Hate the Drake?

[bmfc1]

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27913518/mlb-looking-long-umpire-rob-drake-tweethttps://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27913518/mlb-looking-long-umpire-rob-drake-tweet

One way of looking at this is that he is commenting on the news so this has nothing to do with his abilities as an umpire.

Another way is that he's a bigot and one might question his ability to make the proper calls concerning players of color.

[Edgy MD]

Part of me — a big part — wants to fire him just because he can't spell "civil."



The other part — well, all of me, actually — wants to fire him because he's threatening political violence and civil insurrection.

[Edgy MD]

He mis-spelled "Capitol" too.

[bmfc1]

Marcus Stroman retweeted this Tweet:

https://twitter.com/williamzabka42/status/1187140127983853569https://twitter.com/williamzabka42/status/1187140127983853569

[Double Switch]

Not only misspellings, Rob Drake demonstrates the typical Trump worshiper's ignorance of how "process" works when we have a criminal Attorney General who wants to insist there's "nothing to see here" and refuses to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the charges. Therefore, in absence of that, the House Democrats are doing all the work. Basement? That's where it's done and there is nothing new about that.



So now we have yet one more gun-loving idjit threatening violence on behalf of Donnie TinyPaws instead of educating himself as to what's truly happening here and why. Too many people like Rob Drake in our nation and nothing much to be done about those who persist to live in utter and abject ignorance, knee-jerking their way through life.

[kcmets]

I'm afraid to click on the link after that speech.

[Methead]

Another reason we need robot umps.

[LWFS]

Belief in QAnon doesn't raise questions of whether someone has biases that might affect their job; it raises questions of whether we should preemptively monitor/sequester said person. It's not just conspiracy-- it's blood-libel-type conspiracy that enables/encourages violent insurrection.

[Fman99]

He sounds like just another dipshit to me

[Edgy MD]

If only. But that's some special dipshittiness.



It's, like, some presidential-level shitdip.

[bmfc1]

He's a dipshit making decisions that have multi-million dollar consequences. If his judgment is that impaired there is no telling what he is doing on the field.

[G-Fafif]

When Marge Schott was spewing racist BS, and thus very bad for MLB business, she was suspended. I don't see how Drake making threats can be construed as anything less.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

There's got to be hundreds of shitbags who'd like to be a MLB umpire. Just give us a shitbag who doesn't threaten violence in defense of a criminal

[bmfc1]

There are men (and women) driving all over the country to be part of a 2 or 3 person umpiring teams in the minors and from what we've seen they can't be any worse than at least half of the Major League umps.



However, Manfred has no stones. If he fires this guy it becomes a big story on FOX News which means that Trump sees it and talks about it and then a boycott is threatened. My guess is that he'll suspend him in some capacity and tell him to take down his social media (or disguise it better than Mitt Romney did).

[seawolf17]

Let's not act like this shithead is the only shithead. MLB is filthy with shitheads. When they get called out like this? Great. Eff that guy. Enjoy umpiring beer league softball for $20 a night instead.



For what it's worth, Stro has only had Drake behind the plate once, and he gave up eleven hits in 6 2/3 in a game the Jays would lose because (ha!) Roberto Osuna blew the save.



(See? Filthy with shitheads.)

[Edgy MD]

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Another reason we need robot umps.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It can't be any worse than what we already have.

[Edgy MD]

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[Centerfield]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It can't be any worse than what we already have.

Are you kidding? Have you not seen Terminator?

[bmfc1]

Drake apologizes:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHsDgNdU8AAApyT?format=jpg&name=900x900>

[Centerfield]

For what it's worth, that's a good apology.



Certainly better than the bullshit "I'm sorry if anyone was offended" bullshit.

[Edgy MD]

Yup.



For what it's also worth, I strongly suspect it was written by a professional publicist. Nothing necessarily wrong with that, of course, but the man has a lot of walking to do.



If I lived in another world, I'd suggest the president go on TV and remind people that idle talk about civil insurrection is a terrible mistake, gravely dangerous, and frequently a crime.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That sounds like a nice world to live in.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

In other Drake News that appears somehow to have escaped the attention of group here, the Mets a few months back quietly signed an undrafted free agent out of South Alabama with a $10 million name DRAKE NIGHTENGALE



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It gets better: Drake's bio page reveals his real name in Thayer Drake Nightengale, and his fave athlete is Jake deGrom.