Ninety minutes or so before game time Saturday at Kauffman Stadium, the kerfuffle between the Royals and A’s over Brett Lawrie’s reckless slide into Alcides Escobar on Friday had disintegrated into this:
Sleuthing around each guy’s cellphone to try to discern the truth about whether the A’s’ Lawrie had indeed texted an explanation to the Royals’ Escobar (who said he never heard from him) and whether Escobar had, in fact, responded in Spanish, “That’s stupid, you did it on purpose.”
Never mind that this all might have gone smoother if Lawrie had, say, sought out Escobar in person, and that the intriguing question remains … who did send back that text Lawrie showed a San Francisco reporter?