One of the reasons the New York Yankees supposedly dumped Cabrera after the 2009 season was because he was abadinfluence on star second baseman Robinson Cano.
The survey asked whether people think that hip-hop and rap are a positive influence on society or a negative influence on society, and majorities of all groups - blacks, whites and Hispanics - agreed that hip-hop has had abadinfluence on society, most particularly the rap portion of hip-hop.
Younus and Yousuf were banned indefinitely for having a"bad influence" on the team during last winter's tour of Australia but Younus's ban was recently overturned on appeal.
We wind up in a place where small but passionate groups of people can wield a disproportionate amount of influence and implement bad ideas that do not and can not work.