George Will, the Washington Post’s moderately somnolent Guy Who Watches Baseball And Reads Thesauruses, has decided that the story of Frank Robinson is the perfect one to explain the presidential election.
Obama’s administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically. This may not, however, entirely be evidence of the irrationality of the electorate. Something more benign may be at work.
A significant date in the nation’s civil rights progress involved an African American baseball player named Robinson, but not Jackie. The date was Oct. 3, 1974, when Frank Robinson, one the greatest players in history, was hired by the Cleveland Indians as the major leagues’ first black manager. But an even more important milestone of progress occurred June 19, 1977, when the Indians fired him. That was colorblind equality.
Managers get fired all the time. The fact that the Indians felt free to fire Robinson — who went on to have a distinguished career managing four other teams — showed that another racial barrier had fallen: Henceforth, African Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives.
Finally, in 1977, black people gained the ability to be scapegoats! This was a status long aspired to by African Americans, who had desired shitty treatment in jobs their bosses didn’t really think they were qualified for, but were never able to attain it. “Mabel,” a hypothetical black person would say to their hypothetical black friend Mabel, “I been prayin’ to the Lord day in and day out for so many days that he would PLEASE LORD give me the opportunity to manage a terrible Major League franchise and then get fired because I was the easiest person to blame. Oh, well. Back to this sharecroppin’! My back sure does hurt somethin’ fierce!”
Thankfully, though, Barack Obama is receiving gentler treatment than Mr. Robinson:
Perhaps a pleasant paradox defines this political season: That Obama is African American may be important, but in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC’s excitable boys and girls who, with their (at most) one-track minds and exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors, sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up. Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president. If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head.
Remember, kids: it’s not racist to scapegoat a black person for your own failures. It is, however, racist (but benignly so!) to keep a Democratic president in office when Republicans think he’s the Worst Black Muslim Socialist Ever.
America, our mission is clear: we must aspire to be the mid-1970s Cleveland Indians, a franchise so bad that it eventually inspired the film Major League. FIRE ALL THE NEGROES.
{ 287 comments }
Yeah. them black people get all the breaks. And the women's too.
Sheesh.
Absolutely. Every annual report I get, the Board of Directors picture looks like a team photo from the WNBA. A rich white man can't catch a break today.
Which, fortunately, also covers that other overprivileged group, LGBTs, who clearly have it so fucking easy, y'all!
Well, come on already. UConn women's basketball team did have Sue Bird. I mean, really.
Reminds me of an old joke: how many black players are actually on the court for Alabamas basketball team?
Answer: one when they're playing at home, three when they're playing away, five when they're behind.
Why, Frank Robinson was even allowed to drink from the same water fountain as his white and Latino players!
Black people get all the womens? Wanda Sykes couldn't hear you, as your woman's thighs were covering her ears.
What? Have you not seen that seminal documentary on interracial dating, "Animal House"???
Do you mind if we dance witcho' dates?
That is impressive casuistry right there even by George Fwill standards.
The real racists are the ones who vote for the black guy, y'all!
I knew I was a racist when I worked for his election and voted for him. I thought I was doing it because he was the best candidate as he still is but I realize from George Will that totally I am a racist and voting for President Obama because he is black. If I wasn't a racist, I would not vote for hm- not because Romney/Paul are anything but lying sacks of shit but because a real non-racist would vote against President Obama to prove that I can be non-racist. I think that says it all
Nov 6th, we will ALL be racists, then…
Yes, George Will, you amazing genius you, that is why I'm voting for Barack Obama rather than Mitt Romney this year. I'm glad somebody finally figured it out, because I was beginning to wonder, why the hell am I not voting for Mitt Romney? What possible reason could I have to not vote for Mitt Romney. It's just irrational to vote for Obama instead. I'm glad George Will figured out what's wrong with me, because I sure like it when rich, privileged, elitist snobs explain to me what my problem is.
That would make the 99.9% of the black voters in the US racist. Go figure.
Well, duh! Whoever smelt it, dealt it!
If it wasn't for those damn liberal sports-team owners, George Will would've gotten to be a professional ball-player. And if it wasn't for those damn black dudes, his penis would seem bigger.
Cleveland Indians…Is this an Elizabeth Warren thread?
There is an interconnectedness here that transcends threads. Elizabeth Warren did fire Frank Robinson for impersonating an Indian, and that is why Scott Brown's Chief of Staff, Wahoo, is on the warpath.
George Will=Clueless Joe Jackson.
Barb strikes again.
Loving the new avatar, Bobbert.
Unfortunately, I can't revert my actual body to 1974.
We can close the comments on this one now.
Thanks One!
How do you do it.
Pop Rocks and Mountain Dew, Philippe.
Elvis Costello libel!
You leave Michael Jackson's father out of this, ya' hear?
So if we just fire the nigger, that will prove we finally have gotten over racism. George Will should just fucking go blow a goat, really, he should. At least then he'd be doing something useful in this world, even if its just to make one fucking goat happy.
Pretty sure he couldn't make even a goat happy
we are over racism and we have stopped him from taking our guns. Sheesh. Where have you been?
prommie, I would upfist you all the day long for this comment.
"George Will should just fucking go blow a goat, really, he should. At least then he'd be doing something useful in this world, even if its just to make one fucking goat happy."
Or, at the very least, we wouldn't be able to understand all the stupid shit he was saying around the dick in his mouth.
In baseball, a game without a clock…Small, incremental gains matter because the game goes on until someone makes the 27th out. Until then, there is hope.
What, the baseball whiz is unaware of the phenomenon of extra-inning games, which have more than 27 outs? FFS, I hate baseball and I know that much…
Twenty four outs if you're ahead going into the bottom of the ninth or in the George Will version, watching the game with a bottom and a fifth.
The game ends on the 27th out of the visiting team.
Game ends on the 27th out of the trailing team.
I was using his scenario. :-P
Right, I wasn’t thinking that way.
Hoist by his own desire to make a clever.phrase.
On his own retard?
You can't fire Obama because once you go Barack, you never go back
Of course black people get all the breaks, they even had their own drinking fountains.
But were they happy? No.
and bathrooms- and the balcony seats in movie theaters
But not bathrooms in movie theaters. The well-heeled could bring their own pissing jars hidden in their top hats.
And they had reserved seats on the bus.
And until Lincoln rooned it for them, the ultimate in job security.
That's when Lincoln fired all the crop pickers?
They are childlike and irresponsible and really, it was the best thing for them, their masters valued them and took good care of them; why it really worked out very well for them, as Barbara the fucking Elder Bush said.
And all whites get is a disproportionate representation in Congress… so fucked up.
George Will is a fucking Cubs fans, so he should be used to being on the losing side.
BACONZ BASEBALL TEAM LIBEL!!!!!!
Does Mitt Romney think that everything would be easier for him if he were black?
Or Latino?
Well, didn't Willard say he'd have a better chance of winning if his parents were Mexican?
As opposed, evidently, to his grandparents.
Let's see how brown he is tomorrow!
First, he would have to be human.
Paint libel!
Will seems quite bothered by MSNBC. I think he wants a booking on Al Sharpton's show.
That would be Must See TeeVee.
Henceforth, African Americans, too, could enjoy the God-given right to be scapegoats for impatient team owners or incompetent team executives.
The reason Obama will be reelected is that Mormons can finally enjoy the Space Jesus-given right to be incompetent team executives. It's called progress.
Fucking racists. How can there always be so many of them? Isn't there a meteor or something with just their name on it?
There would be, if God existed. Sadly, space rocks didn't give a flying fuck about George Will being a disgrace to the human race.
"Kolob"
And so much for the wingnut meme that *we* are the ones who constantly bring race into everything…
"the nation…seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president."
Rush Limbaugh said the same thing about Donovan McNabb when he worked for ESPN for a minute or two a while back.
That was back before racism was "in" again.
Poor Will. I'm guessing he thinks Barak has something he doesn't.
Joe Biden apparently does.
The respect of whites and blacks?
Real hair on his head?
Yeah, "thinks".
Will is set to star in the remake of "Damn Yankees".
Well, he'll get along fine with Nugent, but Jack is a pretty decent fellow and might not be having any of his shit.
I shudder to think who will play Lola.
Hey!
Don't give him to us!
Rudy is punishment enough!
So the Cleveland Indians did this tomahawk chop on Frank Robinson Where was Scott Brown stop them, or has this been going on for thirty-five years with Brown?
Will's bow tie must be on too tight and, thus, is cutting off blood to his
brainhead.My father referred to that gloating smugness of someone who thinks they got one over on people by saying "he think's he's fucking cute." These fucking conservative pundits give off that obnoxious fucking air whenever they come up with some fucking sophistry like this. They are proud, it fucking pours out of them, their fucking pride in coming up with a subtle lie, a false syllogism that they think will fool the stupid. Motherfucking Cocksuckers, thats what my Dad would call them, those fucksticks who think they're cute, who think their shit doesn't stink.
I was thinking the same thing.
"…that they think will fool the stupid."
If it didn't work every freakin' time he/they might move on to another tactic. But if it ain't broke….
Promzarelli Sr. was a ballet instructor?
I would take dance lessons from him!
A welder. Union. Fucking Esso.
And also, Mr. Kincaid, I just wanted to say, aaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy!
By the time they added that "Fakakta Promzarelli" character for the Very Special Wedding, the show had jumped the snark!
Holy hell, that name kicks the shit out of Pinky Tuscadero, my erstwhile hero of note. I'm getting a satin jacket made NOW. Happy Happy Days in deed.
This'll last way longer than Joanie Loves Chachi.
1237 E. Passyunk Ave. just in case you forgot the address.
You sound a little testy today.
huh?
Oh OK I got it, over by Ikea, I will be passing by there in a few days on the way from the airport, Makes sense, how can you visit Philly and not get a cheesesteak from the angry obnoxious racist english-only fuckheads? Oh, I know how, just fucking don't.
Sounds like the place has changed a little, not too surprising as I haven’t been there since 1982/3 when I took some Brits I was meeting with in Paulsboro. No, cheddah?
Five million cheesesteak places in the city and all the visitors want to go to 9th & Passyunk. Sheesh
The word I always think of is "backpfeifengesicht." It loosely translates to "A face badly in need of a fist" or some such. There is a particular – type of – smirk that really brings it out for me.
God I love that!
After reading that all I can say is – "Prom, I am you father."
The worst I ever heard from Rev. Kincaid was "pull in that lip, or you're gonna get your tukhus warmed!!" (I think he picked that word up while working for a Jewish grocer, before he became a preacher.)
Worst I ever heard was "That motherfucking cocksucker, fuck him that stupid fuck. Fucking fuckstick should go shit in his hat, the fucking asshole." From my father I inherited this gift for mental-patient string-cursing.
"Shit in your hat" was such a frequent curse in the early 20th century that the phrase "in your hat" was specifically forbidden by the Hayes Code for movies.
Prommie, you're speaking my language (literally and figuratively). And your Dad sounds like he is/was several slices of awesome.
I heart your Dad.
Shambles, eh? Weird, because I thought that the administration was doing OK. I mean, the bar is set pretty low, given the previous administration, but still.
He meant "shackles," I'm sure
agyf:
You are correct!
Anyone who bothers to look up the definition of "shambles" will think of the streets in Iraq running with blood. The crimson covered hills of Afghanistan. The bodies of innocent women and children strewn across the Middle East. The…well, you probably get the point by now…
George Will at the word-by-word level seems smart, but at the sentence level you realize that he is, in fact, profoundly stupid.
Remember the Gary Troudeau cartoons where Will had a "quote boy?"
Will concluded, "In closing, Jobu does NOT need a refill."
Well cited
Look at the progress you've made, George Will — pretty soon, the WaPo and the various teevee shows on which you bloviate might feel free to fire you for your patronizing attitude and tone-deaf statements, even though you're a conservative white guy!
Oh, wait….
George Will's pin-up is his toupee.
Does he write letters to it, demanding that it be his porn-star?
Hair goes the neighborhood.
It was designated by God.
But an even more important milestone of progress occurred June 19, 1977, when the Indians fired him. That was colorblind equality.
I eagerly await Will's Nov. 7, 2012 column, in which he points out that the RE-election of a black President is an even bigger watershed in American race relations, since it means we didn't elect him out of some Tee ball award of a sense of "fairness"
After all, as Will himself points out, his administration is a shambles and so he probably doesn't deserve re-election. Unless he's white and named Bush, of course.
re-electing a white dude is just tradition.
…though I am content knowing that "more Americans realized deep down inside they can't see Kolob through a telescope" is equally valid a reason.
If so, the 2012 election speaks well of the nation’s heart, if not its head.
They are so gleefully running with the "we vote for him only because his black-ness" all the while daring anyone to "darkly suggest" they "sniff racism" I want to punch him where his dick should be. Just shut up George you pseudo-intellectual-more-lady-like-version-of-Peggy-Noonan-baseball-sucking-hack.
Of all the people I imagined would at least take a stab at admitting Romney has been a disaster, George Will would have been high on that list. This is both surprising and disappointing that he's gone Full J-Rube.
Jocksniffers are all repressed homosexuals. Will just wishes he could be blowing Obama. Hell he wrote a fucking book that was nothing more nor less than a 600 page verbal blowjob of Barry Bonds. And after all that steamy homoerotic love for the purity and wonderfulness of Bonds it turns out Bonds was juicing like a fucking bicycle racer. Fucking Will gets everything wrong.
But he says it in that waaaaaaay that lets you knoooooow he's got so muuuuuch going ooooooooooon in his little head there, he just thinks more than aaaaaaaaaany of usssssss. God I hate him. And Barry Bonds. And baseball now, and steamy homoerotic love wants to talk to you about besmirching it's name. Also, blowjobs.
Fucking arrogant pretentious intellectual snob, I can just see him discussing the French wine regions over his breakfast of eggs over wilted arugula with chipotle dressing.
Its not what he does per se, I mean, its that he's doing it WRONG! We do it RIGHT!
George Will would NEVER EVER have such a conversation NOR properly appreciate the never seen back of the neck tattoo on the Never Ending Story waitress who JUST misses being really really cute. Nuance escapes these people, always.
Don't forget Obama once committed the impeachable offense of wearing blue jeans.
Don't forget Obama once committed the impeachable offense of wearing
bluenot-mommy jeans.FTFY
…and Mitt wore his mom's jeans. Your point?
Yes, the only President ever to wear jeans.
Lana del Libel!!!!
Canning the black dude because he's black to prove you're not racist is like endangering the lives of women by outlawing reproductive health services to prove you're not sexist, or devaluing the American worker by shipping jobs overseas, eliminating workplace safety regulations and rescinding the minimum wage to prove you're a friend of the American worker. Not that anyone would fall for that, right?
Well said!
Awww…
Is he trying to make this a viral theory to help Mitt?
Nice try, but too late!
Smug, elitist douchebag says what?
Goddammit, ttommy. That was perfect.
Many thanks !Sent from the Field, not in Garrison.
This is the same argument that abusers use. "I only get mad and hit you because I love you so much. Can't ya see that, baby?"
I mean, really. What. The. Holy. Fuck?
Will might want to avoid Baltimore for the next few decades until this blows over.
George Will columns should come in build-your-own kits, as they invariably contain the same basic ingredients and would not be difficult to assemble even without instructions or opposable thumbs.
Seeing that I’m a full 1/256 black all I can say is WHERE IS FREE PHONE?!!!!!!1!
Your grandmother was Dutch?
Pro Baseball… the one thing more boring, slow, and meaningless than mainstream politics….
GOLF LIBEL!
DRESSAGE LIBEL!
T-PAW LIBELZ!!!!
CURLING LIBEL!
"…in a way quite unlike that darkly suggested by, for example, MSNBC…"
Double entendre much George?
"It was a dark and stormy night….all the negroes were riled up after being let go from their factory jobs..
Let me get this right. If I vote against the Kenyan anti-colonialist socialist communist nazi then I prove that I am not a racist. Sounds right to me, George.
Using the Cleveland Indians as a positive example of how to manage something? Jeez, Romney's supporters are desperate.
Now if instead, the Cleveland Browns were the example…errr…
Remember the Mistake By the Lake? 80,000+ seats and about 5,000 fans in them.
George Will smells like an old cabbage fart.
I heard he likes black licorice.
I've seen similar comments from trolls elsewhere. It's insane. They actually try to claim
Obama has it easier by being black. Ah, no; if he was a white guy he would have had things ten times easier. What the fuck do these people have where their brains are supposed to be?
cotton balls?
Freshly picked!
Guns!
Safe deposit vaults for Mitt's money?
That's nothing, the real people in the catbird seat are the Latinos! Mitt even wishes HE was one.
Curry goat.
Their back pockets.
Well, their heads are up their asses, so…
…shit for brains, then?
And voting for the Republican's trickle down is like hiring Billy Martin (again.)
George Will is still mad at Jackie Robinson for stealing home in the '55 World Series.
George Will is really pissed that he doesn't have the front of the bus reserved anymore, isn't he?
One thing about Porgie that constantly boggles my feeble mind is that, while attending my Alma Mater, Trinity College in Hartford (the bow-tie and insurance capital of the world) he actually ORGANIZED STUDENTS TO GO ON THE FREEDOM RIDES. He has been atoning for his race-, class-, and bowtie-treason ever since. I guess.
Did he really? WTF happens to some people? I would hear 'You'll become a conservative/Republican/Blah blah blah when you're older…"
Really? Because now I'm older and even more Liberal than I ever was. Not all of us leave our brains and hearts behind as we age.
Wild Thing! You make my heart sing!
"sniff racism in any criticism of their pin-up"
No, people sniff racism at obviously racist criticism of Obama (oh and I see that "pin-up" is more of that "the one / messiah" bullshit that wingnuts try to pin on liberals even though it bears no resemblance whatsoever to reality). Which, you know, is everywhere; you'd have to be deliberately blind and deaf to miss it.
You misspelled "Lawd!" It can also be spelled "Oh Lawdy!"
Your analogy would only work, George, if the only other manager available was a dickish football coach whose plan for turning the Indians around was raising ticket prices and cutting the salaries of all the journeymen players to give a few more million per year to the star and agreeing, a priori, to join in if the Red Sox decide to bomb the Yankees.
sort of like Gary Bettman, you mean?
So, I suppose Liz Warren's relatives played for the Indians? They fired Frank Robinson, so Will is endorsing Prof. Warren? It kinda makes sense in a way somehow.
Did it occur to George, during this moment of brilliance, that there are choices. That is, Robinson wasn't fired and then the Indians managed on their own – he was replaced with whoever the owners thought was the *best available at the time*. Dittos POTUS elections – we don't fire without replacing, we view the options at the time and pick the best of the two (essentially).
So fire Obama for Romney?! Will, go fuck yourself.
No.
Jesus, George… with you, everything is baseball. I bet you have sex with a fielder's glove on, don't you?
You mean has sex with a fielder's glove, right?
Rumor has it that he's a, um…CATCHER!
Don't knock it if you haven't tried it.
He wears a cup to make it seem bigger.
Sure we may be over the whole “black” thing but it might be a few more years before our nation is finally confident enough to tell a rich white guy to go pound sand.
What are you, a fucking racist?
Geogre Will, you ignorant slut. "darkly suggested"? Haha, oh, I get it, you made a funneh!
Upper class twit.
There's no racism in Baseball. Marge Schott taught me that.
George Will's the kind of guy who looks up every fucking word in the dictionary while you're playing Scrabble, including ones that are in everyday use.
I looked up "senile" in the dictionary and saw George Will's picture.
Don't you lose a turn if you look the word up and it's there?
Obama’s administration is in shambles, yet he is prospering politically.
Hyperbolic assertions aside, George, your byzantine thoughts as they get processed into prose reminds me how I b.s.'d my way through many a writing assignment that I couldn't dodge my way out from under.
In other words, your style might appease the crowd you're pandering to, but the substance of your argument = FAIL
This is confusing…Did Frank Robinson claim he was an Indian?…Dancing Dave Gregory should ask John McCain about this next Sunday…Spend 20 minutes on it…
So I assume if the worst case scenario is realized and Obama is re-elected that leaves capping his ass as the only way to guarantee progress in the civil rights arena.
With votes, right?
The tree of liberty demands it!
Dr Freud like's Will's use of the term "darkly suggested" in this context.
He's just using black humor to comment on a political race. Playing the baseball card, as it were.
Oh, that's nice!
This is a comment that should get bonus upfisties.
I'm a woman and I've never been fired, so obviously sexism is still alive and well.
I'm a white guy and was fired once. I was told it was for making sandwiches too slowly (it was at a deli), but I guess it was because the owner was racist and so fired the white dudes.
If only you had been black, he wouldn't have been able to part with you! It's so unfair!
I'm a white male and I've been fired twice; mainly because other white guys fucked up the economy.
White House been verra verra good to me.
See, and here I was thinking all of those instances of racists hiring black people because it made them look good on paper, then firing them for bullshit reasons that were really the fault of the white co-workers were another example of racism. But, hey, George Will has liberated me from my racist perception-of-racism-as-involving-race-discrimination-ism. Now, white people (and brown people, let's not be racist!), you have a get out of jail free card for anything you do to an employee after you hire them.
Hiring one black person, ever, is like a vaccine against being racist.
Its double-reverse postmodern racism, doncha know. Nowadays, the only people who aren't racist are the racists!
This George Will person, does he get paid for writing this drivel?
I heard they now use an "Obama phone" to call the bullpen.
It's all bull from George's pen.
One track mind?
Is that like"tax-cut, tax -cut, tax cut", that kind of thing?
"Mitt's not black Mitt's not black Mitt's not black" also too.
My exquisitely sensitive olfactory receptors detect a giant dog turd wearing a bow tie.
Cleveland Indians record under Frank Robinson's tenure:186-189. Cleveland Indians record in the 375 games that followed: 167-208.
Is that like destroying the village to save the village?
George, enough with the columns! Just go hump a catcher's mitt. We'll both be happier.
He's not done humping this Mitt yet.
So anyone who votes for Obama for a second term is the REAL racist.
Yeaaah …..
Clearly the Obama administration is in a shambles, George — it hasn't done anything you wanted it to do. GM wasn't allowed to die and be outsourced to India; Dubya's family friend Osama wasn't allowed to practice his love with women all over the world; we now toil under the oppressive yoke of affordable healthcare; the finance industry will have to follow all sorts of rules, man; and the rich will be oppressed with 3% higher tax rates if something isn't done double-quick. And yet the people seem perfectly accepting of this legacy of failure — who can explain it?
Hey fakakta, this is irony, right? Did I get it right?
Not bad old man, but this is still more sarcasm.
Fuck. I'm gonna have to get more practice. But I'll get it right, dammit, I am determined.
Say what you want, at least he's right about one thing:
It's spelled W-I-L-L.
Hasn't George Will noticed the Indian's logo? Or is that not racist enough for him.
that's Scott Brown's costume for his next debate
Also , too, George……….Mayor Carl Stokes in 1968.
An actual election, not a hiring by owners.
I want to know what date the first insufferable, bow-tie wearing, Republican pundit was fired.
Well, Tucker Carlson, you gotta admit, has been fired more than I have, and thats saying something.
A true pioneer.
Not soon enough.
instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him — seems especially reluctant to give up on the first African American president.
actually george we aren't ready to give up on him because he's not, you know, a failure.
Next up: Will compares the Obama administration to Dock Ellis' no-hitter while high on LSD.
So baseball only took 30 years to go from player integration to that level of 'enlightment'. Sure, count me in for a Romney/Ryan 2038 ticket.
Michael Steele says what?
Central to his point!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George Will invents the mobeus strip of racism logical equivalent for privileged white men! Nicely done, George, nicely done!
"Black people have it easy because whenever we attack them with the lamest, most base, most unimaginative insults possible, people inevitably call us racist"
George Will: "I know someone will call this column racist, and my mentioning of that inevitability absolves me of any and all racism. And now, without further ado: Fire that Black!"
Romney – Chief Wahoo 2012 !!
So, if I got this right: forget Hispanic, what if Romney were Black!!!!…how good would he have it then, henggghhh???….you know, maybe George has been sitting up in the cheap seats for too many years, the thin air has finally gotten to him….
If Romney were black, he'd have played Omar on "The Wire"
We'll never know because the black Romney, Herman Cain, got so beat up by the establishment that he didn't stand a chance.
George Will and baseball are a perfect match.
"…baseball is best experienced as a passionate game, beaten in excitement only by every other sport." -Lisa Simpson
Awww, I love Baseball. But I still hate George Will. I wish he'd STFU or go watch football and pontificate endlessly about that.
It really bothers me that Will likes baseball. That fact alone almost ruins the game for me.
Oh it does ruin it for me. Completely. That and the mind-destroying awful boreingness of watching a bunch of rednecks chew tobacco and scratch their balls interminably between pitches which happen about once every half hour.
Thankfully chewing tobacco is no longer much of an issue… Most just munch on sunflower seeds. But I get your point.
It's funny, I never see the game as boring. But I'm not a fan of Football or Hockey, so it's the slow burn vs. fast pace I guess.
Let's not crucify baseball just because a serious douche likes it.
Sure football is fast paced … as long as you don't pay any attention to all that interminable time they spend between plays.
Cars full of needles, EPO and steroids libel!
Dude had to feed his team, not just his ego, man.
To be honest, since Prommie didn't call Armstrong out by name, I was going more with the Festina border incident from '98. Let's face it, cycling's had a long tradition of innovation in doping, unphased by the deaths that resulted.
Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure — thereby admitting that it made a mistake in choosing him…
Is G. Will talking about G. W. Bush here, or Obama?
George Will, a black man, knows these things and more. He dances Gangnam-style while putting on his bow tie.
Of course, George Will fails to mention that Cleveland told Mr. Robinson "We want you to be a PLAYER Manager." Who was the last guy to get stuck with that job? Rogers Hornsby (who traded himself)? Lou Boudreau? Al Lopez?
Typical way a Black man gets treated. Do twice the work for half the credit.
PS: When the great Frank Robinson was with the Cinncinnati Reds, the owner Bill DeWitt was approached with a trade offer. His reply? "I wouldn't trade Frank Robinson for your whole team."
It sounds like George Will is trying to find a reason that would justify why President Obama still maintains support in this country. His justification doesn't sound racist at all. Move along, nothing to see here.
Wait, George, I can do this, too:
Much like Frank Robinson, who had to agree to be a player-manager to get the job, Obama has had to work much harder than previous presidents. Robinson went on to be hired by three other teams to do the same job, winning Manager of the Year honors and eventually compiling 1000 wins as a manager, so if we don't re-elect Obama now, we will at some point elect him for a non-consecutive term during which he will be awesome. During the end of his tenure in Montreal, Robinson was publicly criticized for playing too much golf, which proves that Canadians can be racist assholes, too.
Didn't Donald Trump prove that he wasn't a racist by hiring Arsenio Hall? I suppose he needs to take the next step and fire him now.
George Will is still alive?
so whats next George, a brother can't swim?
Can't skate either, weak ankles. And scared of dogs and sperrits, too.
"Instead, the nation, which is generally reluctant to declare a president a failure…"
Oh, fuck that shit right in the eye. There's nothing Americans love MORE than claiming that a President is a failure, especially if they are a part of the 48.5% that didn't vote for him.
IIRC, Republicans waited all of six weeks before declaring that the Obama administration was a failure. So, less like "general reluctance" and more like "momentary hesitation", honestly.
George Will, you are so so funny! Yes, only 'the kids' are into Obama, certainly not people over 50 LIKE ME AND NEARLY EVERYONE I KNOW. If only we were more adult, we'd all vote for the party of War, MeanJesus and Tax Cuts.
Pompous horse's ass is pompous.
Firing negroes is actually a blessing as you're freeing them of that mo' money, mo' problems syndrome.
I've never seen such tragically hilarious equivocation from the right. Yeah, after four years of never cooperating with him, calling him every name in the book, sending flyers out with him in African native garb thru eating watermelons & fried chicken, asserting he's on the side of the terrorists, in fact "Muslin" too — it's just that Americans don't want to give up on the first black prez…..
George Will is trying to explain something that has been bugging the shit out of conservative pundits for months. Why, given the state of our economy, aren't we winning? They've tried to come up with any number of possible explanations. "The polls are wrong!!", "Not enough Paul Ryan!!!", and now, "Reverse racist!!". They just can't imagine why people prefer the President over their nominee. It's never occurred to them that the problem might be them. Yes, the President should be vulnerable but he'll likely win and win easily. People understand instinctively that eight years of incompetence and four years of refusing to govern should not be rewarded with even more power to fuck shit up. That's why you're losing Mr. Will.
Your side offers nothing beyond bullshit and tax cuts for billionaires. Neither will do much to improve the economy or create jobs. But as a proud dirty liberal hippy of color I urge you to keep fucking that" tax cuts solve everything" chicken for a couple more weeks.
What 8 years of incompetence? Of whom do you speak? What 3+ years of uncooperative behavior worthy of 8 year olds? Whatever could you be referring to?
8 years of incompetence – have you forgotten the Clinton years already?!?
This.
Seriously, everything is so much easier when you are black. If you can manage to be black and poor (and from the Mississippi Delta), just look how easy life can be.
I'm fairly certain Frank Robinson was not the first black person who got fired in this country. I think I read that in a sociology text book somewhere.
In my opinion, making fun of George swill is something that doesn't happen nearly enough. Thank you, wonkette!
Thanks, George. You can give Ann Coulter her bullshit back now.
I was a kid at opening day during Robinson's first year with the Indians. He put himself in the game and hit a game winning home run.
Don't try to ruin that memory for me you bow tied bloviator.
Fuck you!
Hey George Willfully ignorant, here's an oldie but a goodie..eat shit and die ( with votes) you pompous piece of dog shit. I'm a long time Orioles fan. Frank and Brooks Robinson are my heroes leave them alone or I'll sic "Killa" Ray Lewis on ya. We Baltimorans stick together you bow tie wearing cat fucker. Fuck Off you fucking fuckwad
Charlie Pierce had the best line about this piece over at Esquire.com: "Second, if Will believes that the reason the president seems to be prospering right now is because the good heart of America is giving the black fella a break, he's climbed so far up his own ass that he could sneeze and break his collarbone."
George….tell me this was the product of some white kid from Kansas you purloined from the Interwebs………..
BTW, while browsing my porn collection I've found a pic of Robinson's mother. http://www.peoplequiz.com/images/bios/Mata-Hari.j…
Speaking of you know, actual shambles, how's Mitt's campaign going so far, Will?
"darkly suggested"
Ya see what I did there? Hanh? [nudge nudge] Hanh? I said "darkly suggested"! Because he's a darkie! Ya get it? Hanh?
Paulie Walnuts is more subtle than this asshole.
Obama’s administrationthe economy is in shambles, yethethe 1% is prosperingpoliticallyAllan Bakke on Line 1…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_Unive…
Wouldn't George Will's smug face be red if he realized that his comment was an ass-backwards plaigiarizing of a Bella Abzug quote:
"Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant professor: Equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.”
Okay, I usually try to find some snark in all things, but fuck you, George Will. Fuck you to hell. Obama doesn't need your goddamned faux pity, you asshole, and I've had it up to here with the racist condescension.
Shorter Will:
"I don't think he's been that good from the get-go. I think what we've had here is a little social concern in America. I think the media has been very desirous that a black president do well…"
Georg the Other Dubya, you can kiss my black ass.
I don't believe ANYTHING written/spoken by a man with NO lips!
Yes, Georgie, the 2008 presidential election was just one great big affirmative action thingy. Lots of black people work at the Post… do you even talk to *any* of them?
And then Leather Tuscadero stumbled on in.
What have you got against Leather all of a sudden?
I am a big fan of leather, what do you mean?
But not as long as a Twinkie.
Comments on this entry are closed.