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sixthwi -> RE: MLB General Information PT 4 (8/26/2015 12:33:14 PM)
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Go Go starts another tussle, yelling at the NY dugout last night during their Yankee beat down.
Guy simply can't play without starting fires. [:D]
I heard Joe on this after the game. He didn't get why GoGo was on him, since he wasn't chirping.
But he stayed pretty calm about it all.
From Buster Olney at ESPN Insider
The unwritten rules of baseball are forever fluid, forever shifting, open to interpretations that are often tied to who is winning and who is losing.
The Yankees were losing in a big way Tuesday night, and Carlos Gomez greatly annoyed them, apparently for the way he reacted angrily after making an out with the score 9-0. Gomez told the Yankees to shut up and the benches cleared, and later in the game, Gomez went deep. Here is a Gomez slide early in the game, which also might have annoyed the Yankees.
From Billy Witz's story:
"Somebody's screaming from the dugout, and I tell them, 'Why are you screaming?'" Gomez said. "Everybody knows in the league how passionate I play the game. It's not meant to disrespect anybody."
… Gomez answered the calls from the Yankees' dugout by saying, "Shut up" several times. He then had words with Yankees catcher John Ryan Murphy and returned to the dugout.
"I just told him, 'Play the game the right way,'" said [Yankees manager Joe] Girardi, whose team trailed 9-0 at the time of the confrontation. "They're kicking our rear ends. Show a little professionalism to the pitcher. I know you missed a pitch and are frustrated by it, but I just think it's a little too much."
The whole thing seems pretty silly. It's apparently not OK to show frustration after making an out with a big lead. When are you allowed to show frustration? When the score differential is five runs? Six runs? Two?
And to review: It's not OK to show anger over making an out in a one-sided score, but it is OK to empty the benches in response to something so innocuous? Is it OK for a manager of one team to lecture a player on the other team about the "right way" to play the game?
Knowing how much Girardi cares about his players and backs them, I suspect he wouldn't be particularly enamored with the idea of Blue Jays manager John Gibbons or Angels manager Mike Scioscia, in the heat of the moment, saying something to Alex Rodriguez or Brett Gardner about the right way to play the game.
Here's another idea: How about just ignoring Gomez's outward gestures, which have long been outside the norm. This is his ninth year in the big leagues, and he always has been demonstrative: He points, he waves his arms, he yells -- he's different. Girardi didn't play that way, and most players don't play that way, but really, when you get right down to it …
Who cares?
Play your game. Don't worry about how the opponents are playing their game.
The Yankees won't win the division if a couple of stars don't start playing better, Ken Davidoff writes. Dallas Keuchel threw the ball well for Houston.
Remember when TR said Sano's demonstration after he hit a home run a couple of years ago was the most disgusting thing he had ever seen.
Time for these old ideas to leave baseball forever.
And on a completely different note......when the hell will fans be able to hoot and holler while a player on the PGA or LPGA is setting up for a shot or a putt.
If a BB player is shooting a free throw in the oppositions arena and the college students are in sync moving their bodies back and forth and the free throw could tie or win the game......the refs don't tell the opposition crowd to quiet down, etc.
Time for golf to change as well.
What really pisses me off is that pitchers can do whatever the hell they want (pumping their fists, etc) whenever the hell they want but no one else can.
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