#black-sox — Public Fediverse posts

#Technocracy and fascist politics are being embraced by megalomaniac elites scheming for their own survival
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/04/08/stop-talking-about-ai-start-talking-about-techno-fascism/

#PullThePlug https://pulltheplug.uk/2026/02/28/largest-ever-ai-protest-march-hits-london/

#PauseAi
https://pauseai.info/

#MadYouth
https://justtreatment.org/mad-youth-organise

#BlackSox
https://www.blaksox.com/

#Assemble
https://timetoassemble.org/

#Ai #Capitalism #London #militaryIndustrialComplex #Surveillance #TechnoFascism

#OTD (Sep 28) in 1920, A grand jury indicts eight #Chicago #WhiteSox players for conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series.

#BlackSox #Histodons

#OTD in 1920, eight players on the #Chicago #WhiteSox #baseball team are indicted in Cook County IL for conspiracy to throw the 1919 #WorldSeries.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/09/white-sox-players-indicted-for-throwing.html

#BlackSox

#OTD in 1921: #Baseball Commissioner #Landis rules that eight #Chicago #WhiteSox players involved in throwing the 1919 World Series will never again play organized ball.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/08/eight-black-sox-players-banned-from.html

#BlackSox

@gocu54 @MarvinFreeman @emarktaylor @baseball

Just a reminder that every player who cheated in the #BlackSox scandal was banned for life.
Not a single Asstros player, other than a retired Corea got any punishment

Yes, I am sad that Pete Rose passed away. He was a legend and he was a great. I first remember him when he played in the 1980 World Series with the Phillies. When I was 11-12 years old I played on a Little League team called the Reds, and Rose earned his legendary status playing for the Cincinnati Reds. All of that. More hits than any player in history. Legend.

He also bet on baseball games. He claims he never threw a game and he only bet on his own team. He was banned from Major League Baseball for life and good riddance. He always came off to me as if he were an insufferable prick and I had no problem with the ban. No Hall of Fame for Charlie Hustle, even though he does hold the MLB record for hits.

Now that he’s passed, and it is sad that he’s passed for sure, the conversation is going to happen again. Should his ban be lifted and should he be allowed into the Hall of Fame.

I say no. As long as Shoeless Joe Jackson remains banned for betting on baseball, specifically as a member of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox team that threw the World Series (against the Cincinnati Reds, of course) then Pete Rose remains banned too. Rose was a brilliant player but by all accounts he wasn’t even close to as good as Jackson (who was a .400 hitter one season). Who knows what Joe could have accomplished if he’d been allowed to play out his full career. There is also very little evidence of him actually participating in rigging games. Hell, he had a great series in 1919 when his co-conspirators were clearly tanking.

If they lift the ban on Joe Jackson then we can talk about lifting the ban on Pete Rose. Before then? I don’t give a shit what anyone says about Rose. If Jackson remains out then Rose remains out. That’s how it needs to be.

I have spoken.

https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/01/pete-rose/

#Baseball #blackSox #gambling #gamblingScandal #joeJackson #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #peteRose #phillies #reds #shoelessJoeJackson #whiteSox

#OTD in 1921: Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned eight players from baseball forever. Though they had been acquitted in court, Landis ruled that the #Chicago #WhiteSox players conspired to throw the 1919 World Series to the underdog #Cincinnati #Reds.

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/08/eight-black-sox-players-banned-from.html

#BlackSox #MLB #Histodons

#OTD in 1921: #Baseball Comm. Landis announces lifetime ban against 8 players:
"Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player that throws a ball game, no player that entertains proposals or promises to throw a game, no player that sits in a conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers, where the ways and means of throwing games are discussed, and does not tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball."

https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2018/08/eight-black-sox-players-banned-from.html

#MLB #BlackSox #Histodons #CrimeHistory