Mookie, Mookie, Mookie.
If you wish to metaphorically throw a trash can via a window, no less than achieve this for an individual who was truly wronged. Talking out in favor of Trevor Bauer is a waste of oxygen and vocal wire vibrations.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times’ Bill Shaikin, not solely did Betts say that he hopes an MLB workforce will signal Bauer this offseason, but additionally “I love him. I think he’s an awesome guy.”
Regarding the violation of MLB’s home violence and sexual assault coverage for which an unbiased arbitrator dominated that Bauer deserved a 194-game suspension — the longest in league historical past for such an offense — “The personal things? I have no control,” Betts mentioned to Shaikin. “I have no say. Obviously, nothing came from it”
Nothing got here from it aside from a historic 194-game suspension, which the arbitrator decreased from the 324 video games that Commissioner Rob Manfred had initially issued.
C’mon Mookie. Try to be higher than this. In a world during which it’s so tough for justice to be served for sexual assault and home violence, this unbiased arbitrator handed down a harsh ruling. Nothing is the alternative of the phrase that must be used to explain Bauer’s “personal things.”
Sure, the arbitrator did rule in December 2022 that since Bauer had been on administrative depart since July 2021 he was eligible to play at first of the 2023 season. Nonetheless, had a workforce signed Bauer, or the Los Angeles Dodgers saved him, he would have been docked pay for the first 50 games of the 12 months.
There are numerous individuals on this world much more worthy of talking up for in public than Trevor Bauer. Mookie, sooner or later, use your phrases to elevate them up as an alternative of a man that your league threw the ebook at.
