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Chicago Cubs backup catcher Miguel Montero got himself booted from the team Wednesday after publicly criticizing teammate Jake Arrieta.



Team president Theo Epstein told reporters he thought it best to just scrap Montero altogether.



This was an example of someone being a bad teammate publicly, and that we’d be better off moving on and not standing for it, because we do hold our players to a higher standard than that.

The same day Montero got his pink slip, several members of the Cubs team were at the White House in recognition of their 2016 World Series win.

Baseball writer Peter Gammons of the MLB Network reported that while there, some of the players and staff commented how hilarious it would be to get the current president and former reality competition show host Donald Trump to tell Montero directly, "You're fired!"