Hunter Dobbins' pathetic response to Yankees-Red Sox lies deserves more vitriol

This has Mike and Spike Hammersmith vibes from Little Giants, and for some reason it's come and gone without much of a fuss. Probably because it's the Boston Red Sox, and probably because the bogus story involved the New York Yankees. Everybody hates the Yankees, but the Red Sox get a pass because they had a weally weally difficult 86 years not winning a World Series. Nobody cares about your grandpa's sports strife. Grow up.

But Hunter Dobbins, who said last week that he wouldn't sign with the Yankees if they were the only team to offer him an MLB contract, was found to have been led astray by his father, who lied about his baseball career to his son to further fuel his hatred of the Yankees growing up.

First of all, in no situation would the Yankees be the only team to offer you a contract. You would not get passed up by 12 downtrodden franchises before the Yankees realized, "Oh man, can't believe this guy fell into our laps! Let's sign him!". Secondly, the try-hard energy here is just so "wannabe Boston" that it's embarrassing anybody thinks it's cool.

Apparently, Dobbins' father told Hunter that he was drafted twice by the Yankees and then traded to the Diamondbacks. Not only that, but for whatever reason he also said he was "really good friends" with Andy Pettitte. None of this — not a single bit of it — is true.

Even before all of this happened, though, Dobbins said he wasn't a Red Sox fan growing up and that he just watched games with his dad and developed a dislike for the Yankees. He said he spent most of his time watching the Astros and Rangers. So the hatred/fandom was embellished and everything his dad said was a lie.

Dobbins' response? "My feelings and all that are based on my personal experiences and nothing to do with growing up or family. The whole backstory is stuff I heard growing up and seen pictures of from my dad. At the end of my day, it's just from my dad and how I kind of grew my love for the game. But at the end of the day I don't go and fact-check my dad or anything like that."

Oh yeah, and that he "never really cared what the media two hours south of here says." What's the Newport, Rhode Island, media saying, buddy? That's lost on us.

The media isn't "saying" anything. They did their job, found out almost everything you were telling them was a lie, and then came back with the earth-shattering reality that it was all your father's fault. We understand that's tough to deal with at first because it couldn't be more tailor made for a verse in Bruce Springsteen's "Glory Days", but doing an about-face to shade the media and claim no responsibility for you not knowing your own family history.

Even better? “Anything that’s in the news that goes with both of them is gonna turn into a story," Dobbins added. No! It's only going to turn into a story if there are insane, misleading layers to it after it was all clearly designed to rile up a specific group of people.

Please, please just pummel this man into the dirt on Saturday night and even up the series. It's the least the Yankees can do after the heart-wrenching loss they suffered on Friday.