Originally Posted by Marcellus:
He is a hard core SJW on social media. Like really really hard core and says some really stupid shit in the process. For example he called out the Ray's players who didn't want to wear the rainbow patch for pride month on their jerseys like it was an obligation.
I've tried to chalk it up to being young.
He’s gotten more emphatic as he’s gotten older.
Age has nothing to do with it. He’s just a nutter. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BDj23:
Wait. What? I know Flaherty is a idiot on social media, but he has Shaun King syndrome too?
Yup.
I mean - he was adopted so it's not like anyone can actually fact-check him (and seriously, can you even imagine Derrick Goold writing that piece if you could?). And everyone knows that you get more internet points if you have a higher intersectionality challenge coin... [Reply]
I mean - he was adopted so it's not like anyone can actually fact-check him (and seriously, can you even imagine Derrick Goold writing that piece if you could?). And everyone knows that you get more internet points if you have a higher intersectionality challenge coin...
My favorite was a couple years ago when the BLM thing hit baseball and a Dispatch story about the team was written and it mentioned STL had only 2 black players at the time. Dexter Fowler and Jack Flaherty :-)
I was like WTF? Thats about the time he went off the reservation with the BLM & SJW shit. [Reply]
I don’t follow entertainment types or sports players on Twitter. So I’m only seeing something when it goes viral. A post by a pitcher in the Cardinals ain’t going viral.
Anyway, he is gone when the rookie deal is near its end. He will sign a big deal with LA and be happy finally? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Marcellus:
My favorite was a couple years ago when the BLM thing hit baseball and a Dispatch story about the team was written and it mentioned STL had only 2 black players at the time. Dexter Fowler and Jack Flaherty :-)
I was like WTF? Thats about the time he went off the reservation with the BLM & SJW shit.
Flaherty is a lot like Tony Gonzalez was (y'know, absent the philanthropy and HoF production).
Gonzalez pretty loudly and clearly carried himself like he was too big for KC and it was a cowtown populated by rubes that were beneath him.
Flaherty is cut from the same cloth.
That dude wouldn't piss on a single one of us if we were on fire. We're simply a bunch of white-trash midwest rednecks to him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
I don’t follow entertainment types or sports players on Twitter. So I’m only seeing something when it goes viral. A post by a pitcher in the Cardinals ain’t going viral.
Anyway, he is gone when the rookie deal is near its end. He will sign a big deal with LA and be happy finally?
Probably not.
But he'll get more attaboys for his unearned angst so that'll help, I guess.
Shoulda traded his ass to the Padres for Gore and Hassell when Gore's value was ass and Flaherty's was high (not hindsight - said this at the time).
There was never any reason to keep him here. If he pitches like a top of the rotation starter, he's gone. If he pitches like a middle/back of the rotation starter, he'll still demand ace money (because again - not at all self-aware) and if we sign him it will take about 2 months for the fanbase to turn against him and it'll just get ugly from there.
The Flaherty thing was never going to have a happy ending and I just do not understand why Mozeliak didn't dump him when his value was highest. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
to be fair, that is a large amount of the crowd at Bush nightly. :-)
The BFIB annoy the ever living piss out of me.
But their adulation for those players and that team is borderline unhealthy. And to return that with the sort of open disdain that Flaherty does is just absolute bullshit.
