Tyler Glasnow had brutal reaction to depressing post-Dodgers Miguel Vargas video
Last week, the Athletics' broadcast picked up one of the sorriest sights you'll ever see in your life: former Dodger Miguel Vargas, recently traded to a White Sox team in the throes of what almost became the longest losing streak in the history of baseball, sitting alone and miserable in the visiting dugout, glaring daggers at anyone who passed or seemingly trying to dissociate from his current reality.
Vargas was sent to the White Sox in the Sox-Dodgers-Cardinals three-team trade that brought Tommy Edman and Michael Kopech to LA, and Vargas was the biggest loser here. He was the only major-league-ready player Chicago picked up in that deal, and he quickly had to spring into action as an everyday guy on, by the trade deadline, a 27-82 team.
The video of Vargas went viral, and Tyler Glasnow weighed in during his co-hosting gig on The Rose Rotation this week.
Host Chris Rose pulled up the image and Glasnow started to laugh, explaining, "I don't mean to laugh, but I feel so bad for him. This is such a crazy video. I remember seeing this and being, like, damn."
Tyler Glasnow's heart went out to former Dodgers teammate Miguel Vargas, who was traded to the White Sox at the deadline
The White Sox did manage to snap that losing streak the very next day, with a 5-1 win over the A's. Vargas scored one of those runs after taking a walk in the top of the sixth, swiftly driven in by Andrew Vaughn. They promptly lost their next three games, but then destroyed the Yankees on Monday night, signaling that they (probably) wouldn't succumb to another 21-game losing streak through the rest of the season.
Glasnow did heap praise upon Vargas, calling him "the man [...], one of the funniest people I've ever played with," but then he also reiterated exactly how tragic Vargas' situation is. He will get to play a lot more in Chicago (he's been batting leadoff consistently since the start of August), but "life in baseball is so much better when you're on a winning team. [...] Losing is like this disease that comes in and puts everyone in a bad mood."
Surely that's really comforting for Vargas to hear, no?
Still, though, Glasnow echoed the sentiment that was probably felt by everyone who saw that video. Vargas went from a Dodgers team that now has the best record in the National League and is tied for first for the best record in baseball, to the team with by far the worst. It's all incredibly, incredibly sad, but maybe Glasnow didn't have to rub it in quite so much.