2020 MLB Season Baseball • Page 23

ugh. that sucks.

 

Why is it so difficult to just not be a dirtbag

 

The baseball gods really don’t want the Yankees to have their optimal playoff roster, huh

First Betances now this. The price to pay for getting Sevy and Stanton back. 100 wins will happen but man

 

please don't blame my gods on domestic violence. k thx.

 

Random injuries are the not the same as domestic violence.

If he's an abusive pos boot his ass off the team I don't care about the playoffs.

 

Let’s throw Chapman off the team while we’re at it.

 

I have to imagine it's pretty infuriating for guys who are injured like Trout and Yelich to see stuff like this with Vazquez and Germán. They're healthy enough to be playing the sport they love and throwing away their opportunities because they're shitheads.

 

Unfortunately the Yankees (and about 95%) of sports teams don’t care about this behavior if you’re good enough to help the team win. This is the same franchise that knowingly traded for Chapman and then turned around and signed him to a huge contract the next year. This crap will continue to happen until teams actually hold these guys accountable and just release them and blackball them from the sport.

 

Ronald only needs 3 stolen bases.

 

The thing that pisses me off it's that it's so... preventable. Don't hit anyone and you won't get yourself in trouble. Injuries are random and you can't do anything about them. But the way to not get suspended for spousal violence is... don't do it! I just want to tell every single one of them, "You won't get away with it. You will get caught. And you will fuck over your team." I don't know if they think they're invincible and that's why they do it, but goddamnit now the Yankees will be without a key pitching component just because you had to be a fucking moron and do something that will get yourself suspended. Just don't hit anyone! It's that simple! The Yankees should have seminars on this shit if they don't already. You want to play baseball and help your team win a World Series? Don't assault anyone! Not hard!

 

I also think it’s sad that if a player takes a PED he gets suspended and can’t play in the playoffs that year while being viewed as doing the worst thing in the world with a scarlet letter on you for the rest of your life yet if you hit your wife/girlfriend you just get suspended and all is forgotten about in time.

 

I guarantee you the Yankees are thorough on all of this shit. I know they brought in Chapman but did I miss a run of these instances that have happened under their watch? Grown men are going to do what they want to do.

 

Yeah I don’t think you can blame the team for a player doing something like that while they’re with the organization, you can’t babysit grown men 24/7. And players do have to attend domestic violence meetings at the start of the year in spring training.

The bigger issue is how the franchise reacts to this type of behavior. The Yankees, for example, have shown that they really don’t care about domestic violence issues. The Red Sox are another team that seemingly doesn’t care either as they have kept Steven Wright employed for the past year or so.

 

Domingo slapped his girlfriend in public, likely at CC Sabathia’s charity gala that he was hosting that night, and the only reason he got in trouble was because an MLB official at the event witnessed it and reported it to the commissioner’s office.

Way to go, you fucking idiot. I cannot believe the fucking lack of brain cells you need to do that in a public setting at your teammate’s charity event. You fucking moron.

 

Yeah certainly a lot of instances of teams not caring about it no argument there.

 

One of the Rays’ biggest wins of the year came with them blowing up Chapman’s spot at the top of the ninth at Yankee stadium and my happiness was palpable. Forever fuck that dude.

 

I'm glad Rizzo is okay obviously but damn I was looking forward to not having to deal with his defensive abilities, given our team's propensity for small ball

 

where does Lemahieu finish in the AL MVP race? Dudes been awesome this year

 

Top 5 most likely.

 

Top 3 I'd say

 

Assuming the voters continue to undervalue pitchers in the MVP race because the cy young exists

 

I was looking to see where DJ ranks in terms of WAR and apparently Marcus Semien turned into a 7-win player this year.

 

Brew Crew baby - CRAIGTEMBER rolls on

 

It appears Rizzo's ankle is far from 100% based on his fielding of that bunt actually

 

Fuck off Rizzo