LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Rob Dibble has been fired for his Stephen Strasburg remarks. Rob Dibble was fired by MASN Wednesday for comments this week that read “I’m not a doctor, and I haven’t read the MRI yet, but I’m pretty sure he’s gonna come back fine. And for me, if you can throw the next day, then you probably could have continued out there on the baseball field. So are they a little bit overcautious at this point? Maybe. But he’s a $15 million investment. I absolutely can’t blame them for taking him out.”

He later goes on to repeatedly tell Strasburg to “suck it up”. “I put a steel plate in my wrist so I could be back in five weeks instead of three months. So, this is your choice. You can either suck it up and be a man at 22 making $2 million a year [with] a $15 million contract, or every time you get an ache and pain you can go out of the game and say I’m gonna let down the other 24 guys right here and possibly end up forfeiting the game.”

Before his SIRIUS XM radio show on the MLB Network this morning, Dibble read the following prepared statement. “As you may know, I made some statements last week about Stephen Strasburg, and have been called controversial and angered many. In my role as analyst for the Nationals, and [with] the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, I now realize that my comments were inappropriate and disrespectful. I have regret that my time with the team will have to end this way, but have learned from the mistake and look forward to putting it behind me.”