Of course it got in their heads, how could it not? The accusations are against Addie, yet to post her story at this time was no doubt to hurt the entire team and organization. I also believe their life was a mess but to your point of saying nothing being done with him during the open investigation could be that nothing was found to do anything about? She would not cooperate with the MLB, I don't know if Addie was just as uncooperative. I think Addies agent is ScottBoras so no "adult" influence there. Expecting Addie to man-up is prob a pretty tall order. As far as the Cubs Org..I have no idea what the Players Union guidelines are on this as well .I understand the divorce proceedings were going on so she may have been focusing on that as a separate deal? I am doing my best to wait on facts (Patrick Kane, but I know that was not over the length of time as the Addie case)but honestly I doubt they ever come out. She chose her words very carefully and appears to intentionally be very non-specific to protect herself from a lawsuit . Joe Maddons comments sounded like those from a shell shocked Manager who has held a team together through just about every crap situation yo can think of. I think they all believed Addie on being innocent, and *technically* that is the law of innocent until proven guilty. Rizzos comments were a little odd too , again I think shell shocked. I read Addie has the right to call for an immediate hearing within 24 hours of being placed on administrative leave and he and the players union are considering it.I think the Addie thing really got into the team's heads. It's blowing an emotional hole through the team right now at a time when it hurts the most. It's hard to focus when your team mate shames himself and the organization. No wonder they lost last night to the Sux.
I, for one, believe Melissa. For whatever reason she didn't want to cooperate with MLB last year for whatever reason. I assume that she is ready to cooperate now.
What annoys me the most about this is, where are the adults in Addison Russell's life? Does he at least have a personal manager that can advise him? The investigation was NEVER closed. I thought it was, but Addie sure the heck knew it was still open. Why didn't he come clean in the off season when the focus was not on playing? Take his lumps and rejoin the team or get traded? Why the heck didn't someone tell him that it was gong to catch up with him?
And ... as much as I adore Joe Maddon, he was absolutely tone deaf about Melissa's post.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports...ll-domestic-violence-theo-epstein-joe-maddon/
ETA: I tried searching for a concrete answer on what the Cub's can do while Addie on AL, but only found vague info. Obviously, they cannot release Addie based on a social media post~ but I can't imagine they do not want to end this A.S.A.P.
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