Yankeeology
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Remember 90s Braves star John Rocker? The baseball player who was out of Major League Baseball by 2003 for making racist, xenophobic and homophobic remarks after the 1999 World Series, in which the Yankees swept the Rocker-led Braves 4 games to 0...
"I'd retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-wracking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?[11]"
CNN/SI - SI Online - This Week's Issue of Sports Illustrated - Braves' Rocker spews hate in this week's SI - Thursday December 23, 1999 02:07 PM (archive.org)
Former MLB pitcher John Rocker supports Donald Trump for president - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)