Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli tells Willson Contreras 'sit down, boy', benches clear
Here's Cade Cavalli striking out Willson Contreras and screaming "sit down boy!" at him. Really nice and a great week for it. Does Manfred 1) do the obvious thing or 2) do nothing because he doesn't want a Turning Point spokesman to do a viral tweet about how he won't watch baseball anymore
Dana Bacon795Omg that didn't take long...
Alex Kirshner414Idk Cavalli's beliefs but I think he should pick a different thing to yell at the non-white, Latino player across from him. At best someone's gotta tell him to be smarter for his own sake. Contreras has seven years of service time on him. Don't pick an insult that's at best a tossup of being evil!
At some point all these racists understand is getting their faces pounded in
David Shepherd190Cavalli should have been tossed without a doubt. Total BS, the league needs to right this wrong but I'm not holding my breath. Nats catcher is also Venezuelan and hopefully called Cavalli out for that bush league slur
Kevin Casey184It really is a shame that pitchers don’t bat anymore.
Marco127Baseball has a white trash problem, and always has.
Michael Baumann406I don't assume that every ballplayer has a Jeremy Clarkson-trying-to-sneak-one-past-the-BBC-lawyers-level command of racial epithets but anyone who does this by accident ought to get himself quoted in the paper as saying "Oh no no no I didn't mean it like that!" as soon as possible
Jon Tayler (Jon Tayler’s Version)63I imagine Cavalli is gonna have a hard time convincing anyone that he called a player seven years his senior "boy" for reasons other than "I'm a dumb racist"
Wyatt Sinclair21In a world of Cavallis, be a Greinke.
River_Tam191) A white guy who follows TPUSA on Instagram yelling "Sit Down Boy" to an older non-white player - we all know what it means 2) Contreras has indicated that what set him off was Cavalli yelling *anything* (which will usually start a fight in baseball tbc) not the racial overtones of the words.
pork, cheese, broccoli rabe17I like that the first post I saw about this blamed the benches clearing on contreras and not the racist oaf
Andrew Hammond16Yeah…..this ain’t great. This is also gonna bring out the worst people.
Paul14Pitcher should have been immediately ejected
Jeff Zimmerman13Well, he can always get a job with the Texas Highway Patrol when he's done playing baseball.
Ron Marz12Cade needs a two-start vacation. Toss him for 15 days.
Meechy Dorko11shoulda let contreras beat his ass its the only way he'll learn
I have carved out the Nationals-Red Sox recap and have made it available free to everyone. In it I talk about Cade Cavalli hurling a racial epithet at a player of color and put it in context with other such incidents. The ball is in Rob Manfred's court.
Craig Calcaterra123The wildest thing here was that Cavalli was not even ejected for yelling racist invective so loudly that it was clearly heard on the TV broadcast. This is the same ump crew that ejected the target of the racism, Contreras, the night before for tapping his helmet while walking back to the dugout.
Chuck Tee18I was at the game. Absolutely infuriated that Cavalli was not ejected.
LarryLegend15And then lying about it like a coward. “I don’t know what I said. Also, here’s what I said”
adriana1o5.bsky.social11the only shame of the whole mele is that Cavalli didn't get a punch to the face.
Sactown Tim9Buster Posey has a new trade target. 👀
Alex7Oh he’s definitely gonna fuck this up too
Linda Holmes114I think this is exactly right. Cavalli should be disciplined for this, but I have little faith he will be. For Contreras, who is visibly so anguished about Venezuela, to take a ticky-tack (if officially defensible) ejection on Monday and then be subjected to this is really, really awful.
Lazy Circles Esq5MLB sure seems to have a bigot problem and not just with the #SFGiants
TK-S Is Here Now2If I’m not mistaken Cavalli played baseball at OU, so thanks for staining your college with that shite you pulled. And yes, “boy,” spoken to a man of colour, IS racially charged and highly offensive.
Anthony2A very well articulated piece per usual from Craig. It's incidcents like this that serve as a constant reminder as to why the various inclusion nights hosted throughout the season are necessary and vital.
Last night's bench-clearing brawl started when Cade Cavalli shouted at Willson Contreras, "Sit down, boy." Not sure how many people, including the umps, knew that in the moment. But now that they do, Cavalli should be suspended for the rest of the year. www.boston.com/sports/bosto...
Paul Hutchinson12What a racist asshole Cavalli is, he's probably proud of what he did. At least the racism was not from a native Bostonian 😮💨 Not a baseball fan so I didn't know till I read the article and the odds before reading were not in favor of Bostonians :-(
Piper8Suspended for the rest of the year and fined. Racist piece of trash.
AgentCooper6at least we all know Cavalli is a racist POS
joeybee12.bsky.social6Cavalli is from Oklahoma so I tend to believe he did say that.
Erica4But women are too emotional
Bill Downey3Lucky pitchers don’t hit in the American League, this guy would get thumped. Everybody heard what was said, the umpires chose to punish the retaliation not the instigation. Tracy made his case, push it up to league office, a hefty fine should be coming for Cavalli.
Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli screams 'Sit down, boy!' at Red Sox 1B Wilson Contreras upon striking him out. Brouhaha ensues and benches clear. Contreras is ejected from the game. Cavalli is not. Protesting a racist epithet gets you thrown out, but throw the racist epithet and you get off free.
@aubergenius238OB and Will in the NESN booth have repeated Cavalli's taunt of Contreras, in that kind of 'whaddyaknow' tone that signals 'This is bullshit!' without specifically saying 'This is bullshit!' because they can't. Maybe Cavalli will be sanctioned by MLB, but I doubt it. I hate these John Rocker fucks.
Dr. Nguyen Van Thoc11My first instinct was well let’s not jump to conclusions, he might not even know the connotation with “boy,” maybe he’s just being a standard idiot…. And then i found out he’s from Oklahoma and wellllllllll i mean..🤷🏼♂️
rosemarykel.bsky.social8He needs to have consequences for his comment. Completely unacceptable
JerseyLefty5It’s baseball. The average white ball player is a MAGAt.
Gary S🏌🏾♂️🇨🇦4Fucking racist piece of shit.
💪🏼 Katie recruiter@Antifa4Can’t wait to hear Blake Butera at a press conference “only there to talk about baseball” like super douche Buster Posey 🤦♀️
I don't advocate any form of violence or fighting. And I don't know what the intent of Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli. But I do know this: if you call the wrong black or brown man "Boy," you might get your behind kicked. It's not 1950 anymore. www.mediaite.com/media/sports...
Dave Dewey 📎🇺🇦🇵🇸12Cavalli needs to be suspended and fined. He’s a racist asshole.
Autistic License9Cade was very brave when there were 40 guys on the field holding Contreras back. MLB needs to suspend Cavalli
TheValuesVoter8Also, of all the cities in America on which to play for a team while being involved in a controversy with racial overtones, Washington DC is the worst place to get yourself into such a controversy. One of the blackest cities in America surrounded by two of the blackest states in America.
Christian Breßel5The MLB seems to hate Contreras regarding his ejection one night earlier which was a joke. And in this game Cavalli should have been ejected and fined.
Snootacamund5Delete wrong. If you call someone boy you are probably in for a deserved beating.
Linda 5684He really is quite the asshole.
Between the homophobic white American SF Giants pitchers on Pride Night and Oklahoman Cade Cavalli of the Nationals telling Wilson Contreras of the Red Sox to "Sit Down, boy" after striking him out, @mlb.com has a white cracker problem amongst its white, US southern players from the South.
Alex Janevski45I used to work in fine dining, and once worked with a black server. He was experienced, older than me, and also much taller (I'm short). I heard him called "boy" multiple times. Not once did anyone call me boy. I was in. My early 20s and got "sir." It's absolutely racist.
Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot Text RESIST to 5040932I believe EVERY Black man out there would beg to differ with them on the statement that there was nothing “racist” about calling him “boy”.
DrDinD.bsky.social21Cavalli says the way his comment has been perceived "hurts his heart," no way did he intend it as racist. Sure. 🙄 www.masslive.com/redsox/2026/...
Eric14The entire nation has a Southern white cracker problem—they weren’t properly punished after the Civil War
My Neighbor Toppero9Either he knows exactly what he's doing or we're at the point where descendants of southern bigots genuinely don't know the meaning behind the racist bs they've been around. Either way, pure ignorance.
Steven Cochrane-Diamond8Big "please don't put it in the papers that I was racist" energy.
We all need to be reaching out and demanding Cade Cavalli be suspended
KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today!14for people who want to contact the nationals: service@nationals.com — helps to be a season plan holder/nats plus member, but if you've ever bought tickets to a game (or are thinking about buying tickets) that works
Another Sam1Saddens me, but I'm kinda thinking that Cade's gotta go. There's no way to rationalize this.
Iputadollariniwinacar1Someone should start a petition. I don't have enough reach but I'll sign on
JB1Email written. Is there an MLB account I should be CC-ing?
Michele1Done. Thanks for making me aware of this disgusting incident. I emailed the Nationals.
Cade Cavalli insists there was nothing racist about calling Willson Contreras “boy” defector.com/cade-cavalli...
PK16Yes I am sure the word "boy" coming from this man had no underlying meaning whatsoever....
GuyRidesBikes4That's what every white racist who's ever lived thinks. I was shocked when they tossed Contreas and left that asshole in.
Peter Pantsless Geraci2Oh well then that’s it. Case closed. Great work everyone!
Rough & Rowdy Jays2"I'm not racist" ~ racists
BeelerD 🏳️⚧️1Cavalli needs his ass kicked. Peckerheaded White Nationalist. Fuck Washington.
SP241Racist says he isn’t racist. Fuc him and his entire family tree.
RC Cola Pope41As a Hispanic former baseball player I can tell you multiple racist things and I every time the other party said they were not being racist and every time they got away with it. That is why we rush the mound to beat your ass because we know the only way you will learn.
kwisatz haderade (leg kick, finger twirl)26ah well no harm no foul that solves that!!!! lmao be so fucking serious
Stan Belinda Carlisle13Well surely this is easy to prove as must have been calling a bunch of white guys "boy" this season, right? Oh wait this is the only time he's done this? Strange!
David “Karafs Truther” Precht6White manager and GM said Cavalli didn’t intend to “demean someone in some racial way.” “‘I’m extremely torn up about the way that things were perceived,’ Cavalli said” So he’s not upset that he said a racist thing, he’s upset that it is a racist thing to say? That’s fucking weird
BK?4What did you think he was gonna say? “Of course it was, I’m a racist”
Adam Music3Last week, my son, nephew, and I passed a man on a hiking trail in Utah. When he got to where my wife and my nephew's mother had stopped, he said: "That colored boy was worrying me." After learning he's our family, he said: "I didn't mean anything by that." Except yeah - you did.
Leger-Felicite Snorlax🇵🇸3It's not entirely up to you man
Jeffrey Vagle3Justice Alito would agree, apparently.
yorick3I am equally pissed it's fucking Mikolas that is actively grappling with Contreras. Fuck him, too.
Things get heated at Fenway after Cade Cavalli tells Willson Contreras to "sit down boy" after striking him out. Benches clear and Contreras hurls his helmet. Contreras and Eaton were ejected for the #RedSox, Mikolas was ejected for the #Nationals
Barrenlens23I mean, I'm not saying Wilson isn't a head case. He is. But if you're calling another player "boy" (particularly a person of color) I'm not shocked when that causes problems. Pretty dick move.
Matt the Dad (suboptimal)7so wait, Cavalli was not ejected?
Petal Lu Ⓥ 💚🌱💙🌎7That was a racist comment!!!
Jane54You're a white guy from Oklahoma, you can't be talking like that.
🖤♡Amanda♡🖤21Holy shit. I would have knocked him on his ass too for that
DFAntastic16In a just world Contreras gets a free swing (w/ his bat.)
Shana14I went to look at his stats because clearly someone that cocky would be a monster on the mound and found that wonderful little wiki entry.
Christian!12Yeah he clearly said “sit down boy” Willson deserved a swing
Dctrojan10I feel like Contreras should get a free shot at Cavalli for that tbh
Marc Quill / WON/F4W / QB1 Publishing8I assume Cavalli didn’t think it through when mockingly calling Contreras “boy”. Not a good look for a white dude to be calling a PoC that.
"Hollywood" Ben Hogan8Hey this guy can eat shit
Carter Lowe🎞️7Cade Cavalli says “Sit down, boy” again, after his 13th K, striking out Jarren Duran #RedSox #Nationals
Diana 💚☘️🏀7Fuck Cade Cavalli Stupid ass name
Note that FIFA is kicking players out of #WorldCup games for covering their mouths in confrontational situations. Baseball, though, will almost certainly take no steps to discipline Cade Cavalli for this.
jar jar binks enthusiást (Atreyu Sucks)7Imagine being worse than motherfucking FIFA on an issue like this. Wild.
Doug2Conversely, I’m fairly confident MLB will suspend Contreras for rushing the mound and attempting an attack 😒
Kristina of ⭐️⭐️2Apparently he said it again to another player later in the game too with no consequences. How FIFA could possibly be more willing to fight this than MLB I don’t get.