White Leafs?

[Darts]

Things are really quiet around here at the moment. No football yet. Blue Jay season just started. Still a month away from NHL and NBA playoffs. So, what is the Toronto Star doing to increase eyeballs? Maybe a similar article about the Leafs (below)? Or, is this topic taboo?
Toronto Star slams Blue Jays GM--team "too white" (canadafreepress.com)

 

[Boss Nass]

The article is from 2003, and the Canada Free Press only just found out about it? Typical right-wing rag, always at least four generations behind the times.

But I'll play their silly game. Not to back them up, but to explain why it's a non-issue. The first time I heard it back in '03 I expressed concern, but, over a beer or several, a well-known local sports writer I know put it in perspective for me with one simple sentence; "Somebody has to be." And he's right. Unless you want to have an exact quota system, some team will always be the whitest, or blackest. If you had a sports league with only one white player in it, whichever team had him would be the whitest. 76 years ago today, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the blackest team in baseball. THAT was an issue for many white people, mostly for all the wrong reasons. THIS is not, as far as I can see.

I will listen to counter arguments, but I think it's pretty well cut and dried.

 

[Micber]

you must be bored to dig up an 18 years old headline.

 

[The Oracle]

The article is from 2003, and the Canada Free Press only just found out about it? Typical right-wing rag, always at least four generations behind the times.

But I'll play their silly game. Not to back them up, but to explain why it's a non-issue. The first time I heard it back in '03 I expressed concern, but, over a beer or several, a well-known local sports writer I know put it in perspective for me with one simple sentence; "Somebody has to be." And he's right. Unless you want to have an exact quota system, some team will always be the whitest, or blackest. If you had a sports league with only one white player in it, whichever team had him would be the whitest. 76 years ago today, the Brooklyn Dodgers became the blackest team in baseball. THAT was an issue for many white people, mostly for all the wrong reasons. THIS is not, as far as I can see.

I will listen to counter arguments, but I think it's pretty well cut and dried.

I don't think anybody is behind any times Boss. This seems a Canada Free Press article from 2003. Unless I'm reading it incorrectly.

Interesting how the terminology that was used then is still be used now.

Anyways if I'm owning a sports team. I'm just trying to win. I don't give a flying fidoo about anything else except hoisting the trophy when all is said and done at the end of each season.

The fans regardless of their biases will always pay to see a winner in the end. Guaranteed.

Equality of opportunity, always. Equality of outcome, never,,,,,,,,

 

[shack]

I don't think anybody is behind any times Boss. This seems a Canada Free Press article from 2003. Unless I'm reading it incorrectly.

Interesting how the terminology that was used then is still be used now.

Anyways if I'm owning a sports team. I'm just trying to win. I don't give a flying fidoo about anything else except hoisting the trophy when all is said and done at the end of each season.

The fans regardless of their biases will always pay to see a winner in the end. Guaranteed.

Equality of opportunity, always. Equality of outcome, never,,,,,,,,

Let me summarize your post re: hiring.

Merit. Merit. Merit.

 

[shack]

Things are really quiet around here at the moment. No football yet. Blue Jay season just started. Still a month away from NHL and NBA playoffs. So, what is the Toronto Star doing to increase eyeballs? Maybe a similar article about the Leafs (below)? Or, is this topic taboo?
Toronto Star slams Blue Jays GM--team "too white" (canadafreepress.com)

The Leafs have to be up near the top of the NHL in terms of having non-whites on their team.

 

[The Oracle]

Let me summarize your post re: hiring.

Merit. Merit. Merit.

Yes always. Anything else and you are limiting your potential work production.

 

[gcostanza]

It was not the Toronto Maple Leafs organization that waived a young defenseman to clear a roster spot this past weekend, in order to create space for Tony DeAngelo. Rather, it was a club located ~550km from Toronto.
DeAngelo refused a mutual termination deal with the New York Rangers.
That young defenseman was picked up by another organization.
Oh, the best laid plans....or, in this case, Karma.

 

[curr3n_c1000]

An article from 2003?

Get a life.

 

[shack]

Yes always. Anything else and you are limiting your potential work production.

Wait! What? We agree? LOL.

 

[shack]

An article from 2003?

Get a life.

Nothing gets past darts.

 

[Darts]

An article from 2003?

Get a life.

What! You don't believe in diversity and inclusion?

 

[curr3n_c1000]

What! You don't believe in diversity and inclusion?

Is this what they taught you at McGill? How to find and post obscure articles from almost 2 decades ago?

 

[Darts]

Is this what they taught you at McGill? How to find and post obscure articles from almost 2 decades ago?

The article is from 2003 but the issue is diversity and inclusion. Isn't that relevant in 2021?