Right, I was just pointing out the inherent difference between the two sports and players self-policing players or not.
NFL only has 16 games in the regular season, MLB has 162. All the warnings that umps issue now does mess it up a little, but it still works. Doesn’t have to be the same offending player, doesn’t have to be the same series, and all the players know it. Same thing with pitchers DHed or pinched for. So even the rest of the players on the jerk’s team tell him to quit being a jerk.
In the NFL the modern officiating and the penalty system, multiple reviewable camera angles, and each game being so important makes sending messages much more risky as far as wins and losses. Thus choke signs and chest thumping dog squeeze on even marginally important plays.
Completely agree about Harper looking to run Hamels over, nothing but hard nosed play that I have seen so far. Some mistakes occasionally but you get that from any young player. I actually saw that game on MASN. Pretty amazing. He ran on the throw over to first. I hope the Nats can do what they are capable of doing this year. New manager seems like he is no joke.
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Some mistakes occasionally but you get that from any young player.
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Don’t know if you saw the game that Harper tried to ‘run’ through the scoreboard.
After looking at many replays, I think he was disoriented as he seemed to ‘pause’ prior the collision.
At the time, I thought he had been ‘lasered’ but he never seemed to publicly indicate it and I am sure that his eyes were tested also...
Don’t know if he wears contacts or not but I do know that after my cataract surgery I seemed to lose a little in peripheral vision but a LOT in depth perception.
BTW, FWIW, I did sort of misread your first response to me...I didn’t put the ‘fruitily prancing down the baseline’ in the right concept???.
I can just imagine Don Drysdale or Vic Raschi or Sal Maglie’s reaction the next time a batter came up that has been skipping and sashaying down the first base line....
Puts a whole new concept to ‘Stick it in his ear’.... and in Maglies case, giving a ‘close shave’....