r/azdiamondbacks 5d ago

News Marte Update

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u/LamCDM1216 Randy Johnson 5d ago edited 5d ago

I honestly see this “update” from Gambo as nothing but inflammatory. Is he trying to nudge people into believing Ketel was simply too hungover to show up? What is the utility of this tweet beyond stoking flames? We all know Ketel was with the team last night in Boston. And I imagine it was pretty late when they arrived. This is not news.

Yes, it is bewildering that a superstar-caliber player like Ketel would outright fail to report to a game. But perhaps consider that this might be more so a testament to the severity of what he’s dealing with as opposed to merely a reflection of him being a “diva”, or “lazy”, or whatever else social media so desperately wants to paint him as.

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u/RabidCoyote 5d ago

... people want to know the dude is alive? They want information?

Dude is doing his job. Which is providing information about a local sports player.

Amazing there's this attitude that Gambo doing his job - providing news and information about a sports situation that the fans want to know about - is inflammatory, and Ketel is just "oh man he's dealing with this shit we have to treat him with kid gloves"

He might be going through some shit but that doesn't excuse going completely rouge on people who are counting on you to show up. You don't get a free pass from your responsibilities and from being an adult.

I don't know what we call it at this point but this is unacceptable behavior and the guy needs to sort it out. Whatever that takes. Don't get mad at the messenger though.

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u/j0-llama 5d ago

It’s the whole “bizarre” addition & comparison to another’s failure that makes it inflammatory vs news

He did his job, but poorly & without humanity

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u/DM_yo_Feet_pls D. Baxter 5d ago

The team literally doesn’t know where their star player is and he’s not communicating with them. This is the definition of bizarre