Brad Halsey Is An Idiot

A couple of days ago Athletics minor league pitcher Brad Halsey went off on his organization when he thought they didn't call him up so that they wouldn't have to pay his medical bills. Turns out, it was all Halsey's fault to begin with. Big shocker.

According to a member of the A's front office, left-hander Brad Halsey missed an appointment for an MRI exam on his shoulder two weeks ago. Tom O'Connell, Halsey's agent, said that Halsey went to the appointment but when he arrived, he found he was at the wrong location and the test had to be rescheduled.

Well, doesn't Mr. Halsey look like a jackass.

Maybe if he'd been smart enough to find the actual hospital where he was to undergo an MRI, things would have been cleared up, and the Athletics would have chosen him over Dallas Braden.

I don't know about you, but if you can't trust a pitcher to get to the right hospital how can you trust him to find the plate? Would he walk out to second base to start the inning and fire balls to the centerfielder?

Listen, I know Halsey made a mistake any of us could make in going to the wrong hospital. My only real point here is to show his stupidity in taking his own mistake and turn it into an entire "the Athletics are cheap" tirade. I'd put Halsey's chances of being called up by the Athletics between zero and nil right about now, and it's all his fault.

Previously at the Fanhouse:
Brad Halsey Is Not A Happy Employee