Bit of a shock.

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"Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like Independence Day, with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back."

Not really much of a shock. He's 28 years old. Been in the minors for 10 years. Got his cup of coffee this year. Had a great month. Then became the minor leaguer he's always been. After scouts/MLB pitchers figured him out. First month they just tossed it up to him thinking he couldn't hit and they didn't need strategy on him.

Absolutely no shock. The shock is it took him 10 years to quit. Most guys would have done it after 5 years of minor league ball.

But good for him. He had his moment in the show. His "Cup of coffee". 99% of minor leaguers don't get that.

I was a pretty decent in little league. Got to the final cuts of a traveling team when I was in 8th grade. Got cut. But I thought I should have made the team. At my high school we had an "only freshmen team". Holy shit did I see fucking curve balls that scared the shit out of me. I was bailing quick when it hooked down the middle of the plate. Some kids fastballs scared me too. I batted .125 in limited play because I sucked.

I quit after that year. I was 15. The dream was gone.

Moment of silence for the end of 15 year old Beardown's baseball career.

At least Yermin got to play until he was 28.

My story is more sad.

He had a moment. Many don’t even get that. Godspeed, Yermin

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You're goddamn right. I had a girlfriend whose cousin had 77 big league at-bats. He was a .143 hitter. But he hit a homer in the majors. How many people can say that?

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His mind is not for rent to any God or government.

TLR ruined this guy.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Yep. He stole his joy.

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His mind is not for rent to any God or government.

Seems like he wants attention.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

It's a crime that baseball doesn't get you laid in high school.

Everyone loves the football and basketball players. Most parents don't even go to high school baseball games. We had one groupie. She made brownies. I wouldn't have fucked her with your dick.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

also, yermin isn't retiring

That guy will be playing in some south american league in his 50s

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Agreed. He had a better five weeks than MANY careers. He'll get a ring should the Sox win it all this year, and deservedly so.

Thanks for April, and best of luck

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New Deadspin.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

a ring and a cut of the playoff money

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Of course, considering he may not have been very good in the first place and the baseball annals are filled with guys who had a hot month in the majors and fizzled out cant be on the table .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

White men have been stealing black and brown people's joy and baseball careers since the beginning of time. I mean Josh Gibson would have hit 10,000 home runs if not for Kennesaw Mountain Landis. And LaRussa has proven nothing has changed since then.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I do think it is pretty rare for someone to have THAT good of a first month and then have THAT much of a collapse. I don't think TLR had anything to do with it, but the book clearly came out on how to get him out.

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He can't hit major league fastballs. Slider-speed-bat.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Sort of like Bob "Hurricane" Hazel, but he finished the season for a world champ, as opposed to starting one.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

This whole episode will really make other teams want him

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Kind of what I said last night.

Dude got mad and threw a tantrum on social media.

Hopefully he keeps working and is one of the September call ups.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

"We've all," meaning George Costanza?

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I knew this guy wasn't retiring, he's on the 40 man roster so he's making 550k a year.

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Did Seacrest write those last couple of lines for him?

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I got a fucking seizure reading that!

Could be the vaccine.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Yes. He got Long Covid from Yoan.

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"Change has come to Amerika."- TFG