Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Tue May 30, 2023 4:43 pm

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 3:45 pm Wow. They really do mock religion by design.
On second thought, how is that offensive? Maybe Kershaw would ban SNL too over some skit he doesn't like. Wanna know what's really offensive? When this Supreme Court imposes some religious rule on everybody all because some people take the fucking bible for literal truth. This is just an attempt to stifle an opposing viewpoint.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by ashie62 » Tue May 30, 2023 4:49 pm

Take all of this to the politics thread. Not here
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by ashie62 » Tue May 30, 2023 4:50 pm

MFS62 wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 3:59 pm
Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 3:53 pm There's a lot of violent and over the top objection to Pride events, Bud Light getting slaughtered because of an Instagram post by a trans person, Target stores getting roughed up for having rainbow on clothing displays, people worried the gays are coming for their kids.
And I just heard that Conservative-owned Chick-Fil-A is being attacked because they hired a diversity coordinator. (I didn't hear many other details)
This anti-pride movement is getting crazy and not going away.
Can one of the mods split this off to a separate thread - maybe in the non- baseball forum?
Later
Please

This is not really the appropriate place
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by ashie62 » Tue May 30, 2023 4:57 pm

Avoiding this thread from here on
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Tue May 30, 2023 5:07 pm

ashie62 wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 4:49 pm Take all of this to the politics thread. Not here
Why? Because if this was in the politics thread, you wouldnt see it? It belongs here anyways. It's a baseball discussion and Trevor Williams made it so. And if he wasnt an MLBer, he wouldn't have six followers and nobody would give a flying fuck about what he thinks.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by ashie62 » Tue May 30, 2023 5:34 pm

It can become a culture wars vent at times

Not saying I'm right in any way at all but it makes me uncomfortable to read here at CPF on the baseball side

To each his own
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by Edgy MD » Tue May 30, 2023 5:37 pm

Poor Trevor Williams. Even I've got 137 followers.

How sad and sorry is that?
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Tue May 30, 2023 6:02 pm

ashie62 wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 5:34 pm It can become a culture wars vent at times

Not saying I'm right in any way at all but it makes me uncomfortable to read here at CPF on the baseball side
Fine, but that's exactly what Trevor Williams did: he leveraged his baseball clout and baseball itself to make a socio-political-religious statement that had little to do with actual baseball. And what is he offended at, when you come right down to it -- that not everybody believes what he believes?
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by whippoorwill » Tue May 30, 2023 6:23 pm

metirish wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 2:34 pm

Well said
I think he’s got a point
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by ashie62 » Tue May 30, 2023 6:54 pm

I do also. It's not one sided
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Wed May 31, 2023 1:59 pm

ashie62 wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 6:54 pm I do also. It's not one sided
And what point is that? I think people like Williams and Kershaw use religion as a shield, but also as a sword, depending on whatever suits them at the moment. Nobody's allowed to criticize it or parody it because it's religion. But then they have no problem forcing some employee to jump hoops to get some medicine that's legal, FDA approved and promised to them by their insurer all because of their employer's religious beliefs. Re-read that Trevor Williams post. He starts off by recognizing that a baseball game is a place where all should be included. Then he goes on for a zillion parageaphs about how that group shouldn't be included, without even bothering to explain why, other than to state, in conclusory fashion, that they offend his religion. Live life and you're inevitably gonna get offended. That's life. Everybody's different. So what's his point? That they should be banned from Dodger games because they're not like him? Most people used to think the Earth was flat, too. Believing that doens't make it true, no matter how many people believed it.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by Marshmallowmilkshake » Wed May 31, 2023 2:07 pm

Former Met Jake Marisnick is now a Tiger, replacing rookie stud Riley Greene.

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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Wed May 31, 2023 2:12 pm

ashie62 wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 6:54 pm I do also. It's not one sided
So the point is to punish this group? They shouldn't have a platform to express their worldview? But Kershaw and Wiliams should be free to promote and tout their religion whenever and wherever they please? Is that the point?
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by G-Fafif » Wed May 31, 2023 7:58 pm

Hope for the best. Expect the Mets.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by ashie62 » Wed May 31, 2023 8:01 pm

Yes, not even the velocity to be intimidating now
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Wed May 31, 2023 8:30 pm

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Tue May 30, 2023 4:52 pm Baseball content: https://sports.yahoo.com/blue-jays-anth ... 55731.html
The more I read this, the nuttier it gets. So Jays pitcher Anthony Bass posts a video claiming that according to his stupid fucking bible, the LGBTQ community is "evil and demonic". I guess Bass doesn't know anything about how his religion is rife with gay pastors and priests who've been sexually molesting and abusing thousands and thousands and thousands of kids and teens for longer than I've been alive. Oh, the audacity of those "Sisters" to mock his religion. What an ignoramus scumbag.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Wed May 31, 2023 8:45 pm

Bass walked everything back today. Said the right thing about inclusion and diversity
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Wed May 31, 2023 8:48 pm

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 8:45 pm Bass walked everything back today. Said the right thing about inclusion and diversity
How sincere, I'm sure.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by Johnny Lunchbucket » Wed May 31, 2023 8:56 pm

I give him credit for it. They must have read him the riot act
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by batmagadanleadoff » Wed May 31, 2023 9:00 pm

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 8:56 pm I give him credit for it. They must have read him the riot act
That's right. He apologized only to save his own ass. If he was as good as Kershaw or had Kershaw's legacy or Kershaw's contract, he wouldn't have had to take back anything.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by bmfc1 » Wed May 31, 2023 9:04 pm

Trevor Williams backed Kershaw's stance.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by A Boy Named Seo » Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:54 pm

There really is a why behind it. I wish those who are upset at the choice of the sisters' clothing realized they didn't just pick nuns' garb because it's extra hot to wear on a summer day. For a long ass time, religion has been used to deny, persecute, oppress and vilify LGBTQ+ folk, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are doing good and important work for groups of people that some (not all, but a lot) of churches and religious people just wouldn't touch. There's an opportunity to say "I don't like it, but I get it" and do better to accept and serve all of god's children if that's your space. There would be no "drag nuns" if there wasn't a hypocrisy to fight against.

I'm with Sister Jeannine.

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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by G-Fafif » Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:39 am

Noah Syndergaard and his 7+ ERA go to the IL with a blister.
Hope for the best. Expect the Mets.
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Re: Once a Met, Not a Met in 2023

Post by The Hot Corner » Thu Jun 08, 2023 11:39 pm

New Reds phenom, Elle De La Cruz blistered Noah, or at least virtually every pitch he threw for a strike last night.
When did the choices get so hard
With so much more at stake
Life gets mighty precious
When there's less of it to waste
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