MLB 2021 season: Corn-Driven Humidity

You can't say that without posting the video of Kyle Farnswith dropping Paul Wilson with a spinebuster so brutal that even Arn Anderson is like, "Damn, son!"



The actual takedown gets shown at about the 1:40 mark.

 

You can see the moment when Farnsworth makes the grab to begin the spinebuster and Wilson's soul just leaves his body.

 

Big talk about Clint Hurdle considering it's the Reds who keep starting these fights no matter whether they're at home or on the road, and no matter who they're playing against. It's like that old saying, "You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. You run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

 

Fuck cancer.

 

Seriously. Take, for example, that clip of Paul Wilson getting clobbered so hard that you can see the exact moment he died and rigor mortis began setting in. Wilson was always a hot-headed dickhead, but who was the manager at the time? Jack McKeon, a guy who never had an issue with telling his players to throw at batters' heads. The Reds also have a long history of getting into brawls with both the Pirates and the Cardinals (though, I don't mind if a Cardinal or two gets clotheslined straight to hell). It's pretty clear that, no matter who's filling out the lineup card and making lineup changes (those are really the only two quantifiable impacts a manager has upon a team), the Reds have an institutionalized philosophy of being ready to throw hands at what they see as even the tiniest slight, no matter how immaterial it is, and they've had that philosophy for a long time. And that's without getting into the really shitty behavior of the Nasty Boys...

 

Nice (and by nice, I mean "incredibly weak") attempt at deflection.

 

I had to look it up and I had forgotten that Mark Shapiro, infamous for spending several years running Cleveland into the ground, is in charge of the Blue Jays.

I'm so, so sorry.

 

Be my guest.

(Also, note that biggles wasn't calling you an ass. He was pointing out how shitty the Reds have been to other players--and occasionally their manager, as seen by Dibble going after Sweet Lou.)

 

Well, let's see. There's the throwdown between Piniella and Dibble. There's the Farnsworth / Wilson thing, clearly instigated by Wilson. There's the shit with Amir Garrett from 2019, when the Reds were clearly throwing at him because he completely owned their shit. Aw, hell, just watch this:

 

I slept for three hours last night. Sue me.