In light of their injury woes, I guess the questions are -
Sounds like it's a legit paper, not the top paper but a player
He's on the Restricted List. I can't see him playing again until this situation is resolved. After that, who knows?
You're probably right. But Franco agreed with the Rays to go on the restricted list. Presumably he could argue he should come off it at some point, perhaps before MLB gets any kind of final report in hand?
Yeah. I think it's going to play out similarly to the Bauer case. He'll remain on the restricted list until such time that the legal system has run its course and MLB is satisfied with its own investigation.
Just don’t send him to the minors. He may get confused thinking he’s getting another kind of minor.
To be clear, this is another minor in addition to the one on social media, not a third minor I believe. Though we did just have 3 jokes in a row about fucking kids, so maybe it’s just a day for threes.
Hopefully not as corruptible as the US, where Big Ben, Tyreke, Greg Hardy and Watson all paid off their victims and returned to play.
My memory was that Dominican authorities didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory with the investigation into the Ortiz shooting.
Looks pretty mobbed to me.
Just seemed like there were quite a few guys hanging back/getting out there pretty late.
It's Tampa Bay, and you're questioning attendance and showing up late for something baseball related?
I read it more as "if he is ultimately proven guilty" or "if in the end he is proven guilty" rather than finally in the sense of having known about an injustice for a long time.
I find I’d prefer these stories be true so we don’t add to the 0.00001% of “b$&@&)s lie” stories guys use to protect offenders like Kobe and sweep the zillion other examples under the rug.
My money would be on something illegal and shameful at this point, but when he says “ultimately proven guilty of the accusations levied against him” does that mean it’s known what he’s been accused of?
The point of the quote in Spanish is that an investigation is ongoing and it's serious enough at this point that they are assuming that there's more than smoke.
Maybe he means officially being permanently banned? That hasn't ever really happened, has it? Everyone I can think of just got blacklisted without any official ban, besides Pete Rose (and that was just for gambling not this kind of thing, ironically).
Maybe but I think this reporter may be 3-5 steps ahead of the game.
Understood. My point was that I don’t think we’ve heard anything about what the actual accusations are. The Marcano quote talks about the accusations potentially proving true. Does that mean he/Gómez know what the actual accusations are thus far?
I think the basic accusation of wrongdoing appears clear enough. Wander's being investigated for sexual relationships/contacts with two separate minors.
I agree, but there's a question as to how long they have to ban someone before it becomes a de facto lifetime ban?
