Gurriel vs Darvish
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These fellas seem to forget that the camera is on them 24/7
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This is 2017 though so anything goes!
He will get at least a game. Racial epithets are nothing new in sports. It used to be a lot worse in the past.
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He just got a 5 game suspension but not during the WS. That's like sending your kid to his room without dinner but slipping two Slim Jims under the door
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
....and a pizza.
Saw the HR but apparently missed what he did.
On a WS stage that is unacceptable.
AJ Hinch did make a tele call to Roberts with a probably very sincere apology.
On the other hand Bob Costas the next day on a show referred to darvish as "throwing batting practice."
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5 games suspension for next season is a joke.
Let's Go Kershaw!
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5 games seems about right. But it should be without pay. His pay should go to a legitimate civil rights organization.
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Ralph
I heard that it was without pay for the five games at the start of next season.
Go Dodgers!
Ok. My mistake. I heard he would be off with pay.
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Ralph
Should have either benched him for a W/S game or forgotten about it. I vote the latter.
I agree , 5 games but not during the world series is pathetic wishy washy pc garbage. Take a stand and suspend the player now or STFU about it . His only offense that seems suspendable is to be caught on camera doing something . This could happen 10 times a night off camera and go unpunished.
and now the idiocy of the MLB decision to suspend Gurriel next season has come full circle. no doubt he's a good player but my feeling is that he should be serving that suspension now, he may not even be playing next season.
why would they not just suspend him during the series??
I suppose one reason, is if MLB tried to suspend a player during the World Series, the Players' Union and the team would appeal it, sending it to an arbitrator and/or the courts. The player would of course, be eligible to play until the appeal is exhausted; and the World Series would likely be over far before that were to happen.
Steve
I think tampering with a team during the WS is a bit much. It was definitely a rude gesture but not worth messing with a teams chances for a WS Ring
I agree, but it's a sad/sorry state of affairs when being rude or "hurting someone's feelings" becomes a suspendable/fineable offense.
People need to quit looking for reasons to be offended, and just live life!
Steve
Steve I 100% agree!
Can't wait to see the Tues. at bat with Gurriel vs. Darvish. But I don't believe anything of substance will transpire between the two.
Isn't Rich Hill pitching game 6 for LA?
m
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
My mistake. Got ahead of myself. I believe you are correct. It's possible I suppose, Darvish could come in for a relief stint if the need arises.
Facts should never get in the way of a good sports thread.
While I agree, what bothers me is the double standard of outrage vs. a kind of forced disapproval. Imagine a white southern player racially insulting a black player, then suggesting it's not a big deal because it doesn't mean anything "where he's from." That would go over well.
Darvish downplaying it reminds me of the Larry Bird/Isaiah Thomas comments where Isaiah got a similar free pass.
At the moment only white people can be racist and only men can be sexist . Of course historically being male or white conferred a lot of advantages . Pendulums never stop right in the center , so there is bound to be an overshoot . Those that were on the bottom tend to mimic the actions of their former oppressors .
Gurriel isn't white though. He's Cuban isn't he? Not sure but think that's Latino. He's being racist and he got called for it. Good on MLB. The execution of the suspension is questionable but at least they took a stand.
This reminds me of something that happened years ago here in Illinois. Springfield had a real good H.S. Basketball team. A real good Chicago team came down to play. So it's a all white team coached by a white coach playing a all black team with a black coach. It was a good game and very close and the black team won. When interviewed by the press the black coach said "they played pretty good for a bunch of white boys"!
Imagine if that had been the other way around!
That's nothing. I've seen all white team HS basketball teams in 70's chant racial disparaging rhymes during lay up drillls before game with all black teams. It was disgusting but was "ok" for the times and area
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
That would cause a riot now!
It should have then
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I agree!