There's nothing quite like a New York sports fan in heat. This is that time. It's summer. It's warm. There's nothing going on but the long slog of baseball season. The Yankees are punting on 2016. The Mets are in a downward spiral. And Yoenis Cespedes is now talk radio fodder.He got me this am @ynscspds #BoyClub #Millar/Cespedes #Rematchpic.twitter.com/bI5epD1Job
— Kevin Millar (@KMillar15) August 3, 2016
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Really, all this comes down to is the optics, which is about as craven a way to frame a story there is. If what Cespedes did actually was bad, they would come right out and say it, rather than saying it simply looks bad.Cespedes can do what he wants. He's probably been golfing before while playing with that bum quad. He definitely golfed several times a week while he was clubbing home runs damn near daily for the Mets last August and September. This time it became circumstantial evidence. In the end, it has come down to optics—the most inane argument there is in sports discourse.@MarcCarig how can the Mets pretend it's ok for Yo to play golf when he tweaked his quad swinging a bat? Do they know what golf entails?
— Netflix & Phil (@philgalletto) August 4, 2016