Captain's Quarters -

Funny how you can make millions and still manage to be unhappy. That takes some effort.

Here's to the angry millionares.

Speaking as an unemployed person I think I could put up with a little racism, even the imagined kind, from a company that paid me bucketloads of money.

Sheff's next book will be about Jim Leyland's racist managerial style. What a guy.

The racism claim (or victimology) is a natural by-product of so-called multi-culturalism where segregating the races is encouraged, setting us back to long before the fight to eliminate segregation in the 60's.

Let the poor idiot go back where he came from, and see how long his millions last there.

It seems like it's going to be forever, but he'll be broke in the blink of an eye.

It's amazing how our "culture" enables a racist to get away with calling everyone else a racist...and make money doing it. At least Shef has talent. How ‘bout the rest of the professional, racist race baiters?

Most of the Latino players on the Detroit Tigers agree with Shef that Latinos are cheaper and ultimately "easier to control" than black US players, although they attribute that to the system and not racism. (i.e. lack of a draft and affiliated minor league clubs).

There is often a glimmer of truth in what Shef says, although I agree he fans the flames and finds racism everywhere.

To be fair to Shef, his point was not that Jeter “was not black enough to notice”, but rather that he did not categorize him as a black player. As with Shef’s own son, Jeter is half black and half white and Shef does not think of either as black.

Shef may be promoting his book as you say, but in this case the press came to him. If you are familiar with the practices of the Eastern sports press, you will know that manufacturing controversy is a skill that has there been raised to an art form.

And it is in that direction too that some blame must be placed for this latest muck up.

I love it when anyone sticks it to the Yankees! You go Sheff.

PS. With his attitude, he will make a great Federal Government employee when he retires, he is going to fit right in!

I keep wondering why the Latino players don't count as "black." The story a few weeks ago was that only 8% of MLB players are black, but that has to mean "African American." Isn't Sheffield merely saying that MLB treats some "black" players differently than others? But where would the story be in that?

Sheffield has been a problem since his rookie days with the Brewers, when he pouted about not playing shortstop (they put him at third) and when he talked about making errors intentionally when he was unhappy.

Notice how well it pays to be a black racist who cries racism at the drop of a hat.

There's apparently a large audience who likes to consume a particular form of crap.

It doesn't want to acknowledge the fact the curtain rang down on the vast majority of their valid complaints a generation ago.

What would that mean for them, if they did?

As a "locker room cancer" and a blak player, Sheffield is confused about why he didn't get treated as well as he would have liked. It wasn't te black, it was the "locker room cancer". No one likes a white or Latino "locker room cancer" either.

Shef's story: Black players are treated differently by coaches and managers.

The REAL story: Gary Sheffield is jealous. The Latino players have taken over the game because they work harder and have more talent.

You may wonder why there are no racism complaints from latino players who play for Black managers. Yeah, why isn't there? Because those latino players are too busy hitting .345, vying for a gold glove and still shaking their heads that they get paid for playing a game they love.

Grow up Shef. Be a man.

I really don't give a rat's patootie what ANY steroid cheat freak has to say about anything.

I think someone should complain about the obvious racism in the NBA. White basketball players are obviously being discriminated against! There isn't a populationally proportionate amount of them on the rosters, so it must be racism! Outrage! Outrage!

I keep wondering why the Latino players don't count as "black." The story a few weeks ago was that only 8% of MLB players are black, but that has to mean "African American."

Maybe I'm guilty of not keeping up with the latest in multi-culti thinking, but "black" has always been a synonym for "African-American".

Latin American players do not count as black because they are not (usually) of African heritage.

Flenser, come on! "Latin American players are not of African heritage"?? Carlos Delgado, Julio Franco, David Ortiz, Jose Reyes, Francisco Cordero, Vladimir Guerrero, Alfonso Soriano, Edgar Renteria, just to name a few. I would bet that most Latin American players are of African heritage.
My point is that "8% of major league players are black" can only be true if you ignore a ton of players of African heritage who just happen not to have been born in the U.S.

Which makes me question the "racism" charges that Sheffield is making. Are the black players from the U.S. a different "race" than those from Central America? It might be something else, but it sure ain't racism.

Some people from Latin America are of African heritage, as I said above. But "Latin American" does not mean "black".

A lot of players from the Dominican Republic are black, for example.

Magglio Ordonez would count as "Latin" but not as black.

Sigh. Yes: some Latin players aren't black. Please go back and read my post very slowly so you can comprehend it. I don't think I ever said no Latin players are black. "Most" does not mean "all."

So what are we -- or anybody who is prone to wring their hands about racial matters -- supposed to think about these (in my opnion) absurd distinctions?

Gary Sheffield wants us to believe that racism is pervasive in major-league baseball, but somehow that racism doesn't get directed at certain members of a particular race. Maybe, just maybe, baseball people have a problem with a particular member of the race in question and it really isn't the broad problem that particular person would have us believe.