Double Standard?

[nsacpi]

I can't even imagine if you were playing in the little leagues nowadays how negative your WAR would be on the team.

when are you going to respond to my request to be designated a poster of color

 

[Carp]

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There's a language barrier there. Kid needs to learn how we play baseball in America.

 

[weso1]

I love Acuna, but he's clearly a showboater and Swanson isn't. It makes a difference when you make a mistake, especially if it costs the team. Just as a comparison, I bet Albies and Swanson are treated pretty similarly.

 

[mossy]

I love Acuna, but he's clearly a showboater and Swanson isn't. It makes a difference when you make a mistake, especially if it costs the team. Just as a comparison, I bet Albies and Swanson are treated pretty similarly.

Agreed, i don't feel like the situations are truly comparable, and Dansby doesn't have a reputation for not hustling. I don't think this comparison needs to be a thing, though it's just my opinion from a far.

 

[nsacpi]

I love Acuna, but he's clearly a showboater and Swanson isn't. It makes a difference when you make a mistake, especially if it costs the team. Just as a comparison, I bet Albies and Swanson are treated pretty similarly.

where does Inciarte fall in this spectrum

 

[Garmel]

Staying at the plate due to confusion is much different than lack of running out a ball hit in fair play.

 

[Garmel]

If people want to bring up the race card why was Camargo not punished for his stunt? His lack of hustle didn't end up hurting anything but he made a damn fool of himself.

 

[jpx7]

If people want to bring up the race card why was Camargo not punished for his stunt? His lack of hustle didn't end up hurting anything but he made a damn fool of himself.

The nose-ring distracted everyone.

 

[Enscheff]

I suspect the fact Acuna was pimping the fly ball as if it were a HR contributed more to Snit’s ire than the fact he’s brown. Swanson had a brain fart, and those types of mistakes are typically tolerated more by the baseball world than showing up others.

 

[Enscheff]

If people want to bring up the race card why was Camargo not punished for his stunt? His lack of hustle didn't end up hurting anything but he made a damn fool of himself.

Agreed. Camargo strutted on that double like he hit it into the second deck. Nobody cared, and he isn’t a white boy.

Things like Acuna’s grilling tend to require a confluence of events. Huge expectations of the player. Past incidents. The play costing the team. The stakes of the game in question. All probably more influential than the color of their skin.

Just because there are undeniable race issues in the country doesn’t mean everything is tied to it.

 

[nsacpi]

Actually the comp I had in mind is Ender. Benched for not hustling.

 

[weso1]

where does Inciarte fall in this spectrum

I don't know why you're bringing autism into this.

 

[nsacpi]

I don't know why you're bringing autism into this.

i said in this spectrum...not on the spectrum....beeg difference

 

[Tapate50]

He probably grew up poor not knowing any of this. Our way of playing the game may be confusing to him. It isn’t his fault his home country didn’t show him the right way to play the game.

Plus yeah - something definitely happened with the ump. Maybe since he grew up where he did they couldn’t afford umps.