NOTE: NBC Chicago will offer a live feed as Theo Epstein and Tom Ricketts talk to the media Friday afternoon. Watch live above and read more on the Cubs’ reaction here. For the first time since their divorce, the ex-wife of Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell is speaking out about what she described as emotional and physical abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her then-husband. In a lengthy blog post published this week, Melisa Reidy-Russell detailed allegations of physical mistreatment and “emotional and verbal abuse.” “The first time I was physically mistreated by my spouse, I was in shock,” Reidy-Russell wrote. “I couldn’t wrap my head around what just happened…Why did he get so angry? What did I do for him to want to put his hands on me? Of course I forgave him & assumed it would never happen again.” WARNING: The video contains content that is disturbing. An August 2016 surveillance video of minor league baseball player Danry Vasquez beating his then-girlfriend Fabiana Pérez in the stairwell of a Corpus Christi, Texas, stadium went viral in March 2018. The incident, caught on a surveillance camera, generated outrage and led to Vasquez’s ouster from Lancaster Barnstormers… Read full this story
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