John Angelos on the Orioles and Racist Incident at Fenway

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Dave Zirin / The Nation

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🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, we speak to Baltimore Orioles COO, John Angelos, about his stirring statement against racism after his team's star outfielder, Adam Jones, was hit with a barrage of racist insults at Boston's Fenway Park. We also have a Just Stand Up and Just Sit Down award, both connected to this incident, a special Kaepernick Watch and much more.John Angelos, Baltimore Orioles COORead his statement after the incident in Boston: 'We Must Actively Stand Up': John Angelos's Response to Racism at Fenway Parkhttps://www.thenation.com/article/we-must-actively-stand-up-john-angelos-response-to-racism-at-fenway-park/Dave Zirin, MLB and Boston Sports Fans Have to Stand Up to Racism in the Standshttps://www.thenation.com/article/the-mlb-and-boston-sports-fans-have-to-stand-up-to-racism-in-the-stands/--http://www.edgeofsportspodcast.com/ | http://twitter.com/EdgeOfSportsPod | http://fb.com/edgeofsportspod | email us: [email protected] | Edge of Sports hotline: 401-426-3343 (EDGE)--Music: Don't Say Nuthin' - The Roots | Eye Examination - Del The Funky Homosapien I California Love - Tupac | Airplanes - B.o.B. I Hold On - Alabama Shakes | Why You Wanna - T.I. | Straight Up Menace - MC Eiht | Nobody Speak - DJ Shadow | Gonna Make It - Jadakiss | The Wire Outro Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	John Angelo's, the C.O.O. of the Orioles. Where for you does this come from? Because, I mean,
0:07.4	with all due respect to John Henry and Tom Werner, the Red Sox, and Mayor Marty Walsh,
0:14.1	you know, it's easy to put out a statement that just says, this is not us, we condemn these
0:19.7	actions. It's a lot harder to do what you did, which is not us, we condemn these actions.
0:27.0	It's a lot harder to do what you did, which is to put out something that condemns racism and tries to actually unravel why this racism runs so deeply and then doesn't make it
0:33.2	just about one or two bad apples, but really tries to enhance people's thinking about how we
0:39.6	can organize and stand up against it. So where for you do that impulse come from?
0:45.9	I think it comes from thinking about how much harder it must have been to do those things
0:52.9	50 years ago or to speak up or speak out 50, 60, 70 years ago, or for that matter, 150 years ago.
1:06.7	Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziren. This week, we are doing a full show on the Adam Jones incident in Boston. That's where the Baltimore Orioles All-Star Outfielder had peanuts thrown at him and was called racial slurs by the Fenway faithful.
1:29.7	I'm going to lay down the background of what took place, a little bit about Boston history
1:35.0	and the intersection of racism and sports in the city of Boston.
1:39.0	And then we're going to speak to John Angeloos, the C.O.O of the Orioles who put out a blistering statement to me at the
1:47.4	Nation magazine about what took place. We're going to talk to John Angeloos about that. We also have the
1:53.5	Just Stand Up and Just Sit Your Ass Down Award. We've got a Kaepernick watch, a very interesting one this
1:59.7	week. But first, the background on the Adam Jones incident at Fenway Park.
2:10.2	Okay, so I already mentioned the incident that took place.
2:13.6	Fenway Park, Boston, a group of so-called fans throw a bag of peanuts and shout racial slurs at Adam Jones.
2:21.7	After the incident, this is what he said to USA Today.
2:24.6	He said, I just go out and play baseball.
2:27.3	It's unfortunate that people need to resort to those types of epithets or degrade another human being.
2:32.4	End quote.
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