jury, it was for a couple of Mexican guys breaking and entering". I guess, technically, the Mexican part isn't critical, but it fills out the story. It just as easily could have been "a couple of douche-bag frat boys for public indecency". It paints a picture.
Do you not see how your inability to distinguish Mexicans from Guatemalans might not be an issue?
Not really. If I were traveling abroad and a local referred to me as 'that Canadian', I think we would move right past it. Somehow 'Mexican' has become a charged word.
Edit: Really, douche-bag with no hyphen gets nannied. This is what we've become?
Consider this an opportunity for dialogue and education
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