The non-retirement of Yermin Mercedes

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It was a surprising and confusing 24 hours for Yermin Mercedes who abruptly left the Triple-A Charlotte Knights in the middle of a game, posting on social media that he was stepping away from baseball, only to come back one day later announcing on Instagram that he was sorry for quitting. So what happened with Mercedes? What led him to walk away and then come back? Chuck Garfien explains the many shades of Mercedes, why Tony La Russa is not the reason for his downfall, and the hot take overreactions that occurred on social media.(3:40) - Understanding Yermin Mercedes(10:05) - The hot take reaction on social media(17:20) - Tony La Russa's reaction after Mercedes decided to step away from baseball(19:00) - Why Mercedes was frustrated and wanted to leave the White Sox organization

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0:32.9	Okay, so trying to understand your mean Mercedes can be both very simple and yet very complicated at the same time,
0:42.3	which is why everybody was stunned by what happened on Wednesday when he abruptly left the White Sox organization
0:50.3	only to come back on Thursday, saying he was sorry.
0:56.6	Now, in between all of that were countless hot takes on social media.
1:02.9	Experts in the field of Tony LaRusa and your mean Mercedes expressing their feelings about what they felt happened
1:10.3	and was the root cause of
1:12.3	Mercedes walking away with flaming arrows being pointed at one Tony Larusa for the way
1:20.2	he handled the saga last month, when you're mean, swung at that 3-0 pitch and a blowout win
1:25.0	off Willans Astudillo and crushed it for a home run.
1:30.3	Now, I myself am not an expert on Tony LaRouza or Yermine Mercedes.
1:37.4	Even though I am the unofficial president of the Urimen Mercedes fan club going back to 2018.
1:43.8	But I thought I could provide some context to this story, to this saga, to talk about what
1:52.0	happened, how it happened, and why it happened.
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