Don't we, soon-to-be-ex-Mariner Steve Clevenger??
This isn't the first recent underpinning of racism in the former National Pastime (Madison Bumgartner's hit list and what might be motivating that, though that's rumored; the Orioles' Adam Jones refusing to protest in the style of Colin Kaepernick because he feels baseball is now a "White Man's Sport"...), but it sounds like Clevenger wants out of Seattle.
How do we know this?
Nightengale works MLB for USA Today and is an MLB Network insider, and reports on these words Clevenger has for some of the racial protestors running around these days in his latest USA Today column.It's time for #Mariners to react to Steve Clevenger's racist tweets and deliver their own message: Release him now. https://t.co/NomVKqdsKR— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 23, 2016
Mike Coppinger of USA Today and Jon Humbert of KOMO-TV in Seattle found these reactions by Clevenger in his private Twitter account...
It's on. The only question is how much longer do we go until it's every city and major-sized town in America at once.#Mariners say they are "looking into" controversial tweets coming pitcher Steve Clevenger's account screencapped by @cablebox666: pic.twitter.com/RcWNdqflGV— Jon Humbert (@jonhumbert) September 22, 2016
For those who can't get the photo and screenshot situation right, the media of Humbert's tweet has two different Tweets the asshole made, screencaptured by an anonymous Seattle Twitter account (the handle is above -- it's now being attached to the BLM movement, probably in protest of Clevenger's comments):
"Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha shit cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the Anthem!"and
"BLM is pathetic once again! Obama you are pathetic once again! Everyone involved should be locked behind bars like animals!"The more I see, the more I ask people when the shooting is going to start...
EDIT TO ADD 10:30 AM PDT 9/23/16: Clevenger has been suspended the remainder of the season by the Mariners.
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