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STL Today: Claiborne’s “racist” label sparks controversy

De law is…Claiborne bates?

Mike Claiborne, on his calling Bob Feller a racist…..For the most part, I understood where he was coming from regarding how the game is being marketed and things of that nature, but when he says the Caribbean players don’t even know the rules, that raises a flag. ... So I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He didn’t want to address it. I tried to politely ask him, I wasn’t trying to hang him out to dry. I’ve been doing this for 25 years. That’s not how I do business. He got offended by it, but I said what I said and I stand by it.

I don’t use that word lightly. I think its a wretched word to use in our society. ... I just felt the direction he was headed certainly gave me all the indication that that’s what he was, and that’s what he is.

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101. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: August 16, 2005 at 05:52 AM (#1548828)

So anybody here been part of a lynch mob?

*runs and hides*

102. penguinmobile Posted: August 16, 2005 at 06:11 AM (#1548850)

I saw Blue Velvet with six other people. Does that count?

103. DCW3 Posted: August 16, 2005 at 07:13 AM (#1548900)

#103 is gold.

Mocking Indiana: from time spent in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa, I've learned that it's the game everyone can play.

In St. Louis and the surrounding environs, a "hoosier" is generic slang for "white trash." It's always surprising to remember that in other places the term is not necessarily pejorative.

104. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: August 16, 2005 at 07:50 AM (#1548910)

He spends half of his movies making every security guard/secretary/cashier look like a friggin moron, when theoretically the entire point of his crusade is to protect the little people.

I always thought the people that got it worst were the middle managing types.

What's blue Velvet?

105. Jose Clutch (Replacement Level Poster) Posted: August 16, 2005 at 12:22 PM (#1548952)

So anybody here been part of a lynch mob?

Well, a friend of mine's cousin was beaten by her boyfriend, and about six of us got together and planned to go stomp on his neck - but it never happened. So I guess not.

106. Backlasher

Posted: August 16, 2005 at 12:47 PM (#1548970)

What's blue Velvet?

A movie by David Lynch

107. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: August 16, 2005 at 12:50 PM (#1548973)

Well, a friend of mine's cousin was beaten by her boyfriend, and about six of us got together and planned to go stomp on his neck - but it never happened. So I guess not.

That's a lynchable offense for sure. PIece of trash scum woman beater

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