IGT el Siete del Mayo 5/7/21

[LWFS]

Stroman is echoing/repeating the rat/raccoon story on Twitter now.

[LWFS]

Cut to studio: Apple seems mildly bemused, Zeile is PISSED

[LWFS]

Mazeika now: "Honestly, I didn't even know who was on third, I was so nervous and locked-in." (Also, was asked about the tunnel, and doubled down on rat/raccoon.)

[LWFS]

Really, the only people who seem that pissed about this are the legacy media guys.

[Ceetar]

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Disrobing happening as we speak.

[Ceetar]

[dinosaur jesus]

Is it possible the story is kind of true, in that Lindor was trying to diffuse the tension by being funny and McNeil wasn't having it?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Luis is butchering this too.

[LWFS]

Luis Rojas is not a very whimsical dude, apparently: agnostic on the rat/raccoon question, but "this was a team win."

[LWFS]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Luis is butchering this too.

He'd be better off going off on the press for focusing on this, honestly, than he is with the stammering stoic thing.

[Ceetar]

Rojas was GREAT in that press conference. Fuck the vultures, "This is family, let's talk about the game. Talks up the guys constantly." that's the right way. Good job by him.

[G-Fafif]

Bobby Bo added he was only calling the press box to check on Jay Horwitz's cold.



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Rojas was GREAT in that press conference. Fuck the vultures, "This is family, let's talk about the game. Talks up the guys constantly." that's the right way. Good job by him.

Jesus Christ. He disrespected you too, only you don't realize it

[Ceetar]

nope, I Love it. keep it in house, none of my business. Certainly not after the 15th time the vultures asked.



Oh, but waaah, we can't go in the clubhouse (WELL ASK ABOUT VACCINATION)



What a lame cover story ( THEN STFU AND ASK ABOUT THE GAME)



Rojas even dropped a lure "hey, we don't know who's starting tomorrow yet!" and they ignored him.



flat out ignored him. how disrespectful. Why should he bother coming out to talk to them if they're not going to even listen? It's absolute trash. If he'd said "I'm not talking about that" they would've berated him for not talking, so he tried to talk about the game, and was just brutally disregarded. no respect for any of those assholes.

[Edgy MD]

We need HVAC Guy to log on.



I don't think a guy who is calling grossly underpaid human beings doing their job to serve us information we ask for but don't pay for "vultures" should be calling anybody "disrespectful."

[LWFS]

"Absolute trash" is... um... a pretty strong take.



Also, if you stipulate that an in-game conversation/altercation between teammates is "none of our business," then how on earth is VACCINATION in-bounds?

[LWFS]

FWiW, I agree that it's a goof. A stupid goof, but a goof nonetheless. McNeil just kinda did the same thing as Lindor, only with more "it's in-house, fuck you, that's all I have to say" nuance.



This could become a problem, though-- a stupid, stupid one-- if the press holds a grudge.

[batmagadanleadoff]

If he'd said "I'm not talking about that" they would've berated him for not talking, so he tried to talk about the game, and was just brutally disregarded. no respect for any of those assholes.

Since when does Rojas get to decide unilaterally what's news and what isn't? And nobody else is allowed to be interested in the tunnel fight because you're not interested in it?

[LWFS]

To be fair... there was not one question asked about Lindor bunting in the ninth, or any other in-game decision-making.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy MD wrote: Lindor got his smile back.

Well, at least it didn't take him roughly six years, drying out and becoming a Born Again Christian to do it the way one guy who rather publicly lost his smile back in 1997 did.

[Fman99]

I hate made up non-stories and player run around garbage. This rat/raccoon chatter is just as inane to me as some Donnie blah blah blah baloney. Just play baseball and win games.

[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah, this better not become a thing.



Lindor lied through his teeth in the post-game. Everyone else pretty much backed him up to varying degrees. Let's just move on and play baseball. Let McNeil hit a home run and let Lindor be the first to give him a celebratory pat on the ass when he arrives home.

[bmfc1]

I'd like to see this slide, as long as it doesn't linger, but I'm seeing some reporters say "Lindor insulted our intelligence" so I don't think that they are going to let this go.

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[Ceetar]

"Absolute trash" is... um... a pretty strong take. Also, if you stipulate that an in-game conversation/altercation between teammates is "none of our business," then how on earth is VACCINATION in-bounds?

because it's a public health crisis? because it's DIRECTLY correlated to how soon the media could return to the clubhouse? Because there are literal avenues for talking about it, via baseball, because of the 85%, the loosened restrictions, etc. The media asks 'how does the hamstring feel?" all the time, but they can't ask "any effects from that second dose?"

If he'd said "I'm not talking about that" they would've berated him for not talking, so he tried to talk about the game, and was just brutally disregarded. no respect for any of those assholes. Since when does Rojas get to decide unilaterally what's news and what isn't? And nobody else is allowed to be interested in the tunnel fight because you're not interested in it?

These are human beings. Obviously you're allowed to ask, but it was made VERY clear they didn't want to talk about it. They all answered the question, and then were barraged by the same question like the media were trying to one up each other "You couldn't get an answer you liked? watch me, I AM THE BEST i will get the answer! I will preface it with 'not to belabor the point!'"



They're human beings, in the work place, allowed to keep some things private. That they went about it in a ridiculously silly way is their right. I have no desire to turn every baseball player into a boring clone that only answers with bland canned nonsense like "we got a little heated, but we resolved it, it's in the past" in a monotone and then move on to answering stupid questions about if his slump is over now or 'signature moments'.



Again, they are human beings entitled to their privacy once they've stated what they want to state about the incident. They have to put on a baseball game for me, they don't have to reveal every personal interaction for public consumption.



And the media did not ask about the game. They didn't even bother asking about tomorrow's starter, actual real information that fans want to know about the whole damn entertainment product. I'm sure Rojas has some more thoughts about that, after the usage of the bullpen last night, but berating him about Lindor's creative cover story was more important to them. So as to Edgy's point about 'doing their job to serve us information', a big ole F on that one.

[Edgy MD]

Gosh, you're grading me? I mean, my post was at least a D- and you know it.



You don't speak for "the fans." Of course interview subjects have every right to decline to answer questions. That doesn't make people who ask them "vultures," or the attempt to find out the answer "garbage." Reporting is a job.



If I've said something that is factually incorrect, as you certainly have, please tell me. I really want a better grade next time.

[RealityChuck]

The SNY postgame brought us Lindor as the first Met to face the press. First question: What happened in the tunnel? Lindor says, it was my first time seeing a rat in the stadium. "Jeff said that it was a raccoon. We were going back and forth debating." The reporters asked, like, five follow-ups, all at least partially about the tunnel dust-up. The answer remained the same. Let's just say that we've found one thing Lindor doesn't do very well.

Or extremely well.

[LWFS]

I feel like this would be much less of a story, frankly, if Lindor were more comfortable being a bit of a dick. If he'd said what he said (obviously, an agreed-upon BS story) then gruffly said, like McNeil did, "That's all I have to say about it... to YOU guys," it would have raised eyebrows, but not stupid-hurt-feelings-hackles, among the press corps.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

These are human beings. Obviously you're allowed to ask, but it was made VERY clear they didn't want to talk about it.

"Allowed." It's their fucking job to ask.

They all answered the question, and then were barraged by the same question like the media were trying to one up each other "You couldn't get an answer you liked? watch me, I AM THE BEST i will get the answer! I will preface it with 'not to belabor the point!'"

You make it seem as though lying is answering a question. And doubling down on stupid lies is somehow more noble than giving them the opportunity to be accountable. If Lindor didn't want to be "barraged" he should have thought twice about spewing bullshit.



And there are are lot reasons to ask, two of the best players on the team just had a fistfight in the middle of a game.