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Technically, it's his second taste.
He should have already learned how one should comport oneself when being paid bookoo dollars to play in The Bigs.
Puig Derangement Syndrome s going strong.
I think it would help if the Dodgers had a competent manager.
Thanks, ES.
s, Dodger ping....
With a name like that he should try and fly under the radar.....
Every game he shows up late, suspend him one game. Discipline is the only cure for his diva-punk-jerk immaturity. I have his Rookie card just in case he ends up being an all-time great.
Hope Puig matures quickly. If so, he has a great future in baseball.
From an Angels fan.
The comparisons are inapt, because all of them relate to people whose natural humility led them to do silly things rather than bother other people with questions about culture or technology they suspected a child was expected to know. Those mitigating factors don't apply to Puig.
Puig has a driver's license. That means he's passed a driver's test, which includes demonstration of written or spoken understanding of the vehicle code. Yet he's been caught going -- what, over 100 miles an hour? -- not once, but twice.
Puig is a newcomer to this country, and we can certainly cut him some slack. But he wasn't born yesterday. Cuba may be a hellhole, but there are still grown ups there. Puig was 22 when he arrived here. He was already old enough to know better than to do some of the things he's done.
One thing I wonder about, supposedly the ball in these latin countries is generally played with much more flamboyance. That’s fine, I wouldn’t want to watch it all the time, but it’s their baseball culture. Besides the celebrating it’s a pretty exiting brand of ball, so much talent out of there. They come out of dug-out after non-game winning homers to celebrate, watch their homers at the plate leave the park before they start running. So don’t their pitchers throw at guys? Or do they but they just flamboyantly celebrate anyway? Anyone know?
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Most important point in the article is that he’s already been paid. His, what, $40M? contract is signed, sealed and delivered, and the only hold they have on him is his loyalty to the game.
LOL, what loyalty? He’s in it for the money, and he got the money. He reminds me of Usain Bolt, laughing and hamming it up in the middle of the freaking race, and still winning. These guys are so talented, it doesn’t mean the same thing as it does to everyone else. They’re into the fame and fun, not the competition. And they are young and undisciplined and rich as hell.
He might make it to a real career in baseball. But don’t hold your breath. The only thing that could have reined him in was money, but LA already shot its wad, and he knows it. Kick him out tommorrow, and he’s still 23 years old in LA with $40M. Good luck with that discipline thing (and LOL, no, it’s not a “language problem.”).