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Meanwhile, In Baltimore
The Baltimore riots may have calmed down but their aftermath remains, and nowhere is it more tangible than what is taking place in Orioles Park right now.
The view from center field at Oriole Park. pic.twitter.com/mW5Bt0vC2R
— MLB (@MLB) April 29, 2015
Orioles match has started with no public pic.twitter.com/cTuk6qxwpt
— Andrés Benedicto (@_abenedicto) April 29, 2015
Major League Baseball had already canceled the first two games of the Orioles' series with the Chicago White Sox. And the Orioles' weekend series with the Tampa Bay Rays was moved to Florida.
Wednesday's game was scheduled to be played under the lights, but the league moved it to the afternoon and closed it to the public. Major League Baseball's official historian, John Thorn, said it had never happened before.
As NBC recounts, the Baltimore Orioles played a ballgame on Wednesday with nobody in the stands. The low murmur of a weekday afternoon crowd was replaced with eerie silence.
"Baseball history will be made here today," Orioles play-by-play broadcaster Gary Thorne said to the TV camera at the start of the game. But it wasn't the kind of history anybody wanted to make: it was so quiet at first pitch that you could hear the click of camera shutters.
And the fans were on the wrong side of the gates.
At a pregame press conference, Orioles outfielder Adam Jones tried to help a healing city.
"My prayers have been out for all the fans, all the kids out there," he said. "They're hurting. And I think the big message is to stay strong, Baltimore. Stay safe. Continue to be the city, the great city, that I've grown to love over the last eight years."
Rob Manfred, the commissioner of baseball, said that the decision was made "in the best interests of fan safety and the deployment of city resources."
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As a reminder, this is what John, son of the majority owner Peter Angelos, said a few days ago about the riots:
“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.”
And here's a bit of levity as Orioles players sign fake autographs and wave to fake fans...
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The circuses must go on.
Fuck Me...they are channel stuffing ballpark seats now!!!
Thats how they get GDP up!
RIPS
> "..it was so quiet at first pitch that you could hear the click of camera shutters."
Actually the stadium was packed because digital cameras don't make a sound. ..., and those photos were photoshopped. All is well in Baltimore and the S&P.
Philosophical question:
If the White Sox played a game and there was nobody there to see it; would they still suck?...
That's not Levity, waving at Fictional Fans.
That's PURE FUCKING PROPAGANDA
Am I the only one who sees this for what it is?
Baseball b a euro-centric game. No fires, looting, or violence for being denied entry.
Imagine the violence and destruction if they stopped fans from entering a basketball game.
Baseball...the most boring game ever invented.
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Ever listen to a baseball game on the radio? Holy fuck is it exciting.
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Pay some cunt $5million a year to hit a spherical object with a tree branch. What a Joke.
What a joyless endeavor.
I'm sure the autograph guy will get fucking roasted too.
Should everyone stop working to reflect on the riots?
Cause I know I could use a break. Fucking A, I have to get up every morning to go to work; I can't even stay up to WATCH them riot.
pods
I respect JOHN.
this empty game is a great symbol of how society looks when we are not putting up with black criminality. we withdraw the things in society blacks think just happen and that they can destroy. what they don't get is "Ayn Randian", the producers don't need the nonproductive, the nonproductive definitely need the productive, the world has receded from black nonsense because we don't need it, and we can.
The government is broke & the games have only just begun people....
http://time.com/3839892/hillary-clinton-calls-for-an-end-to-mass-incarce...
HE LAIG DOAN BE WERKIN HE LAIG HE LAIG
Double
Hitting a baseball, according to many, is considered to be the most difficult task in all of sport. Just sayin'
That, and throwing a baseball is considered the most physically taxing. A pitcher's throwing arm and shoulder are freaks of nature.
The game itself is a challenge of attention (slow pace) and mental rigor (9 innings) and stamina (imaging being physically alert for 3 hours, 300+ days per year).
The strategies that are consistently successful are studies in scarcity - sacrificing, pitch selection,etc - within a large but fixed number of situational permutations.
What a shame that TBTF has pissed all over a fantastic game and made it a marketing ploy by pumping players up on roids and making amusement parks of ball fields. I'd rather watch little league, oh wait, parents are starting to piss on that too.
Little League is still fun to watch. My kid pitched for the first time last night. You could see it in his face he had that deer in the headlights look. Good for teaching him life lessons though. Baptism by fire.
pods
Just like with porn, amateur sport is best.
In professional sports the whole thing is fake. Deflated footballs, dives, corrupt referees, corrupt players, etc.
Professional sport is WWF wrestling in terms of fakery.
Go amateur. Don't kid yourself into thinking that the porn (sports) star isn't faking it.
Thanks, until this comment I did kid myself about porn stars, about finding orgasmic rapture in getting butt slammed for 20 minutes straight. Now I see the light, thanks.
Blotto - you've never seen a soccer game then, eh?
Baseball, sucks to watch, fun to play.
What's the score?
sorry but you can clearly see there are no fans there. That player has a sense of humour obviously. Most of these guys have working class roots even if they are on 10 million a year. A lot of them know that there is genuine anger on the streets,
If the White Sox played a game and there was nobody there to see it; would they still suck?...
That is known as a rhetorical question, my friend. ;)
That's absolutely a valid philosophical question my friend :(
And one answer is - no, the Cleveland Indians would still suck.
This correction would be lame even if it were correct, it can be both guy.
Pool Shark...u meant the OTHER Chicago team, the Cubs I'm sure. Those fucktards have sucked longer than most have been alive.
Ahhhh... So peaceful. None of those annoying drunks yelling at us while we try to play. Maybe all games should be like this.
Yep, just like stock markets: not a human in sight...
Let us assume that there are currently 330 million humans living in the CONUS. Let us assume that at most there were 3,300 hoodlums "rioting" in a slum in Baltimore over the past few days.
!!!NEWS FLASH!!!
99.999% of Americans DID NOT RIOT over the past few days.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming ...
99.999% bitches, including the many keyboardinsurrectionists from the hedge who proclaim the need for revolution daily, but only if it's white and if we respect the property rights of the 0.01% who own everything. Let's have a nice mannerly revolution where we politely ask TPTB for an equal share of resources, and if it's not too much to ask can we not be murdered for kicks by a portly sociopath?
This property destruction is not exactly civil now gents is it?
Fuck this bowlan black cherry is good! Picked it up at Arby's yesterday.
I am as excited about it as I was when I discovered Buddhas brew tart cherry kombucha!
If anyone wants to know what I'm drinking besides the cool aid......
Seems how the Orioles are up 8-2 in the 5th they may want to keep doing this for other reasons...
is the other team actually there, or are the O's just playing with themselves?
the mirror on a digital SLR sure makes a sound.
So all those season ticket holders are refunded, right?
Yeah, don't want to piss off those 63 loyalists.
Miami Marlins play in an empty stadium all the time, Astros too
Reminds me of the sign I once saw on the wall of a small store:
"THIS IS A NON-PROFIT BUSINESS."
"We didn't intend it that way,
that's just how it worked out."
yes, but 55,000 algos are buying and selling tickets right now!
F TV, F Hollywood and F ball teams, their thug players and billioanire corporate welfare owners and the retards who watch it on TV. F em all along with wal mart.
Hope& Change or Fundamental Transformation
you decide!
And where's my free bread to go with the circus?!
I freelance over th? internet and earn about 80-85$ an hour. I was without a job for 7 months but last month my paycheck with big fat bonus was $15000 just working on my computer from my home for 5-6 hours. Here's what i have been doing... www.globe-report.com
From a reporter live tweeting the game:
It's like the stock market!
What a great euphaism for the fail that is Neo Liberal Policy
Those taxpayers deserve a serious refund.
tick tock motherfuckers...
Refund? Don't you mean tax increase?
Yea one has to pay for that room to destroy economics somehow!
Beer and hot dog sales are sure to take a hit.
In Kansas City, it's the hot dogs that are rioting.
A whistleblower got fired for spilling the moldy beans about it.
Fascist sports may be part of America, but that's only the sport part. The fascism isn't part. Unless you consider the original founding fathers used the state monopoly on violence to allow humans to be owned.
And we still do under the thirteenth amendment.
The Fed wil step in and buy them all. Recovery!!!!
Beers will be $1 million a cup at next home game to make up the losses.
this will be the future of all pro sports eventually
I thought I was looking at a Manchester City home game when I first saw the picture.
/english joke
ROFL. I love the golden calves being slaughtered. Hardest Hit: Lard-ass fanboi Fantasy B-ball Leaguers.
Only f**king reatrds do fantasy leagues. I have more respect for the rioter and looters.
fantasy stocks are not really that much different when you think about it
I'm personally offended at that comment!
I prefer to live my life vicariously through arrogant, pampered, over-paid millionaires pretending to be athletes.
I take pride in screaming "WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!" from the comfort of my Laz-E-Boy recliner while stuffing my face with Cheetoes.
Now, excuse me while I go post some photos of my cats on FaceBook...
But can you do that from your WATCH?
First Bill Binney – the high-level NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, the 32-year NSA veteran widely who was the senior technical director within the agency and managed thousands of NSA employees – told us that America has already become a police state.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-29/nsa-whistleblower-%E2%80%9Cwe-a...
This is simply another milepost in transforming American cities into welfare-state bantustans.
Where the client population gets EBT cards, birth control, and are prevented from leaving by hungry immigrants from Hondorus.
America's moto - perpetul welfare at home, perpetual warfare abroad.
To the resident's of Baltimore,here's where all the tax money has gone to help others across the Pacific Ocean and at the same time finance the government of the United States.Yes,it's pitiful,Communist China is funding the deficit for American politicians in Washington.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=china%27s+empty+cities&espv=2&biw=1224&bi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XfpYxHKCo
parental lock all 60" LED HDTV's and shut off all Cellphone towers
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so we can all get better paying jobs and stop setting dozens of cars on fire like it used to be
7-0 Orioles. Maybe we should do this more often.
Well, I guess the fans didn't miss much: after Baltimore scored 6 runs in the bottom of the 1st, they would have all left anyway...
So the Visiting Team was a NoShow?
"You stay classy, Baltimore..."
~ Anchorman
At least the Running Man had a studio audience...
but not the Hunger Games.
Who cares about a few baseball games? Law enforcement is a very difficult position, but barring aggressive and violent response from a suspect, officers have to get something together and stop using excessive force.
Worst game since Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Worst game since Lehman.
Fixed it for you.
I would of thought that baseball scouts were out during the riots looking for substitute pitchers, after all the news reported that they were throwing "boulders".
Can you imagine the sellout if they pitted the cops against the rioters in a bench-clearing brawl?
[With Vin Scully doing the play-by-play...]
Do it for the chillrens.
Hope they didn't have too much "food" pre-made.
Actually, now that I think about it I hope it all rots.
"and all great opposition leaders throughout history have always preached this precept."
Not really. A lot of great oppositional leaders killed their oppressors.
I wonder if they sing the national anthem or God bless America during the seventh inning stretch?
They did sing the Anthem
Dripping insanely with irony of course - Land of the Free? Home of the Brave? My ass
Very interestng when looked at in the context of this quote from the late, great Marshall McLuhan:
"Cricket is a very organized form of violence … Baseball or football, any kind of sport is a dramatization of the typical and accepted forms of violence in the business community … All these games are huge ways of discovering and dramatizing what the society you’re in is all about. By the way, without an audience, these games would have no meaning at all."
Just goes to prove that the game is just for the business not the fans. Worse thing they could have ever done play to an empty stadium. Pointy haired bosses in charge.
I wonder if the corporate suites were open.
Federal Reserve is buying up all ballpark tickets.
@Knuckles...I too am flabbergasted...An industry that lives and breathes thanks to its fans, decides to play a game, however, the PUBLIC isn't "invited" ?!?
I totally get it...and it's an ugly picture.
The game must go on...in order to satisfy stake holders and conglomerate owned sports news networks ! I'm sure the corporate sky boxes were full.
The Orioles are playing the first zero fan game ever right now (9 Photos)
So how did they get there to play it?
Sneak through the sewers? Armored Convoy? Or Jet gliders, just like Lenigrad? Where can they take back off from? Central park... too many trees...
Why don't they just use CGI to simulate fans in the stands?
They have been for the last 5 years, the looters stole the cgi equipment
Once again, the people in charge have placed fear in front of hope, false security in front of liberty and courage.
https://youtu.be/0-AmXt8u9LE
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/threadjacking
Dude.
all sorts of bad precedents.
How long before all of us have to shelter in place at home and satisfy ourselves with some soccer game coverage in overly enthusiastic Spanish as the lights from the fires draw closer...
You're such a fucking douche.
I can't wait. I've got my eye on a neighbor. Well, the entire block then I’ll expand out.
Fantasy sports kind of fits right in with their fantasy economy,,, doesn't it?
NBL's future :D
I am glad no tax dollars were used to construct that stadium or the utility's connected. sarc Should just fill the stadium like the Romans did the coliseum and loose the lions. That would sell a lot of tickets. Comparatively, baseball is pretty boring.
Who said this?
"I never realised how boring this game is (until I went to a game sober)."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwGybS6TWEM
O's are up 8-2. I hope they never let another fan inside again Go O's
America's worst mayor did not attend.
She was busy working on plans for her new initiative--We Love Thugs Day.
Welcome to Baltimore, another city destroyed in the failed state known as the U.S.
It's the Gimmedats, and in this case the negro gimmedats that are the problem.
Obama is doing for America what the Gimmedats have done for balmer merlin.
Imagine if a white republican said he gave the Klan room to destroy things....
To bad we can't do that with wars (no one there).
IS MLB subsidized?
I know one way in which it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_monopoly
http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2008/12/3/678134/the-history-of-baseball-s
A totally empty baseball park in season; Wow, America is in a terminal free fall.
Baseball is too racist for me. There is a complete over representation of minorities in that workforce, which is proof of organized racism and discrimination.....at least according to the Diversity Manual they gave me at work.
Get ready!
3 shot during Ferguson protest; 5 arrested for lootingThat last video clip should be the symbol of the entire American economy.
It sort of bings new meaning to the phrase, "End Game".
The terrorists have won.
Historic. Kinda reminds me of the shortened strike plagued season of '94.
I swore off Baseball back then. It took PacBell Park and the Giants '10, '12 and'14 to lure me back in.
But this is the kind of thing that makes me want to swear it off again.
Baseball IS AMERICA.
THIS IS AMERICA WHEN NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO SHOW UP.
EA
Raise em like animals, then you get animals.
Some nice sneakers out there though.
This should save a lot of lives.
No one will die of boredom.
And still the wait for a Bitburger was balls-deep in German tourists.
You know what I'm sayin', Orioles. Best draft beer in the majors.
I'm really suprised there aren't more cities burning in America...
I don't typically espouse political topics as I'm an avid political agnostic...but in writing the article at the below link, the evidence of the current administration working against the parties supporters and working for the supporters of the "other party" is really compelling. I certainly don't advocate voting for either party but it's clear the current party in power is not interested in serving it's supposed base.
http://econimica.blogspot.com/2015/04/fed-makes-renters-pay-americas-billsand.html
This day is as much a turning point at 9/11, JFK assasination, leaving gold standard, bank bailout day etc. - none of it good all of it sad and rotten