Cardinals fans: classy

[Glen]

http://www.salon.com/2016/04/19/racism_at_the_ballpark_cubs_star_jason_heyward_called_n_word_booed_by_fans_in_his_return_to_st_louis/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

 

Yes, I know...

1.  Salon.com

2.  Sample size

3.  Probably would have happened with any team, there are always vocal idiots.

 

But still, yeah.  

[Troll Daddy]

Funny thing is that they cheered Lackey.

[RallyPanda]

Yikes!

[Stradling]

Claude was calling him the N word because he's only batting .188 and he's rich. (Just kidding Claude)

[Tank]

Claude was calling him the N word because he's only batting .188 and he's rich. (Just kidding Claude)

 

okay, but was he fat from eating too many subway sandwiches?

[halosfan1970]

That's why I like it here at AW. I racial and cultural sensitivity are always first-rate.

[Troll Daddy]

http://mweb.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25420683/mike-matheny-bothered-by-jason-heywards-cardinals-commentsI'm

[eligrba4ever]

Jack Robinson and the other early black MLB players never found the welcome mat out for them in St. Louis. About 100 years ago, civic and business leaders resisted a movement to impose racial segregation in St. Louis. The forces pushing for segregation forced a referendum and it passed in a landslide. The courts threw it out in a couple of years, but the sentiments remain. Things haven't changed all that much in the 'burbs around St. Louis. So those chants are not surprising at all. The chanters may now be a minority, but they are still around. The nation was able to see some of them for weeks on end just a couple of summers ago.