Posted on 04/04/2010 6:22:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Excellent.
Though I’m no aficionado of the game, even I know that the reason it’s called the “World Series” is because it was originally sponsored by a newspaper titled “The Boston WORLD”.
There were two teams from Canada at one point, but that’s down to just the Toronto Blue Jays now. The Montreal Expos are now in Washington DC.
Our local highschool girls basketball team got trounced 62-2 in a game last year. Standards or no standards, I think it would be safe to assume that the team really stinks.
I don’t know if the majors have bench-jockeys like the old days. Every club used to have one to try and rile opposing players. And much of it was vicious...especially the comments directed at Jackie Robinson. Stealing signs is as old as baseball. So as far as the “code” goes, it appears to be whatever a club or player can get away with. And a seven run lead is hardly insurmountable. Somebody throws me a beach ball right down the middle, I’m going to swing at it. That’s what the fans go the park to see.
Ummm... batters get hit because there’s a guy standing 90 feet away on a little mound of dirt throwing a hard ball directly at you at more than 100 miles per hour, trying to make sure the ball passes 12 inches away from chest?
Next: why hockey players get pushed against the boards.
Mark Grace said Randy Johnson once hit him in the back with a 98 mph fastball. He said it bruised him on the front of his torso. Hydrostatic shock. Bet that one hurt for a few days.
The man in general.
I rememebr reading somehwere that a Randy Johnson beanball caused the batter to urinate blood for a few days. That can’t be healthy.
Nolan Ryan is pretty popular in southern California as well. Angels never should have let him go.
the great Don Drysdale made it clear....you hit one of mine, I hit two of yours and he NEVER failed...........another bugaboo of Drysdale’s was the intentional walk..he loathed it..........irregular wind up....quarter speed and for 4 pitches. he said...one pitch....hit em, next !
When you hit a HR, you run it outAnd you don't throw at the next hitter in the lineup after a home run gets hit just because your ego just landed on the far side of the fence, either. You want to send the bombardier a message, you pitch him inside and tight the next time he faces you. You don't nail the next guy in the lineup unless you're spoiling for a fight.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
Just ask Tom Niedenfeuer. He was brought into a 1986 game against the Mets with the bases loaded and George Foster (shortly before Foster was dealt away) coming up. Foster hit the first pitch into the left center field bleachers. Niedenfeuer started the next hitter, Ray Knight, with a drill right in the belly. What a surprise that Knight charged the mound ready to take his head off.
Best payback pitch I ever saw: Shawn Estes, Mets. After weeks of speculation and insistence that the Mets owed Roger Clemens bigtime for his habitual decking of Mike Piazza in interleague games, the Yankees showed up in Shea Stadium and, sure enough, Clemens got to hit against Estes. Estes shocked everyone by throwing behind Clemens's knees. Everyone screamed blue murder over Estes's "cowardice" . . . but the pitch worked. The warnings went out posthaste. And the Mets pasted the Yankees, 8-2, including Estes hitting one over the fence . . .
Of course. That's one of the rules and one of the reasons why the DH is a rotten idea. If a pitcher hits a batter, he can expect to see some close inside pitches his next at bat and if one of them happens to get a little too close ... oops! Pitchers are expected to protect their batters.
It's an ejection and/or a fine + suspension if the umpire decides it was a little too obvious, but no one will blame him.
The DH, regular season inter-league play, and homosexuality are all equally unnatural acts.
I made a special trip to Arlington to see Nolan pitch. He ws nearing the end of his career and I wanted to see him suit up. I feel like I had a look at someone special. Not many have his dedication to the game.
Best payback pitches I can recall was Penny hitting A-Rod for that punk bitch Chambermaid hitting Red Sox players and Tori Hunter picking up the ball and nailing the pitcher who had just hit him in the ribs right in the kneecap....
When I got to my first duty assignment at Holloman AFB, they put me up in billeting the first night. I turned on the TV, and there was Ryan, throwing his fifth no hitter, Sept 26, 1981.
Amazing that he pitched for 12 more years after that, and two more no-nos.
I read once that biomechanics experts studied him thoroughly, and found that his upper body strength was fairly ordinary for a man his size, but that his legs were extremely strong. Used to love watching Seaver pitch, he pitched with his legs as well.
Greatest moment in Rangers’ history.
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