Craig Carton

And here's the thing.

Some guys make excuses.

It's easy to come out afterwards and say, oh, that's my bad.

I got to know better than that.

I should have known there was only one out.

But there's no – it's like when your kids do something wrong, they get punished, right?

Yeah.

So what's Mendoza going to do about it?

He didn't pull him out of the game in the bottom of the first inning.

Like a lot of managers might have.

Lou Piniella might have.

You know, guys of that ilk, Jimmy Leland might have.

And on and on and on.

So the fact is that one of the star players on your team, the guy that wants to be the captain, the guy that jettisoned other players that are very popular here, pulls a brain fart, can't care enough to know how many outs there are in the very first inning of the game, and nothing's going to happen.

Mendoza's not going to bench him.

Steve Cohen's not going to call him and say, what the F am I paying you $300 million for?

You can't care enough to know how many outs there are?

I put all the other stuff to the side.

That's the issue.

Well, of course, that's the issue.