Anybody else think Chipper's "hit" wasn't a hit?

July 11, 2012 | self

[jmaroneps37]

I have always liked Chipper Jones - great player- good for baseball for last several years, but he got a gift last night. Agreed?

[jmaroneps37]

I don't have any problems with a "services rendered" hit in an exhibition game, but it is what it is.

[garv]

It was a bleeder, but it was a hit.

[angcat]

Melky is on his was to super stardom. The Yanks should get him back.

[SwatTeam]

I thought so at the time and I didn’t have aproblem with it,
being a NL supporter and all.

[wayoverontheright]

There’s no doubt in my mind that the AL second baseman, in a regular season game, would have dived for that ball. There was time to tumble, get up and throw the 40 year-old Chipper out at first.

And I’m a Braves fan.

Perhaps the 8 to 0 score at the time played a role in the player’s mind also.

Chipper knew it was a gift, thus the laughter when he got to first.

[Sporke]

I thought it was a hit. In a “real” game that wasn’t already a blowout, I think Kinsler would have made more of an effort to field the ball, but I didn’t think at the time that he could have thrown him out at first. He was to far in the outfield.

[GlockThe Vote]

I saw nothing wrong with that. It was all in good fun, which it should be.

[ballplayer]

Jeters wasn’t a hit either

[GlockThe Vote]

As a life long Bronxite and Yankees fan, it was painful to get rid of melky but we got granderson.

Plus, Melky and Cano were partying it up nightly.

[TheRhinelander]

He came off as an arrogant little pr**k to me. I was not amused.

[mills044]

Agreed.

[PfromHoGro]

‘reminded me of Brett Favre’s gift to Strayhand (sp?) for the sack record.

[commish]

I don’t know that it was 100% a “Gift” but I think it was definately a “this is an exhibition game and the score is 8-0 and I am not diving and risking injury” play.

[jmaroneps37]

I mentioned Favre’s gift as well last night. This is not brain surgery and we can't stay strapped into our chairs talking politics 24x7 so why not give Chipper a going away present?

[capt B]

I was LOL, just as “Chipper” was

[F.J. Mitchell]

It’s in the book as a hit. Nufsed!

[angcat]

As a life long New Yorker and Yankee fan Melky was a distraction to Robinson thus the trade. :)

[Marathoner 244]

I thought it was a gift.