Rangers Press Conference - Video

if they fired him right then, I’d understand.

That they decided to keep him, I understand that too.

But to me, Washington telling the commissioner’s office and the team about the drug use before the results of the test came back and offering to resign is him owning up to his mistake and accepting any due punishment.

I think the contrite nature of his actions following the mistake he admits to making is why the Rangers are showing compassion. Not because he has a “problem,” don’t we all, but because he’s human.

However, that said, if Nellie isn’t in the lineup for game three of this season. I WILL END HIM!

but why Mel Gibson’s name had to be drug out just confuses me…

how about Tiger Woods, and “Well he’s a sex addict…”

I mean, WHO ISN’T…?

We’re talking about a key figure in an organization about to be sold for half a billion dollars. Even if managers don’t do much more than make out lineups and fiddle with bullpens, he’s a very public face to a big, big company. I’m actually pretty surprised that he still has his job given the microscope that this organization has been under the past year.

My guess is that he gave assurances that it was sufficiently detached from the game – that the use wasn’t at the ballpark or the same day as a game, etc. But it was incredibly dumb, not just for the “coke is bad for you” reasons but because he obviously lacks sufficient judgment to recognize that he’s putting one of the premier jobs in his field at risk. That’s troublesome to me.

I think the decision to keep Wash around last year (and again this year) was not motivated by compassion. In fact, Nolan Ryan is not the type to get all touchy feely and give forgiveness or any of that crap. This was a business decision. A baseball Decision.

It happened in July, while the team was playing well. If the team had been out of it, then I’m sure that the Rangers would have fired him, (or, for legalities sake, accepted his resignation). But with the team in contention, the Rangers decided to leave Wash in place and let him deal with the consequences of his actions as far as Testing and counselling.

Once they did that, once the decision was made to retain him, then they couldn’t turn around and fire him for that this off-season. And firing him for not making the play-offs would be specious as well, considering that the team was incontention in September, a huge upgrade from years past.

As far as firing him no that word has leaked out, that’s just plain ridiculous

I interpreted his statement as the only time he’d ever used.

Maybe he meant only time during his time here, or as a coach or whatever.

I dunno.

But the idea he just up and snorted some blow strikes me as highly unlikely.