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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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Ventura going at Bautista was a response to two things: Bautista calling out Ned Yost (who for all his shortcomings, is loved by his players) and Bautista being the center of the Royals' sign-stealing complaints (which is an issue that has followed him around for a long time, too).
Ventura is a red-ass who needs to mature. Just don't act like he started that whole Twitter exchange out of nowhere.
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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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Lawrie's slide was late, dirty, and unnecessary. You won't convince anyone here of anything different. And you won't convince those of us who played baseball at advanced levels that slide and the placement of his foot was necessary. It wasn't.
Cain has been drilled a lot. He doesn't like that, and he - like most players - looks at the pitcher and might say something to him as he walks to first. What are you talking about regarding temper tantrums, though? Cain hasn't done anything that even closely resembles a temper tantrum (he's never even done anything close to what Donaldson did on Sunday).
The whole thing with the White Sox never goes ANYWHERE if Jeff Samardzija doesn't bull rush his way through everybody trying get to Cain.
The benches might not even empty if Samardzija isn't yelling shit from the dugout at Christian Colon of all ****ing people the previous inning (after Colon lined out and was waiting for someone to bring him his glove).
Yeah, that was ALL the Royals.