This would've been HUGE a few years ago, now it's just kind of hmmmmm.... Right-hander Tim Lincecum agrees to deal with Angels http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15564685/tim-lincecum-agrees-deal-los-angeles-angels
Truthfully, why does any of it matter? This is where Bryce Harper is right, we are so caught up with the unwritten rules and whatnot of baseball, to the point that we are over-analyzing it all and not enjoying it (paraphrasing here) But. why can't a guy hit a career-defining homer, then flip his bat , then 7 months later get hit by a pitch, then slide into second to take out a guy's knees, then get knocked the fuck out inciting a brawl, without all of us talking about motivation and instead just enjoy it for what it was. And afterwards, of course he is going to talk trash about Odor, these guys are athletes and he just got knocked the fuck out. It is nice to see them act like real people and actually respond like humans as opposed to robots. And if they meet again in the playoffs, it will be one hell of a series.
Oh, no, sorry. I enjoyed it all very much! It sounded like you were defending Bautista, and I hate him, so I was trying rip him. Hating people (like retarded Cards fans) is part of what makes sports fun - when your team whips the team you hate, or when a player gets comeuppance of some kind. Of course, the humility of having it be your team (oh, Braves, you're killing me) that sucks it up so bad, is the other side of that.
It does say something where throwing your bat after hitting the biggest home run of the year is frowned upon, but hitting that guy in the ribs with a fastball isn't. Also on the topic of unwritten rules, anybody who would like to say how beaning-for-vengeance is part of the game I invite you to take one of those leather-bound rocks off your torso at 90 mph. If you're going to allow that, then batters should have an open opportunity to throw their bat at the pitcher afterwards. Revenge-beaning is crybaby bullshit and its dangerous, no matter who the team.
MLB-worst Braves fire manager Fredi Gonzalez http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/15574674/atlanta-braves-fire-manager-fredi-gonzalez-9-28-start Well, we knew that was coming.
I'm okay with that. I was expecting ten. But Bautista better get more than two. This is his second infraction on the slide rule, and he straight admits he flipped MLB the bird.
So, having just watched the Twins bullpen serve up helpless softballs like a pitching machine again, I now understand how the first stat in my previous post is related to the second.
This little antidote just showed up in an article today: "But on July 27, Jackson's shit-talking nearly got the better of him. After mouthing off to Yankees pitcher Ellis when the latter nearly grazed the slight Orioles shortstop Mark Belanger with a homeward toss—"Why don't you hit a big motherfucker like me?" Reggie taunted—he found himself on the receiving end of a high-and-tight fastball from Ellis, who may have also been delivering some delayed payback for the gargantuan home run that Jackson had hit off of him in Detroit during the 1971 All-Star Game. "Did I kill him?" Ellis chuckled to the home plate umpire, while Jackson writhed in the dirt, his signature aviator shades smashed to pieces. X-rays showed no damage beyond a badly-bruised cheekbone. Jackson expressed disappointment to the press that Ellis hadn't called to see how he was doing; perhaps the pitcher was too busy counting the twenty-dollar bills that had been surreptitiously stuffed into his locker by his teammates as a tip for beaning Reggie. "Someone didn't like him," Ellis would later reflect in his autobiography. "He was supposed to get hit!" https://sports.vice.com/en_us/artic...ksons-lost-season-in-baltimore-40-years-later
Nah. Supposedly Mantle hit one 565ft in Washington. As Mantle put it "I think the Yankees PR guy measured it from his bar stool." Jackson's HR in the '71 All Star game was mammoth though....it hit a light tower on top of Tiger Stadium.
Longest one I remember watching you would certainly remember: Maguire at the King Dome, hitting the back row of centre field.
The hardest hit one in my memory is one that probably caused you nightmares as a child. I was watching the game live when Canseco hit it and it was ungodly the way that ball took off.
Well, at least now I know why Aybar keeps choking at the plate. Aybar has chicken bone removed from throat http://m.braves.mlb.com/news/article/179078494/erick-aybar-has-chicken-bone-stuck-in-throat