Pheewwww whoever that Odor fella is just put the beat down on Bautista. Definitely best MLB punch ever. One hit quit that fool, Bautista clearly wanted none of it.
OT: Bautista got knocked the.... Well you know the rest
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Mistakenly put it on ESPN early before Sunday night baseball and see Barry Melrose analyzing the fight. ESPN, who the hell cares what a hockey guy thinks about baseball? Just because there's a lot of fights in hockey makes him an expert in fights of all sports? About like when Gottlieb was talking NFL. Hope Rougned Odor doesn't get a long suspension, he's been good for my fantasy team lately.
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What I saw was bautista taking a punch straight to the jaw and barely getting phased. He was probably a little disoriented, but beltre grabbed him almost immediately so he really didn't have a chance to fight back. I was pretty impressed with how well bautista took a pretty square hit to the face. Way to completely exaggerate and borderline make **** up. Knocked out? He didn't even stagger, you mouthbreather.
If I'm the blue jays pitching staff, odor gets a fastball to the back Every. Single. At. Bat we face him for the rest of the season. Double birds to the umps if they try to stop it. And if he charges the mound, rosin bag to the face and then cleats to the throat. That ***** would think twice before he punches one of my teammates again.
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If I were the Rangers I would counter with every time there was a ground ball with a runner on first the runner would kick the guy at second base straight in the knees (really, really, really late slide) crippling them which is what started the fight in the first place.
I'd say ESPN's one and only Hockey writer, who sees 1000x more fights than any other sports writer, could have some insight to this squabble. I'm actually curious to see Barry's take lol.
Besides, it's a hockey guy on ESPN. Even if it's not their sport, let them have this.
To the people of this thread saying he took it like a man and it didn't even phase him. He was woozy as a muhfug he definitely felt it. He definitely wanted nothing to do with anyone afterwards. He was wobbling after the hit and obviously was seeing stars. So to those saying it didn't phase him. I pity your souls and laugh at thee. He definitely felt that, and it doesnt take a rocket scientist to tell it phased him, he was dizzy after the punch. You can tell he was out of it after the hit just by looking at his eyes. Had the fight continued for any reason it would've been Odor on top giving Bautista a ground and pound and hospitalizing him because after that punch he was done for. In boxing matches. That's the kind of punch a refs end a fight and calls a tko on. So at the least, it was a tko. Which is a knock out and my books, after the lunch landed he was helpless he had no chance of defending himself after the hit. To the people that are acting like it wasn't much. It was the greatest baseball punch of all time. So if that's taking to like a man since it was best baseball punch ever then I guess so, whatever makes him feel better after he got knocked out. He was winding up to hit odor and as soon as Bautista thought about he got his *** handed to him.
Well they obviously did "have this" moment and it's not up to me, they're going to show nonsense regardless. Meanwhile highlights other teams get passed over on while they promote their tabloid/talk show style of sports reporting that Sportscenter has become. That wasn't even really the main point of my post, it was to point out once again how much ESPN is going down hill, just grasping at straws. You may be interested to hear what a hockey person has to say about baseball but I'm not. A hockey person's opinion on baseball is no more better than mine. I don't want to see that in my baseball coverage. Haven't seen Melrose on their any other time there's a fight in other sports. Melrose isn't even a sportswriter, a hockey analyst. I've seen Jay Williams talk NFL on ESPN, Jalen Rose about sports in general and as well as Gottlieb during his time at ESPN.
That's what gets me the most because ESPN thinks we hang on every word their talking heads say regardless who it or what it's about. It was a mistake of mine to even put it on ESPN early in the first place thinking it'd be ok only to be reminded why I don't watch them outside of live sporting events. Like someone else here once said, somewhere along the line they got lost in thinking their personalities were the stars and give them so much airtime these days. I highly doubt Melrose has insight of the history going back to last season's playoffs between the Blue Jays and Rangers.
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And bautista slid in hard at 2nd because he was beaned in his at bat that inning.
I laugh at you because of your stupid *** username and useless commentary.
I didn't see it so I can't say.. if it's a hockey guy talking about baseball: agreed. But if it's a hockey guy grabbed to talk about how the fight went down.. that's a decent segment.
Lol. Bautista was completely out of it, that was a textbook tko that a boxing ref would've called the fight over on. He was defenseless once that hit connected. You could tell he was woozy. And had no one broke it up he'd been hospitalized after some ground and pound. There was no way he could've fought back with how woozy he was did you see him stumbling around after everything ended? To me when someone gets hit one time and can't even stand straight. That's a one hitter quitter knockout. As I said the definition of a textbook tko. There's a reason it's the greatest baseball punc ever cuz he couldn't even fight back if he wanted after that considering how badly he was stumbling around. Which in my book is being knocked out in one punch.
Didn't know that but neither is right. What Bautista did at 2nd base was worse than a chop block in football. You will end careers doing that.
I laugh at you because you think someone stumbling around after getting hit one time isn't considered getting the **** knocked out of him. He definitely got the poop knocked right out of him. Odor made Bautista his b**** as soon as Bautista thought about winding up and hitting Odor. Sorry that you're butthurt over it. My useless commentary doesn't mean it's untrue.
Which is why I have no sympathy for Bautista it was a very dirty play by a very dirty player and he got the living fudge knocked out of him to the point he was stumbling around. And if you watched the whole video instead of a short clip, anyone with half a brain saw that. And the ESPN commentators even mentioned Bautista stumbling around after everything as they were showing it on ESPN. I don't get people on these boards acting like they're correct about something they couldn't be more wrong about. That man was dizzy and stumbling and seeing stars. That's a one hitter quitter night night knock out
A textbook tko right there. Baitosta didn't stand a chance as he was seeing stars and defenseless as soon as that punch landed.
I'm a Cardinals fan so my bird wasn't in this fight. Been in many a bar fight and used to be a bouncer back in the day. Odor knocked the starch out of Bautista. Yeah, the other Ranger held him back...as a face saving gesture. I've seen guys hit harder than Bautista did that got enraged and it would take 5 or 6 determined guys to keep him from getting his hands on the guy that just slugged him. Dude was out on his feet.
Good lord y'all should go work for ufc. Getting all technical and ish. Dude got punched it is what it is. Forget about the past, I wanna see what happens in the next meeting between these two teams!
OP must actually be the dude throwing the punch. It's the only explanation for why he is so defensive.
That's why the Rangers are douchebags. They don't play again this year. They waited until Bautista's last at bat against them of the year to plunk him.
I disagree with this entirely. Bautista did slide late, but part of that might be because Odor was about to throw that baseball at his head. Bautista had to slide or get hit in the face with the throw to first. So, he slide late. Odor could have hit the bag and side stepped, like every other player does, but instead he stuck in there right at the base. Bautista didn't go out of his way to go after him and Odor forced him to slide late. I put little to no of the blame on Bautista. This coming from an entirely neutral fan of baseball.
Ummmm... Bautista said he went in hard deliberately to retaliate for getting plunked.
And he may have. That's fine. It is still entirely avoidable by Odor. In baseball there is even an unwritten rule that is basically there to protect the second baseman/shortstop. They really only have to get close to the bag when turning a double play. They do not clearly have to be on it. Odor rode the very middle of the bag and basically threatened to hit Bautista in the face if he didn't slide. Bautista may have had some bad intentions, but it is still a perfectly clean and legal slide. Odor should have fielded the ball and moved out of the direct baseline.
Are you that clueless. MLB did away with the neighborhood play this year. Bag has to actually be tagged now.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/2...-rules-ban-rolling-block-slides.html?referer=
I think that Utley/Tejada picture is an excellent example of the differences. Tejada is way off the bag, a step or two off of it. Odor is right on the bag. Even without the neighborhood rule, you only have to tag the bag. You don't have to stand on top of it. You can swipe the bag and move off of it. Odor didn't do that. Odor put himself in the danger. Bautista didn't go in cleats up, he didn't slide out of the base path. He just went hard into the bag and slide late, which kind of means that he gave Odor even more time to get out of the damn way. Had Odor stepped to the side and Bautista had chased him then I would be siding with Odor, but that didn't happen.