NBC11.com - Minor League Baseball - Rocker Released Central Islip, NY Controversial reliever john rocker had his stint in New York is there and I m sure we haven t heard the last from john in baseball. http://www.nbc11.com/minorbase/4658488/detail.html
Extractions: Family Consumer Dating Weddings ... About NBC11 Minor League Baseball Scoreboard National Sports NFL MLB NBA NHL NCAA Football NCAA Basketball NASCAR Golf WNBA Soccer Horse Racing Minor Baseball Boxing Tennis Email This Story Print This Story POSTED: 6:48 pm PDT June 27, 2005 Central Islip, NY Controversial reliever John Rocker had his stint in New York cut short, as he was released by the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League on Monday. Rocker, who went 0-2 with a 6.50 ERA in 23 appearances with Long Island, said he decided to take a step back from baseball and assess his future playing career. "After pitching for two months with the Long Island Ducks, the consistency required to pitch at the major league level, and the consistency I demand from myself, are not where they should be," Rocker said in a statement. "As a result, I have elected to take a step back and reevaluate the options available to me." The 30-year-old Rocker compiled a 13-22 record with a 3.42 ERA in his six years in the majors with Atlanta, Cleveland, Texas and Tampa Bay. He had 38 saves for the Braves in 1999. However, Rocker was better known for his degrading remarks made in Sports Illustrated in 1999, directed at minorities, gays and immigrants.
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Extractions: var MenuLinkedBy='AllWebMenus [2]', awmBN='528'; awmAltUrl=''; Current Archive Filip Bondy has traveled from Doha, Qatar, to Harare, Zimbabwe, while covering some very famous and some extremely obscure sports events. Bondy's reports and humorous diaries have chronicled Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Cup and camel racing. Closer to home, Bondy created the Bleacher Creature feature that gave a public voice to the boisterous fans in Section 39 at Yankee Stadium. Bondy first worked at The News in 1983, after a decade in news, features and sports with the defunct Paterson News and Bergen Record (he panned "Evita" as a theater critic, predicting it wouldn't last a week). He returned to The News as a columnist in 1993, following a stint at the New York Times. During his eclectic career, he was a beat reporter covering the Yankees, Nets, Knicks, Rangers, Tonya Harding and the national marbles championships. Bondy graduated from the University of Wisconsin and earned a master's at Penn. His fourth sports book, "Bleeding Pinstripes," is on the Bleacher Creatures. By the way, the "F" in Filip is Czech - his father grew up in Prague. You can call him "Flip," the way Micheal Ray Richardson first did, and he won't mind. Mostly, Bondy wants to play right midfield for Boca Juniors. Email:
New York Daily News - Sports - Rocker Still The Ranter Bellyaching baseballer john rocker has planted his cleats in his mouth again Robinson, one of the most beloved figures in the annals of baseball, http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/story/308461p-263935c.html
Extractions: DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS John Rocker has put his foot in his mouth again. He's still off his rocker. Bellyaching baseballer John Rocker has planted his cleats in his mouth again - comparing his minor-league woes with the struggles of Hall of Fame heroes Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron. "I've taken a lot of crap from a lot of people. Probably more than anybody in the history of this sport," Rocker told ESPN.com "I know Hank and Jackie took a good deal of crap, but I guarantee it wasn't for six years. I just keep thinking: How much am I supposed to take?" New Yorkers were flabbergasted yesterday by the pitcher's attempt to link the boos he gets on the mound for the Long Island Ducks to the racist taunts and threats groundbreaking greats Robinson and Aaron bore. "He's a bum!" said Brian Ramos, a conductor on the 7 train, the subway line whose riders Rocker maligned in 1999 with an anti-New York rant about gays, foreigners and AIDS. "Those guys were great ballplayers. They are going down in history as the greatest ballplayers. This guy is going down in history for his mouth."
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Extractions: January 9, 2000 By The Associated Press KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) The Atlanta Braves came Sunday to sign autographs. Instead, they wound up answering questions about John Rocker. Outfielder Andruw Jones, shortstop Walt Weiss and manager Bobby Cox were among those taking part in the promotion at the Braves' spring training site, Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex. ``It's disappointing,'' Jones said of Rocker's remarks. ``But I lived with Rocker for one year and he always was kind of crazy, but not to say stuff like that. I don't know if it came from his heart, or it came from his head or just stupidness.'' Rocker told Sports Illustrated he would never play for a New York team because he didn't want to ride a train ``next to some queer with AIDS.'' He also said, ``I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. ... How the hell did they get in this country?'' He called a black teammate a ``fat monkey,'' mocked the driving skills of Asian women and insulted single mothers. Rocker apologized for the remarks published last month and said he was not a racist.
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Extractions: Triad Careers: Call Centers call Triad home Celebrating Nurses Week 2005 Triad Careers: Employment of Choice Living Well at 50 Plus ... Travel: Tread Softly Thursday, April 14, 2005 Main What a sweet, sweet irony it is that John Rocker is trying to revive his baseball career with the indy-league Long Island Ducks, who play a relatively short train ride away from Shea Stadium, where he six years ago compared riding the 7 train in New York to traveling through Beirut. And worse. Now 30, the xenohomophobe says he's matured and hopes New Yorkers have matured enough to forgive him, according to this New York Post account . He'd even be willing to pitch for the Mets. And his career looked promising for a few years. It all seemed to fall apart, though, after an unpleasant train ride through the city. After the Braves' bullpen meltdowns the last few days, maybe Rocker should put a call in to John Schuerholz and stock up on MARTA tokens.
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Extractions: Baseball Fever National League Atlanta Braves PDA View Full Version : Rocker to C-Town in Three Way Trade? Bleacher Bum 03-28-2000, 10:42 PM Everybody in C-Town is on the edge of their seats speculating on variations of the rumored trade between the Braves and the Indians which would send John Rocker and another pitcher to Cleveland for Jaret Wright, Paul Shuey, and a minor league SS named John MacDonald.
Elysian Fields Quarterly - The Baseball Review john rocker, Atlanta Braves closer, December 27, 1999 issue of Sports Illustrated His book came and went with no comment from Organized baseball. http://www.efqreview.com/NewFiles/v17n2/coachbox.html
Extractions: "I'm not a racist or prejudiced person, but certain people bother me." Sports Illustrated "My comments concerning several different groups have left people wondering if I'm a racist. I"m not a racist, although I can understand how someone who did not know me could think that." Journal-Constitution, March 1, 2000 Weighing in on the embattled Braves pitcher at this late date may strike some as shooting fish in a barrel or kicking a man when he's down, but I assure you I have no intention of kicking or shooting anyone or anything. I'm just as interested in the reaction of the media and the fans and Organized Baseball to Rocker's bigoted Sports Illustrated interview ( SI I haven't seen much discussion of that in the tidal wave of condemnation following the SI article. No one seems particularly interested in who Rocker really is; everyone seems content to just take Rocker's comments and outrageous, self-created cartoon media image at face value and fire away from there. Unfortunately, not even the man himself seems too interested in self-examination. Beyond his strange and, needless to say, unconvincing protestations that he's not a racist, he has shown only a very limited capacity for self-awareness. In a brief statement published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Extractions: Mark's View: Can John be Rocked by Baseball? New York, January 15, 2000 Like most other human beings, I found Atlanta Braves' relief pitcher John Rocker's comments in Sports llustrated about people of color, foreigners, homosexuals and New York City to be offensive. And in keeping with the long, tormented racial history of baseball, these remarks could hardly have been music to commissioner Bud Selig's ears. Baseball ordered Rocker to undergo psychological evaluation. I am not an expert in these matters, but I don't know if these statements evidence psychological problems, rather than social ignorance. And if it is determined that Rocker needs "help," would that exonerate him for the remarks he made? It should not and Rocker should receive all the criticism and booing he justly deserves. The next question is harder, from an ethical view. Can his employers, the Braves and Major League Baseball, suspend him for those statements? Should an employer have the right to punish an employer from expressing views albeit appalling outside of his workplace? Major League Baseball's Powers According to the New York Times
Article | Baseball Is Off Its Rocker, By Sally Satel baseball s latest bad boy is Atlanta Braves pitcher john rocker. Last month hespoke disparagingly of foreigners, homosexuals and a black teammate in Sports http://www.sallysatelmd.com/html/a-wsj03.html
Extractions: The Wall Street Journal By Sally Satel Baseball's latest bad boy is Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker. Last month he spoke disparagingly of foreigners, homosexuals and a black teammate in Sports Illustrated, and now there are cries that he should be dumped. But before Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig decides what to do with Mr. Rocker, he wants to hear from the mental health profession. On Friday, the pitcher had his first mandatory evaluation with psychiatrists. Psychiatrists? What is our role in helping Mr. Selig reprimand Mr. Rocker? The commissioner should decide what behavior the sport finds unacceptable, devise a sanction and implement it. Period. By effectively saying that anyone who uses bigoted language is mentally ill, Mr. Selig (who decided in cooperation with the Players Association to obtain the evaluation) is medicalizing behavior that we rightly object to on moral grounds. By asking psychiatrists to help him reprimand Mr. Rocker, Mr. Selig is hiding behind our couch. I cannot help suspect that, deep down, Mr. Selig and Company know that sending the 25-year-old Mr. Rocker to the shrink is an empty gesture. Perhaps they figure that a needless trip to the psychiatrist will be the first in a longer series of punitive steps. But the gesture still sends a disturbing message to young baseball fans: Offensive behavior is actually a deep pathology, one that individuals cannot control.
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Extractions: W hy J ohn R ocker S ucks , N ew Y ork R ocks and O ther S implistic V iewpoints By Sean Lilly "Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, next to some queer " -John Rocker, to Sports Illustrated I really don't know why I still watch baseball or any other sport; most of the guys who are considered to be in their prime are about my age, which means they were old enough to be the very jocks who stuffed me into lockers in high school, knocked my books out of my six-megaton bookbag, and assumed I was gay. If only they hadn't caught me ass-fucking the point guard from the basketball team but that's another story. In any case, when you're an office temp by day and a stand-up comic who just about has to hand out free blowjobs to get stage time in half-empty basements on Sunday, you need something to provide you with joy in your life. Believing that wearing the same lucky shirt during every game of a six-game winning streak and screaming obscenities at a television actually helped a team from your native city win a game that doesn't affect the universe in any significant way can do just that. So it was vicarious yet satisfying excitement I felt when the Mets, the team I had foolishly grown up rooting for, pulled off a major trade for Mike Hampton, a desperately-needed left-handed ace for the starting rotation.
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