{"id":49427,"date":"2023-06-11T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49427"},"modified":"2023-06-11T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T02:38:16","slug":"anthony-bass-dfad-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49427","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Bass DFA\u2019d LOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Often times in the world of sport, there are personalities that are less than savory, but no matter how much of an asshole these guys can be, they always have a job because they\u2019re exceptionally good at playing children\u2019s games in front of large crowds without crumbling to the pressure of performing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Clemens had an affair with a minor.\u00a0 Kobe Bryant allegedly raped a woman.\u00a0 Ray Lewis stabbed a guy to death.\u00a0 And all went on to have hall of fame careers, with nary a punishment in sight.\u00a0 Far too often, professional athletes can be shitheads but still have jobs because of the fact that they\u2019re good at sports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony Bass is no stranger to the brog, in fact showing up just a few weeks ago when I had an opinion on his last escapade<\/a> with United Airlines, involving his wife and kids on a flight, and her being asked to clean up after her kids in spite of being pregnant.\u00a0 But no matter how divisive and viral their story went, when the day was over, Anthony Bass was continuing to pitch for the Toronto Blue Jays and making a lot of money.<\/span><\/p>\n

I apparently missed it because I hardly pay much attention to anything beyond my kids these days, but apparently Bass is not a fan of the team he plays for\u2019s support of the LGBTQ+ community and the team\u2019s participation in hosting a Pride Night.\u00a0 No surprise there, the players themselves are not beholden to the beliefs and supports (genuine or corporately forced) of the organizations they play for.\u00a0 And a large portion of professional athletes are often times a bunch of rednecks whom shouldn\u2019t be any surprise to not be a fan of woke culture and anything remotely leaning left.<\/span><\/p>\n

But most players are typically smart enough to keep their opinions to themselves, because anyone with a brain knows that the activities and matters that pertain to the people in the stands has no bearing of what happens on the field.\u00a0 Just because it\u2019s a Pride Night at the Rogers Centre or Dodger Stadium or Wrigley Field doesn\u2019t mean that the gays are allowed to get on the field and try to tackle base runners as they\u2019re rounding third, but that doesn\u2019t stop less-intelligent players from mouthing off and jeopardizing their livelihoods in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no surprise that a guy like Anthony Bass isn\u2019t a fan of the gays, in spite of the extremely likely jock behavior he\u2019s probably done in a locker room that would easily constitute gay shit, and considering his bright idea to spout off on social media about his wife\u2019s United Airlines escapades, he didn\u2019t miss the opportunity to be quoted for speaking against the team\u2019s intention of hosting a Pride Night.<\/span><\/p>\n

At first, he was kind of expected to apologize and retract, and the team decided to try and have him be the catcher of the ceremonial first pitch, which undoubtedly would have been thrown by someone from the LGBTQ+ community, to which Bass flat out refused to participate in.\u00a0 I imagine a bozo like him refused not because of the defiance of being told what to do, but probably because he didn\u2019t want to be the literal and metaphorical catcher with a gay person.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Either way, the Blue Jays designated Bass for assignment which is baseball speak for cutting him.\u00a0 The team remains responsible for the remainder of his $3 million dollar salary, but they were clearly over the bullshit baggage that he brought to the team, that it was decided that he was worth eating the cost over, than have him remain on the team as a distraction of negative press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make no mistake though, although it\u2019s easy to point the narrative that Anthony Bass was DFA\u2019d because of his stance on LGBTQ+ matters, the fact remains that Anthony Bass just wasn\u2019t a really good pitcher this year.\u00a0 Across the board, his numbers are not good, and there\u2019s no real redeemable statistic that backs up him maybe being unlucky or just in a rough patch.\u00a0 None more easily digestible than his poor 4.95 ERA, which as a reliever is especially bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

His fWAR is 0.0, which literally means that he is the equivalent of a blank canvas create-a-player, which isn\u2019t bad in the sense that he doesn\u2019t have a negative WAR, but the guy is making four times the league minimum, so he is expected to provide some modicum of talent.\u00a0 With a 0.0 WAR, the belief is that any relief pitcher from the minor leagues is capable of performing to his level, but at a fraction of the cost.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is, it\u2019s refreshing to have a story of an asshole professional athlete actually get some degree of comeuppance, and suddenly find himself cut and unemployed.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure some team will quietly pick him up out of the unemployment line, but they\u2019ll try to be as quiet as possible about doing it, because more teams are woke these days, and the baggage he has rapidly become known for this year might not be worth his ability to throw a baseball mediocrely.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Often times in the world of sport, there are personalities that are less than savory, but no matter how much of an asshole these guys can be, they always have a job because they\u2019re exceptionally good at playing children\u2019s games in front of large crowds without crumbling to the pressure of performing. Roger Clemens had … Continue reading Anthony Bass DFA\u2019d LOL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,45,52,58,190],"class_list":["post-49427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-fail","tag-owned","tag-sports","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49429,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49427\/revisions\/49429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}