FC/OT: College pitcher levels batter rounding third…
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They should charge him with assault. That has nothing to do with the sport.
Yeah, you can’t sit there and let that go.
It was a nice hit though and his closing speed was impressive. I'm wondering if he could play linebacker?
Did he just wrap him up? Brandon Smith please watch this!!!
A couple of good tackles may not be worth the loss of 15 yards due to a late hit at a critical part of the game.It was a nice hit though and his closing speed was impressive. I'm wondering if he could play linebacker?
Everything's bigger in Texas. Even egos, apparently.
Pitcher needed to be lower, wrap his arms and run his feet. Don’t they teach anything in Texas baseball?
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WC releases statement following baseball skirmish
A Weatherford College baseball player is facing disciplinary action after attacking an opposing batter Wednesday afternoon.
That’s what Will Smith should have done to Chris Rock. Not some pu$$y a$$ slap across the face like a b*tch. .
He should have been charged with assault the same day. You want to know haw a real pitcher handles being shown up? They throw a better F’n pitch the next time.
Holy hell. I can't wait to learn the backstory. You can see the umpire pointing at the runner between second and third so something was going on but wow, what a reaction.
Bob Gibson would have just waited till he came up again. Then drilled him in the head with a four-seamer...
It was a nice hit though and his closing speed was impressive. I'm wondering if he could play linebacker?
Football is so big in Texas that baseball is football.
Should have waited until the next at bat and dotted him between the numbers with 90+ heater.
Goose Gossage had a great story where some batter showed him up late in the season after he gave up a HR. First opportunity the next season, he dotted him between the numbers and stared him down. That’s how you take care of business.
Or you can take the Nolan Ryan approach…dot him and then beat the **** out of him.
Goose Gossage had a great story where some batter showed him up late in the season after he gave up a HR. First opportunity the next season, he dotted him between the numbers and stared him down. That’s how you take care of business.
Or you can take the Nolan Ryan approach…dot him and then beat the **** out of him.
The field of competition is no place for celebration. Act like you've been there (or like you've hit an HR) before. That being said, the pitcher should have a thicker skin and convey the message that it was no big deal. It's this whole Look at Me generation. They should be taught that they have no self worth like I did growing up.
The field of competition is no place for celebration. Act like you've been there (or like you've hit an HR) before. That being said, the pitcher should have a thicker skin and convey the message that it was no big deal. It's this whole Look at Me generation. They should be taught that they have no self worth like I did growing up.
When I played sports as a kid, coaches would tell us to act like we’ve been there before. Then they would add, “Bob, you’ll never be there, so don’t worry about it.”
How about the pitcher ask like he's been there before? The pitcher gave up a HR and got his feelings hurt so he just blindsides the hitter? Boo frickin' hoo. Throw a better pitch. Judging from the video, the batter wasn't 'pimping.' So what if he was talking trash or celebrating a little bit. It wasn't like T.O. posing on the Dallas Star. And yes, it looks like the ump might have been telling him to quiet down. It's BS to ask players to train hard, practice hard, and give it their all and then ask them to act like it it's a mass at the St. Peter's when they do something good.
Really?
Let's look at this in reverse order:
1. Is there any place for a pitcher, or any other player, to tackle (i.e., attack) a player on the other team?
- no
2. Is there anything the guy that hit the HR might have said that would have justified his being attacked by the pitcher?
- no. In team sports, there are rules for dealing with verbal actions by a player that cross the line of being inappropriate. Coaches train their players from the earliest age to let the refs/umps/officials deal with infractions, as it's not for the players to handle such things
3. Is there any type of gesture the guy that hit the HR might have taken that would have justified his being attacked by the pitcher?
- no. Pretty much the same response as in the above #2, except change verbal actions with gestures
The umpires in the game in question halted the game after the action by the pitcher. That's about as extreme a measure as you can take as a sports official -- ending the competition because the actions of one of the contestants made it impossible to continue the competition.
At this point, it's up to the pitcher's college to decide how to handle the situation. And the league in which the teams play will be monitoring what they decide, and if they are not satisfied they would be within their rights to add additional penalties to the player and/or the team.
Punk move by both. Is one worse than the other? Absolutely. The pitcher went way beyond a reasonable response. But if you want to run your mouth like a punk somebody might choose to come at you.
Really? In a sanctioned college game? The hitter wasn’t running his mouth in a bar, IF he was running his mouth at all. Also, we have no idea what trash was being talked, if any, by the pitcher’s team previously. Bottom line, in my opinion, the pitcher was such a precious snowflake that he was triggered after giving up a homer. Perhaps the pitcher needs to play at a level that provides a safe space with do-overs and no scorekeeper.
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Maybe he didn't use his preferred pronoun.
Did you have an issue when Will Smith went after Chris Rock for running his punk mouth?
Asking for Jada.
I think there is more going on here with the pitcher. Notice how his team is very slow to come support him, and at the very end it looks like the catcher approaches the hitter in a way that suggests congratulations or conciliation. When you teammates don't have your back something is amiss.
Reported on ESPN this morning that Weatherford has canned the pitcher....
PSU is bringing him in to teach our secondary how to tackle. Primanti Brothers is hiring him as a bouncer
We don’t know what was said, correct. I’m going in the assumption that he was talking trash.
Again, I’m not justifying the pitcher’s actions. I’m just saying that if you run your mouth (in a bar, on a field, on the school bus) somebody may decide to take action against you. If you provoke somebody and get a response, you are somewhat culpable. It doesn’t excuse the pitcher’s actions in any way though.
Yes, he did it in the most absurd way possible. Grandstanding by slapping another man across the face and fixing his tuxedo afterwards, he looked like a smug jackass. This pitcher also looked like a jackass attacking the runner rounding third base. He looked like an unhinged nutcase.
I was a huge Scott Rolen fan when he was with the Phillies and still followed him after he left for the Reds. So, I don't recall whether this happened when he was a Phillie or a Dodger, but after Hideo Nomo (Japanese born Pitcher for the Dodgers) hit Rolen with a pitch, Rolen waited until after the game and then discussed his beaing "beaned" with Nomo, and basically said not to bean him again or else Nomo would have a problem on his hands. I don't know how many times they faced each other after this incident, but I doubt that Nomo would have purposely thrown at Rolen afterwards. Not that Rolen was a badass or anything, but he made it personal.
Facts. Tom. SMH. All you got is stinkin’ facts.
After playing and coaching baseball for nearly half of my life (and I’m older), all I can say is that pitcher is yanked, suspended, running gassers and potentially getting a foot up his azz. I’d ask his parent to do it first btw.