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Posted on 10/13/2015 2:52:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Screenplay by Rachel Maddow.
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Under the circumstances, Utley’s play was to try to break up the DP, and he did this within the rules of engagement as they exist (if you don’t think so, watch the play again after reading baseball’s Rule 5.09(a) 13). Tejada’s play was to record the out at second and get out of the way in order the live to play another day. An off-line feed from Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy made the prospects of a DP on this play remote. Tejada’s eccentric acrobatics in a hopeless effort ended his season and landed him in the hospital. Yogi Berra said baseball is 90 percent mental. This is the other 10 percent. No reason Chase Utley, a 13-year veteran with a fine career, should pay the price for Tejada’s brain infarct. The hard slide from Utley was to be expected, and was no different from countless slides that have knocked second-baseman Utley on his bum over the years.
After the game, the expected things were said. Mets manager Terry Collins said his players were “angry,” but stopped short of condemning Utley. Utley said he was sorry Tejada was hurt but that he had no intention of injuring him. He was just trying to make it difficult for Tejada to complete his throw to first. It would take a pathological partisan or a tin-foil-hat conspiracy theorist not to believe him. Dodger first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said every player on both teams would have done the same thing under the circumstances. Just so. Dodger manager Don Mattingly said if Mets Captain David Wright had barreled into Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager in the same way and Seager wasn’t injured he would have been praised as a gamer by New York sports media types.
While Gonzalez and Mattingly may be
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Baseball as is MSLSDnbc is dead to me..(until the Twinkies win it all again!!!).
Dump umps.. Go optical.
So violent. All players soon to be dressed in bubbles.
Screenplay by Rachel Maddow ??????????????????????
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On the other hand there is a trend, and one I'm not too fond of, toward “kinder and gentler baseball”.
Why do women apparently love baseball sp much? I guess I will count Madcow as a woman.
This guy does not know Yogi Berra (may he RIP).
It should be illegal to slide into second during a possible double play. The only reason to slide is to injure or interrupt the relay. May as well allow the runner to slap the ball out of the hand of the relay man. It is faster to run to second, than slide. Therefore the purpose is not to advance a base. I played baseball for many years, and what Utley did was dirty and he should have been disqualified for the rest of the year.
If Rachel Madcow said this then she finally said something I agree with.
And as for womens’ affinity for baseball, as my son’s Babe Ruth coach told the boys: “Chicks dig the long ball.”
To put in football terms, it was a very sloppy tackle..but it served its purpose in removing Tejada from the 2015 baseball season.........
That is my understanding as well... the rules state it is at the umps discretion, but my reading is that it needs to at least mimic a slide that looks like one trying to get to the base... his first knee did not hit the ground until past the base and the 2nd directly impacted Tejada’s lower leg. To me, not a slide, but intentional interference... I understand that it happens every day of the regular season though... the difference here is that Tejada put himself in a vulnerable position and it resulted in a serious injury.
We'll see how much "kinder and gentler" baseball has become if and when Utley faces another Mets pitcher...........
If I were the Mets manager, I'd start a non-starter whose sole objective would be to nail Utley the first time he comes to bat. And if he wasn't ejected that first time, I'd leave him in until Utley comes up to bat again and nail him again........
Utley’s two game suspension only delayed a plunking.
Watch the play again in slow motion. Tejada took the throw, stepped on the back of the bag and attempted to avoid the slide which was nothing more than a lousy tackle..........
Tejada did not put himself in any precarious position............
One man's plunking is another man's nailing......they both mean the same........LOL!
Utley is going to get nailed and if he doesn't, then I've lost all faith in baseball..In fact, I'd favor the mets losing two non-starting pitchers being kicked out of the game for nailing Utley every time he comes to bat........
My husband watches baseball—but to me, it’s like watching paint dry.
I love pro football, but have to pass on baseball.
I guess I’ll agree with the Babe.
My wife watches the sports and usually has some sports imam on a radio.
I hate just about all sports.
Dodger manager Don Mattingly said if Mets Captain David Wright had barreled into Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager in the same way and Seager wasn’t injured he would have been praised as a gamer by New York sports media types.
Mattingly is right about this. He knows New York very well.
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