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“[Fortunately for Kent, this tempest in a Petri dish has since been squashed, but it was Bradley’s other comments that are echoing in Major League Baseball’s executive suites. He said,] Me being an African American is the most important thing to me – more important than baseball, White people never want to see race – with anything. But there’s race involved in baseball. That’s why there’s less than 9 percent African American representation in the game. ... I’m one of the few African Americans that starts here.”
Jackie Robinson
“That only becomes an issue if the athletic director makes it an issue. You squash that very easily if you get support from your athletic department.”
Chico Furtado
“If the White House wanted to squash this, they could have squashed it long ago.”
Daniel Mitchell
“When they came back and scored, it squashed the momentum we had been building up. We had a handful of good scoring opportunities from numerous players, but we couldn't put it in the net.”
Tim Drews
“I'm lucky I didn't get squashed. I felt like an ant out there a couple of times.”
James Devlin
“[The switch is] presumably to squash speculation that they are embarking on a new sequence of rate cuts, ... This is sensible -- they can always change their mind if they have to, but in the near term it will quiet the markets. It is also consistent with their medium-term view that the economy will indeed recover in the not-too-distant future.”
Ian Shepherdson
“Dive on them and squash them if you must.”
Jeremy Taylor
“A lot of them had never heard about squash before, and I was glad to educate them about it.”
Joe Chapman
