Softball, the National Anthem, and Politics

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isitjustme
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8:23a, 6/24/20
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Article that may be of interest due to former Aggie students/athletes on both sides:

https://www.theeagle.com/sports/several-aggies-part-of-team-walkout-over-scrap-yard-dawgs-national-anthem-tweet/article_70cfe250-b5d1-11ea-921b-5b3fd06fe82a.html

It got real political real quick. Don't know why Ms. May couldn't have just apologized for tweeting their image w/o permission and the team and others accept the apology and then move on. But I guess overreaction is the norm these days.
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11:07p, 6/24/20
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Good gravy moravi
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TXAggie2011
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11:35p, 6/24/20
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Absolutely no reason to tweet Trump about it. Asking for trouble, for what gain?
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11:24a, 6/25/20
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The team took the baseline ... did they stand in honor. ... did they kneel in mourning ... what exactly happened?
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4:00p, 6/25/20
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Because being a professional softball player is "a platform."
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jkag89
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In reply to rrtodds • 4:18p, 6/25/20
Yeah, not exactly a very well written piece.
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8:14p, 6/25/20
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Looks a lot like ridiculous overreaction to a fairly obnoxious and tone deaf tweet.

Overall a pretty dumb event. Thanks, everyone involved, for your efforts in our race to the bottom.
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Artimus Gordon
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2:45a, 6/26/20
Oh what a bunch of whiny butthurt little things! Mrs May could stand to run a few of them off.
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4:18p, 6/26/20
I support the players.
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tjack16
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6:38p, 6/26/20
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I think they didn't like her making a political statement for all of them without their permission. Like if your boss said "my entire company stands for ______" and you don't agree with it.


Same thing happened with one of my friends and his boss. She made a statement saying "all of my employees support pro-choice". And it was not taken well by many in the company.
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5:59p, 7/6/20
And true to form May nor the organization have yet to issue any statement or apology. The players were correct to leave
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7:44a, 7/7/20
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Why does a private buisness need to apologize? If that's their stance they can live with the conciquences. I hope the girls that quit are able to earn the same amount of money they were making from Scrapyard. I'm guessing the aren't...

I don't know May personally, but what little Ive seen of her around softball she is high on the crazy scale..
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In reply to Colt98 • 10:01a, 7/7/20
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They should apologize for making a statement for all of their employees without their consent.
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In reply to tjack16 • 4:28p, 7/7/20
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tjholley16 said:
They should apologize for making a statement for all of their employees without their consent.
Why can't they players/others who left just say that's just May being May?
Why does it have to be such a big reaction?
Had she tweeted the pic but w/no shout out to Trump, would they have stayed?
Why is it only athletes that get to voice their opinions w/o repercussions so long as they're the "correct" opinions (Kap vs Brees), and management seemingly can't do anything about it?

These are questions I often wonder about.

And they players walked out - they are no longer their employees so no need to apologize.
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TXAggie2011
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In reply to isitjustme • 5:21p, 7/7/20
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May's entitled to her views and she can voice them if she wants.

But the distinction and problem is she used the players to voice what is apparently her view
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