Addison Russell, the once highly touted Cubs negroidish rookie, demoted to AAA
https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/cubs/cubs-option-addison-russell-triple-thursday
Before Tuesday's game against the Mariners, Cubs president Theo Epstein told reporters that the team will activate Russell from the restricted list on Thursday and then demote him to Triple-A Iowa.
Russell was suspended for 40 games last September after violating MLB's Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy.
Just bringing some of that wonderful diversity to MLB:
https://sports.yahoo.com/troubling-...-russell-ex-wife-ex-girlfriend-211724996.html
It includes everything from times Russell is accused of physically abusing her to
the time he tried to trip her while she was pregnant and when he tried to get her to have sex in a hospital shower while their young son was hospitalized.
Among the most troubling parts was the first time she says Russell abused her during Spring Training in Arizona:
“He kicked the door down and ripped Aiden [their son] out of my arms. I’m following him, like…please give him to me, I’m nervous. I don’t think he’s going to hurt [Aiden] but he’s drunk,” Reidy explains. “Honestly I’ll never forget that. That feeling was like, you know when your dad yells at you when you’re a kid, and you’re like, “[Expletive]. I’m about to get a spanking.” It’s probably the scariest thing as a kid to feel. That’s basically what I can relate it to.”
Reidy says Russell had their son in one arm, and grabbed the front of her shirt with the other, throwing her across the room and onto the ground. “I was this close to my head hitting the coffee table,” she continues, “I just sat up and looked and he closed the bedroom door and had Aiden in there.” She went into the other room, and retrieved Aiden when she heard Russell go out onto the balcony. She fell asleep and woke up to him in bed with the two of them. Afterward, she was the one who felt like she had to apologize.
Reidy also talked about another alleged incident where Russell tackled her on the street and yelled at her after he interrupted her night out with friends:
“He slammed me into concrete…like, football tackled me. His friend was there and Carlie was there and they watched it. I was down, he was on top of me, yelling in my ear, saying, “You like doing this to me. You push my buttons. Do you like it when I get like this? Do you like doing this? You like pushing me to the point where I have to act like this.”
Reidy also says she found evidence that Russell was cheating on her again during spring training 2017 and left to go home to Florida. She said she returned to Chicago in May so he could see their son. During that visit, Reidy says Russell got angry and grabbed her by the throat.
Reidy says she agreed to come back to Chicago in May after Russell insisted he wanted to see his son. She wanted to see Aiden’s half-sister Mila for her birthday and figured it was an opportunity to see if he’d meant anything he’d told her about how he was trying to change. It was fine for “the first two days”, and then things went right back to how they had been before. “He said something rude to me, and I responded, “What, do I look like a maid or something?” I was sitting on the couch texting…obviously it pissed him off,” She remembers the kids were playing on a small trampoline by the TV. “He walks over and grabs me by my throat and pins me up against the couch. He’s like, “Who the **** do you think you’re talking to?” I had to pull my knees up and push him off.”
