Before I get into the blog and my thoughts on everything that went down, I want to state that 2020 is the year of Bro Takes. 2019 was a terrible year for me as my heart was just not into the blog. With college, it was hard to be committed to this, but in 2020 I will be fully committed to blogging. This will be a positive year for Bro Takes and let’s get into the spiciest of topics to start us off.
Yesterday it was announced that Carlos Beltran will be stepping down from his managerial position with the New York Mets. Just over two months after agreeing to be the manager of this team, Beltran had to step down over the Houston Astros cheating scandal in 2017 and his heavy involvement with it. It makes sense for the Mets to want to part ways with Beltran, Beltran will cause a lot of future problems with dealing with media and might taint any future success the Mets may have in the future, but I was for keeping Beltran as the manager. Beltran had the potential to be a really good manager because of his knowledge of the game and the respect he has as a former player, but the Mets became pussies.
I was going to put that the Mets are pussies in the title of this blog, but I felt that might be a little too strong, but in my eyes, they lose a major amount of respect for making this decision. This decision was not made by front office or ownership, it was made because the media told the Mets they have to fire Carlos Beltran. Over the past couple of days if you look at twitter for 5 minutes you might see 10 different articles or videos of media telling the Mets they have to fire Beltran. You have Mark Teixeira on ESPN telling the Mets they have to fire Beltran because of his involvement with the cheating. Uhh, hey Mark, I don’t know if you remember this but one of your best buddies in baseball is one of the most historic liars and steroid users and you seem to have no problem with him. Also, we have current Met Robbinson Cano who was caught using a banned substance in 2018 and we don’t know how long that was going on for so shut the fuck up Mark Teixeria.
The most annoying part is, Beltran was the only player to be named in the reports about the 2017 scandal. Not a single player was named in the report that came out beside Beltran and why? Because he is now retired and is (was) a manager of a team. The MLB really screwed Beltran and the Mets by doing this because you know every player on that team was involved in the sign stealing. So, the Mets and Beltran part ways, but we have a problem. There are two players on the Mets roster who were a part of that 2017 Houston Astros, J.D. Davis and Jake Marisnick. Now J.D. Davis was in his rookie season in 2017 and only had 68 plate appearances, but both players were on the team and they must have had knowledge on the situation that was happening on the team. Now I’m not saying we should let go J.D. Davis because I love the guy but it is very hypocritical to keep those two players and want to get rid of Beltran. Also, J.D. Davis had a funny response when asked about what happened in 2017
So with the media being complete a-holes about this situation, the Mets got too scared of dealing with this P.R. and decided to cut ties with Beltran. Rather than dealing with keeping Beltran and just hoping this all passes by, the Mets wanted out of this shitshow and now they do not have a manager a month before Spring Training is supposed to start. The most hilarious part of this is this isn’t an opinion this is all fact. When the Mets had their phone conference and was being asked about this situation, they were not answering questions. When Evan Roberts of “Joe and Evan” on WFAN asked about the Mets looking into this during the Interviews, they just skipped his question and went to someone else. Ridiculous, and you know that Jeff Wilpon was begging the Mets PR to skip that question.
I cannot wait for Steve Cohen to buy this godforsaken team because you think the guy who got fined the most amount of money for inside trading cares about this cheating scandal. Hell no! All in all, the Mets get screwed because of what someone did as a player on a different team. That just doesn’t sit right with me. Beltran wanted to stay with the Mets, he felt he could have handled this situation, but the Mets rather tuck their tales and hide because they can’t handle a little pressure.
Now onto my thoughts on the Astros cheating scandal as a whole. I for one just don’t care about the Astros cheating. Most teams are cheating by stealing signs and maybe the Astros went a little too far with using their own cameras and monitors, but I always say “If you ain’t cheating you ain’t winning.” – SmallDog Dan
Now, if the Astros were using buzzers, then we might have a problem. It’s one thing to put cameras in center field and bang on a trash can, but to start using electronic equipment and hiding all of this secretly, I think players should be getting banned from MLB. It’s one thing to but cameras in center field and bang trash cans, but to start using electronic equipment and be secretive about it might be going a step too far. Now don’t quote me on this, but I’m pretty sure the MLB already investigated the use of buzzers and they found no evidence. So whatever Carlos Beltran’s “niece” was tweeting, I think it was already disproved. Now I want to get into the top 3 groups of people that have been annoying me the most since this whole scandal was put on the table.
#3: The People who Exaggerated Everything in this Case
What I mean by this is everyone on Twitter who is saying this is the worst thing to happen to baseball. There has been a lot of scandals in MLB and I don’t think this makes my top 3 for biggest scandal. My top three would be
- Black Sox Scandal
- Steriods
- Pete Rose Gambling
I don’t know why I have the Black Sox Scandal #1, I think it is just because a majority of that team threw the 1919 World Series in order to make extra money. Steriods is #2 because Steriods changed the game forever in baseball and it still impacts us today. Now you may say everyone was taking steroids but that right there is a problem. The fact that most of the league was taking a drug that was enhancing their performance is a problem. Bonds and Clemens are yet to make the hall of fame because of using the enhancing drug. (Let the record state that I am pro-steroid) And Pete Rose, this guy always gets a good chuckle out of me. Pete Rose thinks betting on his own team to lose is not a problem and I will always laugh. Also, people, who say the Astros are terrible for what they do to baseball, yet they will cheer for people who beat women and use racist and homophobic terms, seems a little crazy to me.
#2: Yankee Fans
Now, you may say “Oh SmallDog you’re just hating on Yankees fans because you cheer for a loser organization like the Mets” and my response is yes. I hate the Yankees, hand up, but they just will not shut up. All you see on Twitter is how the Astros would have never beat the Yankees in the 2017 ALCS without cheating and the Yankees would have won the 2017 World Series. First of all, the Yankees only scored 3 runs on the road against Houston so you never really stood a chance anyway. So to think you could have gone to L.A. and beat the Dodgers, who went to game seven against the Astros, is kind of crazy. We ain’t talking about the 2018 Dodgers where they had no chance against the Red Sox, the 2017 Dodger was a VERY good team.
#1 Mike Fiers
When I say this, I mean it in the nicest way possible, Fuck Mike Fiers. Mike Fiers is the biggest snitch of all time and for once in my life, I agree with Jessica Mendoza. Jessica Mendoza had a rough day yesterday as everyone was criticizing what she had to say about Mike Fiers.
I think her message got lost in translation, but what I understand is that she’s saying Fiers can’t be enjoying the Astros world series championship knowing that the team was cheating to being one of the all-time snitches. You can’t be doing this
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba_hrikhAkb/
to then come out and talk about the cheating. You decided that now was the best time to speak about what was going on in Houston instead of doing it when it was happening and you were on the team. He did the equivalent of being in the mob, enjoying the good, but when the mod did not want him no more he ratted them to the police. He seemed very happy on Instagram calling them a “Great group to be apart of.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZKKzBMhk_M/
All of this because the Mets had to part ways with Carlos Beltran, such a shame.
PS: I wrote this blog with 9 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours so it may not sound the best and I am too tired to re-read it.
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