The San Diego Padres were eliminated in the Wildcard round of the MLB Postseason and Padres 3B Manny Machado got a little chippy with a reporter who asked him to “assess the season.” While this is a very reasonable question, Manny lit into the reporter instead of just answering the legitimate question and turned it into an attack on a guy who was just trying to do his job and doing it well.
Doug Gottlieb: “Somebody just asked (Manny Machado), ‘How would you assess the season?’ Take it however you want to take it, (if) you can’t do that, that’s your failure, not the interviewer…”