BCB: "Disturbing" news from inside Cubs' clubhouse...

[17 Seconds]

This really isn't that hard to believe.

 

and that's probably why the rumor was created.

[DiamondMind]

This is what happens when a baseball team sucks. Amazing how when you win you have a great clubhouse (Blackhawks?) and when you are as coma inducing as this team you have a bad clubhouse.

 

I will say Lou needs to go, obviously. But saying there's some Latin conspiracy? Come on now.

[Sammy Sofa]

Obviously it can be taken to an extreme with someone like Bradley, but it's [expletive] stories like this to make it really easy to see why some think there's a noticeable racial/racist element that can't be ignored when it comes to being a Cubs player. I mean, really...a Latin alliance is bringing the team down? Really? This is so absurd and stupid all it's missing is someone accusing them of shooting that rancher in AZ, too.

[abuck1220]

where is hardcore to weigh in on this?

[abuck1220]

Obviously it can be taken to an extreme with someone like Bradley, but it's [expletive] stories like this to make it really easy to see why some think there's a noticeable racial/racist element that can't be ignored when it comes to being a Cubs player. I mean, really...a Latin alliance is bringing the team down? Really? This is so absurd and stupid all it's missing is someone accusing them of shooting that rancher in AZ, too.

 

obviously you don't know what the latin kings are capable of. they spray painted the [expletive] out my town when i was growing up.

[Sammy Sofa]

IT'S MS-13, MAN. I'll bet another zoot suit riot is right around the corner!

[imb]

mexican mafia

[Sammy Sofa]

Shocking clubhouse security cam footage released of Castro, Aramis and Silva harassing poor Theriot:

 

[17 Seconds]

it's tuco!!

[NCCubFan]

has Lou stopped shaving?

 

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2010/06/10/0609-Derrek-Lee-Primary_20100610010302_660_320.JPG

 

 

Not only has he stopped shaving, but in that photo he looks really pale and even sickly.

He looks like he is in Week 3 of Cubs Survivor.

And he needs to be voted out at the next Tribal Council.

[Sammy Sofa]

it's tuco!!

 

He really seems to enjoy playing that guy.

[treebird]

Shocking clubhouse security cam footage released of Castro, Aramis and Silva harassing poor Theriot:

 

 

8.6

[imb]

it's tuco!!

 

to me, he's always ding chavez

[17 Seconds]

apprently that dude has played characters named tuco, paco (twice), rico, and balco.

[Guest]

apprently that dude has played characters named tuco, paco (twice), rico, and balco.

There aren't many Hispanic "Darrells"

[imb]

http://rpggamer.org/uploaded_images/Image7a.jpg

[Sammy Sofa]

Holy [expletive], I totally didn't put that together.

 

He's almost [expletive] 50.

[17 Seconds]

apprently that dude has played characters named tuco, paco (twice), rico, and balco.

There aren't many Hispanic "Darrells"

 

well he did play somebody named doogie

[17 Seconds]

Holy [expletive], I totally didn't put that together.

 

He's almost [expletive] 50.

 

wtf. he looks mid 30's

[ScrubMD]

I knew a guy who was an MS-13 and he was [expletive] awesome! He was like 5'1" and completely insane but he seemed to like me so he was a barrel of freakin monkeys.

 

My point, you may be wondering, is this...all the crackers in that clubhouse better watch it. The black guys too probably, I don't know.

[Banedon]

I'm like 3 pages late and a Bruce debunking too late on this thread but....

 

If this was true, don't you think Paul Sullivan would be all-freaking-over this? Or Barry Rozner? Sulley freaking loves drama like this, and Rozner has long disliked Ramirez's laziness. Both those guys would be on this big time...

[SouthSideRyan]

I'm like 3 pages late and a Bruce debunking too late on this thread but....

 

If this was true, don't you think Paul Sullivan would be all-freaking-over this? Or Barry Rozner? Sulley freaking loves drama like this, and Rozner has long disliked Ramirez's laziness. Both those guys would be on this big time...

 

Please don't disgrace Sulleymon with that comparsion

[scarey]

wait why does anyone believe this

 

Not saying I'm totally blowing it off, but people that automatically believe this are doing so because they want to believe it's true IMO.

 

Wow, that's quite a leap. Why would I want it to be true?

 

I find it plausible simply because they have been very bad (including losing several close games), Z's issues have been well-documented, and Ramirez is having the worst season of his career by a long ways. Its not unusual for people to get frustrated and start acting out in this sort of situation. I'm not saying its the end of the world, I am just saying its plausible.

 

People want it to be true because it's just another angle on why Lou should be fired. Also, I agree that it's plausible, but that's not what you said originally. Maybe you misspoke, but I have feeling when you originally typed "I buy it" you weren't meaning it was plausible.

[Wheelimus]

Nothing like an imaginary controversy to distract from the fact that this team just isn't good enough to compete this year. We're a middle of the road .500'ish team that's even under performing that.

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we have no hope for this season. Part of me thinks the Orioles could come in and win the NL Central this year. But this is an average at best team that would be swept in 3 games (again) if they stumbled into the playoffs.

 

At this point it's just more fun to focus on the bright spots (watching Castro develop, Marmol, can't believe I'm typing it but Silva, and so on) and go ahead into "wait til next year!" mode. It makes the losses hurt a bit less.

[jersey cubs fan]

Obviously it can be taken to an extreme with someone like Bradley, but it's [expletive] stories like this to make it really easy to see why some think there's a noticeable racial/racist element that can't be ignored when it comes to being a Cubs player. I mean, really...a Latin alliance is bringing the team down? Really? This is so absurd and stupid all it's missing is someone accusing them of shooting that rancher in AZ, too.

 

It has been reported in many circles that every single major league clubhouse is more or less a segregated community, with latin players and american players the biggest seperation - and then obviously some black and asian guys. So it's not that hard to imagine that Ramirez and Zambrano head up some little latin group that has taken Castro under their wings, and maybe protected him from some stupid hazing nonsense. That probably would have happened if they were 10 games over.