League report said I was kicked off the team cause “I continued my unsportsmanlike conduct and refused to high five multiple players.”
By the time I’d done my thing in response to that joke of a report it was
…oh never mind oops it turns out it was one player thought that maybe you hadn’t wanted to high five him so didn’t high five you, this is all a big misunderstanding…
High five line we are talking about is the high fives when you return to dugout after the inning.
So, same team.
Here’s the story:
Two guys on the team who were attached at the hip on and off the field and both wanted innings on the mound that I was getting…
…Took – in their words – a personal “run” at me in front of the entire team on the team WhatsApp about the underarmour pants I wore for baseball.
Insinuating I wasn’t a team player cause of my pants.
I said my piece back to them in front of the team.
They went to their buddy who manages this four team little league – which originally was the Edmonton sandlot baseball experience.
(The founder and original league commissioner left the league saying he’d been slandered and was replaced by a this new guy who rebranded the league the Edmonton Baseball League.
For some perspective on this guy his Facebook profile picture is someone with a mask on holding a gun shaped phone and he wears 66 on a team called the Diablos)
Anyways they went to this guy – who had stuff on that same Facebook taking runs at all guys named Brian months in advance of this story despite managing a league in which one of the starting pitchers of the league championship was named Brian (me).
I don’t think he liked me cause I was an in shape, classy, funny, happy, a good guy and enjoyed the good that comes with that – including I was very well liked by people who don’t hate good people cause they aren’t good people
He was in terrible shape and had posts on his personal facebook taking runs at all guys named Brian before any of this even happened.
He also knew I thought adding stealing to the league was a bad idea for gameplay, which I was proven to right regarding.
I was proven right because a 300-ish pound man (him) who can’t run faster than I can walk was a league leader in steals in that league by the end of the season…while averaging more than 1 each six inning game.
Which is a joke for gameplay.
So he knew a well liked, respected, classy player had questioned his judgement managing the league. (He knew that cause he got his hands on the internal team WhatsApp through his two buddies who tried to pull this shit on me)
Next thing I knew there was a written league report by the “Edmonton baseball league” kicking me off the team. (2 time defending league champs said send him our way no questions asked though)
Report said I’d showed up to the next game, lied to my friend and team captains face that the WhatsApp stuff was done, and refused to high five multiple players (those two guys).
Report said the WhatsApp was these guys politely asking me to get pants as opposed to taking a “run” at me while stating I was “the only guy in the league” without them despite multiple players on our team without them…including some of the most prominent and well known members of the league since its foundation (and played a central role in that founded). And a buddy of mine who I’d had dinner with a few nights earlier.
Report says after this polite ask to get baseball pants I basically started ranting saying I was the best ball player in the history of the universe while going person to person telling each player they are awful.
I did say one of the two guys taking a run at me had led the league in bean balls last year.
I appealed the decision. Immediately rejected. League email address controlled by this manager guy, signs all the emails as the baseball league itself.
However…a text from that manager had come to light quite clearly indicating the whole slander job was planned in advance.
So I went to guys on the league board / managers etc.
That’s when the story changed from 2 players I didn’t high five to 1 player to never mind it was one player thought you didn’t want to…oops big misunderstanding.
Captain they claimed I lied to was chatting with me on WhatsApp during this making a mockery of the whole report while calling me a good friend and teammate…
2 time defending league champs said we’ll take him to the league after this report without so much as speaking to me first – despite being “the league” not only accusing me of extreme unsportsmanlike behavior but saying I was guilty to the extent of being kicked off the team.
I called the report a joke.
The league manager dude was so rattled by how to rights I had him and the other two (as in records of texts, communications from board members about the story change and how it was all a misunderstanding etc etc)…
That he posted in the aftermath “for legal reasons everything I write is a joke.”
It’s a four team little league with a guy who wears 66 for a team named the Diablos whose Facebook picture is someone wearing a mask with a gun shaped phone…
I just left the league after this…
The behaviour of all three these guys would, no joke, most likely would be lifetime ban by the MLB if it happened there. Be extrodinarily long suspensions otherwise. And certainly the league manager would be fired.
But this is a tiny rec league in Edmonton and ya. Not sure precisely what the move is to free that league from that guy but I just left it.
Anyone looking into it just get a hold of the records, especially the internal team ones and the fella on the board who let me know of the story change when the heat got turned up on Mr and Mr we want his innings on the mound. Or get the records from me.
I wrote this prior to my above like a few months back entitled review Edmonton baseball league
(a reference to the casual nature and dress code of sandlot baseball as well as the unique and rare experience in Edmonton of facing a hardball over hand pitch. The league on field is essentially adult recreational slow pitch softball level fielding but with hardball pitching.)
A league whose founder and commissioner departed while stating they were being slandered followed a year later by the new commissioner during a complete league rebrand sending out a report regarding one of the most well liked and respected players in the league
(a player who had raised concerns to his team regarding league rule changes opening up gameplay situations beyond the skill level of the league (stealing), and other league executive decisions during the rebranding. The league commissioner had previously posted on his personal Facebook mid season that people with that persons name were often falsely kind and conniving)
The league report the commissioner sent said the player had suddenly and unprovoked began ranting about how amazing they are while belittling all other players before showing up to a game and lying to the team captains face that they would stop being unsportsmanlike before refusing to perform basic sportsmanship towards multiple teammates at the field…and therefore were kicked off their team by league executives. The player was made aware via the league commissioner.
Despite this report the very captain involved described, in writing, after the league report was released that the player was a good friend, person, and teammate…the team manager said similar things and the league champions immediately took this player on their team despite the report.
Which is odd behaviour to say the least about a player the league claims in reports sent by the commissioner had behaved in an incredibly unsportsmanlike and all together crazy manner.
I know if I was a team captain and manager if a player ranted they were the best baseball player ever and belittled all other players before coming to a game and lying to my face and continuing unsportsmanlike conduct…I wouldn’t put in writing hours after the league report came down how good a guy they are and how much I enjoyed playing baseball with them. If I were managing a league champion I wouldn’t take em on without so much as a phone call or email first either.
Oh by the way the person who made the initial complaints against this player story completely changed when in appeal the league commissioner themselves came under investigation, had called the person he complained against delusional and mocked all of their contributions to the team in writing in front of the entire team, and just so happened to be a pitcher who was looking for innings the player he tried to have kicked off the team may get.
One of the two central Slanderers story completely changed only after the league commissioner (the other central slanderer) themselves were being investigated by board members for written communications regarding discussions with the complainant in advance that strongly indicated a coordinated, premeditated and planned attempt to slander the subject of the report.
Potentially a third player who is a “friend” (people like this don’t actually have friends, only accomplices) of that player and sparked the whole incident by suddenly – in their own written words – “taking a run” at a new Dad and part time player about under armour jogging pants they had worn every game the year prior with nothing said at any point by management or captaincy and claiming this new Dad of a less than two week old child was not a team player because of these pants.
The league rejected the appeal of the person slandered and in that process said that new father is a liar including directly stating in standing by the report that the player had lied to those closest to them in their personal life. The private information regarding this statement by the league would make a good person sick to the stomach.
The league did this despite the league commissioner themselves in written text messages stating it was one players word versus the other – though standing by the formal league report claiming outright the one player was definitively guilty.
And as previously mentioned the story of the slanderer completely changed and did so when the league commisioner came under investigations and at a time behaviour by others in the league – namely the league champions and the good players team captain and manager – clearly indicate they think the league report is a joke.
Upon the league executive refusing to take accountability, apologize, and acknowledge the severity of the behavior of those who had been part of the attempted slander and instead – after changing the story – pulled the “this whole thing has been a misunderstanding” card while saying they wanted to meet the good player on short notice the good player said no and left the league – costing the league a very well liked and respected player and also a pitcher who, among those who pitched regularly, had been one of the most consistent including among the lowest batters beaned per innings pitched (the most important stat for league pitchers) in the overhand hardball league.
(The complainant slanderer had the highest and most batters beaned by far in the league the year prior – this incident occurred early in the following season.)
Needless to say the league leadership is a complete joke and the league is a travesty to the game of baseball and all good ball players would agree with me.
Some good guys in the league though.
Ps.
Good baseball leagues league commissioners dont have as their profile picture a person in a mask holding a gun shaped phone.
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