John Rocker is a little different, the man was a racist and a bad human being.
David Ortiz on why he's retiring after a season like this
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John Rocker is a little different, the man was a racist and a bad human being.
Capt. Tuttle
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He was on NPR's "Wait, wait...don't tell me" and was hilarious.
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So you're saying that it's ok to hit some people but not others. Gotcha.
Not in the head, but yes.
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Who advocated for hitting a player in the head?
No one, I'm just saying as a rule in general. Hitting batters has been a part of baseball since it started.
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“There were legitimate scientific questions about whether or not those were truly positives. If in fact there were test results like that today on a player, and we tried to discipline them, there’d be a grievance over it, it would be vetted, tried, resolved,” said Manfred. “We didn’t do that. Those issues and ambiguities were never resolved because we knew they didn’t matter. We knew we had enough positives that everyone agreed on that we knew we were going to trigger the testing the following year . . . Even if Rob Manfred’s name was on that list, he might have been one of those 10 or 15 where there was probably or at least possibly a very legitimate explanation that did not involve the use of a banned substance . . . “it was hard to distinguish between certain substances that were legal, available over the counter, and not banned under our program, and certain banned substances.”
