Bud Norris wants to make baseball great again

[Capt. Obvious]

Bud Norris Thinks Foreign Players Need To Respect 'America's Game' If They Want 'Our American Dollars'

San Diego Padres pitcher Bud Norris wants to let foreign players know that if they're going to come play his country's game in his country and take his country's money, then they better damn well act how his country wants them to act.

A recent USA Today article analyzed "bench-clearing incidents" in Major League Baseball over the last five years and found that in 87 percent of the incidents, the "main antagonists hailed from different ethnic backgrounds."

Informed of this statistic, Norris offered his, uh, interesting take on the situation:



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Of course today he apologized to anyone that was offended by his words that were taken out of context. He was trying to get out and be with his family when the interview was conducted and he didn't know it was on the record.

[KamaAina]

1. So tRump now has a mole in baseball, too?

Norris : baseball :: Brady : football?

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Maybe It's Me, But. . .

. . .i don't read that statement as inflammatory as others. Probably better left unsaid, and it is referencing the "unwritten rules" of baseball (which i think are ridiculous), but i don't read the xenophobia that other folks are inferring from it.