I’m so glad we get to see José Ramírez this series, which I think is thanks to him appealing his 3-game suspension. Elite hitter, and, as my late gran would say, “he’s a character” :P. Blair & Barker had a Guardians radio person/announcer on recently and he probably has some homerism here, but he said that Ramírez getting in Anderson’s face (and his finger pointing may be my favourite part of that whole scuffle) was in part to stand up for others. The announcer said that young, ‘nobody’ (I’m paraphrasing) Guardian players had been getting bullied by Anderson, who was apparently slapping players with his glove at 2nd more forcefully than he needed to, and José was standing up for them. At the time, I felt convinced José was acting nobly. Typing it out, it’s sounding kinda line fanfic. Who knows.

Did anyone watch the Home Run Derby this year and remember who the player was in the 1st round who glaringly had no posse at all during their break, and Loures Gurriel and another player finally came over to chill with them, because it was pretty glaring. Was it Tim Anderson?