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Email a copy of 'Jonny Gomes To Sign With Japan's Rakuten Golden Eagles' to a friend
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MB923
“I’m going go there and help the Rakuten Golden Eagles win the Japan Championship Series” – Jonny Gomes
Ross G.
Yup by playing in 12 regular season and no postseason games haha
go_jays_go
Huh? Gomes has played in the MLB post-season on several occasions now.
A'sfaninUK
He was referring to his stint on last years WS Champs.
Ross G.
^
bucknerforhall
your phone ain’t ringing b/c you hit .213 last year !
He’s acting like there is collusion. Over $2 billion has been spent this winter.
tntewell
a .371 OBP vs lefties is still extremely useful (and really .310ish overall isn’t too terrible considering plenty of regulars do worse)
Frankpostal40
He has a World Series ring with Boston.
A'sfaninUK
Sorry Jonny, no one wants a 35 year old 5th OF who in his prime crushed lefties but only had a .783 OPS against them last year. He did well to get his 2-3 mill though.
KoRKDoLLaRs
After the Workd Series Gomes had the audacity to Stand up on the grandstand of Kansas City and gave a fully derogatory speech laced with profanities. I really home he received the unofficial ban from the MLB hence the reason for his signing in Asia. We do not need these types of individuals as role models for or children. He is distasteful and disgraceful. And I wouldn’t be suprised if he was fooling around with PEDs during his above average years.
Sincerely,
A concerned fan from the faith mill
A'sfaninUK
haa is this real??
No Soup For Yu!
If he were joking, this’d be hilarious. But I’m not so sure he’s joking.
B_MAC
He asked for a momemt of silence to honor his teammates losses thru the season. He bragged how they won as a team without the best of the best. He says ass one time. No profanity used. Not sure what’s wrong with you but you really need to get that checked out
cxcx
Jonny Trump?
benfiorica
I don’t even know how to reply to how dub this comment is
SheltonMatthews
I had to laugh at the irony of the misspelling.
RunDMC
I love that guy. Considering how patriotic he is it’ll be interesting to see him in Japan. They won’t know what to do.
gomerhodge71
These people are human beings. They have families.. And it’s really hard to live off of twenty million over your career so far. Jonny came within inches of saying the dreaded “collusion” word.
Niekro
13 year career 3.3 war accumulated over that span I’d say baseball has been very kind to Gomes, how many guys who were better have been passed over on teams just because of Gomes mythical clubhouse presence? Why sully what was a well respected career, is Andruw Jones crying he went to japan before you and was probably better and never got back in.
mookiessnarl
I mean, I wouldn’t want him to manage a team I was rooting for, but his post game interviews would be appointment television.
nyy42
What a meatball
B_MAC
Andruw as great as he was had several issues with his game. First he was lazy. Second he refused to listen, he tried to pull everything. He lasted on natural ability alone. When the tools diminished the laziness caught up and he was done. Gomes didn’t get there on natural ability. His was good old fashioned hard work.
He is a good role model to young players. There is no way to quantify if that actually makes a difference. But surely it can’t hurt a kids development to learn some of the qualities he passes along.
shane
See ya
metsoptimist
How are players “getting bullied”?
jd396
Wow, I get his frustration but the idea that the balance of power hasn’t been slanted heavily towards the MLBPA for decades is hilarious.
pt24601
Oh for Pete’s sake. It’s called Your Career Is OVER. Players are being bullied?!? OK, Jonny. I sure hope you are able to feed your family on the millions you’ve made so far. That job uncertainty must be excruciating for you and your poor nomadic wife and kids,
Does he have any idea how lucky he is to have wrung a few more years out of his career by riding the “good luck charm” thing?
Do players really think fans have sympathy for them on things like this. Unbelievable.
Roasted DNA
I can’t say the majority of you grasp the situation that the current CBA has done to players. What Gomes is teferring too
TenHove22
Alex Avila hit .189 and still got a call