Ed Rapuano is all that is wrong with baseball. Correction: Ed Rapuano is all that is wrong with professional sports.

Players today are told not to talk to the media. Don’t say anything controversial. Be a fucking nobody. Throw ball, catch ball, hit ball. Show no fucking emotion, and stand up for nothing. Just ‘do your job’. We are a sports culture without the definitive personalities that define and defy culture. Professional athletes are fucking boring nobodies. And a large portion of the idiot masses are responsible for this (mostly the old people).

We get bent out of shape and shit our jorts when Jose Reyes acts like an ass. Our cocks get twisted in a knot when Manny strolls from home plate. We preach bullshit. We create robots (and shitty robots, at that). Sure, you can complain about a player acting out, but stop making a big fucking stink about it. Don’t enact rules that ban emotion. Mussolini’s Italy allowed more freedom of expression than major league baseball.

Don’t let idiots like Ed Rapuano take control of the game. Fuck robotic athletes. Fuck out of control umpires.

And to add fuel to the fire, if Shane-o was in center for that Werth mishap, the inning might have ended earlier. Fuck you, Ed Rapuano, fuck you and your totalitarian umpiring. Fuck you.

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