Worst part. The Mets have had everything bad about the recent scandalous trade with the Indians. First the resounding failure at bat by shortstop Francisco Lindor, and now the injury of the 34-year-old pitcher from Barquisimeta, Carlos Carrasco, who has not been able to throw a home with them.
Doctors have just diagnosed that Carlos needs more time off the game for his injured leg to be in condition.
And the manager, Luis Rojas, reported that “Carlos is no longer pulling out of the bullpen, as he had been doing.” And He added …: “It is not that the injury has worsened, but we need to take care of him closely for a longer time.”
Between drugs and gambling. What’s worse, drug dealing or gambling on baseball?
Accepting only that both are crimes, why then, so much benevolence towards Ferguson Jenkins and such severity against Pete Rose, suspended for life from baseball, with no chance of being elevated, as he deserves, to the Hall of Fame?
But hey, the first Canadian to win the Cy Young was also the first from that country to get such a trophy, Ferguson Jenkins, now 50 years ago, since it happened in 1971.
And Jenkins was also the first Canadian native bigleaguer, and the only one so far, to be caught with drugs in his luggage. It happened in 1980, when he was pitching with the Rangers. On a team trip to Toronto, they discovered in his luggage, not one prohibited substance to transport, but three, hashis, marijuana and cocaine.
In the middle of the scandal, Jenkins was imprisoned, was tried, for which Commissioner Bowie Khün suspended him indefinitely in baseball.
But then the opposite happened to what happened with Pete Rose, that is to say, numerous people emerged in defense of Jenkins, such as one called “independent referee”, Raymond Goetz, who annulled the suspension. Jenkins pitched until 1983, with Rangers and White Sox
Many suspect that Goetz received a good amount of dollars in exchange for that decision. And the same suspicion falls on the Canadian judge who sentenced in the case.
Jenkins has been forgiven for everything, up to raising him to the Hall of Fame in 1991, even though with only 75.4% of the votes and in his third year as a candidate. Now 74, he lives happily in his hometown, Chatham, Canada.
Thanks to the life that has given me so much, even a reader like you.
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