{"id":1487078,"date":"2022-05-21T21:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487078"},"modified":"2022-05-21T21:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T01:28:38","slug":"benches-clear-after-yankees-third-baseman-accused-of-making-racist-comment-against-chicago-white-sox-shortstop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/benches-clear-after-yankees-third-baseman-accused-of-making-racist-comment-against-chicago-white-sox-shortstop\/","title":{"rendered":"Benches Clear After Yankees Third Baseman Accused Of Making \u2018Racist Comment\u2019 Against Chicago White Sox Shortstop"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbenches-clear-after-yankees-third-baseman-accused-of-making-racist-comment-against-chicago-white-sox-shortstop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Untitled-design-44-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Saturday at Yankee Stadium in New York City, Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson accused New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson of issuing a racially charged remark toward the black professional baseball player, but Donaldson insisted his comment was not meant to be derogatory and apologized after the game.<\/p>\n<p>During the third inning, Anderson was heading toward the visitor\u2019s dugout when he began talking back and forth with Donaldson. The Yankees\u2019 third-baseman called Donaldson \u201cJackie,\u201d in reference to Jackie Robinson, at one point during that conversation. That led to a heated moment between the two men, and in the fifth inning, both benches cleared when Anderson came up to bat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just made a disrespectful comment,\u201d Anderson said after the game. \u201cBasically he was trying to call me Jackie Robinson. \u2018What\u2019s up, Jackie?\u2019 I don\u2019t play like that. I don\u2019t really play at all. I wasn\u2019t really going to bother nobody today, but he made the comment and, you know, it was disrespectful, and I don\u2019t think it was called for. It was unneccesary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White Sox manager Tony La Russa slammed Donaldson for the remark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made a racist comment, Donaldson, and that\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say. That\u2019s as strong as it gets,\u201d La Russa told the press.<\/p>\n<p>Donaldson, who admitted to calling Anderson \u201cJackie,\u201d defended himself while saying that it was all a misunderstanding. Donaldson claimed that the comment was in \u201creference to a 2019 interview with Sports Illustrated in which Anderson described himself as feeling like \u2018today\u2019s Jackie Robinson\u2019 in how he\u2019s \u2018getting to a point where I need to change the game,\u2019\u201d ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy meaning of that is not any term trying to be racist by any fact of the matter,\u201d Donaldson said. \u201cObviously, he deemed it disrespectful. And look, if he did, I apologize. That\u2019s not what I was trying to do by any manner and that\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White Sox players were clearly angry at the comment, and a fight almost occurred later on in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the fifth inning of Saturday\u2019s game, White Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal stood up from his crouch and began jawing at Donaldson as he approached the plate,\u201d ESPN added. \u201cThe barking continued as relievers ran in from the bullpens and the benches emptied, with La Russa also yelling at Donaldson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve me, you don\u2019t want me to tell you guys what I told him,\u201d Grandal said after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis game went through a period in time where a lot of those comments were meant, and I think we\u2019re way past that,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd it\u2019s just unacceptable. I just thought it was a low blow and I want to make sure I\u2019ve got my team\u2019s back. There\u2019s no way that you\u2019re allowed to say something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees won the game 7-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday at Yankee Stadium in New York City, Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson accused New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson of issuing a racially charged remark toward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1487087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}