Hopefully those chuckle-fucks are sleepless in Seattle.
Nice punch in the old sea-hags’ nads, Astros.
Well done.
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The Astros may be without Neris for a few games. Huge hit if so, and inexcusable by Neris.
I’ll believe Saurez’ probable biased and so far isolated account after Jomboy applies his lip-reading skills to a fray where nobody got punched. A suspension at this point of the season amounts to applying a lever to the team’s chances so anything is possible. Astros have hbp all year and never retaliated.
Precedent would be two or three games I guess. The article mentions Pillar got 2, and Yunel Escobar got three for this stunt back in 2012.
One is premeditated, and the other is heat of competition stuff
What’s the appeal process/timeframe for a suspension like this? Any chance it would just be rolled over to the start of next season?
If that’s true, Neris deserves to be suspended. That’s fucking disgusting and he should be fucking ashamed of himself.
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From something I read last night, the word Neris used means different things depending on where you’re from. In Venezuela, where Suarez is from and he’s the one saying it was a homophobic slur, it is just that. But in the Dominican, it’s like saying “motherfucker”
Just think about what different english words mean here vs Britain vs Australia. I do not speak the language so I have no idea if that is true, just something I read last night from someone who claims to know.
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Neris at least showed some fightback for a team which has listed all month. I anticipate a suspension given the nature of the offense
I don’t see this impacting the Astros.
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There are enough differing opinions that it will take time to determine if a suspension is warranted.
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There are only 4 days left in the regular season.
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There is an appeals process that will allow extra time before any suspension starts, even if it is given then held up.
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precedent: Yuli’s hand motion in 2017 World Series. They suspended him but allowed it to start the following regular season. I do motcsee any suspension during the post season.
I don’t think anything will come of it, but if it does, then I expect it will be at the start of the 2024 season.
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I don’t have time to get into it right now, but in Latin America homophobic slurs don’t work the same way as they do in US English. They’re broader and generally unspecific. Not a defense, not an excuse, but it’s not the same and, I think, shouldn’t be treated the same.
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What was Yuli’s suspension for the slant-eyes gesture? And wasn’t that served at the beginning of the following season?
ETA: I see Idaho answered it.
Is it still okay to call someone a cocksucker? Seems like it shouldn’t be. Cork soaker, maybe.
There was a guy that I worked with, who was gay, he called every guy he didn’t like a cocksucker. We became pretty friends in the 5 years we worked together. At one point he heard me call someone a cocksucker and yelled “hey what’s wrong with being a cocksucker? I quite enjoy it” I kinda fumbled my words for a minute before he said “I’m just fucking with you Doyce, that guy is a fucking cocksucker”
His reasoning is that if you are gay you probably suck cock but you don’t have to be gay to be a cocksucker. I still try not to use that term, but it comes so natural in baseball that sometimes one will slip out, normally towards the umpire.
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There’s a gif of this out there.
Which I certainly don’t find amusing given the target of a George’s ire.
Certainly does not make me laugh.
Wrong now, wrong then.
And not funny.
What is clear is that Springer wasn’t suspended. He started each of the next five games following the incident, then pinch-hit and finished out the game on April 29, and started again on the 30th, leading us to today. Springer’s punishment must have been a fine and/or a commitment to attend sensitivity training
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Louis CK had a similar bit along these lines.
At what point can we no longer say “you suck”?
Give me more Neris. He is out there amped up out of his mind because he wants to win and doesn’t want to embarrass himself. He isn’t out there catching phantom pop flies while the team is getting its ass kicked by opponents that are outmanned at every position.
I hope someone has told him to keep his mouth shut - admit nothing; deny everything, make them prove it.
I think someone else brought this up but it is worth mentioning again. It is racist as hell for those lily white anglo milquetoasts to pass judgment on a black Latino grown ass man.
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