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First Jose Fernandez, now Carlos Gomez. Nice of Brian McCann to volunteer to be baseball's unwritten rules sheriff.

 

Other teams should be much more respectful like the Braves celebration the night before.

 

http://wapc.mlb.com/atl/play/?c_id=atl&content_id=30905403&topic_id=8879214

 

what is this?!? the braves celebrated a walkoff win like every other team in baseball celebrates a walkoff win. it's not like the ran over in front of the brewers' dugout and whipped out their junk.

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How big a psycho is Reed Johnson there?

 

i'm also watching the video convinced that gomez was going to deck one of his teammates. dude completely lost it.

 

Yeah, I almost added something about Gomez too. You don't often see the sustained crazy eyes like that.

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How big a psycho is Reed Johnson there?

 

i'm also watching the video convinced that gomez was going to deck one of his teammates. dude completely lost it.

 

Yeah, I almost added something about Gomez too. You don't often see the sustained crazy eyes like that.

 

i'm not sure who his teammate was holding him back at the backstop, but that guy deserves some credit. gomez was throwing elbows.

 

and boy do i ever get annoyed watching announcers' homer accounts of brawls. "it looks like mccann, maholm and freeman are the only ones doing the talking here." yeah because they're telling gomez to run, since he dropped the bat and was practically still in the batters box staring down the pitcher when the ball landed. then at the end of the clip they show gomez getting hit in the knee in a game back in june, and the guy says that it looks like it was intentional. based on what?!? it was an inside fastball. they showed a 5 second clip of him getting hit, without any context around it whatsoever. it's not like the ball went behind him.

 

and you know the guys in the booth would've been moaning about the home run hitter showing up the pitcher if the hitter played for the braves and the pitcher played for the brewers. F off.

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Am I the only one who didn't think the posing was that big of a deal? Bonds would do more than that on every home run for Christ's sake. Showboating is generally awesome.

 

It wasn't the posing, it was everything that followed it.

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There was history between Maholm and Gomez, apparently.

 

Yeah, they ran through it on MLB Tonight. There wasn't much aside from Gomez historically owning Maholm, Gomez getting plunked (by all appearances unintentionally) and Gomez being a lunatic.

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Am I the only one who didn't think the posing was that big of a deal? Bonds would do more than that on every home run for Christ's sake. Showboating is generally awesome.

 

It wasn't the posing, it was everything that followed it.

If we're following the Unwritten Rules of Baseball©, then shouldn't Gomez have just been plunked during his next PA? The whole blocking the plate thing was a really stupid tough guy act.

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Am I the only one who didn't think the posing was that big of a deal? Bonds would do more than that on every home run for Christ's sake. Showboating is generally awesome.

 

It wasn't the posing, it was everything that followed it.

If we're following the Unwritten Rules of Baseball©, then shouldn't Gomez have just been plunked during his next PA? The whole blocking the plate thing was a really stupid tough guy act.

 

You don't think trotting around the bases yelling god knows what at everyone as you pass isn't a stupid tough guy act either?

 

Either way, this is where I wish MLB was more like NHL. Let 'em fight if they want to act macho.

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Am I the only one who didn't think the posing was that big of a deal? Bonds would do more than that on every home run for Christ's sake. Showboating is generally awesome.

 

It wasn't the posing, it was everything that followed it.

If we're following the Unwritten Rules of Baseball©, then shouldn't Gomez have just been plunked during his next PA? The whole blocking the plate thing was a really stupid tough guy act.

 

You don't think trotting around the bases yelling god knows what at everyone as you pass isn't a stupid tough guy act either?

 

Either way, this is where I wish MLB was more like NHL. Let 'em fight if they want to act macho.

It was definitely dumb, but it's trash talk at the end of the day. I don't really understand why trash talk is sacred in, say, basketball, but reviled in baseball.

 

If you truly have issue with it as an opponent, just hit the dude the next time he's at the plate -- preventing him from touching home was a new level of meatballery and McCann should've been ejected.

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Am I the only one who didn't think the posing was that big of a deal? Bonds would do more than that on every home run for Christ's sake. Showboating is generally awesome.

 

It wasn't the posing, it was everything that followed it.

If we're following the Unwritten Rules of Baseball©, then shouldn't Gomez have just been plunked during his next PA? The whole blocking the plate thing was a really stupid tough guy act.

 

Yeah it was, but in this case it was the less ridiculous display, by far. I have no love for the "unwritten rules", but I'm not sure there is precedent for the crazy-eyed lunacy that Gomez was perpetrating. If McCann had walked down the third base line and punched him in the mouth, I probably would still have thought he was being less of a douche than Gomez was.

 

I'm fine with a little staredown and watching your shot for a couple seconds, but Gomez did around the bases was on a whole other level, maybe a couple levels. It was bizarre, and all because he had been hit in the leg a couple months ago.

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Am I the only one who didn't think the posing was that big of a deal? Bonds would do more than that on every home run for Christ's sake. Showboating is generally awesome.

 

It wasn't the posing, it was everything that followed it.

If we're following the Unwritten Rules of Baseball©, then shouldn't Gomez have just been plunked during his next PA? The whole blocking the plate thing was a really stupid tough guy act.

 

Yeah it was, but in this case it was the less ridiculous display, by far. I have no love for the "unwritten rules", but I'm not sure there is precedent for the crazy-eyed lunacy that Gomez was perpetrating. If McCann had walked down the third base line and punched him in the mouth, I probably would still have thought he was being less of a douche than Gomez was.

 

I'm fine with a little staredown and watching your shot for a couple seconds, but Gomez did around the bases was on a whole other level, maybe a couple levels. It was bizarre, and all because he had been hit in the leg a couple months ago.

Yeah, I'm wondering if there was more to it or if he's just nuts. I don't think I've seen anyone sustain that crazy of a look for that long since Artest.

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Yeah, I'm wondering if there was more to it or if he's just nuts. I don't think I've seen anyone sustain that crazy of a look for that long since Artest.

 

I think he may be partially nuts, which influences how he perceives their history. On MLB tonight they showed a highlight history of Maholm/Gomez, and he was being nuts towards Maholm back when he was on the Cubs (he did the whole crazy eyes thing and did an exaggerated bat flip on a double. And iirc, the leg this year was the second time Maholm plunked Gomez, but this isn't exactly head hunting we're talking about.

 

But clearly Gomez sees himself has having been terribly victimized by Maholm, and responded to something that was fairly innocuous with one of the more bizarre displays in recent memory.

 

And if the Braves/Maholm had been truly preoccupied with enforcing the unwritten rules, Maholm probably would have laid a fastball in Gomez's ribs after the swing and miss/stare down.

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