Funny how these threads go... Elaine, Bobby "responded" to me because his typing confused me w/Ken. After the strike I said to heck with pro baseball and stopped watching, so who is Rocker and what did he say? -Kyle -----Original Message----- From: Elaine Taylor [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:31 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Interesting twist to ADA In a message dated 2/17/2000 9:18:08 AM, [log in to unmask] writes: << i don't think opinion of some one who just plays ball is inportant enough to have all this attention. who cares about what a baseball player says in the real sceame of things. it is not like he is running for office. nothing he can do really affects me. >> >> Bobby and Kyle, I have to disagree with both of you for a number of reasons. As pwd's , you know how discrimination in any form is harmful. Think of the responses from this list if Rocker say something about pwd's. Also, this man is in a position of a "role model" because of his baseball status. We don't need our children hearing this type of talk and finding out it goes unpunished! What would stop little Johnny in the school yard from repeating the same, and getting punished for it? Is that fair? If it was up to me, I would have fired his butt on the spot. Discrimination in any form is wrong and should not go unpunished! Elaine