[Ransomed]

“Some of his actions don’t necessarily jive with Mormon teachings on good behavior.”

I’ve watched pretty much most of the nats this season. Since he came up, I’ve seen is hard nosed hussle in the bigs, combined with some of the same mistakes most rookies make at times, base running and throwing. He encouraged folks to vote for Chipper Jones, handled the Cole Hammels beaning the right way. The kissing thing to the pitcher was in the minors after the pitcher ran his mouth all game, at least to my understanding. The line drawing thing happened in the junior college series I think? Anyhow he himself said he was a brat I think, but it hasn’t come up as far as I have seen in the MLB. First I knew about the LDS thing was the clown question retort.

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[pgkdan]

I'm with you. I''ve watched nearly every Nats game since 2006 and haven't missed a game this season...thanks to MLB TV replays of the games I miss when I'm on the road. Harper gets a bum rap from ignoramouses who either hate him because he's Mormon (that river runs very deep here on FR...many of those bigots will post on this thread)or because he's so damned good. Hamels fell into the latter camp. There was no good reason in the world for him to hit Harper and he made an ass of himself following the game with that 'old school' crap. Harper, on the other hand, was the epitome of class with his response...stealing home!

People who don't know anything about what he's brought to the game this year fall back on mistakes he made when he was 15-16 years old...acting like a 15 or 16 year old kid. He shows all of them up!