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Honestly, I\u2019m surprised it\u2019s taken this long<\/a>: Cleveland Indians demote pitchers Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac for disciplinary reasons AKA they went out at night while on the road instead of adhering to a team-wide curfew and safely containing themselves at the team\u2019s hotel and lied about their actions, putting the entire team at exposure risk to coronavirus<\/span><\/p>\n At the time I\u2019m writing, this, the Cleveland Indians are 4th<\/sup> place in the American League, and regardless of the expansion of the playoff field, they\u2019d have been at least, playing for the Wild Card, even if it weren\u2019t.\u00a0 They\u2019re a playoff team, right now.\u00a0 It\u2019s extraordinarily difficult to get into the playoffs in MLB, as prior to this year\u2019s expansion, typically only five teams make the playoffs, with the bottom two requiring a play-in game to become eligible for a best-of series.<\/span><\/p>\n A lot of the Indians\u2019 success has been on the arms of Clevinger and Plesac, whom have been both pitching decently in a year where everyone is a little off-kilter due to the uncertainty of the year.\u00a0 But it says a lot about the makeup of a team, when a team is without hesitation willing to jettison two starting pitchers because of breaking the rules.<\/span><\/p>\n Because it\u2019s not even so much about the rules as much as it was the fact that two guys needlessly and selfishly put themselves over the rest of the team, and furthermore raised the potential for coronavirus exposure, especially when pretty much every single franchise in MLB has had at least some player or personnel exposed at some point already.\u00a0 Fortunately, both tested negative, but that\u2019s really besides the point.<\/span><\/p>\n It should be mentioned that the Indians also have a player who is a leukemia survivor, which is of course outstanding, but also means that he\u2019s immunocompromised, and is at higher risk of contracting coronavirus if exposed.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The point is, both Clevinger and Plesac were selfish douches who weren\u2019t taking coronavirus as seriously as their teammates were and put their selfish wants ahead of everyone else, as if the season won\u2019t be over in just two more months, as if they were getting paid like paupers to begin with.\u00a0 And that they lied about it too, which doesn\u2019t help either of their causes.<\/span><\/p>\n They\u2019re basically a metaphor of how selfish and spoiled American ideals are, that two professional athletes, making professional athlete money can\u2019t get their own selfish needs aside for just three months for the betterment of all their coworkers and teammates, and almost put everyone at risk in the process.\u00a0 And then lied about all of it to try and save their bacon.<\/span><\/p>\n As I\u2019ve stated before, with a 60-game season, Major League Baseball is the ultimate jump ball this year.\u00a0 The shittiest team can suddenly get hot, or the best teams can suddenly get bit by a rash of coronavirus cases and have key players sent to the taxi squad if not cancel games outright, making room for the shittiest teams to catch up.\u00a0 But ultimately, a 60-game season is not a 162-game season, and one of the chief things casual sports fans love to dunk on is the fact that the baseball season is agonizingly long, but thanks to coronavirus, that\u2019s not going to be the case at all.<\/span><\/p>\n The best part of this whole debacle is the unintentional favor it\u2019s doing the Indians: by shipping both guys down to the taxi squad, both players will be denied major league service time, which long story short, puts a dent into their future earning potential, because it can possibly be the difference of a year before they can hit free agency and start making real fuck you money.\u00a0 They did it to themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n And the ironically best part of this story is:<\/span><\/p>\n 39-year-old left-handed reliever Oliver Perez\u00a0said he would leave the team if Clevinger and Plesac returned to the roster<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oliver Perez?\u00a0 That guy fucking blows.\u00a0 He\u2019d be doing the Indians a favor if he left the team and took his career 4.36 ERA with him.\u00a0 But the Indians are trying<\/em> to discipline players, even if it means punishing themselves and keeping Perez.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, good on the Indians for dropping the hammer on these guys.\u00a0 I kind of like Clevinger too, but in this current day, everyone needs to be taking this shit more seriously, and for a guy that\u2019s making professional ballplayer money, he can keep his dick in his pants until November, because it\u2019s not like anyone in the American League has any chance of beating the Yankees as it stands right now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Honestly, I\u2019m surprised it\u2019s taken this long: Cleveland Indians demote pitchers Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac for 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