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[Intrepid]

Minaya to take part in Africa trip

EW YORK -- New York Mets general manager Omar Minaya will be among a delegation of baseball officials going to Accra, Ghana, next week to hold a clinic and promote baseball.

Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, former San Francisco and Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker also will be on the trip along with Dave Stewart, Bob Watson and Reggie Smith, Minaya said Friday. The group is scheduled to leave New York on Feb. 1, spend four days in Ghana and return Feb. 6.

"Children around the world dream of becoming major league superstars. With the help from programs like this one, the children of Africa are one step closer to making this dream a reality," George Ntim, the president of the African Development Foundation, said in a statement.

The trip marks the highest-level baseball effort in Africa. In the past, Major League Baseball has sent professional and amateur coaches to Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, South Africa, Uganda, Tunisia, Zambia and Zimbabwe, the commissioner's office said. MLB also has donated equipment to groups in those nations over the past decade.

In addition, MLB donated equipment for the 2003 All-Africa games, invited players from Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa to attend its academy in Tirrenia, Pisa, and sent a coach in residence to South Africa.

http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070127&content_id=1787828&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[Keystone]

The Buccos will need a Zimbabwean closer ASAP...:rofl:

The MLB is getting too white, it seems. Our home-grown blacks aren't interested in baseball anymore, so the diversity Magi are dispatched to darkest Africa to bring the black hides home.

Do we really need this foolishness? Many of the Hispanic players are black.

fucking hell.

P.S.

The LaRoche trade is looking better all the time. He's actually excited to be in Pittsburgh. Stranger things have happened....

[The Retard]

Dude, Kenny Williams, the White Sox general manager, has been awesome! I like his style, he has really turned the Sox around. Back in the early 90's the White Sox had one of the darkest line-ups, now with Williams we have one of the whitest. You gotta love them "Uncle Toms" that don't cater to their own "racist" race.


New York Mets general manager Omar Minaya will be among a delegation of baseball officials going to Accra, Ghana, next week to hold a clinic and promote baseball.

Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, former San Francisco and Chicago Cubs manager Dusty Baker also will be on the trip along with Dave Stewart, Bob Watson and Reggie Smith, Minaya said Friday. The group is scheduled to leave New York on Feb. 1, spend four days in Ghana and return Feb. 6.

No surprise here, Dusty Baker has always been racist towards white people. A year ago, the Mets general manager went public about not wanting white players. I don't know much about Winfield, so I have nothing to say about him.

[Intrepid]

Do we really need this foolishness? Many of the Hispanic players are black.


You ever notice how blacks here don't seem to embrace the Latin blacks, though? Kind of strange, when you think about it. After all, white Eastern Europeans NBA players have been been granted a warm reception.

The LaRoche trade is looking better all the time. He's actually excited to be in Pittsburgh. Stranger things have happened....

I've seen some of his comments. I think he's happy he won't be hittin' 7th anymore, too.

BTW, you ever see Van Slykes's blog: http://whereisvanslyke.blogspot.com/

It's pretty good, but most of all, is the degree of candor he shows about the Pirates' brass. I wish a Murphy or Niekro would do something like this for the ATL.

[Intrepid]

A year ago, the Mets general manager went public about not wanting white players.

Source?


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[Keystone]

You ever notice how blacks here don't seem to embrace the Latin blacks, though? Kind of strange, when you think about it. After all, white Eastern Europeans NBA players have been been granted a warm reception.
Ya, most Latin black ballplayers are hyped over basic amenities like working toilets, at first.
I've seen some of his comments. I think he's happy he won't be hittin' 7th anymore, too.
That's a big part of it. Don't rain on our LaRoche parade before June, okay?
Give us Bucco fans a break---:)
BTW, you ever see Van Slykes's blog: http://whereisvanslyke.blogspot.com/

It's pretty good, but most of all, is the degree of candor he shows about the Pirates' brass. I wish a Murphy or Niekro would do something like this for the ATL.
Andy was one of the first to point out Barry Bonds' Melon-Head.