Posted on 05/09/2006 2:23:35 PM PDT by Imnotalib
Wow- #1 overall pick. Obviously a spoiled brat who feels entitled to act that way.
Assault with a deadly weapon.
Agree. The league has no cojones. Umps should call it a stee-RIKE every time he's pitched a ball for the rest of his career.
Who'd have guessed.
Which reminds me of a story about Juan Samuel shortly after he came up with the Phillies. He argued a called third strike with the Umpire, calling the Umpire something that the Ump took exception to. Rather than eject him, he waited until Samuel came up for his next at bat. The ump leaned in and casually told Samuel that he better be swinging, "Because everything is a strike." Needless to say, that's all the catcher had to hear. Samuel struck out hacking at the 3rd pitch which was about a foot over his head.
He is the younger brother of Dimitri Young, now with the Tigers, formerly with the Reds.
The problem is that this 'player' is going to get away with it. I saw a spokesman from the D-Rays (it might have been their GM). What a politician. He's salivating at getting this 'player' on the big squad.
I put the term 'player' in quotes since I'm trying hard not to use a term that might get me banned here.
Baseball is pathetic as hell today which is why I rarely watch it. Like you, I too grew up in the `60`s and I can`t ever remember crap like that happening.. Hitting an umpire would be like hitting your mother, impossible to imagine. It`s all effin huge egos today. Matter of fact when I was in little league without fail they would always let our entire team sit in the front seats whether is was Shea or Yankee stadium even though we had the bleacher seats. Then the players would come over and talk with us and give us autographs which was absolutely absolutely mind blowing for a kid. The guys whose card you flipped for on the playground was right there in the flesh asking you what position you played! Unreal, it was like meeting God almighty! To this day I still have Tom Seavers Bud Harrelson Tug McGraws autographs. I had some of the Yankees as well, Bobby Murcer, Roy White, even Thurmon Munson (but this kid ripped those off from me. Grrr!) Today the players don`t even give spit about the kids, the little leaguers are always in the bleachers. I went to a few home games a few years ago and it was pathetic as hell, all those front seats bought up by corporations and guarded off even though they were completely empty to pay a-holes like A-hole-Rod his $20 billion bucks lest he skip town which they end up doing anyway. "Oh I am retiring" Then the pricks are playing with some other team in between steroids. "Oh he broke a new record..Never mind his new caveman pockmarked visage" Eff them all. They`re all a bunch of quasi homos completely self absorbed more obsessed with fashion than they ever will be about any fan.
Thanks for the link. Young Young really flung the bat at the ump -- after the player returns from the suspension, umps should toss him for the slightest provocation. For the rest of his career. That was not a minor assault.
You're right, of course... Just frustrated he's getting away with it. :-(
this is old news
He ought to be put in jail.
I think there was a hockey game in 1965 that didn't have a fight.
"I'm a rapper and I'm OK, I rap all night and I sleep all day ..."
Change that to illiterates with a bad attitude on drugs and steroids. That's another reason for the blow-ups. Steroids and blow-ups go hand in hand.
If I was the umpire, I would be filing asault charges.
> I think there was a hockey game in 1965 that didn't have a fight.
Yeah, it was a pre-K girls' league practice game that got cancelled 45 seconds into the first period because the parents got into a fight :)
That must have been it -- none other come to mind. :-)
Wow, another black baseball player with a really sucky attitude! I was wondering when we would get the next Barry Bonds-type player. Maybe Jesse and Cynthia can council him and help him lose his pent-up anger. What a crock.
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