MLB agent Lonnie Murray has to navigate everything Black women in male-dominated businesses do—plus when to use her radar gun.
“As soon as a woman pulls out a radar gun, everybody’s looking.”
@SMPLonnie
on her team of allies:
@TeamLou23
@iamjordancbrown
THANK YOU Zion for covering all of the salaries for the Pelicans arena staff during the NBA’s suspension due to the coronavirus!!! Can somebody ask Gina her contribution? Please & thank you!
Mike Elias, GM of
@Orioles
, THANK YOU! Since Kyle was drafted in 2019 the entire staff has nurtured & developed him along the way, always showing respect to me & openness to any/all questions - a true team effort. You harvested an incredible team but care for the players enough
Hometown legend Dave Stewart,
#34
will be retired by
@Athletics
in an on-field pre-game ceremony next Sunday, September 11 vs
@whitesox
at
#oaklandcoliseum
.
Fans in attendance for the pre-game ceremony will receive a replica Stewart jersey!💛💚
@NakiaRWallace
I don’t know what hurts more, the image of you being in a chokehold or the lie and it’s intent to strip you of your integrity & dignity.
@AthleticsPR
Nothing more needs to be addressed. As a Black woman, I NEVER thought I’d find myself defending a white man/woman using this reference, yet while UNACCEPTABLE, I can see how this happened to a person given that “Negro” is also a word I would not tolerate being called, but
🕊️💔It has been an honor to know a man that has sparked joy, knowledge & strength in so many. His presence, lessons, his grace [and people confusing him with Dave Stewart] will be missed. Rest in Power, Vida Blue. THANK YOU!
#athletics
#VidaBlue
@arinicolelife
@jessmendoza
I am an agent, since 2005, my own agency since 2014. Rachel knows this as she had requested to meet me prior to “becoming” an agent & now completely disrespects the accomplishments of others before her, largely women of color. Media is just as much to blame for not fact-checking.
FREE AGENT ALERT! I can CONFIDENTLY state Michael Hermosillo is a 5-tool impact player that has not had an opportunity for consistent play. GIVEN THE TRUE OPP HE WILL SHIIIIINE!!!
#mlb
#FreeAgent
And so today in my world…🤗Overwhelming GRATITUDE for the opportunities & strength God has afforded me & my INCREDIBLE team (w/Damien Lillard, Brian Shaw, Aaron Goodwin, Rickey Henderson, & more) to bring our vision to life for our beloved City of Oakland. STAY TUNED!
Proud of
@Dsmoke34
for all his accomplishments. We can’t overlook the synergy of these teammates with whom he remains familial-friends to this day and great love for those passed. I wish this for every player, amateur & pro! (Y’all see Hendu make that catch?! 😂🙏🏽🕊️)
#NoHitter
For anyone else confused by
@jessmendoza
“reporting” on
@espn
: I have & continue to run my own agency since 2014 as an MLBPA Certified Player Agent. It’s shameful that it’s other
#womeninsports
disregarding this fact. But as a woman of color, this isn’t new.
To be clear, Bauer isn’t saying he DIDN’T fracture her skull, punch two black eyes, concussion, and yes, sodomize her while unconscious…he & his supporters/enablers are saying, “She got what she asked for.”
@mlb
&
@dodgers
: THIS the culture of “protecting women” you speak of?
People used to ask me “why” I would represent him. Now they’re trying to poach him. Society will never dictate what is RIGHT for me. My God-given heart and intuition does.
#proud
@bufaloblanco13
Former A's catcher Bruce Maxwell still gets hate messages three years after he took a knee during the national anthem.
But he should be remembered forever, just like Colin Kaepernick (via
@MontePooleNBCS
)
I’m definitely in a toxic relationship w/MLB. One day we’re fighting, the next we’re blissfully skipping through the park holding hands. Today is a good day.
#playball
Growing up I idolized who I believed
#PennyMarshall
to be. The day I got to meet & sit with her (HER REQUEST) at a private party was a DREAM COME TRUE! As a child I NEVER would’ve guessed BASEBALL to connect us. I’m still so in awe of her, now more than ever.
#baseball
#Respect
IN A LEAGUE OF HER OWN: A heavenly “thank you” to the late Penny Marshall, who willed her Negro Leagues collection to the NLBM. We shared contents of her gift today as part of our commemoration of the 101st Anniversary of the birth of the Negro Leagues!
@Royals
@MLB
@mellinger
RT
CONGRATS TO LINDOR & HIS ENTIRE TEAM! Countless hours & $$ over 4-8 YEARS go into nurturing/rep’n a player & their family on/off the field amateur to MAJORS, 5% is small $ when someone nurtures & supports you; agent risk is 0 return if plyr doesn’t make it.
#FactCheck
@MLB
Will ALL records reflect w/NLB players now as title holders? Will unpaid benefits be extended to living players and/or perhaps families? HOW does this BENEFIT? There was/is a proudness of Negro League players who withstood & built incredible legacy DESPITE MLB’s exclusion.
@FOX10Phoenix
This is devastating to all impacted, but particularly the tribe. My prayer is that it is not associated with radiation exposure…that will destroy the tribe.
ERA -amendment to Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex; end to legal distinctions between men/women in matters of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. And only FOUR GOP voted for it. Why?
The Milwaukee
#Brewers
follow the
#Bucks
lead and players say they have postponed their game tonight vs. the
#Reds
in protest of the police shooting in Kenosha, Wis.
Young lady referenced was a TEEN in Bauer’s own timeline: On/off 3yrs-broke it off; she arrested at his apartment in underwear for underage drinking. Yet he wasn’t arrested for providing alcohol to the minor & we shouldn’t expect maturity from a teen preyed upon by an abuser.
NEW from
@ggarciaroberts
and me: Trevor Bauer, the star pitcher accused of sexual assault in California, was the subject of a temporary order of protection sought by a different woman last year, according to sealed court records reviewed by The Post
I STAND WITH CAPTAIN CROZIER! A true American & honorable man that made a stance to protect those that serve to protect us. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#CaptainCrozier
#honor
#Leadership
Here is Captain Crozier walking away from his ship while sailors chant his name after he was relieved from duty for blowing the whistle on a coronavirus contamination aboard the USS Roosevelt.
He sacrificed himself and it sounds like everyone knows it.
Man outside ballpark: Do u have a son playing here?
Me: No.
Him: Do you like baseball?
Me: VERY MUCH!
Him: Here, come with me, my friend played in the World Series & has a ring. I can introduce you to lots of people.😑
Me: My husband has 3. (I’m not six & you’re no puppy.)
@hbryant42
I 100% knew there had to be more to it, but REALLY hoped it was intent of heart and not $. Figures. Happy still for the venue change and BRAVO to WE THE PEOPLE that drive corporate decisions.
While we can’t definitively speak to Bauer’s criminality [YET], I do know that it’s unacceptable to imply/state that a woman who enjoys rough sex should expect or accept a concussion. In addition, a woman’s promiscuity should be judged NO MORE than a man’s.
#unacceptable
PSA:
“Mental health” is not a destination or something you just “fix”.
Athletes especially have all the same human issues IN ADDITION to the added pressures of being THE BEST teammate, hitter, pitcher, runner, etc.
Mental training is as important as physical training.
Charles Peterson was a friend, ally & champion for my presence in this game, at a time many others questioned.
@Cardinals
lost one of the best true scouts, but most important, his family lost their father & husband. Please, pray for the comfort of this family.
#pained
#COVID19
💔
I can’t put into words how much my father meant to me and every one he loved. To anyone who reads this. Please prayer for his safe passage into heaven and remember him as the man he was and always will be.
@CaseyPrattABC7
@tipping_pitches
That is an extremely corrupt, self-serving, extremely unprofessional City Council. They have no choice but to say this now in hopes of shifting focus & framing a new narrative to save their jobs next election cycle. They’re testing what sticks with an otherwise unwitting public.
IF
@MLB
WANTS TO PRESERVE THE INTEGRITY OF OUR GAME it should stop policing itself! 1) External investigation 2) Remove gag on teams (so they can tell on each other), 3) Penalize owners commensurate w/estimated overall profit, 4) Strip title/rings/cash/trophies
Seriously, STOP. Call/text/email at least ONE person that at ANY POINT IN TIME had an impact on your life, no matter how much time has passed, and tell them you love and/or appreciate them.
#gratitude
#lossISfinal
#notime
BREAKING: Major League Baseball teams will provide housing for minor league baseball players starting in 2022, sources tell ESPN.
Details on the monumental change
@espn
:
I miss fans actually uplifting & supported their teams/players with positive and/or constructive feedback. So many miserable people displaying their remedial grasp of the game(s) they claim to “love”. Seeking instead to be the star of their own twitter-based reality show.
@CaseyPrattABC7
@MayorShengThao
DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING SHE’s SPEWING! We PERSONALLY told her/Council was happening if they continued their game-playing. So upsetting to see people toy with REAL LIVES of an entire community! 🤬 Desperation to deflect from FACTS. Her focus was on being mayor, NOT the people.
🎉Just wrapped a call with
@hbryant42
@Dsmoke34
&
#Rickey
and ‼️HAPPY‼️we’ll have an announcement soon! For now, 💥HOWARD’s NEW BOOK💥 out in June! Pre-order avail now!
#MLB
(I wonder if
#nft
community has any suggestions for a utility with this project?!🤔)
Rickey Henderson holds the
@MLB
record for SB with 1,406.
In order for someone to break his record they would need to steal 60 bases a season for over 23 seasons!
#BlackHistoryMonth
To the woman who endured this: I AM SORRY YOU WERE ALONE! I’m sorry there weren’t more of us to protect & support you. To tell you that you did NOTHING wrong. To tell you that you don’t need to explain yourself. You were taken advantage & preyed upon. THANK YOU for speaking up!💔
New York Mets general manager Jared Porter sent explicit photos, including a naked picture of a penis, to a foreign female reporter in 2016 after she had ignored dozens of other messages from him for weeks.
Details in news story with
@minakimes
at ESPN:
LOOK AT OUR GIRL!! Phenomenal article that finally & TRULY captures who my client BIANCA SMITH is. (Yes, that was a flex! 💪🏽) I am so proud of her & all she aspires to BE & DO for the game. You’re on your way
@biancaesmith12
!
#WomensHistoryMonth
#baseball
#WomenInSport
Bianca Smith was just a toddler when she began learning the language of baseball from her mother. Now she will be the first Black woman to coach pro baseball and will have her own
@Topps
baseball card.
I was heartbroken to inform kids they couldn’t come to the house for
#Thanksgiving
dinner, first in 23-years not together. More pissed when
@TarikW_34
excitedly responded, “What time should we pick up food, you’re still cooking right?”
#savage
#CovidThanksgiving
I loved GI Jane & would be FLATTERED if someone referred to me as such. 🤷🏽♀️ I also don’t understand how this was a slapable offense, but August bragging all over about smashing your wife wasn’t. 🧐
#whatjusthappened
#willsmithchrisrock
#teamChrisRock
BREAKING from
@hbryant42
:
Former World Series Champion & Baseball Executive Dave Stewart to lead Music City Baseball’s diverse equity ownership initiative. First-of-its-kind initiative will focus on a diverse ownership group for our potential MLB franchise.
📸:
@rxchporter_1
@marclamonthill
@GroupGraves
Phenomenal response. If only we could ask for further clarity before diving into attacks we might actually all learn. I understood immediately what your post was referring. I hope they got the clicks they wanted. 🤦🏽♀️
INCREDIBLE that AJ Hinch & Cora are considered “top” hires, but Jeff Bannister, former Manager of the Year and runner-up a second year hasn’t even been interviewed?!
#baseball
@mlb
#manager
PLEASE DO!!! 😡I’m feeling “some kinda way” about the OBVIOUS attempts to control the narrative; withholding of information, silencing teams & media-friends, attacks on those who speak out against the players & my DISGUST at how there seems to be more sympathy for the reputations
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS TO ME?! I’m in tears! Named next to some of my heroes!? I know I’m not worthy, but GOD KNOWS not a day will go by that I don’t do all HE gives me the power to do to reach their level & keep the torch burning!
#honored
#WomenInSport
@IWBC4Me
@sabr
😭😭
@samsinger
@OaklandBallers
@MayorShengThao
@Nikkiforallofus
FYI: Yesterday I requested/received immediate trade/release of all my players on the Ballers following months of poor trmt & highly unprofessional antics to which Micah Franklin spoke out against. Trevor Halsema, Austin Davis & Myles Jefferson (who got injured) are GONE!
My message to those that have been fighting like hell to conceal the other women, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN in Bauer’s gang, who have also done the most victim-shaming yet calling yourselves “advocates for women”: 🖕🏽
I am so incredibly saddened for ALL of those who have lost a loved one today...or ever. I empathize with great devastation for ANYONE who has lost a child. May our loss of an icon allow us all to reflect less on self and give love to others a bit more. Life is a short gift.
#kobe