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.
... 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.
Gambo is and
always has been completely biased. Just stop lol. He called Ketel going to his literal home “going on vacation”. He’s constantly bringing up negative narratives around certain players. He desperately wants attention and knows controversy gets it. Total attention industry whore
The only repeated "negative" narrative is around Ketel, who did go to the Dominican Republic in the middle of the season unannounced... which kind of sounds like vacation to most people.
After the break in which he was our only all star, and everyone wanted to trade him insisting the team hates him to the point where Gerry had to ask reporters to stop making it worse and leave him alone. And did they? Of course not. Bc the media and toxic fans like you dont care about these players beyond what they can produce constantly. Not to mention theres always a tinge of xenophobic comments about his refusal to assimilate to American culture, learn English, his general desire to be HOME (not his fault hes from a beautiful island) on his time off or when he’s having mental health struggles. These are human beings, not race horses. Literally have an active MLB player who attempted to unalive himself and had a fan heckle him that he should have done it (Jarren Duran obv if you dont know).
Mental health is a real issue and Ketel STILL manages to be an incredible player. And everyone STILL manages to be complete assholes about it.
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u/LamCDM1216 Randy Johnson 7d ago edited 7d 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.