Rest Of Baseball - 2015

[Rome]

Nothing says fair and impartial quite like having an ex-Met decide on the punishment, though.

[hbionic]

farg New York!

[SunMo]

playoffs + ny team = punishment handed out for something that has never been punished before. 


it sure was late and hard but there wasn't anything illegal about it

[ice grillin you]

Utley suspended for games 3 and 4

Boooooooooo

don't get me wrong im all for hurting the mets but GRIT is a disgraceful coward who should have gotten 10-15 games

[PhillyPhreak54]

You're either insane or fishing for a debate

10-15 games? Coward?

He's been sliding hard like that for...oh how long has he been in the league?

[ice grillin you]

show me one slide like that that hes ever done....that wasn't a slide....it was an attack...it was incredibly late it was wide of the base and it barely was even a slide....GRIT's knees went into Tejada...it wasnt some hook slide where he used his feet to sweep him....in fact Tejada touches the base then retreats from it to make the throw...in other words he had already touched the base and left it when he was hit....so you cant even use the "in the area" excuse for getting hit like that

he should get as many games as Tejada is out for but since hes out for the season id go 15....much of it has to do with the injury....if he wasn't injured id maybe say don't suspend him at all and let someone throw a fastball down his throat but even that cant be done because the game are too important now

[PhillyPhreak54]

I classify it as a hard slide...sure it was late but he's trying to break up the double play.

His hand was close to the base. It wasn't as egregious as some of the slides where the guy is nowhere near the base.

Ripken had no problem with it. Many middle INFs have said that Tejada put himself in a bad spot because he tried to turn the DP and should have touched the base and bailed realizing it wasn't going to happen.

There have been pics floating out there where Daniel Murphy and David Wright have gone in hard and late. Not to mention Coghlan taking Kang out weeks ago (where was the suspension and fine there?)

[ice grillin you]

the rule is you have to touch the base on your slide....but that's not even the worst thing he did....the slide itself was a joke...like I said it really wasn't even a slide...its was careless at best and incredibly dirty at worst...even if you go careless the guy broke a  rule and because of that broke a leg....get him out

if they beat the mets it would be a joke to see him in an nlcs game

[Rome]

Chase definitely banged your old lady.  That's the only reasonable explanation for your retardation toward him. 

[ice grillin you]

I actually love him.....but I don't let it cloud my judgement just because he used to play for my favorite team and hes Gritty and all that or because he did it against my most hated team

[Sgt PSN]

It was a little dirty.....if nothing else, it was over-the-top aggressive. He was damn near even with the bag when he went into his slide. 

That's sports though and shtein happens. In the end, it worked. Dodgers score the tying run on that play and kept a rally going.

[Rome]

Oh it was definitely high and late but that's how that shtein is supposed to be played.  Utley has gotten taken out a million times like that, but since this happened against the Mets on national tv, it's the dirtiest take out slide EVAR!!

In the old days Chase would have gotten drilled during his next at bat and that would have been the end of it. 

But in this pussified nanny state society we live in, everyone has to be super nice on the field.  You know, role models and shtein.

Lame.

[ice grillin you]

lol...phillie and dodger fans keep saying that hit has happened a million times before both perpetrated by or having happened to GRIT in the past but im still waiting to see proof of a single one that mirrored what he did to tejada

heyman as usual nails it

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon-heyman/25335263/mlb-needs-to-suspend-dodgers-utley-for-over-the-top-takeout

[Rome]

http://mweb.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25336105/do-these-plays-support-chase-utleys-case-in-appeal-of-his-suspension

Here's several not involving Utley that did not result in a suspension. 

[ice grillin you]

first one - not remotely the same.....first it was an actual hook slide on the ground....second his foot went right over the base....no issue with this one whatsoever

second one - this was a bad one but still not in the class of GRIT's...he went over the bag and hit the base before the man...still even tho it wasn't anything like GRIT's id have no problem with a one or two game suspension here as its not a good look...unlike GRIT's theres an argument to be made either way here

third one - this was the closest to GRIT's in that it wasn't near the base but it was still a slide...I cant recall ever seeing something like GRIT's where the player doesn't even slide...I don't know what youd call it but a tackle....he went knees first into the player...whatever GRIT did it was not a slide or any sort of baseball play......that said even tho this is not like GRIT's I def would have suspended Coughlan for recklessness