Posted on 08/19/2008 9:30:01 AM PDT by gridlock
Did I mention two home-plate collisions, one of which knocked China’s catcher out of the tournament? NBC’s highlight reel very stupidly doesn’t show all five HBPs, but it’s painfully clear that the one that sent Matt LaPorta to the hospital with a concussion was intentional. HuffPo captured a brief clip from MSNBC showing another HBP from earlier in the game, too. Square in the back.
International-incident-generating bench-clearing brawl? Narrowly avoided. Heart-ache. Click the image to watch.
The second collision at the plate, where the Chinese catcher is just standing there without the ball, is my favorite. He gets the Rachel Corrie treatment, big time...
oh ping for later when i get home!
What a crappy video. And why the hell are there American baseball men working for the ChiCom team??
Hey China - stick to ping pong. America OWNS baseball.
Schierholtz is a thug who permanently belongs with his Hawaiian Beachboys. I hope this moron never makes it to the bigs.
You may be right about that. However, the LaPorta slide at the plate was clean. No reason for the Chinese to whine about that one. That’s baseball and if it’s too rough for them they should play badmitten (sp?).
I don’t disagree about LaPorta. However, since the ChiCom team was created in 2005, I think the odds that their pitchers suck and can’t throw an inside pitch to save their lives, is far greater than that he was pitching at LaPorta’s head.
Now, if it was Juan Marichal...well that’s different.
Baseball is out because it is distinctly American. We rule the game.
They messed with the wrong Gator.
“Baseball is out because it is distinctly American. We rule the game.”
don’t tell that to cuba, japan, or the dominican republic.
>“Baseball is out because it is distinctly American. We rule the game.”
don’t tell that to cuba, japan, or the dominican republic.
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The same analogy you can use when Team USA basketball is supposed to lay down to other nations because supposedly American basketball is on a “decline” (when we’re beating opponents like Ike Turner beat Tina).
Remember Sal "the barber" Maglie? He meant it when he said "When I'm pitching, I own the plate." He didn't just throw inside, he was a first rate head hunter and made no bones about it.
i dont even think though now that if you fielded the best american baseball players vs the best players from another country, say the dominican republic, that america would win. there is a lot of talent from other countries that is on par with america.
We own the game. Just as we own Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass, Rock N Roll, and Elvis. The rest are just trying to improve on it.
Not taking anything away from those countries and their passion for the sport.
That's because it would cut into NBC's 24/7 round-the-clock non-stop coverage of the Great Sport of beach volleyball.
*barf*
Not at the Olympics, we don't. It became a medal sport in 1992. That year the US didn't medal. They scored a bronze in 96 and gold in 2000, but in 2004 they didn't even make it to the games, losing the regional qualifier to Canada and Cuba.
Now women's softball's a whole different story. THAT we rule.
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