2012 MLB Season Game Thread: August

[Mainge]

He's out of baseball by 2016.

[nny]

I don't even give him that long

[Mainge]

The Rangers announced that Dempster will miss his scheduled start against the Blue Jays this weekend due to personal reasons, but the fine print in this one is what's fun. Dempster reportedly doesn't have his passport, according to the Dallas Morning News, and may have lost it some time in the last few years. Ergo, Dempster won't be allowed through customs at the airport and can't even travel with the team to the Rogers Centre. Dempster, who hasn't pitched in Canada since 2004, never had to worry about playing the Jays in his time with the Cubbies.

http://www.nesn.com/2012/08/ryan-dem...-passport.html

[MiamiHomer]

That's weird to me since he's Canadian.

[Mainge]

The article mentioned that but I'm not sure what that has to do with losing his passport.

[MiamiHomer]

That snippet you posted made it seem like he never worried about going into Canada. I guess he was born in Canada but doesn't travel to there anymore.

[Todd]

If he is a Canadian citizen couldnt he get into Canada but not back into the States?

[Chewford]

It's stupid that passports are needed for US or Canadian citizens travelling between the 2 countries.

[DColts]

Maybe he needs it to get back in the U.S.?

[Chewford]

I think that's the thing our government changed because they're fucking retarded. We need our US passport to re-enter the country but frickin Canada, which is hardly another country. Because of terrorists.

[Mainge]

[HUGG]

Astros fired Brad Mills.

I guess because he failed to win with what might be the least talented MLB roster in the last 20 years.

[jOOj]

Now they can hire anyone they want! Of the three people willing to take that j0arb.

[dim]

That Astros team is god awful. That team isn't competing anytime soon. Good luck to whoever wants to take on that hell hole of a project.

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

I'm a little late to the Dempster discussion but he could go to the Canadian embassy and tell them he lost his passport and pay the fee to rush order a new one. It's not like he doesn't have the money or that they would tell him no. He's also been in the AL for almost 3 weeks and has had plenty of time to check the schedule and see that they had a trip to Toronto coming up. He could have gotten his passport already. If that's the reason he is not making his next start, that is completely retarded.