1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Here we go the official show on the Fish Stripes 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: podcast channel. It's Eli Sussman, managing editor of Fish Stripes. 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 1: I'm dedicating this whole episode to Lewis Brinson because I 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: can't stop thinking about what happened to him. On Sunday, 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: top of the ninth ending Marlins trailing the Rockies by 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: five runs. Brinson at the plate, takes the second pitch 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: of his plate appearance for a ball in the dirt, 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: and then you hear a man's voice shout the N word, 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: the most infamous of all racial slurs, shouting it loud 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: and clear, right between pitches. While Brinson was at the plate, 11 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: the Rockies TV broadcast, which I imagine under these circumstances, 12 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: had the majority of the viewers and the eyeballs. Their 13 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 1: commentators were having a conversation as that pitch was being received, 14 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: so they mostly obscured it from being heard directly from 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: the viewers. On Bally Sports Florida the Marlins Brought podcast, 16 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,559 Speaker 1: they were taking a break in the dialogue at that moment. 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: It was total silence and a void that was filled 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,039 Speaker 1: by this racist shouting, no doubt stayers that were directed 19 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: at Lewis Brinston when he was at the plate, you 20 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: could hear it as clearly as if Paul Severino or 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 1: A Todd Hollinsworth had said it themselves. It was that 22 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: bladant Craig Mish reporting in the direct aftermath of that 23 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: that he just told he was told that the players 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: did not hear it for themselves as it was going on, 25 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: that it was not audible in the press box. Jordan 26 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: McPherson of the Miami Herald, he vouched for that, having 27 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 1: been in the press box, that they were unaware of, 28 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: totally unaware that this was happening as it was happening. 29 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: From my own review of it, seeing the camera angle 30 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: from center field that was trained of course on the 31 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: pitch and on the several rows of seats directly behind 32 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: home plate, there did not see to be a person 33 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: there that was in a shouting position. Looking at an 34 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: alternate camera angle that I got that was directed at 35 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: third base, which was the Marlins dugout for the series, 36 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 1: but on the third baseline, and I got a good 37 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: shot of about ten rows up in that section that 38 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 1: was immediately bordering the dugout, a section by the way, 39 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: that had at least three black fans in it as well. 40 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: There was no smoking gun from that section either, nobody 41 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 1: that looked like they were in the process of yelling 42 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: while it was syncd up with when exactly those those 43 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: slurs came out. So, just based on the clarity of 44 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:45,519 Speaker 1: those slurs on the broadcast, you'd imagine that this person 45 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: was directly nearby one of the broadcast cameras and so 46 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: hopefully through that process or able to figure out who 47 00:02:55,080 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: it was potentially and punish them accordingly retroactively. That's not 48 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: good enough, and that's the way that this plays out. 49 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 1: Makes me worry. That makes me not worried, but makes 50 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: me know and dread the next time that this is 51 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,200 Speaker 1: going to happen, whether it's to the Marlins or whether 52 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: it's not even in baseball, anywhere in any public venue 53 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: where people feel empowered to speak like this to people 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: they don't know, for no possible motivation for them for 55 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: this to happen, especially not under these circumstances, to somebody 56 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: like Brinston. So Paul Severino, he was, he recognized that 57 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: as soon as it happened on the broadcast, even though 58 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: themselves are not in Colorado, he heard what we all 59 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 1: heard if we were watching that broadcast, and he apologized 60 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: for the language that very next pitch, and then afterwards 61 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: put out a tweet that he was quote, I'm absolutely 62 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 1: disgusted at the language that was picked up by the 63 00:03:57,440 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: MIC's late in the game. Today. The level of hate 64 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: that was this played has no place in this world. Unfortunately, 65 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: it's still far too prevalent. We need to do better 66 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: and soon awful. So I agree exactly with his sentiments 67 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:18,239 Speaker 1: right there. There's no way to check a person coming 68 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,840 Speaker 1: into a ballpark for their hatred. That doesn't show up 69 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: in any sort of security measure that you could take. 70 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: Racist people walk among us in every city, in every 71 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: town in the United States, whether this is Denver or 72 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: in Miami or in New York or anywhere in between. 73 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: The majority of them can't be identified on the surface, 74 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 1: just like by what they dress or by how they 75 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: conduct themselves in very ordinary conversations. This is really deeply 76 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: embedded in them, and sometimes well in this case, of course, 77 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: it doesn't come out for any justifiable reason. It may take. 78 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,520 Speaker 1: I don't know what particular circumstances a player doing against 79 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: the team that you root for, or more likely just 80 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: a drink or more than a few drinks getting into 81 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: your system to unleash this hatred from you. Once that 82 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,279 Speaker 1: comes out, it is the responsibility of the rest of 83 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: us to flush them out. This type of person singling 84 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: out someone like Brinson, making them feel unwelcome, making them 85 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: feels as less than a person with this N word 86 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: that they used. People need to turn the table on 87 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: an offender like that. Because I can't speak for all 88 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: white people, I can't speak for most white people. I 89 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: just know I can speak hopefully for a lot of 90 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 1: white people that don't have this word even in their vocabulary. 91 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: They've never they understand so thoroughly, like the background of 92 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: this and the meaning of this, that they would never 93 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: use it. For anybody that does use this word, whether 94 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: whatever motivation they think they have for doing so, the 95 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: fact that it is in their vocabulary, this is all 96 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: you need to know about them, and it should make 97 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,039 Speaker 1: people fight against this type of person. This is the 98 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: worst type of person that we have in our society, 99 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: the one that tries to make black people feel like 100 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: they don't belong, to make them feel make them feel 101 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: less than human. For someone who say this, like in 102 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: a Major League baseball game joke, as you might about 103 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: the fact that these teams are not very good and 104 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: that the score of this game was not very interesting. 105 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 1: For someone to say this as in full volume, shouting 106 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,559 Speaker 1: it twice in an events like this in a Major 107 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 1: League Baseball game, surrounded by thousands of people, proceeded directly 108 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: next to other people, the only reason why they would 109 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,599 Speaker 1: say this is because they believe that others will tolerate it, 110 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: that they share this irrational contempt for somebody who doesn't 111 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: look like them, And the deflating truth is that they're right. 112 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: They're absolutely right. This is not an isolated incident, and 113 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: it's not going to be the last incident either of 114 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,080 Speaker 1: somebody speaking like this because they sense that the people 115 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 1: around them have this same deeply embedded racism in them 116 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: that allows them to avoid consequences when using something like 117 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: this in the equivalent of an ordinary insult or taunts. 118 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: They the fact that these people don't make a distinction 119 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: between them. That's the most charitable interpretation of this is 120 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: that it's a fan of the opposing team trying to 121 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: taunt a Marlins player and making no distinction between the 122 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: N word and between any number of actual acceptable insults 123 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: that you can use any sort of trash talk that 124 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: you can use for people that can't discern between those 125 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: things are the worst of us, and they need to 126 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: be humiliated. I would have loved to seen, I would 127 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: love to see moving forward, a better effort from other 128 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: fans that are in attendance at these events to make 129 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:38,760 Speaker 1: enough of this outrageous word that you stop the game. 130 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:42,840 Speaker 1: I feel like that should be within the realm of 131 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 1: possibilities here, that when you have somebody so close to 132 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: the field and using that language to target one of 133 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: the featured player that is actually in the game at 134 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: the moment in Lewis Brinson, that that should be enough 135 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: of a red flag, enough of an incident on its 136 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: own to stop play to have people who disagree with 137 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: this person, and you hope that most of the people 138 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: at least that were surrounding this person didn't feel the 139 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: same way that they would have been outraged enough to 140 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: make sure that this person was expelled from the game 141 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: right there and right then before continuing to do so. 142 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: As best as we could tell from the broadcast, it 143 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: was those two back to back endwards and then nothing 144 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,439 Speaker 1: else after that that at least was picked up by 145 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: the mics. We don't know for sure, but there certainly 146 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: wasn't any stoppage of the game. I mean Brinston almost again, 147 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: based on Craig Miss's reporting, Brinson wasn't able to hear 148 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: it being targeted at him, so he had no this 149 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: role response to it other than to stare out at 150 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: the picture and prepare to continue his plate appearance in 151 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: the middle by the way of the best streak of 152 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: his career, someone that has not let this stuff bother 153 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: him from you know, finally playing at a higher level 154 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: than he ever has before in the major leagues. And 155 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 1: I mean will have to hear from Brinton himself to 156 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: confirm this, but I'd have an impossible time believing that 157 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: he's never been targeted with racist slawyers before. That seems 158 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: just like part of the reality of being black and 159 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: being in baseball. We're in a time where black participation 160 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: in baseball on the field is almost as low as 161 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 1: it's been in sixty years, since the early days of integration. 162 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: It's been trending down, and it has, if anything, maybe 163 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: it has plateaued, if not continued to trend down for 164 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: a variety of reasons, and there's no doubt that this 165 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: is one of them that this is a game, this 166 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: beautiful game of baseball, where where black people don't feel 167 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 1: welcome in a variety of roles as players or as 168 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,319 Speaker 1: in other roles as well. The fact that James Rouse, 169 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: a acting manager of the Marlins right now, is one 170 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: of the very few players at any high level of 171 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: baseball that gets to serve in that key role on 172 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 1: a team. And when you look at front offices, the 173 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 1: fact that Derek Jeter is certainly the only black CEO 174 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 1: of a baseball team, and it's hard to find other 175 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: high ranking executives even below that that come from that background. 176 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: And this is just one of the reasons why that 177 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: this is a game that has not even now, even 178 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: at a time when we've been gifted some of the 179 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: most talented black players ever in the history of the game, 180 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: that people it runs deeper than that. That racism runs 181 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,800 Speaker 1: deeper than that in every part of this country. And 182 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: it's not just about rooting for teams or taunting teams. 183 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: That this is really deeply embedded, and it doesn't go away. 184 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: It has not gone away. It has been part of 185 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: our society for as long as we've had a society 186 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: in this country, and it doesn't go away unless people 187 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: are proactive about it, unless the people that don't have 188 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: the people that are against this actually act to eradicate it. 189 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: In this particular case, hopefully it starts with the Rockies 190 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,360 Speaker 1: and coursefield staff actually investigating and actually finding who did 191 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: it and punishing them by as much as you possibly can. 192 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: Whether there are actual charges they can file against him 193 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: for a hate crime, I don't know, but at the 194 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: very least being able to bar somebody from ever returning 195 00:12:56,280 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 1: to that ballpark or any other major league ballpark, that 196 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: would be the bare minimum you like to see if 197 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,679 Speaker 1: and when they're able to definitively figure out who it 198 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: was that was behind this. So hopefully a lot of 199 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: you will never have to be in the presence of 200 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: an incident like that in person. If you do, I 201 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: hope you do take action. I hope you find I 202 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 1: hope there is in that particular case that there are 203 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 1: enough people that have enough conviction about this being so 204 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 1: wrong and being so unacceptable that that they essentially force 205 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,480 Speaker 1: that person out of the premises when it does happen. 206 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 1: But wherever you are, as long as you are on 207 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,880 Speaker 1: this side, that we need to be open and accepting 208 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: of all sorts of people. Lewis Brinston is on the 209 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: Major League Player Committee of the Player's Alliance, which, using 210 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: their words, they're committed to increasing opportunities for the Black 211 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: community in every aspect of baseball, eliminating barriers of entry 212 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: that currently exist by providing kids the tools they need 213 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,839 Speaker 1: to play the game, delivering life changing access to technology, 214 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 1: and helping professionals reach their goal of someday working for 215 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: an MLB team or front office. This organization, it's only 216 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: popped up a few years ago, led by Curtis Granderson 217 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: with big help from CC Sabbathia, and they've just done 218 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: an incredible amount of work in such a short amount 219 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: of time. Virtually every black player in the major leagues 220 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: is also on this Major League Player Committee. There are 221 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: also plenty of non black players that have done so 222 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: as well, and again Brinson is one of them who's 223 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: involved with this. I remember last year when they had 224 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: an event in Miami that he was front and center 225 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: part of that to educate people to collect donations, and 226 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: those donations are still open now. If you're somebody that 227 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: that heard this happen live or just listening to me now, 228 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: or just in general, somebody that understands the kind of 229 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: good that black people bring to the game of baseball. 230 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 1: I would highly recommend making a donation to the Players 231 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: Alliance at the Players Alliance dot com slash donate. I'll 232 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: be sure to include the link in the episode description 233 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: and up on fish Stripes dot com, hoping that we 234 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 1: as a community can actually make a difference, make a 235 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: small bit of difference in encouraging black people to continue 236 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: being a part of this sport, even despite the obvious 237 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: hatred that they know they are signing up for. Essentially, 238 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: this isn't going away anytime soon, as much as we 239 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: can try to enforce this when it does happen, it 240 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:54,040 Speaker 1: is so deeply rooted in a lot of white people, 241 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: and this is not the last incident of its kind. 242 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: And I have so much admiration for the black people 243 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: that put up with this even before they reach the majors, 244 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: even when they're toiling away in community college or in 245 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,840 Speaker 1: low a ball And there are hecklers like this down 246 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: there as well, and they're still so far away from 247 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: making a true living out of this, and yet they 248 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: persevere because they love the game, because and hopefully because 249 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: other people around the game support them. Even when you 250 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: do have these particular idiots that are trying to intimidate them, 251 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: trying to scare them away. This is going to be 252 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: a shorter than usual podcast episode. We're not really going 253 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: to get into any firm baseball things. The Marlins continue 254 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: their road trip in San Diego on Monday night. What 255 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: We're going to have our full coverage as usual, of course, 256 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:59,200 Speaker 1: across our Fish Stripes platforms as well. Sorry about the 257 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: lack of spicey intro music here, the lack of editing 258 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: and transitions. I hope you understand. I just didn't want 259 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: to distract from what really matters. So thanks again for 260 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,640 Speaker 1: sticking around, Go Fish, and I'll be back with more 261 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: later this week.