I know a lot of you are excited for the start of the baseball season, but it’s clear that the influx of youthful rabble-rousers to Mesa and the surrounding area has brought no shortage of unsavory issues. It’s become de rigueur, even in the pages of this esteemed website, to laud the Theo Epstein-led Cubs for their commitment to so-called “high-character” guys with good “makeup.” Yet here we are, still a few days from the official start of Spring Training, dealing with more reports of wanton vandalism at Sloan Park.
I thought this vaunted front office would have curtailed such sophomoric shenanigans after free-swinging Javier Baez destroyed some poor fan’s windshield and didn’t even give the guy the courtesy of allowing him to keep the ball that had done the damage.