Toronto Columnist Thinks MLB Should Make An Example Out Of David Ortiz And Punish The Red Sox For Tampering
SportsNet – It’s the gall that gets you, more than anything else. The typical Boston Red Sox B.S. is that everybody on the planet wants to play in Fenway Park – North America’s oldest public urinal – and that somehow because of their history they should be above the rules.
Normally, I couldn’t care less about David Ortiz trolling the Toronto Blue Jays with his nudge-nudge, wink-wink, statements about how free agent-to-be Edwin Encarnacion would be the perfect replacement for Ortiz as designated hitter when Ortiz retires at the end of this season. Fact is, Encarnacion makes sense for the Red Sox on several levels. Likewise, the team makes sense for the player, especially with their predilection for giving out big years and big money. The Red Sox used to be Death Valley for Latino players, or at least a difficult environment in that warped Boston kind of way. But that changed with Pedro Martinez and Manny Ramirez and Ortiz – suddenly, Latino players found a comfort level that hadn’t always existed.
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But we are closing in on a seismic free-agent event: the class of 2018, which could include almost every player of significance including bank-busters such as Bryce Harper. It’s the type of feeding frenzy that is going to draw in the big markets and big, big money, and the commissioner’s office wants teams to exercise discipline on the public stage. Might be time to send out a message, especially to that lot in Massachusetts and their overblown sense of entitlement.
HOOOOOLY FUCK this dude is salty. “I couldn’t care less about David Ortiz, but let me cry all over my keyboard, shit on Fenway Park, which has nothing to do with this story, write a thousand words about how Ortiz said he’d like a player from my team to take his place after he retires, and then try to get the league to take action against him for tampering.”
This guy SUCKS. I don’t even know what his name is, and I don’t want to know. All I know is that I think we’re dealing with the Bart Hubbuch of the MLB, so let’s just call him Bart. Bart, listen. Stop being a little bitch, my man. If you want to break out your rule book and try to get Ortiz and the Red Sox punished for tampering on some sort of technicality, you couldn’t come off as more of a jealous little tattle tail. Sure, the league might’ve looked into it anyway. And maybe they slap him with a fine regardless. But to write about it like, enough is enough! The Red Sox can’t keep getting away with tampering against the Blue Jays! That’s the hill you’re choosing to die on?
You’re upset that there might’ve been some tampering going on in the case of John Farrell? Dude, you can fuckin’ have ‘em. I don’t think anyone in Toronto is upset over the loss of Farrell. You’re not, either. I know you’re not. You just needed to build more of a case here, so you used an example that you weren’t even bothered by.
And honestly, I thought I was reading a column about the Patriots the way that you talked about how the Red Sox have this sense of entitlement, and the “gall” that Ortiz has to want someone with similar offensive production to take over for him once he hangs it up. The gall! How dare Ortiz want the Red Sox to continue to do well after he’s gone. That vile, slimy, sneaky, rule-breaking son of a bitch!
You know, I could say something like, do you honestly think that Ortiz saying he wants Edwin Encarnacion to DH for the Red Sox next year has any impact on his actual decision? But I won’t say that, because it absolutely does. You could see it all over his face when reporters asked him about it. The reality is, Encarnacion is already gone. He was gone regardless of Ortiz’s endorsement, because he won’t negotiate with Toronto in-season, so he’s going to free agency.
And despite all of the money that the Blue Jays ownership has, they’re notorious for being cheap. Unless, of course, your name is Vernon Wells. So, you know for a fact that he’s going to free agency. That’s a guarantee. You know that the Red Sox will more than likely outbid Toronto, because they’ll be focused on re-signing Jose Bautista. We both know they’ll only be able to re-sign one, and Encarnacion is not their top priority.
Seems to me like you’re more upset with the Blue Jays than you are with David Ortiz and the Red Sox. If the Blue Jays had handled this the right way, they would’ve gotten an extension done with Encarnacion this past spring, when he expressed his desire to retire as a Blue Jay. That’s not happening now. Now, he’s on a one-way street to free agency, where he knows a big ol’ bag of money courtesy of the Boston Red Sox is waiting for him. And that bothers you, so take it out on the Red Sox for having owners who actually spend their money, and a ballpark that’s on every baseball fan’s bucket list to visit.
By the way, the Hubbuch comparison is spot on. I just looked, and he’s taking a page right out of the Hubbuch Book of Trolling by retweeting hate tweets he gets from Boston fans like a badge of honor. Hubbuch 101.