Obviously he achieved his goal of getting under Anderson's skin. These two have a long history. They beefed when Donaldson was a Twin and the benches cleared in the last series when Donaldson put a hard tag on Anderson and tried to shove him off the bag.

When a guy compares himself to Jackie Robinson, I don't think it's RACIST! to bust his balls about it. In any case, I don't think either guy is very well liked around baseball. Donaldson is a widely known douche. That's why he's been on so many teams. A.J. Pierzynski mode. Anderson may be liked by his teammates but all his strutting and pimping surely isn't appreciated by opponents. Whether the fans consider it "fun" or not.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

Can we all agree to dislike Donaldson until such time he’s on the Sox, at which point he’ll be beloved?

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Of course he was using a taunt that his opponent doesn't like. What an absurd way to counter what I said.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

But bat flips!

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Yeah but Anderson is pioneering bringing fun back into the game . It’s just like Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Donaldson is a big bat flip guy. So he both celebrates latinox culture and is a vehement racist. He’s the perfect Sock.

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Interesting. So he's not upset about bat flips. Why did he say what he did? Who will point out the obvious?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

ONCE AGAIN,,,,,need more guys at US COMISKULAR RATE that celebarte THE LATINS???

More apt had he compared himself to Ty Cobb at some point previously .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Who said what now?

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Good point. Ty Cobb skull fucked a fan mid-game and is in the hall of fame, while Donaldson loses a paycheck for a callback joke.

Bud Selig’s lost all control here.

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As a Sox fan I was embarrassed when I heard the reason for the bench brawl. The guy compared himself to one of the all time greats in the sports and civil rights movement. Razzing him by sarcastically calling him Jackie is 100% the correct thing to do if you are his opponent.

Its similar to when you are playing pick up ball and someone is out there in a pro jersey. let's say for sake of argument it's a Steph Curry jersey. Anytime that guy bricks or air balls a jumper you better believe I'm gonna say nice shot Steph. Doesn't matter if the guy wearing the jersey is white, black, or anything else.

That is 100% fair game trash talking and 0% racist.

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when I played hockey if there was ever anyone out there with a tinted visor he was 100% getting called Ovie the rest of the game. I guess it turns out we were being Russiaphobes.

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Who thought it could be that simple .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He wasn't razzing him because he wasn't playing as well as Jackie Robinson. Come on.

Since no one else will say it. He was razzing him because Anderson isn't matching up to Robinson in terms of being a baseball player that improves things for his race and Anderson made a comment 3 years ago about saying he views himself that way and seemingly has never mentioned it again and probably wishes he hadn't.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

You have tremendous insight into the thinking of both Donaldson and TA.

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Can't we go back to talking about abortion ?

Isn't that pretty much what everyone is saying? You said Donaldson likes bat flips. We all know it wasn't a "Jackie Robinson was a more productive player" comment. That leaves the Social Justice component though it wasn't called that in Jackie Robinson's era.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Bench brawl?

Was there a game I missed or a fight that I missed? As far as I know, this was your run of the mill baseball bench emptying where things are yelled but no fighting occurs.

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K that covers Donaldson. Why would TA regret saying it?

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We got hot new school shooting in Texas that's about to steal Buffalo's thunder. That's worth a few pages of back and forth at least.

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I don't believe he has repeated it since. It's also not a great comparison in terms of the importance of the issues.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I had no idea Anderson even said that in the first place.

A cursory search shows it was never posted here. Lord knows our resident republican Sox fans rogue or Bob certainly would have been all over this and started a thread about it had they known about these comments way back when.

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Pulled him out of gen pop and put him in seg.

oh no I get it. The guy compared himself to Jackie Robinson and so far, he isn't in the same ballpark as Jackie as a player or a civil rights activist. Razzing him by calling him Jackie is 100% the right thing to do in that situation.

And who cares if he said it 3 years ago and never said it again. He said it. It's fair game in the trash talk world.

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Hey Brick, had Donaldson called any other African American players Jackie? If he has I will change my opinion on the matter and agree with you. If not, then this is clearly the case of a very good trash talker going into the archives to dig up some trash talking gold.


Donaldson would make Robin Ficker very proud.

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That's what I've been getting at. Why would a white guy care that Tim Anderson hasn't been able to be as influential as Jackie as a Civil Rights activist? That's exactly why he called him Jackie.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Maybe Josh Donaldson is an Ally disappointed that TA hasn’t been as influential as Jackie Robinson.

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Comparing bringing fun to baseball to what Jackie Robinson did is pretentious and ridiculous. White people can see that too.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

If TA insinuated that he was like Jackie Robinson in any appreciable way because of his (TA's) efforts to have fun with baseball and such, he deserves to be made fun of. How is doing so racist?