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In reply to the discussion: Los Angeles Dodgers Helping ICE? Protests are starting. [View all]Codifer
(1,047 posts)Dodger fan since the mid 1950s. i was happy when they moved to los Angeles and the games were carried by KFI (which meant Vin Scully could be heard on Mars). My father and I would listen to the games while we were working on an addition to the house. I stood by them when they balked at paying Don Drysdale and Sandy Koulfax the astronomical $100,000 a season that they wanted. And, yes, I felt badly about Chavez Ravine. But I cheered the no hitters, perfect games and record scoreless innings.
Then there were the late sixties after I got back in country and all that my father and I could safely talk about was Dodger baseball even though we were both FDR Democrats.
I stood by when some players refused to sign twenty million dollar contracts for a single year and I stood by baseball even when some players broke records for home runs by using steroids (and lost the '88 series to superior pitching and good scouting). I carried with me the ghosts of Furrillo and Hodges and Pee Wee Reece and Junior Gilliam. Then I stopped.
The straw that broke me was that the Dodgers went to the Whitehouse after their world series win even AFTER the sick fuck had JACKIE ROBINSON'S biography removed from the Annapolis library. So FUCK them.... and (even though I was a sailor) FUCK the Navy too!
Now there is this Iceholes at the stadium thing..... so DOUBLE FUCK them.
On Edit: Being old and dumb I did not read the entire thread and just began shooting. So I apologize for the "DOUBLE FUCK" comment which was not deserved. The single "FUCK them" will remain.
Sorry.
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