Thursday, May 31, 2007
Gary Sheffield: Race relations expert
The current issue of GQ features an interview with MLB slugger Gary Sheffield (subscription required). In the course of the interview, Sheffield explains why there are fewer black baseball players, and more Latino players, than there were 30 years ago:
"It's about being able to tell [Latin players] what to do. ... Being able to control them. Where I'm from, you can't control us. You might get a guy to do it that way for a while because he wants to benefit, but in the end he is going to go back to being who he is. And that's a person that you're going to talk to with respect, you're going to talk to like a man. These are the things that my race demands. So if you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys."
Uh, do what?!
To borrow a line from Sen. Ophelia Ford, what Sheffield's talkin' about ain't hittin' on nothin' with me.
"It's about being able to tell [Latin players] what to do. ... Being able to control them. Where I'm from, you can't control us. You might get a guy to do it that way for a while because he wants to benefit, but in the end he is going to go back to being who he is. And that's a person that you're going to talk to with respect, you're going to talk to like a man. These are the things that my race demands. So if you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys."
Uh, do what?!
To borrow a line from Sen. Ophelia Ford, what Sheffield's talkin' about ain't hittin' on nothin' with me.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, May 31, 2007 
