Yasiel Puig showed up late to the ballpark for Friday's home opener and was benched by the Dodgers for the game against the Giants.

Dope.

20 pages

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Love his talent but he has a significant amount of maturing to do


Thanks for screwing over fantasy owners....dick

I hope he gets it figured out, lots of fun to watch, but I am not sure he is going to.

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He's young enough and talented enough to get as many chances as possible to figure it out.

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Seems like a bit of an overreaction from you.

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I hope Mattingly bat-flipped when he gave him the news.

Boo hoo.

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Can you imagine if De Aza ever showed up late

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Giant dope. Most of the criticism levied at him is warranted.

Dan LeBatard excuses Puig's behavior:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/04/06/4 ... t-for.html

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Without reading the link, is it because he needs to be sheparded through the daily life of an MLB player by his really smart white benefactors and they're not doing it?

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Pretty crazy defection story. Got himself caught up with all sorts of bad people to get here.

http://www.lamag.com/features/2014/4/13/escape-from-cuba-yasiel-puigs-untold-journey-to-the-dodgers/

Why didn't the Dodgers sign Brian McCann to be an asshole to him all season? That would show him the accepted way in baseball to be an idiot (be white).

Thought he hit a go ahead homer last night...ended up getting caught for the second out...



Makes me wonder...was he gonna run around the bases with the bat if it had gone out?

Puig is awesome. Wish he played for the Sox.

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42? Was it Jackie Robinson day already?

doh

This thread is going to suck, and go on for years.

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Agreed. He's the new Manny

I am sure many of you will soon see the ESPN reports on how he got to the US.

While it was a shady operation he was part of, I can only imagine the guy has been thrown scheme after scheme, for his entire life since he people started seeing how well he could play.

It fucks a guy up. It's like a NCAA hoop player that is 6'6" and can dunk at age 13, without proper guidance and protection, great odds that kid will run into some bad people and can make some bad choices while not knowing it.

In Puigs case, it was his life and he had to choose when to make a move.

He's 22 and is living the dream of being an American. Sure, the guy needs to straighten some shit out, but I would love to have him on my team!

Ozzie?

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/18/mlb-s-next-headache-cartels-gangsters-and-their-cuban-superstars.html#url=/articles/2014/04/18/mlb-s-next-headache-cartels-gangsters-and-their-cuban-superstars.html

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The story in its bare-bone details: Interviews with many of the figures involved, as well as court records from legal actions in Miami, combine to expose a harrowing tale of human-trafficking gone awry. In June 2012 (Eden claims it was April), Puig and several companions were spirited out of Matanzas harbor by members of the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel and sped to a seedy motel on a largely abandoned island near Cancun. The trip was bankrolled by low-level Miami gangster Raul Pacheco, himself already on probation for attempted armed burglary.

When Pacheco failed to deliver the promised cash, Puig and his fellow travelers were held captive for more than two weeks until Pacheco’s Miami gang daringly re-kidnapped their prize and whisked him off to Mexico City. Only months later did Puig ink his eye-popping $42 million Dodgers contract—a windfall that now promises 20 percent of the entire take plus all the superstar’s future earnings to Pacheco and his Miami crime-syndicate backers.

But the sordid tale now runs far deeper still and has already begun jeopardizing lives in Cuba, Mexico, and Miami.

When the original Los Zetas smugglers were jilted without promised payment, they began threatening reprisals against Puig and fellow escapee Yunior Despaigne, a former Cuban boxer who had also run afoul of the sports authorities in Havana. Puig complained about the harassment to his former agent Gilberto Suarez, who seemingly then orchestrated a gangland-style assassination of one of the original smugglers back in Mexico.

Left fearful, with few resources, and on his own dime in Miami, Despaigne was soon spilling details of the escape story to Miami lawyer Avelino Gonzalez, a fellow “defector” who has recently filed a pair of civil lawsuits on behalf of a pair of islanders claiming they were falsely accused and imprisoned back in Cuba when both Puig and Cincinnati star Aroldis Chapman ratted them out during their own attempts to ingratiate themselves with Cuban authorities (and also to cover their own future escape plans). One of the accusers is apparently now serving a seven-year prison term back in Cienfuegos after Puig apparently told authorities that the man had offered to smuggle him off the island. The latest Dodger superstar haul has obviously come at a very steep personal price for some caught in the crossfire. And this may only be the beginning of the unraveling tale.

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