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Offline Frau Mau

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #50: June 09, 2011, 04:17:13 PM »
I don't think the N word is acceptable for use, in any age group.

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Oh, no I didn't mean that at all. Clearly it isn't, but it's pervasive in rap music/culture/whatev. I didn't mean to imply anything else.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #51: June 09, 2011, 04:27:45 PM »
And Patti Smith.  but she's an artiste making social commentary.

As for this stupidity, every employer knows to check facebook and twitter when they hire an employee to check for stupid statements.  How is it the Nats missed this?

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« Reply #52: June 09, 2011, 04:32:20 PM »
That reminds me of a tirade/rant that George Clinton did as a speaker at CMJ when I was working for our college radio station. He was totally nuts sounding, but the N bomb was being dropped left and right. Vernon Reid was the next speaker and totally blanked on what he was going to say. He was stunned as were most of us.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #53: June 09, 2011, 04:45:55 PM »
And Patti Smith.  but she's an artiste making social commentary.

As for this stupidity, every employer knows to check facebook and twitter when they hire an employee to check for stupid statements.  How is it the Nats missed this?

Skin from Skunk Anansie does too, and she is "allowed."

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #54: June 09, 2011, 07:21:39 PM »
And Patti Smith.  but she's an artiste making social commentary.

As for this stupidity, every employer knows to check facebook and twitter when they hire an employee to check for stupid statements.  How is it the Nats missed this?

And Randy Newman using the N word multiple times in "Rednecks" in 1974.  That was some serious social commentary.

Agreed that the Nats screwed up big time on this. 

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #55: June 09, 2011, 08:02:37 PM »
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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #56: June 09, 2011, 08:27:53 PM »
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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #57: June 09, 2011, 08:33:14 PM »
I can dig it.

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« Reply #58: June 09, 2011, 08:34:49 PM »
Big time Sly fan.

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« Reply #59: June 09, 2011, 09:18:14 PM »
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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #60: June 10, 2011, 02:01:09 AM »
This kid is mentally 5 years old. Makeup is a scouting criterion. This was poor scouting.

They probably didn't scout him, at all.  They likely just read a report on him...and almost certainly, they didn't interview him.  Remember this is the Rizzo scouting department we're talking about here.

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« Reply #61: June 10, 2011, 06:29:03 AM »
They probably didn't scout him, at all.  They likely just read a report on him...and almost certainly, they didn't interview him.  Remember this is the Rizzo scouting department we're talking about here.

Aren't they the same folks that "scouted" Yunesky "92-94 MPH FB" Maya?

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #62: June 10, 2011, 07:39:29 AM »
Hey Linty - thanks for putting the Houchins twitter stuff on your website.  I expect the national media will catch up to this story at some point, too.

As far as him being a bigot - I don't know.  I'm willing to reserve judgement on that until I know more about the kid - how he grew up, who is friends and family are, etc.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #63: June 10, 2011, 08:42:20 AM »
And it's officially a story. Linty saved all of the tweets, he should share them with Kilgore. I still can't believe Rizzo and company didn't do their due diligence before drafting him. The info was widely available out there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/post/nationals-looking-into-offensive-comments-by-draft-pick-zach-houchins/2011/06/10/AGvXLKOH_blog.html

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The Nationals are monitoring offensive and vulgar comments made on the Twitter account of Zach Houchins, a shortstop the team picked in the 15th round of this year’s amateur draft.

“We are aware of and investigating the comments,” General Manager Mike Rizzo said in a statement released through a team spokesman after midnight East Coast time. Rizzo was not immediately available for further comment.

Houchins’s Twitter feed was deleted late last night, around the time the Nationals released the statement from Rizzo. It had included rampant epithets depicting African-Americans, many phrases objectifying women and at least one epithet used to describe Chinese people.

Houchins, 18, played this past season at Louisburg Junior College in North Carolina.

I regret not having more information to pass along, as this story warrants more reporting. I will try to have on this story later today.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #64: June 10, 2011, 08:52:46 AM »
http://therocket.mlblogs.com/2011/06/10/nationals-looking-into-remarks-made-by-houchins/

Gorp Turtleburger has picked up the story. I think a bit of sensitivity training/PR training and this kid can be signed. He's 18.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #65: June 10, 2011, 08:52:53 AM »
This is exactly what I hoped would happen - that someone from the Nats would take Zach by the neck, shake the living piss out of him and tell him that sort of thing doesn't fly in the real world.

Hopefully the kid learns his lesson.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #66: June 10, 2011, 08:55:26 AM »
Bet ECU will pass on him now.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #67: June 10, 2011, 10:35:59 AM »
http://therocket.mlblogs.com/2011/06/10/nationals-looking-into-remarks-made-by-houchins/

Gorp Turtleburger has picked up the story. I think a bit of sensitivity training/PR training and this kid can be signed. He's 18.


he's a 15th round pick, just don't offer him a contract- that will teach him a bigger lesson than any pr training

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #68: June 10, 2011, 10:55:31 AM »

he's a 15th round pick, just don't offer him a contract- that will teach him a bigger lesson than any pr training
If he wants to play in Washington, Howard should offer him a scholarship.  That might help his personal growth.

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« Reply #69: June 10, 2011, 11:05:10 AM »
If he wants to play in Washington, Howard should offer him a scholarship.  That might help his personal growth.

maybe contract contingent on playing in the DSL?

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #70: June 10, 2011, 11:05:23 AM »
http://therocket.mlblogs.com/2011/06/10/nationals-looking-into-remarks-made-by-houchins/

Gorp Turtleburger has picked up the story. I think a bit of sensitivity training/PR training and this kid can be signed. He's 18.

He's not 18, he's a junior in college.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #71: June 10, 2011, 11:10:40 AM »
maybe contract contingent on playing in the DSL?
only if we pull his visa and leave him there for 10 years.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #72: June 10, 2011, 11:12:20 AM »
He's not 18, he's a junior in college.

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The 18-year-old played for Louisburg Junior College last season.

Juco player transferring to ECU if not signed.

http://www.masnsports.com/the_goessling_game/2011/06/nationals-investigating-statements-made-by-15th-round-pick.html

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #73: June 10, 2011, 11:13:15 AM »
kudos to Ben for linking to Linty.

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Re: 2011 Post Draft Discussion / Signing Watch
« Reply #74: June 10, 2011, 11:20:57 AM »
Can we split the Houchins stuff into the thread that JMW started? I think it warrants its own thread, and this area would get less cluttered.

After thinking about this, I still think the Nats should pass on him. It's a PR nightmare. Let him learn his lesson the hard way, not by handing him cash and signing him up for some "sensitivity" class.