TOUGH sociopaths.

Here’s Terry Collins’s take:

Cause it’s pretty rude to tell a guy “Hey man, I know you moved here from Venezuela at 16 and have been a part of this organization for seven years and living in New York as a Met for the past three, but you’re going to fucking Milwaukee, and oh by the way you get to process these feelings in front of 40,000 fans and…

Finally:

Trading away your 5th-best young pitcher who had control problems prior to undergoing Tommy John surgery and is out till late 2016 for a stud OF in his prime when you’re in the middle of a pennant race sounds okay to the rest of the world, Corny.

Tulowitzki’s surprise is eclipsed only by the shocking revelation that LaTroy Hawkins, also sent to Toronto in the trade, is still alive and playing baseball.

I doubt he was shocked when they blew it in the bottom of the 9th.

Pretty rude of Teixeira to beat up Stephen Drew like that

I’ll refer to Old Hoss Radbourn regarding LaTroy Hawkins:

Plenty of coaches in the NFL have never played the position they coach. Mike McCarthy coached QBs but was a TE at an NAIA school and nothing more. Joe Philbin played 1 season of college ball (division III). She also played 14 years pro ball, even if that was in a women’s league. She’s got more actual playing…

In his 1024 games to date, LaTroy Hawkins has 9 plate appearances and has gone 0 for 8 with a sacrifice bunt and 7 strikeouts. Since I’m pretty much in despair about the Mets ever doing well, my new goal in baseball is for LaTroy Hawkins to get a hit.

LaTroy Hawkins has the single most dedicated fan club of any athlete ever. He refers to them as his family and they helped take care of his newborn after his wife had surgery. http://espn.go.com/blog/spring-tr…

Ah, the good ol’ Rockies. Sell after the player’s peak due to suffering repeated injuries and get a mediocre return for a great player that they never put a team around.

I had a LaTroy Hawkins card (a rookie or futures card or something) in my first pack of baseball cards. I was like 6. I remember him specifically because I thought his name was cool. I’m about to turn 29. How the fuck is this guy still in the league?

Yeah but it’s more important that you can be allowed to fail, like a man can, yet get a second chance after that. When you get retread female coaches then we’ll have actual progress. Until then this can, and will by some, be seen as a novelty.

She’s got a masters, a PhD, played 14 years of football, and was coaching. Goddamn.

Because female is modifying the noun coach. She is a woman, not a female. She is a female coach, not a woman coach.

Getting rehired pretty much, by definition, requires getting hired first.

This will only lead to the softening of our one remaining masculine stronghold. Pretty soon our toughest linemen will be going off for retreats in comfortable bungalows in the woods...

“the one-time collegiate rugby player who played 14 seasons of pro football, mostly in the Women’s Football Alliance “