{"id":271625,"date":"2021-06-11T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/josh-donaldson-was-right-to-call-out-mlb-cheaters-sherman\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T23:00:57","slug":"josh-donaldson-was-right-to-call-out-mlb-cheaters-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/josh-donaldson-was-right-to-call-out-mlb-cheaters-sherman\/","title":{"rendered":"#Josh Donaldson was right to call out MLB cheaters: Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Josh Donaldson was right to call out MLB cheaters: Sherman<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Good for Josh Donaldson.<\/p>\n

If you are deciding how to feel about his actions based on which team he plays for or the outcome of a pitcher\/hitter confrontation, then you are doubling down on a problem far more problematic to our society than sticky stuff on a baseball.<\/p>\n

Predetermining your opinion based on a team (Yankees or Twins, Democrats or Republicans) rather than on considering the issue exposes a blind devotion to a side rather than the facts. Donaldson said out loud what was being said behind closed doors \u2014 the pitcher-hitter combat is being distorted by the use of illegal sticky stuff and that Gerrit Cole\u2019s spin went down noticeably in his start before facing Donaldson\u2019s Twins, but immedia<\/a>tely after much more scrutiny was placed on this matter. Facts.<\/p>\n

If you are a Yankee fan and mad at Donaldson, here is the question: What if DJ LeMahieu said what Donaldson did, but simply cited another obviously cheating pitcher rather than Cole? Would you have lined up with LeMahieu? If so, then this is really about laundry (footnote to Jerry Seinfeld): Whoever is in your team\u2019s uniform is right regardless of the issue or the facts.<\/p>\n

That Cole won the duel against Donaldson \u2014 two strikeouts and a fly out \u2014 also does not push the pitcher to a higher moral ground. Heck, Cole was given yet another chance to say he wasn\u2019t cheating with sticky stuff in Wednesday night\u2019s game<\/a> after the Yankees won 9-6 and refused, saying it was not the right forum.\u2019<\/p>\n

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But he suggested the right forum would eventually come to explain that text message that is allegedly from him to the former Angels clubhouse manager Bubba Harkins that was sent in January 2019 and read: \u201cHey Bubba, it\u2019s Gerrit Cole, I was wondering if you could help me out with this sticky situation. We don\u2019t see you until May, but we have some road games in April that are in cold weather places. The stuff I had last year seizes up when it gets cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was part of a lawsuit that was dismissed and still nothing explaining what this was about. Again, Yankee fans, imagine how you would feel if this text was from, say, Tampa Bay\u2019s Tyler Glasnow or Toronto\u2019s Hyun Jin Ryu.<\/p>\n