Running 2015 MLB Regular-Season Thread

Rubbish. You go in cleats up like that, you deserve whatever happens to you next. He was expecting it, and knew it was coming.

Just like someone hits a tape-measure job into the upper deck somewhere.....stand there and look at it if you want, but the people who are going to be the most pissed at you are standing in your own on-deck circle because they know they are going to wear one......the batter just hopes it's somewhere soft and fleshy.

 

Right. And he got it in the ribs the next night. And he knew it was coming, and he went to first -- where Ventura met him at the line and continued to bark at him.

But what you were responding to was that it wasn't fine-worthy. It wasn't.

 

Josh Reddick, ever concerned with leaving well enough alone, says Herrera should have been suspended longer...because he's a reliever. Common sense continues to not be his strong suit.

 

LOL. Yeah, definitely it is the A's brains that are being called into question all around baseball.

 

Didn't say that, bud. Just pointing out that once again, Reddick is running his mouth, and that his logic makes no sense.

 

It makes sense as his opinion. He thinks Herrera deserves to miss more than 3 percent of the season. I don't have a problem with it being only five games, but hitters are certainly free to feel like loose cannons chucking balls 100 mph at their heads need to have more disincentive to do that.

You're trying so hard to be butt-hurt about the lack of equal justice that you're forgetting what Herrera did was really, really, REALLY bad.

 

You're partially right. Me thinking Reddick should shut up is because I'm a fanboi. Me making fun of his ass-backwards logic is because his logic is, well, ass-backwards. Forget that it's the dreadful Royals asshole posting this and think about his argument.

 

I did. What he's saying is, again, a 3 percent penalty is too light. Think of it this way -- if Herrera were a starter, Reddick would be arguing for a seven- or eight-game suspension so Herrera would have to miss potentially two starts instead of one. And people argue about that all the time. Ian Kennedy got a 10-game (two-start) suspension a couple years ago for the kind of thing Herrera did.

 

And what you said makes sense. It's the exact opposite of what Reddick said, though. He said Herrera deserves more because he's a reliever, which is completely backwards.

Also, the Kennedy suspension is a big-time outlier, probably because it started a brawl. Six games is the max on the other similar suspensions.

 

Also, Herrera will almost certainly appeal, but more for the sake of delaying the suspension until Holland is back than having any hope of reducing it.

 

Ok: Herrera tried to hit Lowrie.
Twice. I get the suspension.
But Lowrie had one thing on his mind. Not to break up a double play.....but to injure Escobar.
You do know that if he goes straight into 2nd....he is safe, and the runner at 1st is safe, and neither play is close.
Instead, let's be Billy Badass.....go cleats up when we don't need to, and watch heads roll.

 

And then refuse to shut up about how he's been wronged.