This one began innocently enough. Tigers closer Jose Valverde is an emotional guy. He responds rather colorfully to saves.
Athletes Have The Stupidest Arguments
Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero took issue with Valverde’s display last Friday, and voiced his displeasure after the game. That’s all well and good. But maybe Montero could’ve gone about it a little better. Watch as this goes off the rails.
“He’s a (bleeping) (bleep),” Montero told the Arizona Republic. “The way he acts, it’s not right, you know. You’ve got to be professional.”
Don’t start with name-calling. Never start with name-calling. Starting with name-calling is an excellent way to make sure the other party shuts you out.
"I never liked Montero," [Valverde] continued. "He’s a (bleeping) piece of (bleep).
"Tell Montero he has two years (in the majors) and I have eight."
Now it's a name-calling pissing contest. But wait! There's more:
“It doesn’t matter if he’s got eight years,” Montero said. “I don’t think he’s got eight years because he got sent down seven or eight times. That really doesn’t count. When you get sent down your major league service stops counting. He got called up in ’02 and he got sent down in ’02 and ’03 and ’04 and ’05 and ’06. I guess this year he was a free agent so that let me know he got six years. In four out of six years he’s given up 100 runs a year. He’s only had two good years in his career. So what? He’s still a (bleep) to me.”
No better way to counter an exaggeration than with exaggerated pedantry. A hundred runs, you say? Why, that would make Jose Valverde the worst closer of all time! By the way, look how far we've strayed from the initial point: Jose Valverde's postgame celebrations are a little excessive.
At the end of the day, Miguel Montero might've offered the best accidental but appropriate summation of things:
“I wouldn’t mind having him on my team, I’d just keep telling him he’s dumb,” Montero said.
Athletes: you don't mind them on your team, but man are they dumb.
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