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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I'm just talking about the situation and the umpire's actions. Anyone looking back in hindsight and calling shenanigans on Wolf is being silly.
I don't have a problem with Donaldson being fired up and looking at the umpire or even complaining. I do think he went too far with the show he put on (walking to the backstop, continuing to jaw at the ump, etc). He's lucky he didn't get run for that (and Wolf, to his credit, gave him some significant rope, likely because of the situation and Wolf's awareness).
What slider are you referring to with Cain? The Kazmir pitch (because that wasn't a slider).
The Royals have a rep at this point. Things had been quiet for a few months, prior to this series, so I think they've settled down a little bit, but it's still a factor and still something the team needs to be careful about moving forward. Can't let it become a negative factor in the team's performance.
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I wouldn't have had an issue at all with Wolf tossing Donaldson - that doesn't have a damn thing to do with yet another incident of the Royals leaving the dugout and being red asses. They used Donaldson's histrionics to deflect attention and excuse themselves on twitter afterward but then when Ventura goes off calling a 6-time All Star and legitimate stud like Bautista a 'nobody', their justifications start to ring a little hollow, do they not?
Call it youth or swagger or whatever, but it can't be ignored. Royals fans call it an edge, most others....do not. And for Royals fans to have embraced that black hat role then turn around and tell someone like Donaldson who had legitimate reasons to be pissed to just nut it up and walk to first is absolutely hypocritical.