Shawn Green Retires

[Valadius]

Tells the Post.

[Frayed Knot]

He joins the list of players with long careers mostly in other cities who winds up in the "died a Met" category.

[Willets Point]

Au revoir, Monsieur Vert.

[Guest themetfairy]

FAFIF covered this nicely.

[MFS62]

Wishing him all the best in whatever he chooses to do.
Shawn, t'salanga yoren, t'savaksen and tse'kvellen.*
Later

*= Long years (life), with laughing and smiling.

[Guest KC]

אֲנִי לֹא בָּטוּחַ.

[soupcan]

KC wrote: ????? ??? ????????.

Nice.

OE: Hey, it didn't translate!

[Guest KC]

I know Hebrew like I know nuclear science.

Loosely, I guess it means "I don't know" or "I'm not so sure."

Shawn's stint as a Met wasn't all that memorable for me and I've said on a
number of occasions I can't relate to rooting for a sports figure based on religion.

[Guest KC]

Well, jeez ... didn't mean to bring the forum to a screeching halt.

I wonder how quick the snarkers would take if I posted that I was a huge
Alex Rodriguez fan because he's an Orthodox Greek Christian and as a
young boy I went to a Greek Orthodox church because we didn't have a
car and that was the only catholic church within walking distance.

"To whom wilt thou leave us, thy children, father? Whom dost thou set as our
shepherd instead of thee; who will be able, following in thy footsteps, to
firmly guide the Yankees?"

[Guest themetfairy]

KC wrote: I wonder how quick the snarkers would take if I posted that I was a huge Alex Rodriguez fan because he's an Orthodox Greek Christian and as a young boy I went to a Greek Orthodox church because we didn't have a car and that was the only catholic church within walking distance.

Here's the thing you don't get. Most of us would think to ourselves, "Ok, Kase identifies with the guy and, thus, hopes he does well," and not think of it as any kind of big deal.

[Guest KC]

Aw, how sweet. I'll think of you next time there's some more christian bashing
here. I just think it's best to leave religion out of sports.

Can you post the soup recipe?

[Guest themetfairy]

Nobody is bashing anyone here. You're adding a confrontational element to this that doesn't exist.

You may not get the fact that people tend to root a little harder for players with whom they identify. But equating that with bashing is a big overstretch.

[Guest KC]

If you mean by here this thread or this current discussion, I didn't say there
was bashing. There is plenty of anti-christian innuendo in the history of this
board that goes unchecked is what I meant. If someone posted that they root
for Joe Blow because he's a good southern Baptist and thanked the good lord
that one's of christ's children was doing good in the biggies ... someone would
say something ... maybe even drag politics into it too.

I'm not really arguing here, I gave it up for lent. I felt bad that I put the forum
on pause. I'm not too good at splitting threads, if another admin wants to pluck
this away from Shawn's thread, please do.

[stevejrogers]

Do you want to get on the scores of African-Americans in 1947 who suddenly became Brooklyn Dodger fans because of Jackie Robinson?

Do you want to get on the Dominican Republican comunity of Queens for being essentially groupies of Pedro Martinez rather than simply rooting for the Mets?

Do you want to get on any Brooklyn born Met fans for loving Lee Mazzilli, Joe Torre, or whomever other Brooklyn born Met more so than other Mets?

Do you want to get on whatever fan base we have in Norfolk, Virginia rooting for the Mets simply because they have a native son playing for the Mets, rather than root for a team closer to them, or whomever the Tides are afflilated with at this time?

[Guest themetfairy]

Why don't you save your ranting about anti-Christian bashing for the threads that actually have it, then, instead of inserting it into places where it isn't happening?

Yeah, splitting this out would be a good idea.

[Guest cooby]

I like Mike Mussina, he's a local boy, and I know people who know him.
Too bad he's a Yankee, right?

[Guest KC]

Don't get mad a me, fairy, because you couldn't discern that I was talking
about the board in general and not this thread.

My underlying message is/was that there's no place, for me, for religion in
baseball or sports I guess.

Sorry to hit a nerve.

[stevejrogers]

My retort is that how is that so different than rooting for a player and their current team based on their race, home town or home country?

[Guest themetfairy]

And my major point is that you don't have to get other people's identification with religion (or, as Steve and cooby point out, with other identifying factors) in order to respect it.

You don't have such an identification, and that's fine. But others of us do, and it's irritating that any mention of that results in posts by you that basically equates that identification with bashing. And yes, that does hit a nerve.

[Guest KC]

You have blinders on to what I'm saying about the bashing part. If it occurs
again I will point it out to illustrate it better to you.

Now get the last word in and I won't answer so you get the last word and
we'll be done until some christians get bashed.

And SteveJRetorter, I guess I don't do any of those things either.

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm not saying it doesn't occur. But let's have a dialog about it when and where it occurs, instead of inserting it in discussions where it's not happening.

[HahnSolo]

Green's power retired four years ago.