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The Baltimore Riots: The Stunning Comments By Orioles Owner's Son
The day after violent protests left Baltimore burning in the wake of a funeral held for Freddie Gray who died after sustaining a spinal injury while being taken into policy custody, Americans are struggling to explain how the events that transpired on Monday evening are possible in modern day America. While most are united in their condemnation of indiscriminant violence, many still feel a palpable sense of injustice after witnessing multiple instances of alleged police misconduct over the past year.
In this context we present the following culled from Twitter messages posted by Orioles Executive Vice President John Angelos, son of majority owner Peter Angelos:
“Brett, speaking only for myself, I agree with your point that the principle of peaceful, non-violent protest and the observance of the rule of law is of utmost importance in any society. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela, and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept. Further, it is critical that in any democracy investigation must be completed and due process must be honored before any government or police members are judged responsible.
That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American’s civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.
The innocent working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance, and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, an ultimate price, and one that far exceeds the importance of any kids’ game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards. We need to keep in mind people are suffering and dying around the U.S., and while we are thankful no one was injured at Camden Yards, there is a far bigger picture for poor Americans in Baltimore and everywhere who don’t have jobs and are losing economic civil and legal rights, and this makes inconvenience at a ball game irrelevant in light of the needless suffering government is inflicting upon ordinary Americans.”
Not exactly what the US Department of Truth wanted to hear.
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What did he risk?
Same as every other liberal thug. They come from money or fall into it like it came from heaven and look down their nose at anyone who actually had to go out and earn it a dollar at a time.
I dare say he fears losing none of it as he hasn't a clue where it came from. Further, it is only the liberals who believe in destroying anyone who speaks out against their agenda, and his could have easily come from Hillary's filthy lips. Conservatives still want to argue and debate, and as such will always lose. You can't bring debate rules to a knife fight.
If things keep getting worse, they probably will, then his Baltimore Orioles will be worth a lot less. maybe dumb white guys will stop going to the parks to watch thug ball.
These idiots who frequent Oriole stadium all need Reginald Denny treatment. Dumb sheep fuxx into bread and circuses.
The trial lawyer's son sees his inheritance going up in smoke hopefully with the entire city of Baltimore.
Anybody who tells you they are not acting in their own self interest, is trying to sell you something.....at gun point.
I find your comment interesting to put it politely......
So when the poorly educated, impoverished youth burn and riot because their outraged at their conditions, it's a crime and thuggery, etc etc etc
But when the sons of wealthy elite, speak the truth, and express THEIR outrage at the conditions ofour society, there ALSO bullshit, self interest driven and too not be taken seriously!!!!
Just who the fuck is supposed to start challenging this bullshit system of lies, corruption, socialism, and tyranny exactly??????
So you honestly think that the burning and looting was the result of dissatisfaction with their conditions? Have they been protesting their conditions prior to this? Is there some political or social group pushing for more jobs? Has there been a history of police abuse? Has there been protests over the murders of their brothers BY their brothers?
Or is this a continuation of their little pity party. I really doubt they feel sorry for themselves at all. I imaging all this is about intimidation and demand for not more jobs but more ENTITLEMENTS.
And I'm sorry, but I see no more validity to this easy money big mouth than I do of Hillary. The exact same things are coming from both of their mouths.....and they seem to be doing quiet well. But we do appreciate their concern!
One of the reasons companies offshore is to avoid thieving, unchecked trial lawyer vulture scum like your Daddy, John.
"No self-interest here."
Truth is in everyone's interest.
"No self-interest here."
Truth is in everyone's interest.
We were warned. Clearly, repeatedly and loudly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls
Yeah, I don't get it. He said folks a lot too... Why wasn't he elected?
He needs a refresher course in history. Nelson Mandela "non-violent"?? He was a fucking communist terrorist.
Upvoted you, and you're right; but you've got to use the language and images of your target audience if you're trying to craft effective propaganda.
I've read enough of your posts to know that you realize there is zero interest in truth or education among the mob.
all three had their shortcomings and all three enabled the statists... he should have used jesus, luther, cromwell... they would have been better choices to emulate,
i was not expecting a single up vote to that... thanks for those that understand
Your right, everyone that faught against the us government interests during that time (white people, minus the russians) where fucking communists terrorists. one man's terrorists is another man freedom fighter.
Do a little digging on Mandela. First, he was a member of the South African Communist Party, so he wasn't a "communist", he was an actual Communist. Second, "Freedom fighters" don't set off bombs in crowded marketplaces. Terrorists do.
Hope you will throw Begin, Sharon, Netanyahu and the rest of those "terrorists" into that group.
Then the US Goverment is the biggest terrorists of all, or when we do it are we only "spreading democracy"
a communist is a communist, there are no varying degrees. i'm not denying nor making excuses for what he did, but i will say he was fighting for his country, you call him a terrorists, for some south africans he was a freedom fighter.
Terrorists also murder innocents with drones shooting rockets.
I thought the Western media dubbed him a Freedom Fighter.
BTW... "If Firefighters fight fire and Crimefighters fight crime, what to Freedomfighters fight?"
The progressive media dubbed him a freedom fighter. Fellow travelers in communist tyranny.
Grimaldus
Much the way the progs labelled Rev. Jim Jones a rightwing religious nut when he was a devoted Marxist who hobnobbed with San Francisco liberal elites in the 1970s.
Look at Jo'burg today, it's where Baltimore is heading.
The legacy of Mandela and Obama.
Not exactly what some low life commentors wanted to hear either.
Wells-Fargo is largely responsible for taking down Baltimore with early sub-prime practices. You reap what you sow folks.
Because the FEDs under Clinton were pissed they were losing HUD customers as their was a nice housing boom going on... So they pushed this law called the community renewal act which shoved subprime on peeps who had good credit instead of good 30 year loans on low interest rates. Henry Cisneros left his HUD job to open a predatory home loan bank for a few years afterwards which immediately went bankrupt and then he returned to HUD.
I wanted to mention Clinton but then that would take the scope of things to the entire United States. He took the jobs away (or set up the mechanism) for ALL the cities and states. Mr. I Feel Your Pain... lol.
Met him and chatted twice in recent years (outside the US). First time just three of us for 10-15 min. All he wanted to talk about was jazz. You can't nail him on anything; I made a feeble attempt; he has a quick wit reply for any road you go down if you try. Complete charmer. Aren't they all.
You write that Clinton "took the jobs away" and I understand what you are saying. But it was "they" not "he". NAFTA was George H W Bush's baby, signed by Clinton. The Party of One.
he has a quick wit reply for any road you go down if you try.
Reminds me of that Clinton triangulation - euphemism for 'fuck off and die if you don't like my politics'
Hillary has been tight with Henry Cisneros since she and Kiki got him elected in San Antonio back when I was young... Think that was high school years for Kiki and I ....
Peeps in sa were pissed as she was getting crooks elected to gov.....
Okay, which one of you bastards is him? Sure he was born on third base, but he still seems to be a hell of a ballplayer?
(keeping with the baseball meme)
pods
The flamer comment didn't get Rivers killed -it was the tranny comment about Obama's husband Michael that got her wacked. Electing Obama and Michael was the elites big joke on America - it was in in your face message to the American sheeple as to who is really the Master of this Nation.
Needs to run for POTUS
Fuck that. Power needs to be taken away from the government, all branches.
I'm sick and tired of people that get in office on promises and words you want to hear, then they abuse their power once in office. Take the power away from government.
Anyone that wants to run for office is only after their own self interest and that self interest is influenced by the super wealthy and connected.
No doubt his solution will somehow involve moar govt, just the soft, friendly(yet still huge) one that liberals seem to think is possible, despite centuries worth of evidence that say otherwise.
Wake up, the American dream is over, and it's quickly turning into the American Nightmare....
Those who care enough to still salvage what's left of this once great nation, will need a TRUE Leader, and all of the senseless high minded bickering & pschobabble isn't going to solve the problem(s)....
Washington needs an Enema ASAP, period.
And who is that TRUE leader gonna be? Hillary Citone? Jab Bushy? LOL sucker, but those are the actors you get to choose from.
I don't think said enema will come through the ballot box. What was the sign the kid was holding? "Nice night 4 a revolution" The time is coming...
I'm glad someone gets it.
Witness Protection Program, now damn it!
Bravo for a member of the elite. Now what? It will make Baltimorons, of which my Sis is one, even angrier.
Hey John, how about donating a billion $s to Baltimore's general upliftment with a focus on TPB targetted black youth? Eh?
Anyways....some music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcuIThFpV6E
Why limit it to only black youth? Guess what, you don't fix racism with racist policies.
lol... hey ORI, everyones a n---- when you start talking about handing out money!
Hey LoP, why only black youth? Perhaps they need it more all things considered. Help is not a racist policy. Targeting a demographic in order to fix the problem is not "racist". If you help the Native Americans youth, then white youth should be also targeted in the program?
lol... money money money...
Help any and all those who will appreciate and are in need, regardless of race.
Yes, exactly.
As to your "money money money" bullshit, define money. LMFAO indeed!!!
define money
The prettier the picture with the most colors. The more it's worth?
Maybe if money was actually cow chips (literally) instead, people might begin to wake up, but that's not something I'd be willing to bet on...
MonetaryApostate
Cow chips have more intrinsic value.
Tell me how you can wipe your ass with a cow chip...
VinceFostersGhost - define money :
Money is work traded for work.
The skim is all of the ways in which that process is controlled and thwarted.
Shit, I'd appreciate it! Is that the only criteria? Oh, and are in need... we ALL are in need to some degree.
Your reasoning is simplistic. Hopefully those in charge of disbursements can think beyond the first thought (appreciation) and the second (in need). So, you want some EEOC and AFF/Act. too? And EBT card?
Get to work and stop commenting so much.
Define money? An ancient relic hoarded by the uncivilized. How's that.
Another simpleton that misses the point.
I don't want anything asshat, but if you are going to start handing shit out, do it in an equitable manner.
You are a perfect example of the average sheep, and will make good fodder.
Same as it ever was.
SHEEP? Hey dude, I'm nowhere near the pasture. I should be sound asleep by now! I'm the last mfka who will be fodder. I'll be reading about that mess on ZH or RT sniff...
You are miles behind in your thinking. Racism does not solve racism.
Don't mess with Miles. Hell, he was standing outside the Royal Roost in Harlem having a smoke between sets, and one of America's Finest To Serve and Protect wacked him upside his head getting his white jacket bloodied - because he wouldn't "move along" from outside the place he was obviously performing. That was in the 1940's.
It's 2015 and nothing has changed. I'm not miles behind; I'm decades ahead.
Here mate: Racism for you and yours:
t The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. THAT'S racism. Not programs targeted to help specific groups who are disadvantaged disproportionately. When it comes to free money we's all N----- I guess. lol...
"The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race..."
You do realize that the definition of the word "race" is that it is a group of humans with specific genetic characteristics that cluster in such a way as to render them distinctly different in appearance, performance, and behavior from other humans? There isn't any "belief" associated with that, it is an objective standard.
Your misguided thinking is at the core of the problem, not the solution.
OK. Noted.
It's really going to suck for the biological flat-earthers like him when they one day realize that races are indeed inherently different in many ways. The moment of clarity is going to hit him across the skull like a 2x4. Hope it doesn't make his head hurt.
I'll just add that a lot of people have trouble telling the difference between race and culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogidgNQ7IFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EERxO3ISkfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJxfte4O7w
LOP, Miles gets it. I've been and lived in Baltimore. It's Ghetto's need help. These people have been systematically targetted for IQ reduction, evisceration both physically and mentally/emotionally....
The fathers are mostly in jail, you know the stats as well as I do. 1 in 4 black males goes to jail.
Perhaps as India is starting to do, put MLK in his proper, CIA driven, mysogynist, gov. puppet place, show that the Civil rights movement was a SHAM.
Get better food, water, education,music, role-models (of course the Orioles and all other teams make heroes of criminals for these youth, so there is that John Oriole) to them stat. Release the marijuana prison daddies to begin with. Blanket legalize pot.
Inner city youth in Chicago can barely express themselves in coherent sentences anymore. I saw a clip on you-tube. They were grunting bck total inanities to the tv interviewers questions. One guy kept saying "we need eggs, knwatmsain" over and over. Surreal.
If you read what is in the black genetic dna in terms of haviing been mistreated, may I suggest this, kindly shared by a fellow ZHer last night...actually it si the story of our COLLCTIVE repression by a tiny, psycopathic minority of inbreds.
They need to make some amends.
But the wounds and memories run deep my friend.
Black Americans need help, desperately.
And they, to complete the tragedy, are white america's style, musical and youth icons!!!!!
Fucked you are my bros and sisis...we need to gather beyond typing into some collective action.
So many fine minds here...
https://thebloodneverdried.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/excerpts-from-john-n...
Simple question; should people take responsibility for their actions (like having children) or not?
What you or I think or believe is really irrelevant as that which cannot be sustained, won't be.
Want to help, move to to these neighborhoods and help. Much like Greece, the solution here will come from within or not at all. Something you had on your own blog. Fucking hypocrite.
tick tock motherfucker.
Greece??? So the Greeks are lazy like the Blacks and it's all their fault too? The world is so simple from a black and white perspective. Oh well, too dumb to even take physics I'm sure. It's just a catchy name no doubt.
Tick tock? lol.... what country are YOU in? Tick tock... I'm dyin' here.
evolve or die. Yes, it's been this way for millions of years.
Great point!!!
Fuck those ghettos. I already pay more than a goddam enough.
Probobably you should go to back to your filthy country and "save" your own goddam pariahs.
Hep them rat-smokin brothers of yours out.
Am I right, amiright?
I'm right here in my own country thank you very much and perfectly happy and helping here.
I did spend 12 amazing years there though and knwo th ecountry really really well. I am the get involved kind of person.
Okay brother LFMay OR.
Yeah, NAACP started by? ACLU started by? And how old is this horror perpetrated, 50 years when it took off in overdrive in that little town of Montgomery.
Individuals carry grudges and pay retribution for 50 year old crimes....especially War crimes...war on drugs and prostitution crimes actually.
Here in India, there is no caste system left and what was was mis-presented by the british bastards to the world (they needed to break India's strong social structure, which exist and are labelled which si all the "Caste System" is.
And even here we treat no group as badly as blacks are in the US.
Open your eyes man, India is all right, you guys are on the last inch of a MOAB's fuse. My heart is in the right place.
And LOP...fuck you, just generally. ;-)
The vast majority of us are all "doing what we can" hypocrite, that's the point. Truth hurts, I know.
My point was that perhaps John was not doing his bit. You are nothing but an anonymous poster LOP. Till you show something beyond your tirades, you do not matter. Funking pontificating hypocrite yourself.
I hope you did not reproduce man and if you did, my sympathies to the brood.
Now fuck off back to your anonymous angry hole...
...and somehow, I am the "angry" one. LOL! What an asshat.
Doing all you can? OK, well if so, oh poor incompetent you. History will be a bit kind because you did your best let's hope. Yet and still, we'll all be reading about this (as we are now!) and either shaking our heads or laughing our asses off.
This is your shit, not mine. So have at it. Me, I'm going out to grab some nice lamb masala and F U and good luck.
ORI - that "... put MLK in his proper, CIA driven, mysogynist, gov. puppet place, show that the Civil rights movement was a SHAM."
... is right on the money. Never heard anyone say that before besides me. The cats should have listened to Malcolm instead. In all fairness, MLK did see the light in the end, and spoke on it... to his own demise. He redeemed himself right at the end. But that's when it was time to take him out (re; Vietnam).
+1, yes, applies to JFK as well as MLK. "
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." tick tock..."And even here we treat no group as badly as blacks are in the US"
Dalit. Untouchable is just a cute Indian word for nigger.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit
Female tourist on buses are treated pretty well, too.
Glad to hear India has it all worked out.
Fuck off.
Sure Pat, just because you tell me to?
Yeah, quote me some more NWOpedia, dumbass. At least when I speak of something (like your poor country), I speak with some direct experience.
Yes. They need. We've been stolen from, and insulted, and discriminated against for generations, pouring capital down an endless Black Hole. Fuck their need!
"Black Americans need help, desperately."
Plenny o rich Blacks; let them take care of their own. It's interesting how their tribalism is front and center...until it's time to crack the pocketbook.
"Inner city youth in Chicago can barely express themselves in coherent sentences anymore. I saw a clip on you-tube. They were grunting bck total inanities to the tv interviewers questions. One guy kept saying "we need eggs, knwatmsain" over and over. Surreal."
Yes, that's precisely what an average 75 IQ will do for you. Factor no boost from a stable family, good role models, and decent infant nutrition and I'm convinced the avg. IQ as well as sociability is regressing.
I like your posts ORI, and I'm in fact married to an Imported Indian - but no. I've, we've bled enough, cash, death, rape. I've had enough. And I'm far from the only one who feels this way. And my real rage is directed at the creatures who bleed me to feed their Zulu army.
Thanks RMan and I hear you and know it is not an easy topic.
One things for sure though, it's a powder keg and only drastic action can make a difference at this point.
Nice to know that you are married to an Indian, give her my best. Tell her a ZHer said India is all right.
She's third generation Singaporean, but I'll do so, thanks.
What is this constant hang-wringing and moaning about "all the abuse that blacks have suffered"? Is it any greater than the abuse any number of other nations, tribes, or races have suffered? How about the abuse that the Irish suffered at the hands of the English? Or the Persians at the hands of the Arabs? Or the Russians at the hands of the Germans? Or the Serbs at the hands of the Ottomans? KKK and slavery were a walk in the park compared to some of the things the Turks were doing in the Balkans at around the same time. Or how about half of fucking Asia at the hands of the Mongols?
Stop making excuses for them. What you see of them, how they talk and behave, isn't someone else's fault. It's a product of what they are.
It's the result of the constant propaganda known as "White Guilt."
Nature + Nurture is a well established growth paradigm, understood both naturally and scientifically ZeroZen.
Don't be a fool...
There is no amount of nurture that gets around an average IQ of 85. In the long run, nature dominates and the influence of nurture is irrelevant.
A worthy people, when they get rid of their oppressors, or even after facing a great calamity, make something of themselves. You cannot keep good people down in the long run. There are many many examples, but a great one would be the Irish in America who were treated as badly as any blacks for many years when they first started immigrating to the U.S. The divergence between the two groups couldn't be more stark today. Same goes for Asian Americans, who faced immigration bans and discrimnition. Today they are the most educated and wealthiest racial group in the U.S.
Conversely, you can't fix stupid, no matter how much "nurture" (i.e. money) you sink into it.
All this hand-wringing for the plight of the African bothers me because looked at objectively they really haven't suffered any more than any number of other ethnic groups all over the world, most of that suffering they inflict on each other, and then to top it off through violent crime alone if nothing else they inflict a lot of suffering on other ethnic groups in America. Has it ever occurred to you that a people can be both downtrodden but also rotten at the same time? Being a downtrodden minority doesn't automatically make you "good people".
If you look around the US, the kids who do the worst at school (there are major problems with the our schools, but that's another story,) are not poor. They are not minnorities either. They are kids who are both poor and minorities at the same time. This is a cultural issue, and current US policy only makes it worse. Affirmative action: You are too dumb to make it in a level playing field, so we are going to unlevel the field to your advantage. EBT and other welfare: We're going to pay you to not be productive.
Is it any surprise that they are dumb and not productive after we provide incentives for them to be dumb and unproductive? It's so ingrained now that fixing it would lead to much worse than Baltimore last night.
Throwing more money at this problem does nothing.
Need parents and school system to teach responsibility - like the mother dragging her kid out of the riots.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/04/28/mom-caught-on-video-hitting-so...
Too late. This country is FUCKED. Completely and irreparably. USSA has started to turn INSIDE after two centuries of killing people OUTSIDE and stealing from OUTSIDE.
The sheeple of the USSA, also known as the "middle class", are only beginning to find out that UKRAINE is the model their ruler-oligarchs have chosen to implement for them.
Through its complacency, the middle class of the USSA contributed to the decimation or complete destruction of many nations middle classes. See Iraq. The illusion of being spared their destiny was nice while it lasted.
Thanks for the music, not so much for the lecture..
stay with your strengths..
Excellent summary John.
Indeed...
Awesome that someone literally of the 0.1% totally understands life in "the Districts" (Hunger Games reference)
This means that others at the top intellectually understand as well. and yet CHOOSE to
be silent,
be complicit
speak otherwise and contrary to this truth.
and
Reap the harvest they and have sown.
Fucking A, My man gets it.
Fucking A, My man gets it.
BC6: "John gets it. Beware of nail guns John."
Any MSM shows quoting or interviewing John Angelos?
This looks like a nice opportunity to direct the Talking Points of the talking heads in this direction. And keep them focused on the points that John brings up. If they dare to do so, rather than to maintain their prevailing course of "managing their careers".
If anyone here has never seen that fucking miraculous series "The Wire" or that fucking miraculous documentary "American Casino" I heartily suggest that you do so.
Something tells me there is a "long, hot summer" in store all over the USA, in all its utterly devastated inner cities; the long neglected urban wastelands of America which are being exploited one last time during this, the longest credit rip-off in history.
See "American Casino".
Does not take a psychic to see a solid chance for some form Arkancide.
Dissent is verboten
Tyranny Abounds
Democrat or Republican, Libertarian, anarchist, socialist or disaffected non-voter . . . what the this country really needs is a few hundred of the .01%'s like Mr. Angelos to gather together and start a prinicipled "American Party" before this next election cycle. If that doesn't happen soon we are all doomed.
You already have such a grass roots party. It is called the Tea Party.
Yeah, that started getting hijacked within the first month and was fully taken over a few months later. It was only a grass roots party for a short time.
Tea Party? You did mean More of the same? Right? LMFAO
@skepsis101 +1000 upvotes. You understand what's going on and what's needed to stem the tide of madness inside the USA. Good on you brother/sister.
American political elite my ass.
Name names!
Looks like more and more people are waking up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4wcC2szApI
I guess he is off the elite's christmas card list.
No fruit cake for you JOhn.
We just need a Zero to claim this is all the work of the 'evil' Jews.
Well, DAMN!
At least we know there's one honest white devil in Bmore!
In Seattle, where the vast majority of IT workers waiting for Sound Transit appear to come from either India or nearby Pakistan (as in H1-Bs), those jobs which haven't yet been offshored, are filled with foreign visa workers!
And then those nasties, the Chinese EB-5s, are most bothersome when they scream at the locals for directions (we tend to ignore them).
Yup, welcome to the Banana Republic of Amerika, where the last president for 8 years, one George Weasel Bush, never attended officers training school, yet was accorded officer rank in the Air National Guard (ANG), and never attended flight school, yet was carried on their roster as a pilot?
Hey John, heads up. IRS audit coming your way.
And there is your aspiring dark horse candidate...
Baltimore Riots Compilation.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPIIY2P7njI
I read this earlier. He better avoid doing any home improvement projects involving the use of a nail gun.
Damn. This guy's dead.
Cue the Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths at the CIA in 3... 2...1...
Hoo-rah!
Wait, you did say that was Ron Paul, right?
There is no rule of law at the top of our current societal structure so why would anybody expect there to be any at the bottom?
Zactly.
I wonder how much in tax-payer subsidies this baseball team recieves?
The guillotine grows hungrier by the second...
Baseball teams are [or at least used to be] one of the biggest tax shelters for the elite. Set up that way long ago during war time to keep the peeples distracted from the blood and guts and miseries of war.
There's a number of good books on the economics of baseball team ownership.
Lines being drawn at the top and the bottom. It is easy enought to see where the sheep and those in the know come out. Interesting to watch those at the top who will speak to the plight of the common man and perhaps expect mercy later.
Mobs have a very distinct mentality.
Yes, no man will be an island when the levy breaks, history is very clear on this.
The laws of Nature and physics will rule the day and they know no mercy.
same as it ever was.
Not sure about baseball, but do know that football leagues are non-profits, frequently can be holding companies for for-profit subsidiaries --- similar for the oldest non-profit in America, the ABS or American Bureua of Shipping, which acts as a holding company for many for-profit subsidiaries, and moves its non-profit money on a monthly basis to its offshore hedge fund, which just happens to be owned by Morgan Stanley.
@ Law,
The moral fabric which holds a Civilized Society together is frail & thin. What we're Wittnessing is the fall of an Empire. Absolutely, no different than fallen Empires of the past.
The fish rots from the head down.
Fucking A, dood!
Let those remote controlled airplanes and helicopters loaded with Semtex or PE4 fly into those corporate meetings at Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BofA, Citi and Wells Fargo.
The time is NOW!
Said the rich baseball executive on daddy's team who outsources American baseball jobs to the Dominican Republic.
Shhhhhh, you're not supposed to notice that part. He's busy being a man of the people.
Well technically that would be insourcing but in sports you actually do see competition. That's why most NBA teams are black (fast twitch muscle fiber ratios and all that), NFL lineman are huge, and ballplayers are like a Benetton ad.
I'd work for cheaper than most, if not all, Dominican ballplayers.
That won't fill the seats though.
pods
True, good points.
Wish it were true though, cause playing ball with my kids brings back memories.
:)
pods
Pro athlete is the only job where you are hired solely on your merits.
...and at Goldman Sachs, of course.
I suppose psychopathy could be considered a merit in the wrong circles.
Pro athletes chosen on MERIT?!
LOL. More like they are chosen FIRST based on how willing they are to sell themselves out, and once that is done and 'out of the way', then yes, merit finally comes into play.
For just one example out of so many:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/birthers-truthers-and-runni...
So yeah, as far as this richy-rich Pro-sports VP is concerned, I hear him saying the relatively easy stuff ('economic mistakes were made'), but NOT the real stuff ('the elites are child molesting satanists, therefore they keep trying to fuck everyone over, as brutally and viciously as possible').
Fuck pro sports and fuck this piece of shit VP who is trying to make us believe that NOT ALL fucking sellout elites are fucking sellout elites.
You do understand that there is a difference between those who play on the team and those who own the team correct?
pods
You are such a fucking pod.
Did you even bother to follow that link? It shows how, indeed, there are, VERY RARELY, some honest athletes who manage to make it based on skill, but if they EVER dare to speak out against 9/11 or other gross injustices, then they get slammed HARD by the league, the sponsors, the team owners, AND EVEN THEIR CO-PLAYERS.
So 99.999% of the players are fucking sellouts who would never dare risk their millions and BS fame for truth or good, which indeed is different from the OWNERS of the team, who are, seemingly, 100% sellouts, like this piece-of-shit VP trying to look good when the property is at risk.
WOW. What a HUGE difference!
So professional atheletes must have a position on 911 in order to do THEIR job? And that is the most important aspect?
In my last interview, I don't recall ever having that brought up. Maybe that is just pro atheletes?
I think 911 was a crock of shit, can I play in the majors?
Now, if you represent your employer in a way that negatively impacts THEIR income, then why the hell wouldn't you be made to act in a way that best represents the team, league, et all?
It's called a contract. If you don't like the terms, well you don't have to sign.
I don't need to follow your link to see it is a non sequitur. You present the case pretty well.
Now, if you can please answer me this, did these players get THEIR job due to their ability in playing the game in question or due to their stance on 911 or any other hot button topic?
Your words not mine.
pods
Nice job rationalizing how the fuckers are indeed paid to distract us, so TPTB can fuck us over even better.
Why should anyone do anything but try to PROFIT from other people's MISERY?
Wow, you FUCKING POD, you MOTHERFUCKER, is that all there is to life for you? Taking advantage of people and FUCKING THEM OVER, for a few measly dollars no less, when in fact there are better jobs out there that do not require you to sign a fucking contract requiring you to shut the fuck up about 9/11 and systemic child rape.
So yeah, these fucking millionaire jocks have sold out and I don't respect that AT ALL.
But fucking sellouts sure can throw a mean ball, huh? You fucking pod.
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Oh, and P.S.: you even agree that their MERIT lies in how they have agreed to sell out for money. That is their 'merit', but only if you consider selling out to be a GOOD THING. Most people would consider that a DEMERIT.
Not everyone wants to be a fucking sellout like you, you fucking pod.
How are sports in general trying to profit from other's misery?
Do they not provide a service? I don't watch much myself, but do you always have to be "on" or can you merely hate the world most of the time and enjoy a good ball game with family and friends every now and again?
And now do athletes need to be cognizant of who is accused of child rape now too?
There are alot of things wrong with the business of sports, mainly in how things are financed. I would say that is more a currency problem than a sports problem. Every industry is looking for kickbacks because profits are expected.
If you were to rant like this in your breakroom, would it be your employer's fault for them firing you?
You get paid in fiat currency, does that make you a sell out? Fiat is used all over the world for awful things. Are you a sellout because you agree to exchange your labor for them?
Exactly again, how are athletes fucking people over? I get you're upset by the amount of profanity, but please, at least try to find an argument while you regurgitate all that is wrong with the world.
You said that athletes are hired first and foremost for being sellouts. I took issue with that because athletes are first and foremost hired because they are exceptional at the sport that they play. It is pure competetion, something that we have lost today in most everything else.
Makes me chuckle to think how angry you are getting for being called out. :D
Why not just say you made a mistake and move on? It is pretty easy, and helps everyone when we go too far and are called out on it.
Or you can double down again.
pods
You are such a troll. Stop repeating yourself.
We see how much you love sellouts, and how much you admire them, no doubt 'cos you are such a fucking faggot, a wannabe elite fudgepacker.
We need more sellouts to distract people, and we need more douchebags like you to come out in the comments in favor of them!
LOL. As if I would ever get really angry at a fucking troll. You are a proven douchebag so your only option left is to try to get a rise out of me, when in fact you are only hurting your fucking sellout cause with your idiocy!
If I were your DHS boss, I would not be paying you to post here.
Ahhh, the old DHS paid troll argument.
Good one boss.
I took issue with YOUR assertion that athletes are hired because of their selling out ability.
Nothing more.
Do you still stand behind your assertion that athletes are hired at the highest level for their selling out abilities?
Because I have never heard of a scout talking about those attributes when describing prospects.
pods
You are so dumb. You earlier agreed that they are given no choice but to sell out, contractually, but then later say that you have never heard of how this is an explicit requirement that the scouts lay out, OPENLY, before everyone, 'cos, you know, it's not like they need to try to hide any of that, right?
Go back to fantasizing about jock cock, you sellout faggot.
Trolls always have to have the last word though, so go ahead and show us again again how stupid you are in your next comment, please. More distractions for the masses, right?
A couple of their games have been cancelled thus far and that means lost revenue for daddy's son no?
But that cost is orders of magnitude below the costs that would arise if a mob were to descend onto Camden Yards at game's end.
pods
There's always one spoilsport in the crowd!
I thought I was going to read a load of horse shit but the guy really surprised. Here is a guy that relies on tax subsidies to keep him in the pink, along with the 50 other 1% on the team and he shits all over the 1%
Outta The Park! HOOOooo..OME RRRrrrrrrr..RUN!!!!
Baltimore Orioles: AMERICA's Team
Putin/John Angelos 2016.
Fuck the Zionists ticket.
I have Putin for President 2016 T-shirts, but it won't happen -he has yet to pay a visit to get approval from Sheldon Adelson, nor has he kissed Netanyahu's ass and put on his Yalmukah at the wailing Wall. Until that happens, neither Putin or Angelos can be taken seriously.
You bring up interesting points, SID, which makes me wonder:
In Hillary Clinton's first presidential run, she went to Richard Mellon Scaife to receive his benediction and approval first.
Since that bastard has croaked for good, will the Clintons dig up his body to receive the same, or journey to another plutocrat for their blessing?
Well said young man. But, you have NO future in politics - politics is the art of lying not of telling the truth.
How did he fit all that into one Twitter message?
There's no 140 character limit if you're wealthy.
The riots are nothing but a government op, led by assets disguised as leaders/activists (wink, wink Deray McKesson).
If people actually wanted change, they'd unite across racial barriers against the police state. This only entrenches people and divides them along racial lines.
I agree. I just heard somebody I believe from Baltimore PD on the radio saying he still doesn't know what happened to the guy that got killed.
He said there will be an investigation but it's not done yet. It should not take more than 2 weeks to figure this out.
Bull shit. He is an ignorant Libtard, pandering to the mob.
I know the Baltimore/Washington corridor well, having worked on both ends of it. There is no area in the world where more overpaid, gubbermint jobs are available.
This is the failure of the welfare state to raise decent young men and women. Nothing more.
And it's a coincidence that the Welfare state really started kicking in Just after all the manufacturing jobs were shipped East too right?
No jobs (even for College grads), means you spend a lot of time on the corner with nothing to do except...
You think people living in the welfare state worked manufacturing jobs?
In Youngstown Ohio the people that lost their jobs were white. They moved on and the ghetto expanded into where they used to live because the welfare population tripled in 20 years. There simple wasn't enough space to contain the population boom.
The expansion of the welfare state was done on purpose to further erode the communities where manufacturing still thrived. Block busting started in the 1970s to force white people out of the neighborhoods they lived in so the local economies could be destroyed taking away the support structure of the manufacturing operations.
awesome, however, the rioters seem to want moar free shit rather than a factory job. free televisions would probably stop the riot faster than anything.