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Hate the Drake?

bmfc1 Oct 23 2019 04:38 PM

https://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 Oct 23 2019 04:45 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 23 2019 04:48 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

He mis-spelled "Capitol" too.

bmfc1 Oct 23 2019 05:05 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

Marcus Stroman retweeted this Tweet: https://twitter.com/williamzabka42/status/1187140127983853569

Double Switch Oct 23 2019 05:13 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 23 2019 06:08 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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

Methead Oct 23 2019 06:23 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

Another reason we need robot umps.

LWFS Oct 23 2019 07:30 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 23 2019 07:38 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

He sounds like just another dipshit to me

Edgy MD Oct 23 2019 08:12 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

If only. But that's some special dipshittiness. It's, like, some presidential-level shitdip.

bmfc1 Oct 23 2019 09:06 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 23 2019 09:09 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 23 2019 10:00 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 24 2019 05:49 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 24 2019 06:37 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 24 2019 07:18 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

=Methead post_id=25054 time=1571876622 user_id=61] Another reason we need robot umps.

Sure, Methead wants to plunge the country into a robot civil war.

Benjamin Grimm Oct 24 2019 07:19 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

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

Edgy MD Oct 24 2019 07:38 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

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Centerfield Oct 24 2019 08:54 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: It can't be any worse than what we already have. Are you kidding? Have you not seen Terminator?

bmfc1 Oct 24 2019 08:19 PM Re: Hate the Drake?

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

Centerfield Oct 25 2019 08:11 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 25 2019 08:17 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 Oct 25 2019 08:18 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

That sounds like a nice world to live in.

Johnny Lunchbucket Aug 02 2020 09:43 AM Re: Hate the Drake?

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 https://dbukjj6eu5tsf.cloudfront.net/sidearm.sites/usajaguars.com/images/2020/2/28/Drake_STORY.jpg> It gets better: Drake's bio page reveals his real name in Thayer Drake Nightengale, and his fave athlete is Jake deGrom.