How Nice

Major League Baseball has decided not to punish White Sox pitcher Mike Clevinger over domestic abuse allegations made by the mother of one his children. Instead, Clevinger has agreed to be evaluated per the collective bargaining agreement and to follow any recommendations made. Whoopee. Consider what all this means. Clevinger is either lucky to have escaped punishment or unlucky to have been accused in the first place or, at the very least, guilty of bad judgment when it comes to picking a mate. I’m going with a combination of #’s one and three. Because, if he’s as innocent/pure as the driven snow, that must be one crazy, spiteful mother of his baby girl. Imagine, to bruise yourself and then post pictures along with the accusation that Clevinger did it. It also means she’s one heck of an actor, tricking Clevinger into thinking he’d met someone normal, even loving, only to turn around and try to wreck his career with these allegations. Yeah, real unlucky. Poor guy, he just can’t seem to catch a break. The then-Indians trade him in 2020, in part for failing to adhere to COVID protocols; the Padres don’t want to keep them (and they’re a team that looks ready and willing to sign anyone with a pulse); and this. Oh, well, now Clevinger can get back to doing the one thing he knows how to do, throw a ball. If he has a comeback year, then he’ll walk. The Sox are cheap that way, especially with pitchers. If he stinks, then the Sox will be stuck with a bad bargain. I won’t hold my breath for Clevinger to conduct a no-holds-barred press conference with the Chicago media. I mean, this a guy threatening to sue a sports-talk radio station for daring to interview the mother. A little more of that and Clevinger could make the Albert Belle signing look good. And I thought being Catholic was hard.