Rob Whalen Retires

[Saint]

sports.yahoo.com/rob-whalens-retirement-an-example-of-how-some-mlb-teams-are-failing-to-address-mental-health-issues-170601773.html

So I'm not sure what he/they expects to Mariners to do.  Sports are a completely performance-based job.  If you suck, somebody else gets the job.  Most jobs are like that.  If you can't do the work, nobody is going to keep you around. 

If you think playing baseball was stressful, good luck in the real world.

[talshill]

I could be wrong, but the vibe I got from his quotes is 1. Nobody seems to care about me 2. No one helped me. One of the battles I've fought for years is trying to get grown people to accept responsibility for their own welfare. I've lost the battle. Our society has become one in which it's always someone else's responsibility. He doesn't want to pitch every 3-5 days for 6 months and earn 5-600k? Okay. Go get 40 hr/week job making less than a tenth of that. I promise you this guy will get into the real world for a bit and then he'll try to get back into baseball.

[ɮօʀȶǟʐ]

Congrats to him. Whoever he is.

[unionstation82]

Who?