Picture this:
You’re doing your job. You’re doing it pretty well. You’re excited about doing your job well. A competitor’s employee sees you’re excited and decides, two days later, to hit you with a hard object traveling faster than you can legally drive an automobile. Minutes later, you again do your job well, this time directly in the presence of your competitor’s employee.
Such was the situation over the weekend for one Nicholas Castellanos of the Cincinnati Reds. Here’s how Castellanos responded:
Seems reasonable, right? Especially in a competitive setting, outdoors?
Well, Major League Baseball—viewed by many as starved for excitement—didn’t like it. Castellanos got a two-game suspension.
Some thoughts:
- It’s gotta get reduced to one on the appeal, right? But still.
- I thought Theo Epstein was supposed to have fixed the commissioner’s office by now.
- I am actively angry about this and I saw it […checking timestamp…] an hour and a half ago. We’re really suspending a man for flexing in the face of the punk who pegged him? Personally, I would’ve suspended Castellanos for what he said about Yadier Molina after the fact (he said nice things—nobody should say nice things about Yadier Molina). But for the flex?
- If this is the reason for the boycotts, sign me up.
