"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
Twitter posts aside, I wish him good health and a speedy recovery.
I've got my pride, I drink my wine
I'm sure this thread will end well.
Borderline roster guys need to be social media smart. I know it’s a free country with free speech, but you do speak out at your own peril.
She used to wake me up with coffee ever morning
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Some of you guys need to stop jumping to conclusions and judging people over retweets, especially when they're over 3 months old.
Tony Cloninger (07-26-2020)
It's from 3 months ago. I can go back to March/April and find people tweeting things entirely different than they believe now, even politicians in office.
Don't you think it's reasonable to believe he was taking precautions and following the Reds' guidance considering he was trying to make a team?
MR X (07-26-2020)
Doesn’t it make more sense to consider that he doesn’t believe what he tweets and retweets? We don’t know his heart. None of us have a magic machine that grants us access to a collection or feed of his thoughts, ideas, beliefs, or opinions. We know nothing. Let’s choose love and understanding.
*BaseClogger* (07-28-2020),vaticanplum (07-25-2020),Wonderful Monds (07-25-2020)
Coopdaddy67 (07-25-2020),Falls City Beer (07-25-2020)
if he was tweeting and retweeting fringe snowflake dogma, he would be considered heroic to many that are currently condemning his social media posts.
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”― Marcus Aurelius
Norm Chortleton (07-26-2020),Rdirtypirates (07-26-2020)
How dare I condemn the tweets pretty blatantly suggesting the virus is some kind of conspiracy created by Bill Gates or whatever lol
MR X (07-26-2020)
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