It’s Monday for me tho…that said, 4 shifts to go then I’m off for 3 weeks. 3 weeks.
I was getting close to the point where I stop accruing PTO time and that is a No-No-HELL-NO in my book. It was necessary to burn 3 weeks of vacation to rectify this near disaster.
Enjoy Yinz’s weekend!
Pirates announcer Steve Blass criticized for comments about Braves’ Ronald Acuna Jr.
Broadcaster Steve Blass came under fire Wednesday for on-air comments he made during Tuesday night’s game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Atlanta Braves.
In the fourth inning, Pirates pitcher Steven Brault hit Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. in the elbow with a 2-2 pitch. Blass made note of Acuna’s animated style of play and necklaces he wears while on the field.
“A young player, just doing all that stuff, and all the jewelry, and all the stuff, back in the day, I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but …” Blass said.
Broadcast partner Greg Brown asked Blass if he was suggesting Brault hit Acuna on purpose.
“I’m not suggesting that,” Blass said. “That’s why I qualified it back in the day.”
When the broadcast showed a replay of Acuna briefly glaring at Brault after being hit by the pitch, Blass bristled.
“Give it a rest. You think he’s trying to throw at you? Give me a break,” Blass said.
Several websites criticized Blass’ comments as anti-fun and went as far as accusing him of racism. Acuna is from Venezuela.
Awful Announcing referred to his comments as “dog-whistling.”
“Steve Blass doesn’t like a certain type of player. You can call them ‘flashy’ I guess, but there might be something else going on with the Pittsburgh Pirates announcer,” Ryan Phillips wrote in The Big Lead.
Blass, 77, is in his final season as a Pirates broadcaster. He was not expected to comment on the matter, on or off the air.
Pirates announcer embarrasses himself going after Ronald Acuña Jr. https://t.co/L4NYuLeCYl via @HardballTalk
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) June 5, 2019
It’s not good enough to just not be racist.
It’s also important to not use the kind of coded language that racists use when talking about people of color, whether you intend them to be racist or not.
— Alan Saunders (@ASaunders_PGH) June 5, 2019
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THIS is Steve Blass. pic.twitter.com/uTD72Mnoob
— Colin Dunlap (@colin_dunlap) June 5, 2019
https://twitter.com/TheRealSangy35/status/1136476549413294080
…a new thread before the last one goes stale.
The ICC World Cup is on in England and Wales. Yes, Cricket. Cricket is the progenitor of baseball. This can be seen quite clearly by some of the shared rules, especially if the ball is caught on the fly, the batter is out. I won’t get into the details of the game at this time as that would lead to a few hundred pages of unneeded writing…and yinz wluldn’t read it anyway. 😉
The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is scheduled to be hosted by England and Wales, from 30 May to 14 July 2019.
The ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) takes place every four years, featuring 10 teams and is the culmination of a global qualification process that runs over a 5-6 year period.
The top eight teams in the ICC one-day rankings at the given date (approximately 18 months prior to the CWC) qualify automatically. The final two teams come from the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier which takes place in the year prior to the Cricket World Cup. This event is the culmination of the ICC World Cricket League series and regional qualification events which provide the opportunity for every ICC Member to progress through the qualification process and participate in the CWC.
All teams play each other in a full round robin format with the top four teams progressing to the semi-finals and the winners contesting the CWC final.
Here are some highlights of the West Indies destroying Pakistan
I watched the entire match. The fans for Pakistan were mostly angry bearded men. The fans for the Windies were men and women dancing in the stands and having a great time. The difference was quite telling.
Cricket, like Rugby, would be completely dominated by Americans if we played these sports. The US won the Gold Medal in the Olympics in 1920 and 1924, and then football gained in popularity. Another blow to cricket in the United States was the formation of the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909. As the name implied, this was meant to be an organization for cricketing nations in the British Empire. Countries such as Australia and South Africa were able to continue playing internationally, while the United States was left out.
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