I tend to not want to hear or read bullshit from someone who only educates themselves on a matter to the extent that they can prop up a player neatly within their narrative, built with the sole purpose of supporting some pseudo-intellectual agenda that has very little to do with said player.

You have a problem with players celebrating their achievements in the face of their competition? Then by all means you are free to have that opinion. But to make Puig the poster child for that is beyond absurd considering those acts have been happening in baseball for quite some time and there are hundreds of examples of it weekly. More bats are flipped on home runs these days than not. There are pitchers on nearly every team that pump their fists or dance off the mound after they get out of big jams. Sammy Sosa, among others, used to shuffle step out of the batters box after nearly every hard hit ball. Even the universal act of storming the field after a walk off hit is worthy of mention. And if you want to get into the arbitrary argument of semantics over what constitutes celebrating a team achievement or an individual one, when anything good for an individual is good for the team, then have at it.

There's a reason that the notion that your entire argument was based on thinly veiled racism was oh so subtly pointed out. You talk about these kids without any regard for where they came from and the disadvantages they dealt with to get here. You say he doesn't adequately know the rules of the game. Well big fucking surprise there. The rules and customs of the game that most of us have been learning since we were in little league these guys are trying to learn on the fly, all while trying to perform sufficient so as not to lose what they consider to be their one shot at a life for them and their families. You think just because you have heard these things before they just go away or somehow become less true in the span of less than a year?

The only reason you are even talking about Puig right now is because the other players that make these same gaffes aren't even worthy of your attention because they are very rarely noteworthy in any particularly extraordinary way. You think Michael Cuddyer, or Michael Morse, or Mark Trumbo, or Jason Kipnis, or David Freese, or about a hundred other players only limitations on the field is a lack of athleticism or physical abilities? That there isn't poor decision making on a daily basis? And most of these players and others don't provide half the value that Puig provides in the other areas of their games. I wonder why they aren't the poster boys for all that is wrong with the game today. I'm sure the color of their skin has nothing to do with it.

You want to criticize Puig ad nauseam? Then be my fucking guest. But at least properly put things in context and paint an updated image of what you are talking about. For all I know you have watched every single second of Puig's on-field activities since he has been brought up, but from the way you talk about him I can only conclude that that is bullshit. The strides he has made in hitting his cutoff men, not trying to stretch singles into doubles every single damn time, and his reads on the ball in the outfield, all the in the span of less than a year, is nothing short of astounding. But the the biggest difference is the plate discipline that he has drastically, and consistently, been improving from game to game for the last year. A skill that most players never improve on in their lifetime, he has managed to turn a weakness, and his probable downfall, into a strength.

I don't downvote because I disagree with you, I downvote because people like you follow and stalk any possible positive thread about him and go on some unoriginal and outdated rant that is completely irrelevant to what the topics were about, all while framing anything said that is positive about him as a circlejerk. If you want to tear the guy down then make your own god damn thread, I'm sure you will have plenty of visitors. Otherwise, have any opinion you damn well please, but get your fucking facts straight.