"it's not good for baseball in that situation" -- unwritten rules being broken, playing baseball the wrong way

You’d think sticking up for your own players would be an important unwritten rule...

I honestly hope the Sox have a bad skid of losses and LaRussia’s gets ripped apart by fans and the team alike. I am so grossed out by him at this point that I want his own players to just ridicule him openly

i would prefer that the sox keep winning and larussa get another DUI and gets ripped apart by fans and the team alike

i dunno - if two DUIs wasn't enough to prevent him from getting the job, I'm not sure three will have any effect.

It's good that everyone under the age of 65 who doesn't have a sports media job appealing to Boomers thinks LaRussa's full of shit.

Hate can be very therapeutic, so a gift for everyone.

https://www.billjamesonline.com/r_e_s_p_e_c_t/

(I knew instantaneously where he'd come down.)

"Yermin the Vermin"...fuck this guy.

bill the pill

yermin the vermin doesn't even work unless you mispronounce his name

Has a reporter asked if the Minnesota Twins’ feewings were hurt? That seems to be the germane issue. And an important one in baseball, that famous respecter of players’ feewings.

"Yermin the Vermin"--only skimmed, missed that; ugh.

how about “bill the dipshit” it has a ring to it

I love how swinging at a pitch is considered reprehensible but then throwing at a player in retribution is totally ok according to the "unwritten rules"

jeez, bill james, cut it out

In the great movie "Gran Torino", Clint Eastwood pats a young child on the head, only to learn that this is considered highly offensive in the Hmong culture. It’s an unwritten rule.

We are, of course, in the middle of a controversy involving the unwritten rules. Yermin Mercedes, who is no relation to his cousin, Vermin Gran Torino . .

Anyway, the thing that has just happened, between Yermin the Vermin and Tony LaRedneck, has very close parallels in my life, your life, and everybody else’s life.

Mercedes, of course. . . and I mean no disrespect by joking about his name. . .but

i haven't seen gran torino, so maybe i'm missing some connection to it and "vernin"? james has clint eastwood on the brain

If an established position player is pitching then swing all you want imo.

This is not a triple A pitcher trying to get a job in the majors and they are adding to his era in a blowout, the other team basically called in the L.

Astros broadcast just said that A's fans stand out to them because they seem to boo only players from the 2017 team, and not ALL of the current Astros like other fans do.

— Gabe (@925mlbfan) May 20, 2021

:)

i believe that the best fans in baseball will also boo the proper players

Wonder if Springer will get such a treatment.