Clever name for her dog, her last name Schott, and Schatzi, homonym, means sweetheart in German. But, again, seems to have an odd obsession with German stuff. I guess naming the dog "Adolphie" would have been a bit too on the nose...
I was at Orioles spring trading in the mid-1990s when Eric Davis was there. He was signing autographs and somebody yelled, “I bet you’re glad to be away from Marge.” He didn’t hesitate and responded, “She ain’t bad…when she’s sober.” 😆
I seem to recall an umpire collapsing and dying on the field and she said something to the effect of "Why does this kind of thing keep happening to me?"
She was such a POS she was mad at the players for winning the World Series so quickly (they swept the series 4-0) because she lost revenue from home games they didn’t have to play. She refused to pay for any celebration, and the players had to pay for their own hamburgers
I was reading Dave Wells’ book and even though he only played with the Reds for a brief period he talks about here with distain a fair amount. Apparently she tried to stop Reds players from living with their girlfriends because they “were living in sin.”
One of the first women to buy an MLB team (Payson was awarded the Mets expansion). She kept prices low, and while she operated the team cheap, she was very charitable to other causes. Gave enough money to her alma mater, UCincy, that it named its baseball stadium in her honor for 15 years.
Pretty terrible person….. and at the same time, refused to raise prizes on tickets, made sure there were always $5 tickets at worst, and $1 hot dogs. A real mixed bag.
Does anyone remember the short lived Fox sitcom, Hardball? It was about a hapless MLB team. The owner in the show was based on Schott. Her name was Mitzi Balzer and her dog was Balzy 😂
This sub is about sports history, but you can't get through your day without bringing politics in. I can't stand trump and schott was an awful person, but please...
30 years ago she was marginalized by her peers. More importantly, zero national media outlets went to bat for her.
Do you think today's media - particularly Fox, OANN, Newsmax, and AM talk radio - would not take her side?
I don't think that pointing out that if this happened today, she'd probably get support from the sitting President is dragging politics in to sports. I can see her getting a position in his administration if she was publically loyal enough.
Interesting to see how you left out the media that has become blatantly antisemitic, constantly showing “news” that’s fake but they don’t check or ignoring other things going on because “if it’s not the Jews it’s not news.”
It’s fucked up how calling her players the n word wasn’t enough - but then I remember it’s the early 90s. I was called the n word by a little league teammate because he got mad at me around the same time frame lol.
America - where racism and antisemitism is ok but only in small doses /s
Having this show up on my feed after never hearing of this sub before while I'm laying in Tilman's hotel looking over Houston and knowing I helped architect the Astros cheating scandal is some wild ass fucking shit.
Funny to read all these responses about Marge from a historical perspective. If you are a certain age, you remember grandparents or those of the same generation that expressed similar racist views, as well as being very "cheap" if they lived through the great depression.. Yes she was a piece of shit, but she was far from being alone. That generation didn't like blacks, jews, foreigners...even Italians were referred to as "grease balls" or "wops", Irish as "micks" and so on.
My favorite Marge story. As 1995 was coming to a close, she informed her support staff they would not be receiving Christmas bonuses due to a downturn in business. Rather, each one would receive a box of candy. It was quickly discovered that each of the boxes gifted was marked "Sample". And something else each box said "Win free tickets.....to the 1991 Grammies!"
She also let her dog shit on the field and I think it might have bitten a player/coach or two
Yes, the infamously untrained St. Bernard.
Classic Schottsie
She was a beautiful person.sharp witted.gave the world her style and grace
Schottsie was the name of the dog. And yes.
Clever name for her dog, her last name Schott, and Schatzi, homonym, means sweetheart in German. But, again, seems to have an odd obsession with German stuff. I guess naming the dog "Adolphie" would have been a bit too on the nose...
Plural
Awful already, made worse by the Reds playing on artificial turf at the time. Can’t even play it off as being for fertilizing benefits
Dog poop can’t even be used as fertilizer regardless 🤣. Too acidic an it harbors bacteria that don’t break down.
Grandmas say the darndest things
I was at Orioles spring trading in the mid-1990s when Eric Davis was there. He was signing autographs and somebody yelled, “I bet you’re glad to be away from Marge.” He didn’t hesitate and responded, “She ain’t bad…when she’s sober.” 😆
In other words, she was bad
That so funny.
Sounds like a real-life Arrested Development joke.
I seem to recall an umpire collapsing and dying on the field and she said something to the effect of "Why does this kind of thing keep happening to me?"
Yep. It was John McSherry on opening day.
I was at that game
And she reused the flowers that people sent to her on opening day to his funeral
Wow this is an amazing nugget of lore i had never heard
I remember that
As I remember it she was upset that the game did not continue.
She was shunned for being a racist and praising Hitler…In this day and age she’s a typical maga
If she were alive today, she'd have a cabinet position.
A woman with a heart "Why does this have to happen on OUR Opening Day?"
She was such a POS she was mad at the players for winning the World Series so quickly (they swept the series 4-0) because she lost revenue from home games they didn’t have to play. She refused to pay for any celebration, and the players had to pay for their own hamburgers
All this true Eric Davis lacerated his fucking kidney and he had to pay for his own way back from Oakland
Yes and game 5 would've been an away game anyway.
I was reading Dave Wells’ book and even though he only played with the Reds for a brief period he talks about here with distain a fair amount. Apparently she tried to stop Reds players from living with their girlfriends because they “were living in sin.”
Yeah, she flipped out when she found out the manager. Davy Johnson was living with somebody.
Huh? You mean a women?
Yes
Make yourself a dang keysadilla, napoleon
😂
She blazed trails, crosses, all sorts of shit
Amazing comment, needs more upvotes
😆
Trailblazing, how?!
One of the first women to buy an MLB team (Payson was awarded the Mets expansion). She kept prices low, and while she operated the team cheap, she was very charitable to other causes. Gave enough money to her alma mater, UCincy, that it named its baseball stadium in her honor for 15 years.
I just imagine Ucincy AD asking the Dean "is she dead long enough yet? Can we change the name?"
Yes
I remember going to the Cincinnati art museum in the mid 90s and there was an entire wing named after Marge and Charles Schott.
Weren’t none of them gay artists in their wing, though. Just wholesome fellas like that there Michelangelo.
They did put clothes on David though, she thought the statue was a bit flamboyant
Plus she had one of the highest payrolls for those years. Unlike the current cheapskates.
We should be thankful Marge smoked like a chimney and died a few years later.
Search youtube for "Marge Schott Billy West."
The bridal dance!!
But she apologized
That was incredible.
WOW
She was the personification of a “broad”. Coarse as sixty grit sandpaper, booming voice and tough as woodpecker lips.
a “cunt”
No. She’s a cunt 1% racist piece of shit. Her outside ugliness just happens to be a close resemblance of her soul.
No.
She was the personification of "dumb bitch"
Glad she's dead. World is a better place.
Careful, that kinda talk about a dead conservative can you put on a list these days.
She wasn't a conservative. She was a democratic socialist.
This is a joke.
Pretty terrible person….. and at the same time, refused to raise prizes on tickets, made sure there were always $5 tickets at worst, and $1 hot dogs. A real mixed bag.
Who amongst us can’t overlook a little blatant racism for some cheap meat and an upper deck seat
Does anyone remember the short lived Fox sitcom, Hardball? It was about a hapless MLB team. The owner in the show was based on Schott. Her name was Mitzi Balzer and her dog was Balzy 😂
Joe Rogan was on it
CBS "News" would do a special sit-down interview with her nowadays, lol.
She'd probably have a cabinet position
100%
Can you imagine her emboldened by the MAGA cult today?
MAGA Mawmaw
This sub is about sports history, but you can't get through your day without bringing politics in. I can't stand trump and schott was an awful person, but please...
30 years ago she was marginalized by her peers. More importantly, zero national media outlets went to bat for her.
Do you think today's media - particularly Fox, OANN, Newsmax, and AM talk radio - would not take her side?
I don't think that pointing out that if this happened today, she'd probably get support from the sitting President is dragging politics in to sports. I can see her getting a position in his administration if she was publically loyal enough.
Interesting to see how you left out the media that has become blatantly antisemitic, constantly showing “news” that’s fake but they don’t check or ignoring other things going on because “if it’s not the Jews it’s not news.”
She inherited the franchise from husband who made his money selling cars. So that tracks.
She got her money from her husband who owned used car lots and used it to buy the team
He died more than a decade before she bought into the team. She was a Reds fan for many years before investing.
So glad she's dead. I only wish she died sooner.
shocking at the time, not so much today
She was a nightmare racist bitch. How was she trailblazing?
Being a woman who owned a team
It’s fucked up how calling her players the n word wasn’t enough - but then I remember it’s the early 90s. I was called the n word by a little league teammate because he got mad at me around the same time frame lol. America - where racism and antisemitism is ok but only in small doses /s
Edit: a word
Maga Schott
Ohio still votes like Marge
I dig the style though. Sweatsuit. Sweatshirt. Cigarettes.
That sweatsuit goes so hard 🔥🔥🔥
Piece of shit. Rot in piss. She’d have a top spot in the current administration.
Question, how are you forced to sell a team if you own it?
Ask Donald Sterling when the NBA made him sell the Clippers. Pretty much the same situation
Essentially the owner is told to sell or be voted out of the league. If you sell you get a lot of money. If you get voted out you lose a lot of money.
Classic Billy West
https://youtu.be/itSB50Hu0yA
I can’t fix her.
Mark Patrick used to do a hilarious imitation of Marge back in the 90s on the Bob & Tom morning radio show.
Trailblazing? What trail did she blaze?
Well, there. you. go.
She was more of a trailblazer because she was a woman.
Calling her players “N**gers”, supporting Hitler and shit talking Jews, I wouldn’t think are exactly untrodden ground in MLB management of her era.
Having this show up on my feed after never hearing of this sub before while I'm laying in Tilman's hotel looking over Houston and knowing I helped architect the Astros cheating scandal is some wild ass fucking shit.
Heathen Dog.
Ahead of her time, she could have been governor of Ohio today.
Greatest graffiti of all time in Cincinnati, on a bridge overpass “I made out with Marge Schott”
Is trailblazing the right descriptor?
“Only fruits wear earrings. “ Marge Schott
The most hated person in baseball
Trailblazing? She was a garbage human.
She also famously said “Only fruits wear earrings” as her reason for not allowing Reds players to wear them.
Would be presidentially appointed today
If she were alive now, she’d be Secretary of State.
During this time, a fan had a sign at a game that said, “Schott happens.” Security confiscated the sign.
She was a total POS.
Funny to read all these responses about Marge from a historical perspective. If you are a certain age, you remember grandparents or those of the same generation that expressed similar racist views, as well as being very "cheap" if they lived through the great depression.. Yes she was a piece of shit, but she was far from being alone. That generation didn't like blacks, jews, foreigners...even Italians were referred to as "grease balls" or "wops", Irish as "micks" and so on.
America has always had a race problem.
Yeah 04 was a great year
She could be President now
She’s an example of why pro leagues must reserve the right to delete certain owners
Damn don't fuck w the Zionjews
The stories about her from locals is amazing.
My favorite Marge story. As 1995 was coming to a close, she informed her support staff they would not be receiving Christmas bonuses due to a downturn in business. Rather, each one would receive a box of candy. It was quickly discovered that each of the boxes gifted was marked "Sample". And something else each box said "Win free tickets.....to the 1991 Grammies!"
Two things smell like a catfish and Marge Schoot’s pussy. And 1 is a fish
Still not as bad as the Monforts.
she would be vice president of usa today