Back in April, when Rod Barajas was the only player on the Mets that could hit the ball out of the team’s rent-a-name stadium, and repeatedly did so to win games, I cheered him on. After the season’s first month, Barajas, who had a lifetime batting average of .226, was on a pace to hit between 45 and 50 home runs for the season.
Some veteran players occasionally go nuts and look like Superman for a month or two, but they usually come back to earth, before the season’s over. Though he continued to hit for average in May, Barajas’ power surge was over by early May, and by the time the Mets left him unprotected from the waiver wire on August 22, his batting average had plummeted to .225. The Dodgers picked him up, and he is now happily playing in the capital of the Reconquista.
“I love L.A. I’m an L.A. guy.”
But I’d already soured on the obese, lumbering catcher. On May 2, following the passage and enactment of Arizona’s state law SB 1070, which was a watered-down version of a federal law that had been on the books for 70 years, the New York Times quoted Barajas as saying,
“It’s disappointing. I have a lot of family born in Mexico. You would like to hope there is no stereotyping going on, but it’s hard to see that there would not be. If they happen to pull someone over who looks like they are of Latin descent, even if they are a U.S. citizen, that is the first question that is going to be asked. But if a blond-haired, blue-eyed Canadian gets pulled over, do you think they are going to ask for their papers? No.
[NS: Thus, Barajas’ loyalty is to Mexico, not America. And what are the odds that Arizona police will encounter a “blond-haired, blue-eyed Canadian” illegal alien, as opposed to a swarthy Hispanic who doesn’t speak English? As for “stereotyping,” that is the basis of common sense, social science, and good police work. Barajas is demanding that police turn off their brains, just as the airline clerk did who permitted Mohammed Atta to board a flight unmolested on September 11, 2001, even though his brain told him Atta looked like and acted like a stereotypical terrorist.]
Barajas was born in Ontario, Calif., on Sept. 5, 1975, three years after his parents moved there from Mexico. His father is from Mexicali and his mother is from Michoacán, and his older brother was born in Mexico, too.
[That means that it is highly likely that Barajas’ parents and older brother were illegal alien invaders, who cashed in on the 1986 amnesty. Based on the misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment used by the federal courts, Barajas was probably assumed to be an American citizen by birth. If so, his family would not have availed him of the amnesty, making him still an illegal alien.]
On Saturday … Barajas addressed an issue that is important to him and his family. [As if it weren’t important to patriotic Americans and their families? But to Waldstein and the Times, they don’t count.] As a United States citizen, Barajas has less to worry about than many other major league players who came here from other countries to work legally as baseball players. Some have not been in the United States very long and do not speak English fluently. Barajas wonders if they, too, could be singled out or harassed along with illegal immigrants. [Bull. If they are here legally, and follow the law, i.e., carry proof of legal residence on their person at all times, they have nothing to worry about. If they flout the law, then they should have plenty to worry about. I guarantee you, they don’t have the attitude that they can flout the law in Latin American countries.]
“What if you go to Arizona and the starting pitcher that day gets asked for his papers and he doesn’t have them?” Barajas said. “What happens then? I don’t like it, and I think pretty much all of Major League Baseball feels the same way. We are part of the community. [No, you’re not. You seek to destroy the community.] You hear there won’t be any profiling or racial stereotyping, but it’s hard to believe that. Us as Latin Americans are going to be put through that process and have to worry about it on a daily basis.”
[“Us as Latin Americans”? This isn’t a Latin American country. In Latin countries, foreigners must carry legal ID on them at all times. Heck, in America, non-Hispanic American citizens are obliged to carry ID on their persons at all times. Excepting people who run out of the house and forget their ID—I once had to rescue my used car dealer landlady from the local precinct, when she forgot her license and registration, and was driving a car with out-of-state dealer plates—the only people who deliberately walk around without ID are criminals and mischief-making “activists.” If one thing is clear, it is that Barajas is not one of “us.”]
Growing up in California, Barajas said, he never experienced harassment about his ethnicity from law enforcement officials, and neither did his family, as far as he is aware. But he said that with the new law, he was concerned that he could be pulled over at a traffic stop and questioned simply because of how he looks. And as a United States citizen, he would have no reason to carry documentation of his citizenship.
“Why would I carry that stuff around?” he said. “And why would most people carry it around? People who have been in this country for 30 or 40 years, why would they carry a passport or a green card around? [Because it’s the law.] And now you have to, and if for some reason you don’t have it, what’s going to happen then?”
On Friday, the Major League Baseball Players Association issued a statement criticizing the law. That made Barajas proud. [The MLBPA executive director, Michael Weiner lied, in asserting that SB 1070 could harm foreign ballplayers legally in the country. The MLBPA statement could have come straight from the Times.]
“I’m 100 percent behind the union,” he said. “There’s got to be a better way than this. It’s just not fair. It’s not fair to us.”
[There’s that “us,” again, which refers to Reconquistas.]
As a United States citizen, Barajas has less to worry about than many other major league players who came here from other countries to work legally as baseball players. Some have not been in the United States very long and do not speak English fluently. Barajas wonders if they, too, could be singled out or harassed along with illegal immigrants.
“What if you go to Arizona and the starting pitcher that day gets asked for his papers and he doesn’t have them? What happens then? I don’t like it, and I think pretty much all of Major League Baseball feels the same way. We are part of the community. You hear there won’t be any profiling or racial stereotyping, but it’s hard to believe that. Us as Latin Americans are going to be put through that process and have to worry about it on a daily basis.
If they are legal immigrants and are walking around without their visas or green cards, they are already breaking federal law, and it is not “harassment” for peace officers to demand that aliens prove that they are here legally. All of MLB does not feel the same way as Reconquistas like Barajas, but characters like him feel emboldened to spout their racist, anti-American beliefs, while, patriotic American players have been cowed into silence. And even the Player’s Union is supporting illegal foreign invaders! The union should have kept out of it.
“Us as Latin Americans”? Barajas clearly does not identify as an American. He has contempt for America, its laws, and its people. He supports Mexico in particular, and illegal, Hispanic invaders, in general.
Note that Rodrigo Barajas has six children. I don’t know the citizenship status of Barajas’ wife, but his parents, older brother, himself (it is not known whether he has other siblings, or nieces or nephews, or relatives who came over via chain migration), and his six children make for at least 10 Mexicans, from one family alone, that we likely have the Reconquista to thank for. That’s how the Reconquista takes root.
So as not to confused with a reporter, New York Times propagandist David Waldstein opened his piece by misrepresenting the law, Hispandering shamelessly, and editorializing:
The parents of Mets catcher Rod Barajas came to the United States from Mexico, and he lives in Arizona. So naturally, the new immigration law passed in that state has drawn his attention, and his ire.
Barajas, an American-born citizen, said Saturday that the measure, which calls for police officers to demand proof of legal residency when they have “reasonable suspicion” that a person may be in the United States illegally, was unfair and discriminatory.
Unlike Waldstein, Barajas at least noted that police had to first pull over someone for a non-immigration matter, before asking if he was in the country legally.
(On July 28, Democratic federal Judge Susan Bolton intervened on behalf of the “Obama” Administration, to sabotage the new law.)
I have written on and off for several years of how a great many Hispanic players, including Puerto Ricans, clearly think of themselves as playing for a separate, Hispanic team of their own, rather than for the American teams that pay them (Toronto obviously doesn’t figure in this conversation). During the mid-to-late 2000s, the Mets’ Puerto Rican stars Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado showed contempt towards the overwhelmingly white Mets fans who cheered them on.
Beltran eventually came around, but only after being implored once, twice, and three times by teammate Julio Franco to give the fans a curtain call, following an April, 2006 home run. Franco saved Beltran’s career. Had Beltran not had the good sense to listen to Franco, the fans would have (hopefully) run him out of town, and his career would have been in shambles.
Delgado was even worse. Before he played his first game as a Met in 2006, owner Fred Wilpon had to order him to stand at attention for the playing of “God Bless America.” Delgado had refused to do so, while playing in Florida, claiming dishonestly that it was out of opposition to the War in Iraq.
The playing of “God Bless America” had nothing to do with that war; it was adopted during the seventh inning stretch, in the first game played after 911. Delgado also long snubbed Mets’ fans requests for curtain calls following his many home runs, graciously stooping to make an exception, following the grand slam that was his 400th dinger.
Racist, anti-American propagandist Dave Zirin, who dishonestly insists that the big leagues have an “utter dependence” on Hispanic players, has long hoped for Hispanic players to serve as a Fifth Column, on behalf of Reconquista. Zirin doesn’t care about sports, except as they can be exploited to help destroy America.
Since Rod Barajas is Hispanic, and of ambiguous nationality, he enjoys the First Amendment right to freedom of speech. But while I’m a white non-Hispanic, and thus don’t enjoy the rights that he does, I’m exercising them anyway. And when it was time to vote for the All-Star Game, I voted the allotted 25 times for Mets third baseman David Wright, then-rightfielder Jeff “Frenchy” Francoeur and, via write-in, for then-centerfielder Angel Pagan, who wasn’t on the ballot. I didn’t vote even once for Barajas.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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