Wander Franco Was Built to Fall and Baseball Helped Him Do It

Do you want to know what’s wrong with modern sports? Look at Wander Franco. Not just at what he did but at what everyone else didn’t do.

This was never about a single swing or missed sign or bad night out. It was about a boy handed the keys to a kingdom before he could spell “accountability.” 

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And when the walls finally cracked, when his decisions caught up with him, he didn’t fall alone. He fell with help from the Tampa Bay Rays, from Major League Baseball, and from every adult who ever stood by and said nothing while the golden boy did what he wanted when he wanted.

They built this. And now they pretend to be shocked that

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