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MLB Umpire comes out
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Fox News
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Date: December 02, 2014 01:44PM
MLB umpire Dale Scott says he is gay
Major League Baseball, unlike the NFL and NBA, is still waiting for its first active player to acknowledge he is gay.
Dale Scott is only an umpire, but he has crossed that threshold, and says he has been heartened by what he describes as an environment of acceptance.
Scott, a major league umpire for the past 29 years, quietly acknowledged he is gay by submitting a photo of himself and his longtime partner to accompany a November interview with Referee Magazine.
His story was amplified on Tuesday, when Outsports.com published an interview with Scott, who said his sexual orientation has long been acknowledged in umpiring and baseball circles.
USA TODAY
A no-out situation: Is MLB ahead of gay rights issue?
"I realized that it could open a Pandora's Box," Scott said of submitting a photo of he and Michael Rausch on a trip to Australia for the major league opener this past March. "But this is not a surprise to Major League Baseball, the people I work for. It's not a surprise to the umpire staff. Until Mike and I got married last November, he was my same-sex domestic partner and had his own MLB I.D. and was on my insurance policy.
"This is not going to be some huge flashing news to (MLB), but I also didn't want to be making some coming out story, some banner headline, because that's not how I operate. It's not a shock to MLB management because they're well aware of my situation and it's not a shock to the umpire staff. If it would have been, I don't think I would have done it."
Scott has been a crew chief for 12 years, has worked three World Series and was on the crew that worked the Dodgers-Cardinals National League Division Series. He feels going public won't be a surprise to most in the game.
"The first 10 years of my major league umpire career, I would have been horrified if a story had come out that I was gay," he told Outsports. "But guys unprovoked started to approach me and say, 'I just want you to know that I would walk on the field with you any day, you're a great guy, a great umpire and I couldn't care less about your personal life.'
"Basically what they were saying without me provoking it was 'I know and I don't care.' That meant a lot to me because it surprised me since I had not brought it up. At first I was uncomfortable because I had spent my whole life hiding that fact from people even though I wasn't hiding it from myself or my friends."
MLB has been proactive in aiming to create an environment of acceptance for a gay player. In July, it appointed Billy Bean, who came out after his playing career, as its first ambassador of inclusion. Bean and former Dodgers player Glenn Burke acknowledged their sexuality after their playing careers.
"I wish that our game had someone in place to whom Billy and Glenn could have turned when they played; a friend, listener, a source of support," commissioner Bud Selig said when Bean's role was announced."That's why I am so delighted to make this announcement today."
-http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/12/02/mlb-umpire-dale-scott-gay/19781815/
Major League Baseball, unlike the NFL and NBA, is still waiting for its first active player to acknowledge he is gay.
Dale Scott is only an umpire, but he has crossed that threshold, and says he has been heartened by what he describes as an environment of acceptance.
Scott, a major league umpire for the past 29 years, quietly acknowledged he is gay by submitting a photo of himself and his longtime partner to accompany a November interview with Referee Magazine.
His story was amplified on Tuesday, when Outsports.com published an interview with Scott, who said his sexual orientation has long been acknowledged in umpiring and baseball circles.
USA TODAY
A no-out situation: Is MLB ahead of gay rights issue?
"I realized that it could open a Pandora's Box," Scott said of submitting a photo of he and Michael Rausch on a trip to Australia for the major league opener this past March. "But this is not a surprise to Major League Baseball, the people I work for. It's not a surprise to the umpire staff. Until Mike and I got married last November, he was my same-sex domestic partner and had his own MLB I.D. and was on my insurance policy.
"This is not going to be some huge flashing news to (MLB), but I also didn't want to be making some coming out story, some banner headline, because that's not how I operate. It's not a shock to MLB management because they're well aware of my situation and it's not a shock to the umpire staff. If it would have been, I don't think I would have done it."
Scott has been a crew chief for 12 years, has worked three World Series and was on the crew that worked the Dodgers-Cardinals National League Division Series. He feels going public won't be a surprise to most in the game.
"The first 10 years of my major league umpire career, I would have been horrified if a story had come out that I was gay," he told Outsports. "But guys unprovoked started to approach me and say, 'I just want you to know that I would walk on the field with you any day, you're a great guy, a great umpire and I couldn't care less about your personal life.'
"Basically what they were saying without me provoking it was 'I know and I don't care.' That meant a lot to me because it surprised me since I had not brought it up. At first I was uncomfortable because I had spent my whole life hiding that fact from people even though I wasn't hiding it from myself or my friends."
MLB has been proactive in aiming to create an environment of acceptance for a gay player. In July, it appointed Billy Bean, who came out after his playing career, as its first ambassador of inclusion. Bean and former Dodgers player Glenn Burke acknowledged their sexuality after their playing careers.
"I wish that our game had someone in place to whom Billy and Glenn could have turned when they played; a friend, listener, a source of support," commissioner Bud Selig said when Bean's role was announced."That's why I am so delighted to make this announcement today."
-http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/12/02/mlb-umpire-dale-scott-gay/19781815/
Re: MLB Umpire comes out
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hGVMP
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Date: December 02, 2014 01:49PM
Who cares? His sexuality is his business, not mine.
Re: MLB Umpire comes out
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Fox News
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Date: December 02, 2014 01:54PM
hGVMP Wrote:
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> Who cares? His sexuality is his business, not
> mine.
His business is being an umpire for the mlb.
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> Who cares? His sexuality is his business, not
> mine.
His business is being an umpire for the mlb.
Re: MLB Umpire comes out
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Gay for a Day
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Date: December 02, 2014 02:04PM
With each "outing" in a major cultural organization the American people will care less and less until absolutely annoyed by advocates of the homosexual agenda who find they have less and less to stand for now that they're essentially mainstreamed.
Re: MLB Umpire comes out
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Fox News
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Date: December 02, 2014 02:27PM
Gay for a Day Wrote:
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> With each "outing" in a major cultural
> organization the American people will care less
> and less until absolutely annoyed by advocates of
> the homosexual agenda who find they have less and
> less to stand for now that they're essentially
> mainstreamed.
Kind of like the democrats war on woman.
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> With each "outing" in a major cultural
> organization the American people will care less
> and less until absolutely annoyed by advocates of
> the homosexual agenda who find they have less and
> less to stand for now that they're essentially
> mainstreamed.
Kind of like the democrats war on woman.
Re: MLB Umpire comes out
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hunker down
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Date: December 02, 2014 02:33PM
When he's hunkered over the catcher, is he thinking of catching and pitching? Or is he thinking of "catching" and "pitching"? He's like "Lucroy, you sure do smell good, and you got some purty lips too."
Re: MLB Umpire comes out
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FOXE News
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Date: December 02, 2014 03:11PM
I reveal this news so i can come out of the closet. Yes, I sucked Eesh's cock. It was delicious. All veiny and the cream was pure necter.
Re: MLB Umpire comes out
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WingNut
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Date: December 02, 2014 03:12PM
Gay umpire is a bigger hero to Obama than fallen cops and soldiers for sure.
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