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Originally Posted by kysirsoze
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.
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They were absolutely the instigators in the A's and Sox drama but it's just not worth hashing that out again. At some point I'll have to convince you all that Lawrie wasn't doing a flying jumpkick when his cleat hit Escobar mid-calf but whatever.
Cain has been in the middle of plenty of temper tantrums this year. And really, gonna just forget about Herrera's garbage in the 'make an ass of himself' derby? Or are you gonna justify that one as well? Probably the latter.
Again - just brick after brick after brick. Any singular incident in a vacuum isn't much but the Royals are in the middle of more of them than any team in baseball.