Demoting MLB umpires

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Matt

You just proved you don't know the legal standards for libel.

Well, maybe he's in Britain.

Bart Giamatti had a career as a university professor, where homophobia is vanishingly rare. I've never heard this rumor about him before, but I don't believe it in the least.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Well, maybe he's in Britain.

Bart Giamatti had a career as a university professor, where homophobia is vanishingly rare. I've never heard this rumor about him before, but I don't believe it in the least.

In my experience, college professors hold all kinds of views and are very opinionated about those views. I think we throw around that label too much, but that does not mean he was not discriminatory towards gays and based on what took place in the mentioned example of his views, he was not going to bat for this particular person.

Peace