{"id":9074,"date":"2014-09-18T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T03:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9074"},"modified":"2014-09-18T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T03:23:06","slug":"ron-washington-quit-rangers-after-not-being-true-to-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/09\/18\/ron-washington-quit-rangers-after-not-being-true-to-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Washington quit Rangers after not being “true” to wife"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSpeaking for the first time about why he quit as the manager of the Texas Rangers, Ron Washington told reporters that it was because he was not true to his wife.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to thank you guys for coming. I just wanted to say a couple of things. You know when you respect baseball, baseball respects you. I made a mistake and I\u2019m embarrassed more than I\u2019ve ever been in my life. I don\u2019t run when I make a mistake. And when you put yourself in situations, you own it. Those are the type of things that my wife always say to me.”<\/p>\n

Washington gave a three minute speech but did not field any questions afterwards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not true to my wife after 42 years. I broke her trust,\u201d he said via the Dallas Morning News<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m here today to own that, the mistake, and to apologize to her and to those I disappointed. And those who have trusted in me and I let them down.<\/p>\n

“You know when I was 22 years old, I went to Mexico and a lot of things started making sense to me about the game of baseball. I began to figure it out. I was able to see things that maybe other people weren\u2019t able to see and I remember calling my wife and letting her know that I feel like I have arrived and I had figured this game out. In reality, you never really figure the game out. But I did tell her to quit her job. It was a really proud moment for me and it\u2019s something that I\u2019ll always remember and she\u2019s always stood by me. Today I\u2019m at a very low time in my life. I\u2019m sorry for breaking the trust that I had with my wife and for disappointing my players, for disappointing my coaches, for disappointing Major League Baseball and for disappointing the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I ask is for your forgiveness and your understanding. I also ask that you respect our privacy as we go on with our lives. This matter is certainly personal and we are trying hard to put it behind us. And I was born to be a baseball player. I\u2019m a baseball lifer. The Rangers gave me a home and I\u2019m thankful for that. And I\u2019m also thankful for the experience to have the opportunity to manage here in Texas. I look to the future and getting back into the game and continuing my career. I wanted to give a final thanks to the fans. Texas Rangers fans, you\u2019ve been good to me and I will miss the Metroplex and I will miss you. That\u2019s all I have to say. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the first anyone has said on Washington prior to his leaving of the team for what was deemed “personal reasons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking for the first time about why he quit as the manager of the Texas Rangers, Ron Washington told reporters that it was because he was not true to his wife. \u201cI want to thank you guys for coming. I just wanted to say a couple of things. You know when you respect baseball, baseball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[501,655,12],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-9074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-mlb","tag-ron-washington","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9075,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions\/9075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}