2016 MLB Regular-Season Thread

What does this mean?

 

He wishes he could smoke pot?

 

I said no such thing. You claimed that the slide was fine. It was not. It violated the rules.

 

Exactly what you should have done regarding your claim that the slide was fine. Not that it warrants a punch in the face, but if a play is illegal, it is not fine.

 

He was looking right at the fist that met his face. That was no sucker punch.

 

No dog in the fight at all, but Odor is very very fortunate Donaldson didn't get to him. That would have ended poorly for Odor.
5-7 game suspension, imo.

 

I'm the one who said the slide was fine. If you're going by the shitty new rule, no, it wasn't fine.

But the slide was fine. Bautista barely even touched Odor.

That all said, it was a beautifully thrown punch flush to the jaw. We've seen hundreds and hundreds of scrums and wannabe fights etc etc. that ended up as dances. Even Nolan Ryan and Robin Ventura was nothing more than an old man giving noogies to an aggressive young buck. Chan Ho Park's flying kick to the belly was pretty sweet. There are probably some good hockey haymakers I'm not thinking of.

But Odor clocked the shit out of Bautista, who showed he has a pretty good chin. Those sunglasses went a-flyin' though.

 

This will always be my favorite:

 

Let me also add/clarify ... When I posted yesterday about Bautista's being "out on his feet," I was referring to those very first few seconds after Odor's punch. Bautista reminded me of Thomas Hearns in those first few seconds after Hagler popped him in the third round. And I was mostly struck (ha!) by the fact that this was unusually solid contact for a baseball fight.

 

I'm guessing 10 games for Odor, cut to 7 on appeal. Gibbons will get a game or two and a hefty fine for returning to the field — he had been ejected earlier.

What folks forget is that Prince Fielder was plunked with the first pitch of the bottom of the eighth and the benches cleared again. Granted the pitch wouldn't have broken a pane of glass and Fielder was laughing about it. But it showed how these donnybrooks cascade and it could've gotten to the point where someone could actually get hurt. That's why I think it's wise the Rangers waited.

I'm amazed by all the pearl-clutching by the national media over fighting in baseball. C'mon, it's been in the game since Ty Cobb was a batboy. It happens, you mete out the punishment and move on.

 

I don't have a problem with fighting in baseball, but WHY they fight is often dumb. Like hitting a guy with a pitch because he homered in his previous at-bat or whatever.

But the Rangers and Blue Jays have a history going back to last postseason. It wouldn't take much to set them off.