![]() ![]() After all-making the Jackie crack meant that Donaldson had seen Anderson compare himself to the legend in the first place. “I’m glad he’s reading my interviews! At least he’s paying attention,” he said. On the field, you know they’re not going to let us get to each other! But I could see you walking to the car…” After suggesting that Donaldson intended to “stir the pot” amongst Black athletes with his comment, Anderson was happy to shrug the whole thing off with his playful, winking sense of humor. If you really want it, I’ll see you after the game. Are you for real, or are you for real for real? Nobody is for real for real in the league. I could have did something! But there really was no need to. ![]() “His energy was all about trying to make me do something, trying to provoke me. You’re fucking with me,” Anderson explained, re-living the strange saga out loud. ![]() Or to let someone else have the last word.īy the time we met at Lucille’s, a coffee shop in Harlem, with the White Sox in town to play the Yankees in early June, he’d had a year to reflect on the “Jackie” incident. Whether because of the kerfuffle with Donaldson, for his tabloid-fodder love life, or for his baseball abilities-Anderson owns the league’s third-best batting average since the start of the 2019 season-it’s hard for him to simply slink into the shadows. As his star has risen, he has been unable to avoid the headlines. This was all sort of par for the course for Anderson, who seems to find controversy whether or not he’s looking for it. Eventually Anderson responded by walloping a home run later in the series, delivering a hearty, “Everybody shut the fuck up!” after circling the bases. Tony La Russa, the White Sox’s manager at the time, called Donaldson’s comment straight-up racist. Anderson made it clear he took it more as a barb than on-field banter. Donaldson insisted it was meant as a playful joke, made in reference to a 2019 Sports Illustrated article in which Anderson said he felt like today’s Jackie Robinson. The short version: during a game in the Bronx last May, Yankee third baseman and professional instigator Josh Donaldson-a white man-referred to Anderson as Jackie, as in Robinson. The Chicago White Sox shortstop, one of the most prominent Black players in Major League Baseball, was back in the city for the first time since the biggest controversy in a career unusually rich with them. He was right when he said “you would not want to vote for me.” Vote for Democrat Nancy Guy, instead, who’s done a spectacular job in her first term and deserves another.Tim Anderson couldn’t help but think about it when he touched down in New York. This is the same Tim Anderson who sued Mamie Locke, sued Speaker Filler-Corn, and tried to recall Senate Majority Leader Saslaw and President Pro-Tem Louise Lucas. Sounds like a great guy to work for, right? The judge in the case pointed out his “lack of discretion and judgment” and said his impersonation was “disrespectful, offensive and contemptuous.” Just the kind of gosh-darn good guy you’d want to send to Richmond to represent you, right? You might wonder why Tim Anderson impersonated a judge? Apparently, according to the court transcripts, it was so he could “intimidate” his employees, to see how they would respond on the phone. He made a phone call impersonating a local judge, and when he got caught, he was ordered to do pro bono work (and take continuing education to learn some ethics). Why? It was in exchange for dismissing the charges against him for IMPERSONATING A JUDGE. What he does not want you to know is that the court ORDERED HIM to do that pro bono work. In fact, he’s such a good guy he won an award for doing pro bono work, serving his community for free! ![]() Tim Anderson, far-right Republican candidate for Virginia House District 83, wants you to know what a gosh-darn good guy he is. ![]()
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