“I’m not going to let Canada tell me what I do and don’t put in my body.“
MLB should simply have forced the Blue Jays to continue playing in the U.S. until this nonsense was over…
VIDEO:
–‘Unvaccinated MLB star banned from playing in Canada, his response is FIRE’,
BonginoReport, July 12, 2022
https://rumble.com/v1c1roh-unvaccinated-mlb-star-banned-from-playing-in-canada-his-response-is-fire.html
Feature IMAGE: Rogers Centre (ESPN)
J.T. Realmuto (NBC Sports)
“Aaron Nola and J.T. Realmuto made up the Phillies’ starting battery in Monday night’s 6-1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.S Earlier in the day, the two men made news when it was announced that they would not accompany their teammates to Toronto for a two-game series that begins Tuesday night.
“Canada requires a COVID-19 vaccination for entry. Neither player is vaccinated and neither regrets it.
“I just didn’t want to do it“,
was Nola’s explanation for not getting the vaccine.
“Realmuto was a little more expansive on the topic.
“I’m a healthy 31-year-old professional athlete and I just didn’t feel I needed to get it“,
he said.
“I had COVID a couple of times, super-mild symptoms, back when it first came out. When it came time to decide whether I needed the vaccine or not, I talked with doctors I knew and I told them my story and decided I didn’t think I needed it.
“I wasn’t going to take it just because I was told to, basically.”
…
“Players on the restricted list don’t get paid. Realmuto will lose more than $262,000 — over a quarter of a million bucks — because he’s barred from making the trip to Toronto.
“What’s money when I’m not going to let Canada tell me what I do and don’t put in my body?”
Realmuto said…
“The unvaxed Phillies have the support of their teammates. Kyle Schwarber was pretty vocal about that earlier Monday…”
–‘Phils lose, head to Toronto without Realmuto, who won’t let Canada tell him what to do’,
JIM SALISBURY, Sports Philadelphia, JULY 11, 2022
https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/phillies/jt-realmuto-canada-phillies-aaron-nola-cardinals
Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo-Richard Drew)
“Major League Baseball players who are not vaccinated against the coronavirus won’t be allowed to travel into Canada to face the Blue Jays in Toronto and won’t be paid for those games.”
{Thus providing the Blue Jays with an unfair competitive advantage. Where is the Commissioner and his duty to ‘protect the integrity of the game’? And what about the union??}
–‘Unvaccinated MLB Players Can’t Travel to Canada to Play Jays’,
Associated Press, March 11, 2022
See also:
‘MLB Embarrasses Itself‘ (Flu Masks) {Sept.7, 2020}:
“So a man who was standing 2 or 3 decks above the playing field at an empty baseball stadium is ejected for not wearing a mask? There is no one near him! This is beyond ridiculous.” {VIDEO}
https://bloginsidesports.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/mlb-embarrasses-itself/
‘No More Indians’ (Cleveland Indians) {Feb.17, 2021}:
First, they came for ‘Chief Wahoo’. Then…
The sad irony in all of this is that the Leftists and ‘Woke’ activists that are pushing the ‘renaming’ agenda are also people who have no use for professional sports, and would ban them if they could…
“…The Cleveland Indians have decided to change their team name, moving away from a moniker that has recently been criticized {by some} as ‘racist’…”
https://insidesportssite.wordpress.com/2021/02/17/no-more-indians/
‘Base Ball’s Origins — A Clearer Picture’ {March 1, 2016}:
‘Back on the Auction Block, a 19th-Century Document Essential to Baseball’s Rules’
“When it was auctioned in 1999, a document called “Laws of Base Ball” had no known author, but obvious significance. Within its pages were fundamental rules, like nine men on a side and 90-foot basepaths…
“Now…the author of “Laws” has a name: Daniel Adams, known as ‘Doc’, a significant figure in mid-19th-century baseball who has come to be viewed as a founding father of the game…”
https://insidesportssite.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/base-balls-origins-a-clearer-picture/
‘Aug.26, 1939: Baseball Meets Television’ {Aug.26, 2017}:
“On this day in 1939, the first televised Major League baseball game was broadcast on station ‘W2XBS’, the station that was to become ‘WNBC-TV’. Announcer Red Barber called the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York…”
https://bloginsidesports.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/aug-26-1939-baseball-meets-television/
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