Stop the Beanball madness!

[Pushfrog98]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/tom_verducci/08/18/stop.beanballs/index.html?eref=sihpT1

What do you think?

[jersey cubs fan]

i think you aren't good at posting links

[Guest]

The players need to stop being whinny assholes and take it like a man.

 

This isn't soccer.

[laurens]

The players need to stop being whinny [expletive] and take it like a man.

 

This isn't soccer.

 

:lol:

[Pushfrog98]

i think you aren't good at posting links

yeah... i'm used to the old old days of phpbb. can't figure these new fangled things out.

[Pushfrog98]

The players need to stop being whinny [expletive] and take it like a man.

 

This isn't soccer.

I agree! Headhunting is different from pushing people off the plate.

[Pushfrog98]

also, how many HBP's are because the batter has more armor than an Abrams M1A2 tank. With all that armor, there's no need to get out of the way of the pitch. They just lean into them, ala Biggio.

[OleMissCub]

One of the most dangerous eras in baseball history could become even more dangerous.

 

Not sure I understand that quote. I'm pretty sure this is the least dangerous era in modern baseball history. I guess he forgot that up until the 1960's batters didn't even wear helmets and that pitching inside was far more in style than it is today.

[javy knows my name]

I like the implication that baseball has somehow gotten more vicious/retaliatory since...whenever. That's not right at all

[laurens]

I thought it was great that Cain offered his sincere apologies to Wright and went up to him the next day to talk about it.

[Outshined_One]

also, how many HBP's are because the batter has more armor than an Abrams M1A2 tank. With all that armor, there's no need to get out of the way of the pitch. They just lean into them, ala Biggio.

 

Does anyone wear those things any more with Beege and Bonds gone? I see elbow wraps and light pads occasionally, but nothing anywhere close to what either of those two wore.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

also, how many HBP's are because the batter has more armor than an Abrams M1A2 tank. With all that armor, there's no need to get out of the way of the pitch. They just lean into them, ala Biggio.

 

Does anyone wear those things any more with Beege and Bonds gone? I see elbow wraps and light pads occasionally, but nothing anywhere close to what either of those two wore.

http://www.yardbarker.com/media/e/a/ea9d6eb522036a178a2ced8da7180ed992dcfebb/related/Brewers_vs_Cubs_700d.jpg

[fromthestretch]

also, how many HBP's are because the batter has more armor than an Abrams M1A2 tank. With all that armor, there's no need to get out of the way of the pitch. They just lean into them, ala Biggio.

 

Does anyone wear those things any more with Beege and Bonds gone? I see elbow wraps and light pads occasionally, but nothing anywhere close to what either of those two wore.

http://www.yardbarker.com/media/e/a/ea9d6eb522036a178a2ced8da7180ed992dcfebb/related/Brewers_vs_Cubs_700d.jpg

 

I think the league is a bit more lenient for pitchers who bat from the opposite side that they throw. I know Zambrano wears one when he's batting left-handed. He may when he bats righty, too, but I haven't really looked.

[Pushfrog98]

I like the implication that baseball has somehow gotten more vicious/retaliatory since...whenever. That's not right at all

I wasn't around during his days of pitching, but I seem to always hear stories of Bob Gibson not being afraid of drilling someone square in the back.

[Magdal]

I like the implication that baseball has somehow gotten more vicious/retaliatory since...whenever. That's not right at all

I wasn't around during his days of pitching, but I seem to always hear stories of Bob Gibson not being afraid of drilling someone square in the back.

Gibson was a lamb compared to Drysdale. He had no regard for human life. We could use him now!

[Magdal]

I like the implication that baseball has somehow gotten more vicious/retaliatory since...whenever. That's not right at all

I wasn't around during his days of pitching, but I seem to always hear stories of Bob Gibson not being afraid of drilling someone square in the back.

Gibson was a lamb compared to Drysdale. He had no regard for human life. We could use him now!

[OleMissCub]

I like the implication that baseball has somehow gotten more vicious/retaliatory since...whenever. That's not right at all

I wasn't around during his days of pitching, but I seem to always hear stories of Bob Gibson not being afraid of drilling someone square in the back.

 

I think just about all the pitchers from yesteryear were head hunters in a way. The inside pitch was a HUGE weapon back in the older days of baseball. They didn't fear getting thrown out or suspended back then the way they do now.

[NonProfitCow]

I like the implication that baseball has somehow gotten more vicious/retaliatory since...whenever. That's not right at all

I wasn't around during his days of pitching, but I seem to always hear stories of Bob Gibson not being afraid of drilling someone square in the back.

 

I think just about all the pitchers from yesteryear were head hunters in a way. The inside pitch was a HUGE weapon back in the older days of baseball. They didn't fear getting thrown out or suspended back then the way they do now.

A lot of it was just reputation. IIRC Gibson didn't hit all that many guys compared to today's pitchers. Averaged one more per year than Maddux in 30 more innings per year. The difference may be how many were offspeed pitches that got away and intentional fastballs between the numbers.

[OleMissCub]

Since we're on the subject...my Bob Gibson vid:

 

[1908]

Mets Retaliate For David Wright Beaning

NEW YORK—After a 94-mph beaning last weekend landed Mets star David Wright on the 15-day disabled list, his teammates retaliated Monday by ruthlessly stabbing San Francisco Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval to death. "Hey, it's just part of the game," blood-soaked pitcher Mike Pelfrey said at an evening press conference. "If your pitcher is going to hit one of our guys, we're going to react. And we'll do that by cornering one of your guys in a dark parking lot at night, slamming his head into a car door, thrusting knives repeatedly into his chest and stomach, and leaving him there to bleed in silence until he's found dead the next morning. That's baseball." As of press time, both teams had been warned by home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/mets_retaliate_for_david?utm_source=a-section

[jersey cubs fan]

Oh great, and since it involved a NY team the media is going to be shoving this story down our throats. Just thank god it wasn't the Yankees doing the stabbing, or being stabbed.

 

It was bound to happen though.

[Clem Fandango]

I was coming here to just post that, lol.