A couple of baseball people need to shut the fuck up - NOW!!

(A little surprised that earlier post posted.  Glad it did, as I was done with it at the tipoff of Game 3.  That said, Blogger was giving me all sorts of grief about that point in time.)

Thanks to my anonymous friend baseball historian again.

We've got a couple of idiots who are on the full "SPEAK ENGLISH!" Trump-wagon here with respect to the foreign influx of players in Major League Baseball.

And if Rob Manfred didn't have such a hard-on for confrontation, he'd do his fucking job as Commissioner to put a stop to all this!

It's even more distressing that the first one is Phillies legend Mike Schmidt.  (Deadspin)

This is what he said on WIP in Philadelphia as to whether he could build the Phillies around Odubel Herrera -- who, ironically, is the only player on the Phillies roster who has a contract of any feasible length:

My honest answer to that would be no because of a couple of things. First of all, it’s a language barrier. Because of that, I think he can’t be a guy that would sort of sit in a circle with four, five American players and talk about the game. Or try and learn about the game or discuss the inner workings of the game. Or come over to a guy and say, “Man, you gotta run that ball out.” Just can’t be — because of the language barrier — that kind of a player.

And then the article probably gives the key point:  Herrera is another one of the players who loves to bat-flip and the like.  It should be noted, as the article does, that Herrera DOES speak English, but it's clear that Mike Schmidt is another "Unwritten Rule of the Game" traditionalist...

Oh.

Fucking.

Joy.

He has apologized, but I do have to wonder if a firing or suspension from anything Phillie might be in order here, not unlike the whole KNBR "brain-dead Caribbean hitters" fiasco from a number of years back!

And that's not the only such recent story!

Another announcer who needs to be suspended is Red Sox Jerry Remy, who believes it should be illegal for a translator to accompany the pitching coach or manager to the mound for a visit -- and that the pitcher should learn "baseball language" -- meaning ENGLISH!  (Deadspin)

And then a correction by Deadspin shows it's even WORSE than Remy represented.  The Japanese person who went out to the mound was not a translator for a pitching consultation, but a member of the Yankees training staff:  Koji Uehara was being examined for an INJURY!!!

FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!