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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, December 13, 2022Former Blue Jays, Indians pitcher T.J. House comes out as gay
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Posted: December 13, 2022 at 12:29 AM | 31 comment(s)
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1. a brief article regarding 57i66135 Posted: December 14, 2022 at 07:49 PM (#6109560)His momentum was carrying him away from men, which I guess is why people were fooled into thinking this was a special announcement. I see nothing remarkable about it.
Once terrorist attacks stop on LGBT people and venues, then it probably won't be a big deal. As of now, it still is.
the fact that this thread got 0 replies in the first 36 hours after it was posted is exactly the shoulder shrug that RDP (and now [6] is taking up that mantle, i guess) always wanted.
isn't it funny how quickly subtext can become text.
Until we all recognize the struggles of those who walk among us without principle or spine….
Congrats to Mr. House on coming out and on his impending nuptials.
I think you would be deeply disappointed in what you hear in environments where the men are confident that there are no f---s in the room. I'm generally appalled at what I hear, and I'm about as far from woke as you can get without slipping into a coma.
As I tell my wife: assume that nothing is changed in the workplace, it just moved behind closed doors. Which is probably a good thing, because better than out in the open.
And it goes double for attitudes towards gay people. Bigots haven't changed; they just save it for their safe spaces.
(Like, the last time I heard that kind of talk where I live was at a bar a few years ago, where a Qanon type starts spouting stuff and everyone around him, regardless of political feelings, shouted him down until he left. Conversely, my brother who lives 20 miles from me (I in an upper middle class suburb, work with data; him in a lower middle class exurb, works construction) hears it constantly.)
Like Mar-A-Lago
Somehow I'd never seen this video although of course I was aware of the incident. Damn, that's bad.
to me being gay is like being a lefty, which i am. or ambidextrous, like #2 son. Some people just are. and that's that. having to come out as not straight needs to just fade away.
i got gay friends/relatives. i got trouble with people who got trouble with them because they are not straight
Feels a little different.
** Or about the many non-White foreign players, who come from all over Asia, Africa and the Mideast. 25 or 30 years ago there was a certain amount of resentment that the Filipinos were "taking over 'our' game", but now that practically every country in the world is represented at the top level, the respect for the talent reigns supreme.
I'm not looking to call you out here, but why didn't anyone say anything to these D bags at the time? I can kind of understand a bunch of 20-year-olds not wanting to rock the boat in a pro locker room (this is their livelihood), but a bunch of 35+ dudes in a recreational league and nobody spoke up?
I felt bad about it after the fact, no excuses we should have stopped it. Also I don't really hang out with them outside of playing the games (don't really practice).
The weird thing is we were all on the same group chat and it got progressively worse as the season wore on and then blew up in the playoffs when the ump called obstruction on the catcher and he absolutely lost it in an uncomfortable way. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. The umpire is actually James McCann's dad so he probably knows a thing or two about baseball.
I live in Chelsea and before that I lived around the corner from the Stonewall Inn, so I don't think I've heard an anti-gay comment in like 15 years. I'd like to think I would say something in a similar situation, but I guess you don't know until you're confronted with it.
I don't think the younger gen (gen z or even millennials) have the same stigmas regarding LGBT or race that we older folks absorbed growing up. I think that would hold for athletes as well.
I was interested in whatever the golf tournament d'week was, so I asked the bartender if they could put the Golf Channel on one of the TVs.
there were no other live sports going, but he put it on on a small TV to my immediate left. ok, whatever.
am watching intermittently for about a half hour. middle-aged guy comes in and takes up the stool just below "my" TV.
after I glance up at the TV a few times, this dude goes off - asks me if "I'm a f---ing f-gg-t or something" and "why are you staring at me, it must be that!"
it was stunning. surreal, as in "what year is this and where am I, anyway?" I live in the most diverse state in the country.
I stayed calm, pointed to the TV above him, then noted that I was looking at the TV, not him.
only 4 or 5 people heard this guy, but everyone was totally rattled/discombobulated. manager comes over, and I explain the situation (as it happens, I'm so old that I literally had a printout of the standings of my weekly golf pool right in front of me - and which 4 players each rival had chosen for this tournament).
manager immediately puts the Golf Channel on the TV straight across from me, eliminating my need to "ogle" this loser to my left. or whatever. even so, this guy later muttered the "f word" again under his breath.
I probably should have exited immediately. the manager definitely should have ejected the guy immediately. maybe somebody should have called the cops.
when I was ready to leave, I asked the same manager (who is black, although I can't see how that is relevant) to escort me to my car in case this imbecile wanted to go after me. I quietly mentioned that he had repeated the offending word after his intervention, and the manager said, "I was looking for a reason to throw this guy out anyway."
relevant to Post 25, nobody "got it right" because no one could believe what happened.
yes, that post refers to repeated offenses so less excuse. but it could just be if you get it wrong the first time - not calling these imbeciles out - then you might well keep compounding the error.
I had just gotten my food, but still I should have just asked for them to wrap it up and exited right after I paid the check. but I guess I thought that might antagonize the guy, or something.
one of the many weird parts of this whole episode is that a sane person might reasonably ask, in this circumstance, "um, is there a reason you keep looking in my direction?"
and I'd explain, and he'd be a little embarrassed, and I'd say no worries, I'd ask them to put the golf on a different TV, and that's the end of it. but this guy just seemed angry at the world, and he we was looking to lash out at somebody.
scary how many ticking time bombs like him are out there.
A different type of situation, but earlier this year a guy at my gym started berating an Asian woman for swimming too slowly in the fast lane of the pool. She shouldn't have been in the fast lane but, similar to your story, the reasonable thing to do would be to nicely suggest she switch to a different lane. Not completely fly off the handle.
While he didn't make any racist comments, this came at a time when there had just been a number of attacks on Asian women, and I'm sure that was going through her mind. I was so shocked by the situation that before I thought to do anything, gym staff had already intervened. (I did, however, tell the woman afterwards that I thought the gym had mishandled the situation and that if she wanted to file a complaint I would corroborate her side of the story. They should have banned him and done more for the woman afterwards. She was really shaken up.)
Actually thinking about it more it was more misogynistic stuff most of the time rather than anti-gay for the most part which doesn't make it any better.
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