Beckett Acting like A Child

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Ok, I’m sure not many of you have even heard or saw about this. Call me biased, but I just think this is wrong, especially when young children are wearing your jersey and looking up to you. I just saw this video today on You Tube, and I think this is no way for a professional baseball player to behave. Now, Josh Beckett is a great pitcher, maybe a Cy Young winner, and I’m not saying he’s bad, all I’m saying is there’s a level of professionalism athletes should be on, and Beckett is not on that level. For those of you wondering Beckett dropped an “F-Bomb” following the Red Sox game 5 win at Jacobs Field in the ALCS. The reporter asked what he thought of his x-girlfriend singing the national anthem.

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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer

767 days ago

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Beckett drops a lot of F bombs in his post-game press conferences. As far as athletes doing unsavory things off the field, I think swearing in a press conference is way below other things we've seen. And if your'e dumb enough to carry a beckett press conference live, you should be punished for not doing your homework.

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BlueCarpVarsity Captain

767 days ago

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He seems like such a happy guy.

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Falcon02520Legend

767 days ago

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Why doesn't he just say fack instead?

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767 days ago

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He's not an AGMer.

SSreportersLegend

767 days ago

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I say frick.

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Falcon02520Legend

767 days ago

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Not defending him here or anthing but... Why is it a big deal that his ex is signing the National Anthem? I mean, this isn't high school, who really cares? Ask him about the game, his pitching, ask him what he is having for dinner for all it really matters... But seriously, the only people who care about this are those people glued to E! and VH1...

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SSreportersLegend

767 days ago

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It's the media Falcon. They're supposed to ask questions that make you go "What the hell?"

SSreportersLegend

767 days ago

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Ask him about the game, his pitching, ask him what he is having for dinner Beckett: I'm having My ex girlfriend for dinner. Her heart, her frickin liver, and her leg!

Falcon02520Legend

767 days ago

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You mean "I'm having my facking ex girlfriend for dinner. Her fackin' heart, fackin' liver, and her fackin' leg!!!"

SSreportersLegend

767 days ago

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You're frickin right.

KelsdadAll-Star

767 days ago

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Big fackin' f bombing deal. How about the fackin' f bombing Indians for pulling such a low class bullshit stunt like that? And don't tell me they didn't know either, that's fackin' ridiculous.

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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer

767 days ago

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I don't think they went out of their way to get her. She is from Ohio, and she did grow up an Indian fan, and the person they originally wanted cancelled.

Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

767 days ago

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... and NO ONE else was available (in the hometown of the Rock n' Roll HoF) because the tryouts for American Idol were going on and all of the karaoke bars were having their happy hour.

Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer

766 days ago

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Drew Carey is always available for a Cleveland gig.

Oh No RomoDraft Pick

767 days ago

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He said it. That's it. People don't like it, don't wear the jersey.

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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer

767 days ago

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As a fellow Indians fan I have to say.... let it go.

One, this is really old news, this was from game five. That's a few losses ago. Two, the Red Sox won so don't look for nit picky things to try and make them look bad. It makes you look like a child.

Just let the series go and go root for the Rockies already.

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DwalbertVarsity Captain

767 days ago

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Bang! well spoken as always cp.

Cornfed78Draft Pick

767 days ago

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Slow news day in Cleveland?....Who cares?

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JuTMSY4Legend

767 days ago

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Yeah, i don't see this as a big deal...i mean, a breach of professional etiquette, sure, but a big deal...nah... I could see the PR person for the red sox going..."what the fack josh!"

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KelsdadAll-Star

767 days ago

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Joke's on the Indians anyway, who is pitching game one of the World Series, and who is home watching?

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Anonymous Fanatic #1

767 days ago

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whos been at home watching since the ALDS? cough ny cough

KelsdadAll-Star

767 days ago

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Typical Cleveland. Leave it to a promotion to blow up in their face? Let's give Roy Mlakar a call and see what he has to say.

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CoreyisarealboyMajor Leaguer

767 days ago

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Isn't there supposed to be a seven second delay on all "LIVE" events to catch things like that? Regardless, I always love the reaction after someone swears on something live. The nervous "Oh, God, my pay is going down because the FCC is going to fine us now" way they handle their apologies.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

767 days ago

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National networks, not local affiliates. If people would get their panties out of their pretentious little twats, they'd see that "fuck" is the most versatile word in the English language, not a fucking curse word.

ASwaffAll-American

766 days ago

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Way to take the Dane Cook approach, Manny. Always enlightening.

Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

766 days ago

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I wish I knew if that was a compliment or not. I knwo very very little of this Cook fellow and it already seems to be too much. Does he curse alot?

Well, I don't really care, but you get the point. It's not like he called her a "cunt" after he answered the question.

"Fucking" is a religious term in some sects. Not as Beckett used it per se, but it gets some people to talk to God more than any church.

ASwaffAll-American

766 days ago

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It wasn't a complement, but just for clarification, Dane Cook has this whole bit he does on the F-word, how versatile it is, how it's the ultimate insult for which there's no come-back, etc.

Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

766 days ago

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That joke is older than he is... what a cheeseball. I was just saying it IS versatile, at least more versatile than shit. He gets paid for that stuff? Does he mention how it can be used as every part of speech except a pronoun, too?

Silencer76AAA-er

766 days ago

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Of course, this story brought to you by a disgruntled Cleveland fan.

Just because kids wear the jersey and look up to a guy, doesn't mean that they are supposed to emulate his actions. There is no clause in a professional athlete's contract that dictates that you have to be a saint and a role model. That is not the job of Beckett...he is there to WIN ballgames.

You talk about this, but nothing about Travis Henry and his nine kids by nine women, nothing about Ricky Williams toking his way out of the NFL, nothing about Kobe Bryant throwing his teammates under the bus in youtube clips...is this because the Indians choked away a chance to go to the Series and finally wash away the ghost of Willie Mays and Edgar Renteria?

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ASwaffAll-American

766 days ago

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I have to agree with most of the statements here. If the worst thing Beckett does is swear in a post-game interview, he's doing awfully well as far as professional athletes go. To add to what Silencer said, just because kids wear the jersey and look up to the guy doesn't mean he's morally obligated to be a kindergarten teacher. We know better than that.

I play the role model card as much as the next person, but this is going over the line. If you had half a clue about the kind of language you hear in a locker room or even in a press box, you'd let Beckett slide on this one. The reporter asked a dumb question, an f-bomb slipped, and I'm sure Beckett got fined. That doesn't mean he was acting like a child. Lighten up.

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer

766 days ago

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Yeah, it's not like he's a Vice President or anything...

ASwaffAll-American

766 days ago

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Haha! True. And he was only using it as an adjective to say HOW MUCH he doesn't care. He wasn't telling a U.S. Senator to go do it to himself.

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