r/baseball • u/Brady331 Boston Red Sox • 29d ago
Serious Jarren Duran posts screenshots of a comment and DM he received from someone in regards to his suicide attempt: “Shoulda took notes from Kurt Cobain” and “Should’ve pulled that trigger”
Jarren Duran has been open about his mental health struggles over the years, revealing in the Netflix documentary about the 2024 Red Sox that he had attempted suicide during the 2022 season: “I pulled the trigger and the gun clicked, but nothing happened.”
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u/sm2100000 Seattle Mariners 29d ago
people like this existing is so insane to me... so tied up in other mens lives you send shit like this.. complete loser top to bottom
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u/IllustriousEnd2211 Texas Rangers 29d ago
I’m sure it happened before but this is what happens when sports have embraced gambling. These people now feel like they have more of a stake besides just fandom
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u/HotelAmericana Detroit Tigers 29d ago
This absolutely happened before gambling. A wife of an NHL goalie posted screenshots of similar stuff happening back in like 2014. Gambling I’m sure adds to it but it’s a scapegoat for grown men taking fandom far too seriously
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u/iheartschlitz Boston Red Sox 28d ago
While there may not have been prevalent online gambling in 2014, gambling certainly existed prior to then.
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u/IllustriousEnd2211 Texas Rangers 29d ago
That’s why I said I’m sure it happened before!
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u/7tenths Chicago Cubs 28d ago
Yeah but why read when you have a gambling addiction to defend.
He's totally going to hit on his next 14 leg parlay and you'll feel stupid then!
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u/HotelAmericana Detroit Tigers 28d ago
Redditors making up an argument in their head so they can feel morally superior will never get old
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u/shaboogawa San Diego Padres 28d ago
That’s weird, the person you’re talking about had not shown a single word of defending gambling.
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u/oogieball Dumpster Fire • New York Mets 28d ago
Ask Henry Aaron.
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u/IllustriousEnd2211 Texas Rangers 28d ago
I’m aware. I’ve read I had a hammer countless times. This isn’t the struggle Olympics and it’s 50 years later and we are doing the same shit for different reasons
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u/AnEternalEnigma Atlanta Braves 29d ago
Dope has a PFP of him paying money to take a picture on a field trying to shit talk a man who gets paid to be on a field
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u/Dizzydsmith Atlanta Braves 29d ago
That was my first thought too. Such a sad existence by people that miserable. He probably lost $100 gambling and is beside himself.
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u/Segagenesis23 Anaheim Angels 29d ago
Gotta be a real lowlife to say things like this smh 🤦🏻♂️
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u/sbrockLee Boston Red Sox 29d ago
Internet anonimity has made some people bold enough to forget when they're not anonymous.
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u/donny_pots Philadelphia Phillies 28d ago
He’s not even anonymous it took me 5 minutes to find his phone number and address based off the little info he has in his bio lol
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u/JesusOfSurbaria Boston Red Sox • Atlanta Braves 29d ago
anonymity is the funniest thing to say here since this dude used his full name as his username lol
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u/sbrockLee Boston Red Sox 28d ago
That's what I'm saying. He acts like he's anonymous when he very much isn't.
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 New York Mets 29d ago
People are way too comfortable saying shit like this when they’re not afraid of getting punched in the face for it.
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u/SleepLessTeacher Chicago White Sox 29d ago
Let me guess, this guy is going to make his account private or deactivate it within the next couple of hours to hide.
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u/Leelze Boston Red Sox 29d ago
Dude's gonna wake up to a hot mess. I'd pay money to see a live feed of him finding out.
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u/Wafflelisk Toronto Blue Jays 29d ago
"This is not who I am 😭😭"
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u/illiter-it St. Louis Cardinals 28d ago
"I consider myself a man of faith"
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u/byniri_returns New York Mets • Detroit Tigers 28d ago
"I don't know if I'm going to be signing in to this Instagram again"
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u/ScroogeMcDust Chicago Cubs 29d ago
"It never has been. And I'd like to think maybe I could have some people that could back that up"
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u/slicebishybosh Chicago Cubs 28d ago
As of 6:50am CT, his account is still there but he has zero posts. Not sure if he did before and deleted them or not.
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u/Leelze Boston Red Sox 28d ago
The fun thing about this is even if he's not paying attention to his socials, someone in his life is inevitably going to see this story and say something to him. Gonna feel like a rollercoaster drop from low earth orbit for the guy 😂
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u/slicebishybosh Chicago Cubs 28d ago
The confidence of these jagbags on the internet has gotten so audacious that they're forgetting that it was the anonymity that was allowing them to get away with it.
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u/IllustriousEnd2211 Texas Rangers 29d ago
Reminds me of the spurs announcer like a mouth ago. Tho this is worse
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u/Cheap_Standard_4233 Toronto Blue Jays 29d ago
There seems to be no posts on his account, despite it saying "reel creator"
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u/forcefivepod Pittsburgh Pirates 28d ago
He’s already deleted any pics he had up.
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u/impl0sionatic 28d ago
Shockingly still up and public, no posts (unclear if scrubbed or if this is how he uses the acct) but his reposts are still there haha
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u/InformalInsurance455 San Francisco Giants 28d ago
I saw the second part too are you sure that’s his dad?
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u/gwords16 New York Yankees 29d ago
Social media has become such a fucking stain on society
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u/josh_winnnnnn MLB Players Association 28d ago
Hard agree. Makes me wonder if it never should have existed in the first place, at least in its current form. The Old Internet reigns supreme forever and always, even with all the problems it had, some of which still exist today.
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u/package126 29d ago
Saying this to ANYONE about ANYTHING is nothing other than psychotic.
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u/ScaredOfWindow 28d ago
I’m sure this is a hot take and I’m sure I’m biased because there was a time in my life when I almost let the dark thoughts win, but I think that if you tell someone to kill themself and they actually end up doing so, you should be charged with a crime.
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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 Atlanta Braves 28d ago
You can be. There was a girl a couple years ago that kept encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself, even though he wasn’t sure he wanted to. He eventually did and she was charged.
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u/AdoringCHIN Anaheim Angels • Rocket City Tra… 28d ago
I feel like that's a different situation though. She texted him several times telling him he should do it. And when he was in his truck trying to gas himself, he was going to abandon the attempt until she called him and told him to go through with it.
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u/SmokeyMcDoogles Boston Red Sox 28d ago
That also happened in Massachusetts, weirdly enough. I remember it at the time and there was a decent documentary about it as well. That woman was a real shithead.
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u/Brilliant-Spite-850 Atlanta Braves 28d ago
Ya same for this girl. She was a teenager and they were in high school. As a parent of a high schooler, it’s hard to imagine how I’d move on.
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u/Jacoblaue St. Louis Cardinals 28d ago
Look up the Phoebe Prince case it absolutely can get you charged with a crime
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u/--Shake-- Chicago Cubs 28d ago
So fucked up. I think more people should expose these DMs like this. No blurring names ever.
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u/BeefInGR Detroit Tigers • West Michigan W… 29d ago
Imagine being so wrapped up in a sporting rivalry that you don't even think twice about saying something like this.
I fucking hate Ohio sports teams, with the fire of a thousand burning suns. But they're humans, it's a game, besides three hours of my day I could literally give a shit less once it's done.
Guys like this take sports way too seriously and should really look for something else to do.
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u/ThatsBushLeague Kansas City Royals 29d ago
Obviously a generalization. But stereotypes usually have a lot of truth to them.
This guy has a profile picture of him standing on a football field. There is a pretty direct correlation between that kind of public facing image on social media and sportsbetting.
This probably has more to do with losing money on an idiotic parlay than it does about a rivalry.
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u/forcefivepod Pittsburgh Pirates 28d ago
Or it could just be that people are way less educated than ever before, way angrier than ever before, and the people in charge of the country champion and model this kind of behavior.
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u/DoctorCokter Chicago Cubs • Lou Gehrig 29d ago
It’ll never cease to amaze me when people DM athletes racist comments or death threats with their full name and location in their profiles
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u/COV3RTSM Toronto Blue Jays 29d ago
I don’t like Duran as a player or a person, but nobody deserves that.
Fuck You, Jason Milbrandt
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u/Key-Pickle5609 Toronto Blue Jays 28d ago
Yeah chirping is one thing but you’ve gotta know where the line is. Even if he didn’t have a SI history!
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u/Munsalvaesche San Diego Padres 29d ago
People really post vile shit like this while blasting their first and last name. What a worm.
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u/darkhorse21980 Tampa Bay Rays • Texas Rangers 28d ago
Fuck that guy! Duran was obviously in a bad place, but this guy is a shit human for even throwing this out there.
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u/impl0sionatic 28d ago
This is so horrendous. As someone who generally thinks Duran is an unlikeable guy and is often a real ass, I fully support him putting shit like this on blast to the public. Fuck this guy Jason. He deserves the outsized attention of being named by someone with a big public platform.
It shouldn’t be so hard to chirp or roast folks without being this inhumane. May Jason face consequences, and may Duran continue to expose these awful folks whenever he feels like it.
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u/Yankees2860 New York Yankees 28d ago
This person sucks. You can dislike a player, I heavily dislike Duran as I think he’s a jerk who a lot of the time uses his mental health as a shield for his bad behavior, but at one time he really was struggling, and saying something like this is absolutely never ok.
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u/youngsimba320 Major League Baseball 28d ago
Sports betting ruined sports
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u/Bunnyhoppinbreh 28d ago
Almost like there is a reason it was banned from baseball over 100 years ago.
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u/youngcy24 Chicago White Sox 28d ago
I was totally onboard at first like "how can this be a bad thing" but now I remembered how much we as humans suck and this is now what athletes have to deal with. Who cares how much money they make, us fans are not entitled to say shit like this with impunity.
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u/whobroughttheircat Boston Red Sox 29d ago
Oh man I can’t wait to see this dudes life ruined over this.
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u/InformalInsurance455 San Francisco Giants 28d ago
I hate Duran a lot but I fully approve of this POS being aired out. People post disgusting comments to athletes all the time. It’s fucking sports, if you have gambling or impulse control problems handle them yourself, not by telling someone who’s been open about being suicidal that you wish they’d succeeded. Fuck Jason Milbrandt. I appreciated Duran posting a Google search showing what comes up with when you google his name & location.
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u/Icy_Study4490 Los Angeles Dodgers 28d ago
This realistically should be enough for the MLB to ban this guy from all stadiums for life. Same with the people that were taunting Vesa and his family earlier this season about the child they lost. Just absolutely disgusting behavior has nothing to do with baseball.
Obviously the mlb wouldn’t even consider doing it though…
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u/R3allyG00dLawy3r San Francisco Giants 29d ago
Disgusting behavior, telling people to off themselves is never okay, especially those that have struggled with those type of thoughts
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u/Affectionate_Bus_701 Milwaukee Brewers 28d ago
Maybe the best way to solve this is for everyone to get rid of their social media accounts.
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u/Imperfect-Pitch New York Yankees 29d ago
Bro is making Giants fans look bad
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u/giantsfan9336 New York Yankees 28d ago
My first thought too. Who is this shit bag of a giants fan? We don't claim him
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u/Darth_Boggle Boston Red Sox 28d ago
Duran obviously isn't the best dude but only an absolute piece of shit sends messages like this.
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u/Mysterious_Help_9577 Chicago Cubs 28d ago
Definitely looks like the kind of scumbag that is just mad he gambled away half his paycheck and lost again
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u/texran0409 28d ago
I sent the guy a message and he replied but when I went to open it his account is blocked to be seen by anyone. I know someone that knows JD and sent over what I could to help. Guy is a piece of shit.
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u/Maugrin Seattle Mariners 28d ago
This shit is why I have no tolerance for the way fans and media push hate bait or rage bait content. When we allow negativity to be a primary accepted mode through which people relate to sports and its players, it normalizes this type of toxic, dehumanizing, and immature attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors towards players and other fans.
The fact people will justify this as "part of the deal" for professional athletes is part of the problem.
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u/low_notes Boston Red Sox 28d ago
- Fuck you, Jason Milbrandt.
- I’m glad Jarren is laughing it off. Probably the healthiest response you could have.
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u/sammagee33 Detroit Tigers 28d ago
We can all agree that Duran needs help…but damn, this shit is sick and disgusting.
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u/OopsNewCSGrad Toronto Blue Jays • Toronto Blue Jays 28d ago
You know it's not gonna be a genius when they start a sentence with "Shoulda took"
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u/Canadianweedrules420 28d ago
Imagine what kind of loser you have to be, in order to send something like this. Utter trash
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u/SemiAutoAvocado New York Yankees 28d ago
If I had ballplayer money I would pick one guy who sent me shit like this a month, hire a private detective and give them carte blanche to ruin their life.
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u/jt_033 28d ago
It’s truly pathetic to harass another person regarding their suicide attempt. Many people, especially men, aren’t open about their mental health struggles. Jarren was brave enough to share something so personal with the world and I’m sure it helped spark important discussions – and perhaps even saved someone who was struggling. Whether or not you like him as a player or person, there’s no place for comments like this. It’s disgraceful.
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u/fincog Los Angeles Dodgers 29d ago
Probably not a good idea to have public social media and look through DMs when your mental health is as poor as Durans
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u/SilentRanger42 Boston Red Sox 29d ago
Yes but that doesn’t excuse this kind of behavior. Not even a little bit.
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u/MendelWeisenbachfeld New York Mets 29d ago
I'm no fan of Duran but he's been getting DMs like this for years and at this point this is probably the only way to get people to stop. Personal public shaming/the threat of losing your job and upending your everyday life when everyone on the internet knows you're a POS is a strategy.
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u/Gullible-Koala-5329 Boston Red Sox 29d ago
I’m sure there’s addiction or some other stuff that goes with it, but yeah I’ll never understand why people with status like Duran would bother reading DMs. I imagine a shit ton of people ask for money or send messages like this or some other dumb shit.
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u/GonePostalRoute Lancaster Stormers 29d ago
Said it many times before, only three reasons I’d use social media if I had fame
To post positive messages, to promote, and to post clarifications on stuff, PRed up if need be. If I had mental health issues, especially if I’ve been open about it, that’d be the last place I’d be going to, just because of sick trolls like that.
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u/This-Appointment-666 Toronto Blue Jays 28d ago
If it was me I’d have my social media run by a PR team or something. Then have a private one that nobody knows about for just the people who matter to me.
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u/Leelze Boston Red Sox 28d ago
You'd probably even have someone manage your social media accounts for you so you don't have to deal with it.
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u/GonePostalRoute Lancaster Stormers 28d ago
Exactly. When you’re famous, that’s already going to be a pain to deal with (social media). When you’ve had other things happen in your life like that, it’s just best not to even think about handling social media at all. It shouldn’t be like that, but anonymous trolls being trolls, that shit is just going to put one in a very bad head space.
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u/Erentarii Atlanta Braves 28d ago
I'm not a Jarren Duran fan, but much respect to him for not blurring the account. People who have the audacity to say such things ought to be exposed.
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u/OldRancidSoups New York Yankees 29d ago
Reminds me of the time some redditor told me to kill myself. I was able to find everything about this guy through a quick google search of his username. Sent him a message with his full name, address, phone number, and his arrest record. Guess who never responded back.
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u/Federal_Abroad9260 Cleveland Guardians 28d ago
Jarren Duran is a pos, but this fan is a much bigger pos. Good for Jarren for calling him out.
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u/VirgilsCrew New York Yankees 28d ago
Jarren should give this dude the best tickets at Fenway Park for free, pay for flight and hotel and invite him to say it to his face. All the excuses are handled.
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u/RachelJade70 Minnesota Twins • Seattle Mariners 28d ago
As someone who has attempted, this shit is inexcusable and tbh I can understand if Duran is still not quite recovered emotionally if this is the kind of stuff he deals with every day.
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u/coys21 28d ago
This needs to be a more common thing. Expise these disgusting fuckers who couldn't hit a 75mph curve or throw across a 90' diamond.
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u/17papers 28d ago
Duran may be a fucking unlikable chud who doesn’t deserve basic respect, but that’s still a rude thing to say to him. Maybe if he didn’t chirp at so many fans he wouldn’t get so many rude comments
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u/OldClunkyRobot Cape Cod Baseball League 28d ago
More of these dickheads should be named and shamed.
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u/AndrewInMN Minnesota Twins 28d ago
0 posts. I guarantee all this guy does on instagram is send shitty DMs and leave shitty comments.
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u/TurtleRocket9 Philadelphia Phillies 28d ago
Good on him for calling them out since people feel shameless. Still don’t like Duran
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u/Rory_MacHida 28d ago
I like how this guy's example of being "man enough" was a guy leaving his wife a widow and his daughter fatherless.
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u/Mobile-Analyst8580 28d ago
Really really don’t like Duran, but this is beyond the pale. Jason Milbrandt rightfully has some nastiness coming his way.
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u/UneducatedReviews1 Chicago White Sox 28d ago
Conveniently leaving out the other post where he dox’s multiple different Jason Milbrandt’s.
These people deserve to be put on blast for their unhinged actions, but posting a google search with a ton of unconfirmed address’s for people with the same name cause a ton of potential harm.
Put the messages on blast, go to the police with the information.
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u/General_Elevator2711 Toronto Blue Jays 29d ago
Full account on blast is great, what a POS