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Poor baby<\/a>: Dansby Swanson cites exhaustion for pulling out of the sixth inning of a game against the Mariners<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the kicker: this was the 11th<\/sup> game of the season.\u00a0 Out of 162, plus playoffs if the Cubs can be good enough to get in.\u00a0 There\u2019s a long way to go before the season is over, and things are only going to get harder as the weather gets harder, the days start piling up, and the wear and tear of an entire season begins to pile up.<\/span><\/p>\n Exhausted after just eleven games into the season; as the kids say, the fuck out of here<\/em>.\u00a0 He cites excuses like his MLS wife\u2019s knee injury and subsequent surgery as reasons for him not getting adequate rest before playing baseball as if him and his wife weren\u2019t both professional athletes who don\u2019t understand that all they do to make egregious amounts of money is play sports, and that all they really have to worry about is keeping themselves healthy and contributing and that injuries to occasionally happen.<\/span><\/p>\n What we\u2019re more likely witnessing here is the start of the traditional tanking, sandbagging, talent suppression or whatever you want to call it, of a professional athlete, fresh off of signing a big money contract.\u00a0 As most baseball fans in Atlanta know, Dansby Swanson left the Braves and signed with the Chicago Cubs on a seven year, $177 million contract, which I was tepidly sad to see a key contributor to the championship team depart, but the bean counting stathead I can occasionally be, relieved that the Braves don\u2019t have to be responsible for that deal, especially for a guy I just never got any impression really had his heart with the team as much as he was chasing dollars not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that.<\/span><\/p>\n But now that he\u2019s got his big money guaranteed deal, Dansby Swanson really has nothing to play for.\u00a0 He\u2019s going to get paid $20M regardless if he hits .309 with 29 home runs or hits .209 with 211 strikeouts.\u00a0 There\u2019s absolutely no incentive for him to go balls out in every game until around 2028, when he begins creeping closer to the end of his deal, and he\u2019s going to want to try and prove that he\u2019s got talent to contribute to someone, and possibly land one more multi-million-dollar deal before the sun sets on his career.<\/span><\/p>\n And this is nothing we haven\u2019t seen before in the grand spectrum of the professional sports landscape, it\u2019s a practice that nobody admits to but everyone knows happens, and it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s baseball, football or basketball, as long as it\u2019s played professionally and there\u2019s money to be made from gamesmanship, the players are doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, I\u2019ve never seen such a flagrantly low-effort excuse than exhaustion after 11 games into a season before, which is what prompted this post coming into existence.\u00a0 Usually, players just loaf and claim to start slow, and if there\u2019s any sort of injury or ailment, milk that cow until it\u2019s shriveled like a raisin before easing their way back into being forced to earn their money again.\u00a0 They don\u2019t just straight up recuse themselves from an active game and just say they were exhausted, because again, professional athletes are supposed to be the cream of the crop and the greatest athletes in their world.\u00a0 Not bitches who get exhausted after 11 games into a baseball season.<\/span><\/p>\n But then again, Dansby Swanson knows there\u2019s no incentive to even trying to hide it, so he just lets loose with a lame excuse.\u00a0 Much like my perceived opinion of his attitude of playing for the Braves, apparently, there\u2019s little heart that goes into his excuse making to justify his fresh contract tanking either.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poor baby: Dansby Swanson cites exhaustion for pulling out of the 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