Schilling cited that article in calling Jones a "guy who intimates the entire sport is racist," but the context for that quote was an answer the O's star provided to a reporter's query as to why black baseball players weren't emulating Colin Kaepernick's example, as several black NFL players had done, by protesting during pregame renditions of the national anthem. "We already have two strikes against us already,'' Jones said, referring to black athletes, "so you might as well not kick yourself out of the game. In football, you can't kick them out. You need those players. In baseball, they don't need us."