Couple of baseball people with some REAL QUESTIONS to answer...

Kinda lulling a bit past the holidays and that one period of a little catch-up there...

But a couple stories have come up with two baseball players who need to answer some very real questions, or, frankly, be suspended or worse...

• Yasmani Grandal  Charge:  Possible collusion with, during the NLCS, and tampering with, during and in the offseason, vis-a-vis his new team, the Milwaukee Brewers.

The actions during the NLCS were suspicious enough, when Yasmani Grandal, then of the Dodgers, appeared to forget basic fundamental functions of being a catcher.

He became a restricted free agent, and refused the Dodgers' 1 year/$17.9 million qualifying tender.  To many Dodger fans, this was good riddance to bad rubbish.

It's what's happened afterward that has people really wondering.

He then got a 4 year/$60 million offer from the only team stupid enough to do it under these circumstances, the LOLMets.

He turned them down.

So what does he do?  He accepts a 1 year/$18.25 million offer to play for...

... the team he may well have attempted to aid to the World Series, the Milwaukee Brewers.

You turn down the best offer you could ever hope to logistically see, given your age, position, and performance in the last postseason -- to sign for only $350,000 more than the Dodger qualifying offer to the team that many who watched you barf and vomit through the NLCS wondered if you were rigging it for...

Yasmani...  Answers, now.

And speaking of "Answers, now...":

• You could be Trevor Bauer of the Cleveland Indians:  Charges:  Harassment, possibly sexual.  Cyberstalking.  Violation of inclusion requirements of players in Major League Baseball.

This guy could, very well, in fact be arrested.

It all started a week ago, when the moron decided to take a flier at Houston's Alex Bregman.  This caught the ire of Twitter user "nikki", with whom he decided to get in a Twitter war and sick his fans on, especially after nikki told Bauer that he was Tweeting like a 16 year-old girl on her period.

So a professional athlete decides to start going through and making nikki's Twitter life Hell for...  basically nothing.  Who hasn't told someone off on Twitter to that extent?

(Well, I haven't, for about 15 months now -- account is softlocked and effectively banned for telling Republican women that they are so stupid to support Trump that they should please paint bullseyes on their pussies so their Republican betters can know where to grab...)

 He starts going through her Twitter history and bringing shit up.

Then he pulls what should get him suspended on inclusion grounds ON TOP OF THE HARASSMENT:  He attempts to "identify as a 12 year old".

And Manfred, you're good on this because...  MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!