After talking about Duke basketball. I can’t ignore a developing situation with my other favorite sports team, The New York Yankees. During yesterday’s game at Yankee Stadium between the Yanks and White Sox, there were several interruptions during the game when predominately White Sox star, Tim Anderson and other teammates got into shouting matches with players having to be held back from fighting with new Yankee this year, Josh Donaldson. After the game we learned that there may have been racial overtures when the white Donaldson called the black Anderson “Jackie”, referring to Jackie Robinson. The White Sox perceived it as a racial slur and Donaldson claimed he was just having fun as Anderson once called himself the new Jackie Robinson.
I don’t know Donaldson well as he only became a Yankee this spring, but it seems to me that saying, “What’s up Jackie?” To Anderson twice during the game yesterday, after the two had a shoving incident at third base last week in Chicago, indicates that Donaldson may have had malice in his taunt.
It all needs to be sorted out, but I don’t want to ignore a potential tinder box incident involving a player on my team. I hope it was not meant the way Anderson took it, but I tend to think that Donaldson may be very much in the wrong. We shall see what happens. It is still a developing situation and story.
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Evan is Tampa’s boy. Take it up with him.
