Garver getting death threats

[Big_Maple]

I remember that Monica Seles was stabbed in the back by a lunatic fan. I don’t know if it was preceded by death threats, though.

I think it was a crazed fan of Steffi Graf who wanted to stop Seles from dominating the sport. Very weird and we'd have to stab about 600 players to get the Mariners to World Series contention if we wanted to go down that route.

Weee there death threats before the 1972 Munich Olympics?

[D-train]

If someone wanted to kill someone, why would they warn them with a threat first?

[Coeurd’Alene J]

If someone wanted to kill someone, why would they warn them with a threat first?

This is some 80 lb weakling talking tough. Hard to believe Garver went public with it. Sympathy in baseball is rare

[D-train]

Interesting Boone weighed in.

[mostonmike]

If someone wanted to kill someone, why would they warn them with a threat first?

The IRA often used to issue coded warnings before terrorist attacks on Mainland Britain. It would sound like I was defending them if I said they were aware they were going to cause casualties but warning police would minimise the death tolls. An attack that killed hundreds instead of a few would have damaged their overall political cause.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/code ... 75779.html

[Seattle or Bust]

Obviously people sending death threats are losers. No place for that.

As an athlete making $12 million a year to utterly fail at your job, you gotta develop a thicker skin or take steps to block communication from fans if you can't.

Suck it up, tell fans you're going to be better, and figure it out.

[Big_Maple]

Obviously people sending death threats are losers. No place for that.

As an athlete making $12 million a year to utterly fail at your job, you gotta develop a thicker skin or take steps to block communication from fans if you can't.

Suck it up, tell fans you're going to be better, and figure it out.

I agree with this, SoB. He plays a game for a living, and his salary is ostensibly paid by the fans. He is accountable to himself, the team, the franchise and the fan base. He is paid a lot of money to basically do one job, and he’s not doing it very well. So he can expect jeers and boos and social media outrage. Develop thick skin, then focus on getting better.

That said - here are my other thoughts:

1. Death threats are never acceptable. Ever. And they are increasingly common these days, particularly in civil and political discourse. Our first amendment guarantees your right to disagree with someone, but it does not allow you to yell “fire” in a crowded theater - nor to extend credible threats on another person’s life. It is an illegal act of cowardice.

2. Mitch Garver has at least one child. As soon as someone threatens his life, they are by extension threatening his family’s lives. I don’t blame him for going public with it.

3. It is his right to go public and out the cowards. To stay silent is to normalize the behavior.

4. It’s a fucking game for crying out loud. Who takes this so seriously that they would threaten someone else’s life just because they can’t hit a ball with a stick. I can get frothy about the M’s now and the n, but I can’t wrap my head around being so worked up that you threaten someone’s life. WTF?

[bpj]

Obviously people sending death threats are losers. No place for that.

As an athlete making $12 million a year to utterly fail at your job, you gotta develop a thicker skin or take steps to block communication from fans if you can't.

Suck it up, tell fans you're going to be better, and figure it out.

I agree with this, SoB. He plays a game for a living, and his salary is ostensibly paid by the fans. He is accountable to himself, the team, the franchise and the fan base. He is paid a lot of money to basically do one job, and he’s not doing it very well. So he can expect jeers and boos and social media outrage. Develop thick skin, then focus on getting better.

That said - here are my other thoughts:

1. Death threats are never acceptable. Ever. And they are increasingly common these days, particularly in civil and political discourse. Our first amendment guarantees your right to disagree with someone, but it does not allow you to yell “fire” in a crowded theater - nor to extend credible threats on another person’s life. It is an illegal act of cowardice.

2. Mitch Garver has at least one child. As soon as someone threatens his life, they are by extension threatening his family’s lives. I don’t blame him for going public with it.

3. It is his right to go public and out the cowards. To stay silent is to normalize the behavior.

I agree, if he received death threats he should out them. Did he?

[Big_Maple]

Obviously people sending death threats are losers. No place for that.

As an athlete making $12 million a year to utterly fail at your job, you gotta develop a thicker skin or take steps to block communication from fans if you can't.

Suck it up, tell fans you're going to be better, and figure it out.

I agree with this, SoB. He plays a game for a living, and his salary is ostensibly paid by the fans. He is accountable to himself, the team, the franchise and the fan base. He is paid a lot of money to basically do one job, and he’s not doing it very well. So he can expect jeers and boos and social media outrage. Develop thick skin, then focus on getting better.

That said - here are my other thoughts:

1. Death threats are never acceptable. Ever. And they are increasingly common these days, particularly in civil and political discourse. Our first amendment guarantees your right to disagree with someone, but it does not allow you to yell “fire” in a crowded theater - nor to extend credible threats on another person’s life. It is an illegal act of cowardice.

2. Mitch Garver has at least one child. As soon as someone threatens his life, they are by extension threatening his family’s lives. I don’t blame him for going public with it.

3. It is his right to go public and out the cowards. To stay silent is to normalize the behavior.

I agree, if he received death threats he should out them. Did he?

I don’t know. He opened up about it to Divish. Divish published the interview and we are now discussing it on this forum.

I don’t know what, if any legal action he took.

[GL_Storm]

The death threats I believe are from disgruntled gamblers. There was an article about it a few months back, how it's becoming a more common issue in the sport.