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Blue Jays’ shortstop Yunel Escobar could face disciplinary action after photographs surfaced showing the 29-year-old Cuban on the field at Rogers Centre with a homophobic slur written under his eyes.

Escobar, who has been with the Jays since 2010, played Saturday’s game against the Boston Red Sox with the Spanish words “TU ERE MARICON” written on an eyeblack sticker, a black patch baseball players wear under their eyes to reduce the sun’s glare.

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The phrase’s most common English translation is “You are a faggot.” Other translations are less explicitly homophobic, but more of an emasculating insult.
A league spokesman told the Star via email they are “looking into the matter.”

The Blue Jays saying they do not support discrimination “nor condone the message displayed by Yunel Escobar during Saturday’s game.”

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“The club takes this situation seriously and is investigating the matter.”

GM Alex Anthopoulos will address the matter with media on Tuesday in New York, the statement read, adding that they “expect” Escobar, Jays’ manager John Farrell and Spanish-speaking coach Luis Rivera to also be in attendance.

Last year Major League Baseball suspended Atlanta Braves pitching coach Roger McDowell for two weeks after McDowell made lewd gestures, perceived to be homophobic, towards fans in San Francisco.

https://www.thestar.com/sports/base...with-homophobic-slur-written-across-eye-black

 
They are saying that it was a joke....something about a team joke.....
 
Was Yunel Escobar’s face painted with a homophobic slur? Not so fast.


Yes, it can mean ‘You are a faggot’. But according to Cuervo, context is everything. The word is a derivation of the proper name Maria del Carmen. The diminutive form of that name has morphed into an effeminizing epithet that has a clear gender component, but not necessarily a sexual one.

“I would take it as, ‘You are like a girl. You’re weak’,” Cuervo said. “I don’t curse much, so I don’t know the appropriate level in English. It has to be something like ‘wuss’.”

In Spanish-speaking families, according to Cuervo, parents might refer to a 7-year-old boy who’s crying as a maricon, as in ‘Don’t be such a baby’. You might say the same thing in the same situation to a female child.

“If anything, it’s sexism against women,” Cuervo said wryly. Overall, she didn’t seem predisposed to be shocked by the use of the word: “It’s trash talking.”

Complicating matters are the regionalisms involved, Cuerto pointed out. In the Domincan Republic, maricon is nearly always meant in a vulgar, aggressive way. In Puerto Rico, not as much. Inside the melting pot of North American baseball, populated by a variety of Spanish speakers, those variant strains can be harder to decipher.

She also noted a point of grammar. The word (and the insult) is made stronger if maricon is used as a noun. It isn’t in this case, because there is no un modifying it (as in un maricon).
Given all that, the use of the word ‘faggot’ as a catch-all translation would seem an oversimplification.

It’s possible that Escobar meant ‘maricon’ in its inter-familial form. Not at all likely, but possible.
 
and surprise surprise the Toronto Media has focused on this because it gives them something else to talk about other than the hockey lock out.

After 330 this aft this will be a non story, no one will truly believe the presser but it'll go away
 
He must be a hated one by his own peers. Not one player or manager warned him about the consequences.

Great teammates, aren't them?.
 
It is too bad they won't encourage him to get involved within the gay/lesbian community as I think it would help him to understand that they are people too. I am just surprised noone noticed his eyeblack stickers before he went onto the field or even noticed them afterward. I just think we are not getting the full story on this matter.
 
peace said:
It is too bad they won't encourage him to get involved within the gay/lesbian community as I think it would help him to understand that they are people too. I am just surprised noone noticed his eyeblack stickers before he went onto the field or even noticed them afterward. I just think we are not getting the full story on this matter.
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They wanted him to fail.

Got that?.
 
Messages like this are against MLB rules. I'm surprised the umps didn't do or say anything as well as his latino team mates
 
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