Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…
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Rubio
When we first learned of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ plans to award the vile hate group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) with a “Community Hero Award,” we were in disbelief.
How could a venerated American institution like the Dodgers — who play for 4 million Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles alone and count devout Catholics such as Vin Scully, Tommy Lasorda, and Gil Hodges among their beloved legends — celebrate such radically anti-Catholic bigots? Why would Dodgers owner Todd Boehly decide to taint baseball’s beloved legacy of patriotism, faith, and family with a group that exists to defile religious values?
The SPI have gone to great lengths to show their hostility to Catholicism. Yet despite mountains of evidence condemning the so-called “sisters,” the corporate media have — unsurprisingly — made enormous efforts to downplay the group with descriptions like “campy” and “satirical.” Anyone who has ever set foot in a Catholic church or knows anything about Catholic teachings, however, understands that such euphemisms are wildly inappropriate.
We first pitched this op-ed to the Los Angeles Times. We pinged the paper four times over the course of three days but received no response. We take this as an indication that the pro-Dodgers Times does not wish its readers to hear the other side of the story.
What Catholics hold most dear in life is their faith, the sacred symbols, traditions, and practices of which have been handed down over 2,000 years to the most diverse congregation on the planet. The SPI know this, and that’s why they engage in the most grotesque parodies of those symbols, traditions, and practices that they can come up with.
The organization consists of men dressing up as nuns who take on names such as “Sister Porn Again” and adopt slogans like “Go and sin some more” to mock the words of Jesus, “Go and sin no more,” which call all of us to conversion. The “sisters” also ridicule Jesus’ saving passion, death, and resurrection by turning the crucifixion scene into a pole dance on Easter Sunday — for Christians, the most sacred day of the entire year. They are infamous for filling chalices with yogurt made to look like semen, as well as distributing condoms in a gross simulation of Holy Communion. We could go on with more sordid details, but you get the point.
Any Christian who witnesses such behavior understands that these offenses are intended to go far beyond “satire.” In fact, the SPI’s track record is so perverse that many Catholics do not know how to respond other than expressing their shock with the very same words Jesus once said from the cross about those putting Him to death: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
The Dodgers will soon honor this group in the name of “inclusivity” and “tolerance.”
Would anyone tolerate a group that portrayed the prophet Muhammad as a drag queen? Or a striptease at the Western Wall in Jerusalem? Of course not. But now, when pro-abortion extremists are already unleashing a wave of violent attacks on Catholics around the country, the Dodgers have made it clear that anti-Catholicism is not only an acceptable form of bigotry, but laudable.
Unlike the powerful LGBT lobby, we don’t have the ear of billion-dollar corporations like the Dodgers. So we expressed our concerns the old-fashioned way: We wrote them a letter, and we called and filled up their voicemail. Our request was modest and reasonable. We didn’t demand the Dodgers cancel their “pride night” altogether, even though we believe baseball teams should focus on baseball, not identity politics. We simply asked them not to give a platform to vicious anti-Catholic zealots.
For a few days, the Dodgers looked as though they would change course and reconsider their grave mistake. But in the end, left-wing extremists got their way and elicited not only a re-invitation to the SPI on pride night but an apology for ever having disinvited them.
This should outrage the millions of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, whose voices and religious beliefs are clearly despised by the very team relying on their support. It should also concern the millions of non-Catholic Los Angeles residents, whose team decided to openly encourage and celebrate anti-Catholic discrimination.
We will not stand for these attacks on our faith. Everyone in Southern California should understand that the Dodgers they knew and loved sacrificed their legacy and honor on the altar of anti-Catholic hate.
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Rubio
When we first learned of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ plans to award the vile hate group known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (SPI) with a “Community Hero Award,” we were in disbelief.
How could a venerated American institution like the Dodgers — who play for 4 million Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles alone and count devout Catholics such as Vin Scully, Tommy Lasorda, and Gil Hodges among their beloved legends — celebrate such radically anti-Catholic bigots? Why would Dodgers owner Todd Boehly decide to taint baseball’s beloved legacy of patriotism, faith, and family with a group that exists to defile religious values?
The SPI have gone to great lengths to show their hostility to Catholicism. Yet despite mountains of evidence condemning the so-called “sisters,” the corporate media have — unsurprisingly — made enormous efforts to downplay the group with descriptions like “campy” and “satirical.” Anyone who has ever set foot in a Catholic church or knows anything about Catholic teachings, however, understands that such euphemisms are wildly inappropriate.
We first pitched this op-ed to the Los Angeles Times. We pinged the paper four times over the course of three days but received no response. We take this as an indication that the pro-Dodgers Times does not wish its readers to hear the other side of the story.
What Catholics hold most dear in life is their faith, the sacred symbols, traditions, and practices of which have been handed down over 2,000 years to the most diverse congregation on the planet. The SPI know this, and that’s why they engage in the most grotesque parodies of those symbols, traditions, and practices that they can come up with.
The organization consists of men dressing up as nuns who take on names such as “Sister Porn Again” and adopt slogans like “Go and sin some more” to mock the words of Jesus, “Go and sin no more,” which call all of us to conversion. The “sisters” also ridicule Jesus’ saving passion, death, and resurrection by turning the crucifixion scene into a pole dance on Easter Sunday — for Christians, the most sacred day of the entire year. They are infamous for filling chalices with yogurt made to look like semen, as well as distributing condoms in a gross simulation of Holy Communion. We could go on with more sordid details, but you get the point.
Any Christian who witnesses such behavior understands that these offenses are intended to go far beyond “satire.” In fact, the SPI’s track record is so perverse that many Catholics do not know how to respond other than expressing their shock with the very same words Jesus once said from the cross about those putting Him to death: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
The Dodgers will soon honor this group in the name of “inclusivity” and “tolerance.”
Would anyone tolerate a group that portrayed the prophet Muhammad as a drag queen? Or a striptease at the Western Wall in Jerusalem? Of course not. But now, when pro-abortion extremists are already unleashing a wave of violent attacks on Catholics around the country, the Dodgers have made it clear that anti-Catholicism is not only an acceptable form of bigotry, but laudable.
Unlike the powerful LGBT lobby, we don’t have the ear of billion-dollar corporations like the Dodgers. So we expressed our concerns the old-fashioned way: We wrote them a letter, and we called and filled up their voicemail. Our request was modest and reasonable. We didn’t demand the Dodgers cancel their “pride night” altogether, even though we believe baseball teams should focus on baseball, not identity politics. We simply asked them not to give a platform to vicious anti-Catholic zealots.
For a few days, the Dodgers looked as though they would change course and reconsider their grave mistake. But in the end, left-wing extremists got their way and elicited not only a re-invitation to the SPI on pride night but an apology for ever having disinvited them.
This should outrage the millions of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, whose voices and religious beliefs are clearly despised by the very team relying on their support. It should also concern the millions of non-Catholic Los Angeles residents, whose team decided to openly encourage and celebrate anti-Catholic discrimination.
We will not stand for these attacks on our faith. Everyone in Southern California should understand that the Dodgers they knew and loved sacrificed their legacy and honor on the altar of anti-Catholic hate.
@LuFins-Dad said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
We pinged the paper four times over the course of three days but received no response.
The newspaper didn't respond to a US Senator.
That tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Maybe the Muslims have the right idea.
Issue a fatwa on their ass, hunt them down and put them out of their misery in the most horrendous way imaginable. But Christians won't do that.
I can only hope this bunch of nuts will expand their hatred to Mohammed.
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@LuFins-Dad said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
We pinged the paper four times over the course of three days but received no response.
The newspaper didn't respond to a US Senator.
That tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
@George-K said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
@LuFins-Dad said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
We pinged the paper four times over the course of three days but received no response.
The newspaper didn't respond to a US Senator.
That tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
Yeah, this is the prerogative of a free press in a free society.
I want elected politicians to be responsive to questions from the press, I don't think the press owes elected politicians answers.
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Maybe the Muslims have the right idea.
Issue a fatwa on their ass, hunt them down and put them out of their misery in the most horrendous way imaginable. But Christians won't do that.
I can only hope this bunch of nuts will expand their hatred to Mohammed.
@Jolly said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Maybe the Muslims have the right idea.
Issue a fatwa on their ass, hunt them down and put them out of their misery in the most horrendous way imaginable. But Christians won't do that.
They used to, we just don’t let them do it anymore.
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@Jolly said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Maybe the Muslims have the right idea.
Issue a fatwa on their ass, hunt them down and put them out of their misery in the most horrendous way imaginable. But Christians won't do that.
They used to, we just don’t let them do it anymore.
@Jon said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
@Jolly said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Maybe the Muslims have the right idea.
Issue a fatwa on their ass, hunt them down and put them out of their misery in the most horrendous way imaginable. But Christians won't do that.
They used to, we just don’t let them do it anymore.
You don't let anybody do anything. People do what they wish to do. As I said, pull this crap with the Muslims, and see what you let them do. It is only through the Grace of God and the forbearance of Christians, that a large segment of the population doesn't go medieval on these nuts. Seriously, could you see this shit happening with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1955?
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@George-K said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Hmm, that actually might even save baseball.
Even more-so than Football, there are a CRAP-TON of Athletes that are on the verge of big league talent but will never be called up. These players average about $65K per year.. Attendance at the AAA games is generally about 5K-10K, roughly 1/4 of some of the MLB games and MANY people prefer the atmosphere and experience of AAA ball.
I bet you could offer those players guaranteed 5 year contracts worth $100K minimum per year guaranteed and $200K max guaranteed contracts with a non-compete (no going to MLB for 5 years), Simplify the contracts so no agent is really necessary and the player gets to keep their pay, and I’ll bet a helluva lot of players would sign up. Each team would have a hard cap… Negotiate streaming, radio, and cable deals… I bet it would work. Heck, I bet you could even get some of the small market MLB teams to make the switch.
That would be brilliant.
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@George-K said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Hmm, that actually might even save baseball.
Even more-so than Football, there are a CRAP-TON of Athletes that are on the verge of big league talent but will never be called up. These players average about $65K per year.. Attendance at the AAA games is generally about 5K-10K, roughly 1/4 of some of the MLB games and MANY people prefer the atmosphere and experience of AAA ball.
I bet you could offer those players guaranteed 5 year contracts worth $100K minimum per year guaranteed and $200K max guaranteed contracts with a non-compete (no going to MLB for 5 years), Simplify the contracts so no agent is really necessary and the player gets to keep their pay, and I’ll bet a helluva lot of players would sign up. Each team would have a hard cap… Negotiate streaming, radio, and cable deals… I bet it would work. Heck, I bet you could even get some of the small market MLB teams to make the switch.
That would be brilliant.
@LuFins-Dad said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
@George-K said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Hmm, that actually might even save baseball.
Even more-so than Football, there are a CRAP-TON of Athletes that are on the verge of big league talent but will never be called up. These players average about $65K per year.. Attendance at the AAA games is generally about 5K-10K, roughly 1/4 of some of the MLB games and MANY people prefer the atmosphere and experience of AAA ball.
I bet you could offer those players guaranteed 5 year contracts worth $100K minimum per year guaranteed and $200K max guaranteed contracts with a non-compete (no going to MLB for 5 years), Simplify the contracts so no agent is really necessary and the player gets to keep their pay, and I’ll bet a helluva lot of players would sign up. Each team would have a hard cap… Negotiate streaming, radio, and cable deals… I bet it would work. Heck, I bet you could even get some of the small market MLB teams to make the switch.
That would be brilliant.
I agree.
A little something to add...If you are watching the CWS, the announcers have said several times this is a very, very special year. Every year, you have four or five guys that most of the people who cover the CWS say will eventually play in the Bigs. This year, they say the talent level is the highest they've ever seen. There is so much talent, if you held a draft out of just this year's teams, there is enough pitching, hitting and defensive talent to field an entire team at the MLB level. That's 26 guys. 26.
Wonder how many of those guys will ever make it to the Bigs?
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AAA ball is just a very small notch down from MLB, much cheaper and more entertaining. The parks are great.
@Mik said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
AAA ball is just a very small notch down from MLB, much cheaper and more entertaining. The parks are great.
I’ve commented to you before about the Pirates, Reds, Royals, etc… ought to pull out of MLB. They simply will not succeed consistently against the big market teams with no salary cap. They may have a breakout year with young players, but they will eventually lose them to the Dodgers/Yankees…
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https://sports.yahoo.com/plaschke-dodgers-pride-night-feels-054612716.html
Dodger Stadium has rarely looked more empty.
Dodger Stadium has rarely felt more full.
An hour before the Dodgers hosted the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, in the strangest of sights, there were no players in the dugout, no players on the field, and barely a couple of hundred fans in the stands.
Sister Unity and Sister Dominia didn’t mind.
They stood in front of the third-base line and embraced their Community Hero Award medals as if they were accepting an Oscar.
They waved to a handful of people waving back. They basked in the scattered cheers. They swept dramatically off the field smiling with painted faces and swooshing their blue and black habits.
Outside the gates, several thousand were protesting their existence. Throughout the Catholic community, thousands more showered them with scolding prayers and calls for boycotts.
They didn’t listen. They didn’t run. They didn’t cave. The Dodgers, who caved once, didn’t cave again.
In a four-minute ceremony that was the culmination of three weeks of controversy, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence activist organization was finally honored as the highlight of the Dodgers’ 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night.
You could have heard a pin drop. You could have seen hearts soar.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
