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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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You keep coming back to Ventura as your best example of the Royals being "red asses". I have seen very little defense of Ventura. Most Royals fans wanted him to be sent down to AAA. Sure there's some "he's a kid" talk, but even that is usually in the context of how he needs to grow up and figure it out.
Ventura aside, this team started the year getting hit a LOT and were getting little support from the umps. They were smeared in the media for dust ups with the A's and the White Sox in which they were in no way the instigators. Of course they're a little indignant about teams throwing at them. I still haven't seen any Royal make as big an ass out of himself as Donaldson did on Sunday.