Posted on 05/18/2016 9:49:00 AM PDT by DFG
Minor league baseball teams have been known to go a step or two further than their major league counterparts when it comes to marketing and promotion gimmicks meant to attract attention and maybe help sell a few tickets. So it’s no surprise an affiliate of the Texas Rangers is trying to capitalize on one of the biggest moments in the baseball season so far — Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor punching Toronto slugger Jose Bautista. The now-famous incident for which Odor received an eight-game suspension on Tuesday.
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Love it.
Now Odor needs to punch Tolleson for blowing all those saves.
I love it too.
Baseball is no place for hotdog show offs who wanna flip their bats.
Dick Groat played two professional sports (baseball and basketball).
Bo Jackson played two professional sports (baseball and football).
Perhaps Odor will become our first to play baseball and hockey?
Secret ingredient?? Ok I give up. It costs $5.15 (the date, get it?) so that secret had better have some alcohol in it!
I used to love minor league baseball.
When I was a small kid, it was the Panama City, Fliers. Class D, Alabama-Florida League. The baseball was surprisingly good.
Later it was the Asheville, Tourists, then they became the Orioles then back to the Tourists. A cheap date as the admission was only 75 cents.
Buy a program and you had about a fifty/fifty chance of winning a door prize. It was something like a 2 liter RC Cola but it was still fun to win.
The baseball was excellent too.
Ed “Too Tall” Jones, went into boxing.
Luckily Odor is a pretty good player.
With that name, if he stunk, the headline writers would be having a field day.
My view on “professionalism” is to act like you’ve done it before, act like you expect to succeed. At the office, when some code I write works, or a client is pleased with my work, there’s no need to put on a show - I expect my code to work, I expect of myself to execute projects that please my clients. It’s what I do.
So most touchdown dances are really stupid. Can’t stand it.
On the other hand, hitting a decisive clutch home run in the deciding game of a post season series... well, that’s something few people ever do. It’s the kind of stuff we dreamed about when we were kids - and, ya, still dream about ; )
So I’m OK with Joe Carter going nuts in 1993, and I’m OK with Bautista’s bat flip on that really special occasion.
Odor should have punched out Andrus for those 3 - THREE!! - errors that set up the home run. Or punched out Dyson for giving up the gopher ball. Like David Price says, “make better pitches”.
Andrus makes 3 errors in a row, and Odor punches out Bautista for a bat flip? Man, what’s goin’ on in Odor’s attic?
That punch was rather costly for Odor — 8 game suspension and $5,000 fine. Bautista got a 1 game suspension.
I have started to cringe every time Tolleson steps onto the mound — “for the save”. HE has blown several leads.
Drink Odor! Because it stinks.
The Rangers should petition the league to let Tolleson serve Odor’s suspension.
I'm all for that.
The punch was not for the bat flip. The pitch that hit Bautista took care of that. But Bautista decided to go after Odor with an illegal dirty slide targeting Odor's knee at second base. Then, rather than getting up and walking toward the dugout after the dirty illegal slide, Bautista decided to walk up to Odor and get in his face. Odor shoved him and then Bautista leans back in to Odor with clenched fists.
The Frisco RoughRiders are selling a new energy drink containing alcohol called Rougie’s Red Punch. It will be available for a limited time at Dr. Pepper Ballpark's Bull Moose Saloon. It’s a blend of fruit punch, an energy drink and a secret ingredient from Rougned’s native Venezuela and is sold out of a punch bowl, of course.
I didn’t see the game but just watched the video on YouTube and, yes, the slide had nothing to do with getting safely into second base and was 100% about going at Odor cleats-first. He slid a full body length past the base before coming to rest.
It was in every way the exact kind of slide that was banned because of the Utley incident in last year’s playoffs.
Bautista was hit by a pitch earlier in that inning. The umpire considered it deliberate and issued a warning to both benches. (Note: In the 8th inning of a one-run game when you have just taken the lead in the previous half-inning, you don’t normally put the tying run on base to lead off the inning by hitting the guy on purpose.)
The Blue Jays also had some bad blood toward Odor from last season’s playoffs. Odor scored big runs in the Ranger victories in the games in Toronto due to some heads up baserunning, including a go-ahead run late in the final game of the series on a play that the Blue Jays incorrectly believed was a dead ball. As a result of that play the low-class Toronto fans delayed the game for several minutes by throwing things onto the field at the Ranger players.
In the bottom of the inning, the Jays relief pitcher hit Fielder in the hip in what was a very obvious intentional plunk. Since a warning had already been issued, he was ejected along with the acting manager (since the manager had already been ejected earlier).
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