True story: One time, a judge sentenced an entitled princess to 20 days in jail for her misdemeanor crime as well as her poor attidude towards police, the driving statutes, and the courts. After the hearing, and as judge had just left the court room, but while still in the court room, Princess called the judge a vulgar name. The bailiff told judge of the contempt, and expected instantaneous jail time for this affront to public decency. Judge told bailiff: "That's okay, this is is law. We don't have to send each other Christmas cards".
Did y'all see the All Star Game with Felix, Rodney and Cano all arm in arm and laughing at each other's jokes?
This is surprising. These guys spend half of their lives with each other, on plane trips, at meals, pregame, and at the games, and afterwards. You would think that they would have tired of each others' jokes a long time ago. No matter how funny Rodney is, you know he's told that joke before. Many many times. So why are Cano and Felix still listening to it?
Baseball is a little different than most jobs with difficult co-workers, because baseball players probably spend more than 100 hours per week with each other in rather tight quarters. Whoever you are, you probaby don't shower with your co-workers. So, attitude becomes a much bigger deal when times are already stressful and there isn't much space to go around.
But, what does Montero do, or not do that can't be made right by smashing left handed pitchers? The Tacoma Rainiers don't appear that unhappy. Winning makes the team happy, and they don't have to send Montero Christmas cards if they don't want to.
The point about Manny Ramirez becoming unbearable when his slugging dipped below .600 had me falling out of my chair. That's some good shtick.