Yanks' Duncan still doesn't know why Rays reacted
TAMPA, Fla. — Shelley Duncan watched video of his hard slide in the Yankees’ game Wednesday against Tampa Bay and still doesn’t think it was a dirty play.
The New York first baseman’s slide into second base with his spikes raised sparked a bench-clearing scrum that resulted in two players and two coaches being ejected during the second inning of Wednesday’s contest with the Rays.
“I saw it a couple times,” Duncan said Thursday. “I still don’t understand why they were as upset as they were.”
Duncan, who had hinted at the prospect of retaliating for the Rays’ Elliot Johnson barreling over New York catcher Francisco Cervelli last Saturday, spiked second baseman Akinori Iwamura in the right thigh and was immediately tossed.
Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon called the play “borderline criminal.”
“The words that come from another team don’t affect me,” Duncan said. “It doesn’t bother me. They won’t change how I play the game. I’ll continue to play the game as hard as I can. What matters to me the most is the respect of my coaching staff and my teammates.”
Duncan and Yankees manager Joe Girardi talked after Wednesday’s game and again before Thursday’s contest against Pittsburgh. Duncan declined to discuss specifics about the conversions.
Tags: brawl, rays, video, yankees
Thursday 13 Mar 2008 | Freddie | Uncategorized
Because YOU HATE AMERICA
I’m an american (also have another nationality though) and I am proud to say: I hate America.I hate all the conflicts we started, the millions of deaths in bullshit wars, the racism against blacks/hispanics, the religious intolerance, etc. I could go on forever.I am so fucking glad I’ve gotten the fuck out of the US.edit: Obama kind of gives me new hope though edit2: Oh god i just realised hillary might see this and go on about how obama supporters really hate america. Argh!
Oh no!!! Not U2!!!
Love my country, Hate my government. There, I fixed it for you.
The same reason you support the troops by sending them to die: Backwards American machismo.
Frankly, because they have been told to and taught to only love your country by following it with blind faith that it’s always right.To answer the question.I love my country, but I hang my head low knowing what it’s been doing and my not being able to do anything about it yet. I hope in the future to have the opportunity to bring a new level of awareness and educational benefit to people far and above what the internets, digg’s, and reddit’s have been able to.
I’ve always believed the “love your country” line despite my anti-statist beliefs. But it’s worth asking: what exactly does one mean when says that?The name of my country of birth, Canada, really applies to a number of vague elements and concepts loosely tied together. Do I “love” the government and politicians that control Canada? Heck no. Do I “love” the geological expanse marked Canada on the map? Well, some of it’s quite nice, but I haven’t even seen most of it and never will. Do I love all the people in Canada? Hard to say, since I haven’t met most of them, but if I do, it is not to the exclusion of all other people. Do I love Canadian customs? Some maybe, and others not at all.If I can’t say with precision what I even mean when I “love my country”, it becomes a worthless slogan meant to sir up empty emotion or incite a nationalist superiority complex.
I modded you up, but the number’s much larger than 3,000. Millions of Americans, from politicians to bureaucrats to spies to soldiers, do their minor and seemingly innocent parts to keep the gears of tyranny turning.Remember, the vast majority of Germans who helped send dissidents and minorities to slave camps weren’t high-ranking Nazi officials; they were clerks and civil servants just doing their jobs, stamping forms and answering telephones. It couldn’t have been done without them.
The vast majority of Americans are good, honest people who just want to live their lives in peace and improve things for themselves as best they can.Unfortunately, out of this 300 million American, it only takes a tiny percentage — perhaps as many as 3,000 — to disgrace this country. Strangely enough, most of these 3,000 are not directly in government. Rather , they are the wealthy and powerful who control the corporations that lobby the government.Reforming the government wouldn’t help us. Reforming the lobbying system wouldn’t help us. Until you can find a way to target the Evil Three Thousand, you’re just playing whack-a-mole.
What’s to love about it? It’s just another symbol. Don’t forget what the symbol stands for.In the case of a country, that is the people in that country. Now here we come to the important part… not all who are in this country should be loved. Some are murderous, psychopathic, and without even the tiniest iota of humanity left.Love your children, love your spouse, love your family. Love your dog. But don’t love this country.
Mr. President, you were needed in the Oval Office 15 minutes ago.
Disclaimer: the emotions in question are pragmatically dynamic, and in this instance: ideologically contrived.Why? Because loving your country in shame would seem liminal between seeking rapport with your nationals and wishing you were presently separate from them. To feel so would be positively self-defeating - to-love-to-unlove - and some people (I would like to think) would like to think, in practical terms; impossible!
I’ve heard them argue that supposedly we hate our country because it’s not exactly the tree hugging, anti-religion, baby killing, abortion promoting, marriage destroying place we’d apparently like it to be.