Posted on 04/04/2010 6:22:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
Finally, a column by Will that is readable.
Where is Doc Ellis when you need him?
Readable, but still full of sh!t.
;-)
The game mostly takes care of itself and the players understand it. Last summer Brad Penny drilled A-Rod in retaliation for Yankee pitchers targeting Jason Bay a few times earlier that season. Bay’s sin was daring to hit HRs against Yankee pitchers. A-Rod took the pitch in the ribs and then turned and ran to 1st base. Gotta wonder if there weren’t some words for Joba Chamberlain after the game.
In the NL it’s even better. Pitchers can be held account for bad behavior instead of their teammates having to pay their tab.
Never get tired of reading the Gaylord Perry story :)
He's writing about something that he knows something about.
What is not factored in to this equation is that sometimes, the reflexes ... well honed through hours in a batting cage, can override anything the mind KNOWS.
My “sin” was in a fencing practice. After years of martial arts and weeks worth of intensive drills prior to the fencing practice. My opponent attempted a high lunge to the upper arm which I parried an moved under .... I had complete right of way. But I did not light or deftly touch my opponents fully exposed and extended rib cage.
Rather I did a full martial punch with the bell or guard of my saber ... lifting my oponent off the mat and crumpling him nicely off to the side. He was gasping for breath and holding his ribs. Had it been a match, no doubt I would have been red carded.
Opponet was a friend and other than some bruising, was fine. The smart ass came to the next practice with a sticker that was a red x inside of a circle attached on his jacket, covering the spot where I had hit him.
Casey Stengel described Sam McDowell as “pleasingly wild”. You can look it up.
I don't follow baseball quite as much anymore. Has any pitcher actually been deliberately hit by a pitch?
I don’t follow the NL but the head hunting and punk stuff doesn’t happen. It is one thing to support your mates and the other side understands it, another to start BS on your own.
Gee, and I thought the idea was to win the game! I’ve been wrong all these years. Thank God Duke played soft for the last 20 minutes to give WVU a chance. This year when I’m watching the World Series (sorry, but where are the international teams??) I will revel in seeing players get ‘brushed back’, ‘beaned’, ‘skulled’ ‘driven back off the plate’ (how dare they have the temerity to crowd the plate - I’ll show him!!!). And with the Yankees ahead by 6 runs over the Phillies in the 8th I’ll sit back confidently and smile knowing that Jeter will be playing soft. What a great game! Sure wish I’d have known about playing ‘soft’ when I was kid. Just think how badly I must have hurt the other teams self esteem!!!
GW is back in typical spring form, I see. Not a bad read, though.
Boxing isn't the only sport that can be fixed.
Uhmmm....cos someone is throwing a ball at them???? (girl joke!)
The root of the problem is ego. Too many consider almost anything to be dissing them. Some are worse than Muslims.
When you hit a HR, you run it out
When you strike a guy out, you walk off the mound then wait for the ball to come back without pumping your fist or pointing at the other team
you don’t crowd the plate
you don’t spike
you don’t steal signs
you don’t yell at players in the act of trying to field a pop fly
there are rules and standards of conduct
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