Running 2017 MLB regular season thread

What a hack.
A sports writer worth his salt would have quoted a Springsteen song.

 

Reverse Jeffrey Maier:

Mookie Betts robs home run with great catch

 

LOL Buccos.

 

Watson is a disaster as the closer, but keeping Rivero from closing keeps him cheaper during those arbitration years. I can't say I disagree with the approach if that is what the Pirates are doing. They are already seven games below .500 and even in a diminished NL Central, they aren't going anywhere this season.

 

Uh oh, Cubs:

MLB looks at accusation against Cubs' Russell

 

Their idiot fans, most of whom couldn't pick Andre Dawson out of a lineup of white guys, won't give a shit. I have friends who consider combatting domestic violence their life's work who defended the Aroldis Chapman trade to the death.

Go team.

 

If he did hit her, then he should be punished. But if this is due to an accusation made by his wife's friend, it's pretty much a crock of shit. When someone is arrested, he is innocent until proven guilty. Now, the team/MLB is going to start investigating over what his wife's friend said?

 

Don't forget Patrick Kane.

 

Why wouldn't they investigate? If there is nothing there they move on. If they don't investigate and the allegations turn out to be true, what happens then?

 

How *exactly* do you think someone is "proven guilty" without an investigation? That's what the investigation is for. Deciding if a person is innocent or guilty.

 

But where's the evidence? Why are they investigating there's no evidence! /YF

 

I think someone is "proven guilty" by first being arrested. That would happen with someone calling the police. Unless something was missing from that article it said wife's friend made an accusation. Guess the Cubs and MLB get to act like law enforcement.