The reigning Little League U.S. Champions, Jackie Robinson West of Chicago, have been stripped of their title and Windy City emcee Twista voiced his outrage in an article published by TMZ.
“I’m outraged,” Twista says. “You don’t see this extensive of an investigation happen unless it happens to black people.”
ESPN reports that the team was stripped of their title due to a rule prohibiting the team from fielding players deemed outside of their area.
“The organization found that Jackie Robinson West used a falsified boundary map and that team officials met with neighboring Little League districts in Illinois to claim players and build what amounts to a superteam,” ESPN reports. “As a result, the United States championship has been awarded to Mountain Ridge Little League from Las Vegas.”
Twista says that the kids in south Chicago had to struggle to find places to play.
“There was a park in the Dolton area that got torn down, that made the kids have to even play at Jackie Robinson,” Twista says. “No one pays attention to what they have to go through to play baseball. It’s the friendly game of baseball … no one is comfortable when a group like them does something positive in that. They rush to tear them down.”
Little League CEO Stephen D.Keener says that they “had no choice” but to punish Jackie Robinson West in order to maintain the integrity of the competition.
Back in August, while Jackie Robinson West held a celebratory rally, Chance The Rapper offered words of encouragement.
“It’s not often that we get a chance to learn a lesson in leadership and teamwork; ambition and humility at the same time,” Chance said on stage at a rally for the team. “You’ve seen them play. It’s seldom that you learn that lesson from the perspective of somebody in their senior — as a father, as a grandmother, as an older brother, as an older sister. It’s almost never you get that chance to view it from a TV, from a living room, on top of a balcony, overlooking a city finally hitting its stride. Chicago, make some noise…I’m so excited.”
twista stfu.. 1. if it was a white team you wouldnt care. 2. they did the same to danny almonte, who is NOT black. 3. they manipulated the district bounderies to get better players. so slow your role with ur fast wack ass raps.
You pink skinned Vampires are a tad bit salty I’d say.
“You don’t see this extensive of an investigation happen unless it happens to black people.”… actually you do but it doesn’t make the news because white people dont cry racism
Ok. Name a time it happened then.
mother fucker google LLWS titles vacated.
ain’t no one doing shit for you, it’s a simple feature of the internet.
a search engine.
I dont think its is fucked up at all. They cheated and actually got a competitive advantage. When I was a kid my team was a win away from Williamsport, and we easily would have gotten farther if we got to pick out of a couple of the best players from nearby districts. 2 star players will change a team drastically. It sucks for the kids but get everyone else should get over it.
stripping the title is just some passive aggressive anti-Obama bullshit but it doesn’t matter because now Jackie Robinson West is the most ballin baseball team ever…
I could see if they were using steroids or performance enhancing drugs but this is kinda reaching a bit.
Preach… Still Spell Amerikkka With The Triple K.
black ppl ALWAYS go to racism when they dont/cant fully understand situations..he should of done his research on it before he tweeted.
twitter needs to self analyzer and when a dumbass types a tweet a msg will say ‘ attention- your a dumbass, this tweet is wrong would you like a few mins to analyze before its officia’
They cheated. they had a stacked team.you cant do that. cheating is not allowed in any sport.
“THEY” cheated. Who, the little shorties who were just playing baseball. No. If the management did rearranged the boundaries it was a few miles, not even into the suburbs! Dream team my ass, the best baseball players in Illinios are in New Trier, Barrington, Niles ect. all of those kids are from Chicago, and I am a white from that aforementioned city and this is fucked up. All those poor kids did was win baseball games! Fuck all you white people that love it when shit like this happens just so you can say “Fuck the race card black people” when black people call the race card. I’m not saying it was racist and I don’t necessarily agree with Twista’s POV but you white people have no right to say it is or isn’t racist and black people have no right blah blah blah, you have no idea what racism is like because you have never lived it!
You cheat and that’s what happens. They’re lucky they aren’t banned for the next couple of years like most sports do in this kinda situation.
You mean adults cheat and this is what happens to the kids, THEY are punished. Wow, you sure have a lot of empathy for these CHILDREN…fuck you
It’s really funny when they play the race card but they don’t even say they were innocent. In the outrage you have to admit guilt, cause it’s true, but the only defense is “if they were white they wouldn’t have caught us doing all this bad shit.”
You white skinned Neanderthals have an obsession with this mythical idea of a “race card”, you invented racism and then invented your “race card”…you feel interior, abnormal and inadequate because you have no color other than the pinkish raw flesh of an albino that burns and peels under Mother Natures natural sun rays.
the race card unfortunately gets played often. deal with it. you have a problem with racism then go into that albino tribe. get that chip off your shoulder.