Conference back40::soapbox

    She's just from the "old school", which means you can wear your
    ignorance on your sleeve and it's acceptable.
    
    Her last quote wasn't that bad, I just think she said it differently
    than she meant it.
    
    Adolph Hitler _did_ do some positive things for Germany, which was in
    shambles following WWI. He got industry going, gave Germans some pride
    in their nation. She indicated that he went wacko after that. Prolly he
    was wacko before that and nobody recognized it. She certainly should
    avoid interviews, she never manages to make herself sound good.

    Could somebody please put some of the things she stated in the past.
    
    Thanks

    another Chris in the box!  We are taking over... 
    
    

    A few choice Marge-isms:    
    
        "I feel cheated. This isn't supposed to happen to us, not in
        Cincinnati. This is our history, our tradition, our team. Nobody
        feels worse than me." -- April 1, when the season opener was 
        called off because umpire John McSherry collapsed on the field 
        and died.
    
        "Everybody knows he was good at the beginning, but he just
        went too far." -- on Adolf Hitler, in a recent ESPN interview.
    
        "Why do they care about one game when they're watching
        another?" -- April 12, after fans complained that one of her 
        cost-cutting moves resulted in elimination of updates on the 
        scoreboard.
    
       "Only fruits wear earrings." -- May 1994, addressing a gathering
        of government officials in Cincinnati.
    
        Marge was also reprimanded by MLB for unspecified "racial slurs" in
        1993.  Marge is the majority owner of the Cincinnati Reds.
    
    Regards, Chris H.

    i guess she "Schott" her mouth off too many times, eh? 

-1 yup. probably brushes her teeth with gunpowder.

    Probably has her teeth capped, too.

	I think she could teach OJ Martin new things! 

    <---- Didn't they go to (the old) school together?  :-)
    

    SEE EVERYBODY...Glen thinks I'm a racist apprentice!  I Knew It!!!

	I think you would learn from her. You're the one who keeps adding in
the actual terms. I wonder why.....

    Adding to the actual terms???  Not sure what you are referring to here.
    

bigot, homophobe, things like that. you keep adding them to your notes, even
though i never used the terms.

    
    That's it!!!!!! Glen and Jack, go to your rooms. Do not come out
    until you are both cured of "hoof in mouth disease"

    If a man talked like her in public, he would have been sued to the max.
    He would have been dragged out into the streets and shot. 

    
    Men do, and they aren't.  hth.
    
    

| <<< Note 726.15 by AIMHI::RAUH "I survived the Cruel Spa" >>>

| If a man talked like her in public, he would have been sued to the max.
| He would have been dragged out into the streets and shot.

	But she is already been Schott!

    .16 In the sports area, outside of Nicky the Greek who was a bookie has
    said and gotten away with it?

    Nicky got a hand slapping for some crap he had said about black
    athletes.

    So did Jimmy the Greek.  :/

    Er, I think you are both talking about the same person but one of you
    is more accurate than the other.  

    
    Howard Cosell was accused of racist speech and wasn't sued or dragged
    out into the street and shot.
    
    George, you have to get over this All Men Are Victims thing.
    

    
    	Yeah, even if it IS true.
    

    Uh oh......

    
      ,
    8^p.
      '

| <<< Note 726.22 by POWDML::HANGGELI "Little Chamber of Belgian Burgers" >>>


| Howard Cosell was accused of racist speech and wasn't sued or dragged
| out into the street and shot.

	No, but after his monkey comment, he wasn't on the air long. 

    
    	Death tends to do that to a person's career.
    

    what did he say about his monkey?

    RE: .29  George Rauh
    
    > Yes, it was Jimmy the Greek, and sorry, I was between a ringing phone
    > and a fleeting thought.
    
    ...or possibly between a fleeting phone and a ringing thought... :)
    

| <<< Note 726.28 by LANDO::OLIVER_B "may, the comeliest month" >>>

| what did he say about his monkey?

	He was talking about Art Monk. Something about his arms being so long
he could drag them on the ground like a monkey. Then there was someone else he
called a little monkey. Both people were African American.


Glen

 Cosell was commenting as a replay was running. He said "Look at that monkey
 run".




 Jim

    
    baseball is looking to suspend her again. more so for being frugal
    with the spending on the Reds than her latest comments.

    What a facist organization National Baseball has become.

| <<< Note 726.34 by MKOTS3::JMARTIN "Madison...5'2'' 95 lbs." >>>

| What a facist organization National Baseball has become.

	You're the new commisioner??? :-)

    Grrrrrr.......

    Would you do it for peanuts and crackers Jack?

    Yes and I would have Marge Schott as my Field Marshall!!!
    
    Peace...Peace.....WE WANT PEACE!!!!!

| <<< Note 726.37 by SMURF::WALTERS >>>

| Would you do it for peanuts and crackers Jack?

	SCREAM! Too funny, Colin!

    Today was Marges "D" day - either she steps down from the Reds
    organization or she faces the music - whats the latest on
    her?

    
    In this country, you can lose your business for expressing
    (daft) opinions.

	She has to give up the everyday running of the club, but she still owns
it, she can still go to the games. And to make sure she doesn't get someone to
be her voice, they are going to hire someone who has nothing to do with the
club at all to run it. What was holing things up a bit was if they were going
to do it past the 1997 season. I think her contract for running the team ends
in 1999...... 


Glen

    Could someone explain this?... Under what/whose authority is this
    being done?  Isn't she the owner?  Or is she part-owner, reporting
    to someone else, or what?
    
    I don't agree with her crazo opinions, but I can't quite see the
    line from Point A (saying "offensive" stuff) to Point B (losing
    control of your business?) here.
    
    Chris

	The ACTING commisioner is who is doing this. He is Bud Selig, the owner
of the Brewers. What baseball really needs is a REAL commissioner. Someone who
is not an owner. 


Glen

    Someone wieser?

    >I can't quite see the
    >line from Point A (saying "offensive" stuff) to Point B (losing
    >control of your business?) here.
    
     That's because those two points aren't on the same line. Her inane
    comments are the cause of her loss over the day to day ops. It's her
    failure to conform to some sort of MLB rules or other. (I haven't been
    paying close attention, but I read part of an article that said that
    she her comments weren't the cause of the MLB moves against her.)

    
    just for letting her dog run around urinating on the field alone would
    be cause for removal.

    It's her dog and her stadium she should be able to do what she wants
    with her property.  I think MLB has much bigger problems than to worry
    about what she might say next.  Most people don't care anyway, only the
    loony sports writers.
    
    Dennis

	Looney sports writers and the KKK maybe.

    
      Well, Marge is out, per the league yesterday.  Still owner, but
     cannot run the team.
    
      bb

| <<< Note 726.50 by GAAS::BRAUCHER "Welcome to Paradise" >>>

| -< the league had enough of her mouth >-

	She schott it off too much, huh?

    I find the whole matter disgusting.  Whether or not I agree with her
    big mouth is not germane nor is it any of my business.  This is just
    another display of facism.
    
    I would love it if she pee'd on second base!

    for the love of god, would you please spell fascism right?

    Given that I don't agree with her opinions, nevertheless...
    If I were her, I'd shut the team down, take my ball and go home.
    
    Chris

  .53  Oph, he's still working on "credence".  One word
       per fiscal quarter.

    
      Wouldn't that be "obstructing the runner" ?
    
      bb

 Z    This is just another display of facism.
    
    NO...I MEANT FACISM!!!
    
    As in, "In your face".  I made the word up!

    New words I've learned this quarter
    
    Fascism - credit to Bonbon!
    
    Prerogative - credit to Lady Di!
    
    Credence  -  credit to Lady Di!
    
    Thank you!!!

  .58   Keep this up and we'll let you clean the erasers next
	quarter.

    i'm so proud of aunt jack.

    BONNIE...YOU'RE ASKING FOR IT!!!!!!! ;:-(

    
    .58
    
    now let's see you use them all in a sentence.

    Fascism is a prerogative without credence clearwater revival.
    
    How'd I do???

>    Fascism is a prerogative without credence clearwater revival.
                                                          ^^^^^^^

There's Jack trying to ram his religion down our throats again ;=]

    It's all Clintons fault!

    The problem with owning sports teams are that they are FRANCHISES, and
    one has to abide by the franchise rules...in the nitty gritty legalese
    of all franchises are penalties. etc. clauses which are imposed if
    certain deeds, actions, etc., are threatening the good name of the
    business.
    
    It's alike like a local McDonald's owner saying the same things as
    Marge.  He'd prolly be subject to discipline by McDonalds in his
    franchise agreement.
    
    I was going to buy a franchise and start "my own business" once...then
    I learned about these penalty clauses and the fact that these
    franchises are really not yours, you're just licensing the right to do
    business as long as u abide by their rules...
    
    this is how MLB gets away with dealing with the likes of Marge and
    George S...

    re: .66
    
    Aha, thanks for the explanation.  Now it makes sense.  Initially I'd
    thought that the "league" was just some loose association of
    independently-owned teams.
    
    While in the doctor's waiting room yesterday, I picked up a Sports
    Illustrated featuring a close-up Schott's face on the cover, and read
    the accompanying article.  To say that she's eccentric would be the
    understatement of the year.  Of course, the article was designed to
    be unflattering, but she is definitely in some kind of alternate
    reality.  Which should not disqualify her from owning/operating a
    business, but given the franchise clauses, etc., at least now it
    all falls into place.
    
    I've heard about the frustrations of running a franchise, and I'd
    never do it.  If you're going to do that much work, might as well
    go on your own all the way.
    
    Chris