Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Two Rob Manfred moments today: One right, one very tellingly wrong...

  • Hader has to do the dreaded "sensitivity training".
Not much else you could've done there.  He was 17, it was seven years ago in high school.

My anonymous friend said the best seen theory on all of this, in my friend's opinion:  A former rival pissed off that Hader made The Show and is an All-Star, knowing about these Tweets all the time and waiting for the perfect time to torpedo Hader's career.

If that's the case, that may even be scarier than my theory of a bunch of fans trying to make themselves famous by playing Twitter Detective.  That's because there's a number of these along the paths of every professional athlete.

If we're going to get to the point that every rival who didn't make it of a pro athlete who did has an axe to grind...  Oh boy.

It may be time for all of you to get off social media, boys...
  • Speaking of "People Who Wish Would Just Shut Up", it's Rob Manfred again!  He tried to call Mike Trout out, saying that Trout should market himself more, since Trout is largely seen as the best player in the game, and not close!
He's telling you something, Mr. Blinded By The Light.

He wants Trout on one of his five Preferred Teams:  Yanks, Red Sox, Cubs, Cardinals, Astros...

It is appearing (as if last night's callback to the Juiced Ball Series didn't give you a hint -- with ten home runs (six eighth-inning or later!), and 14 runs) that Manfred wants all the power and all the hype on a small number of teams (and can't be happy that the Dodgers landed Manny Machado today!), and is all but calling Trout out to either go Hollywood or go elsewhere.

Well, the Angels had a statement to make refuting Manfred's wishes, and I'll leave that up here for your reading as the sole response to that at this time:

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