Rest Of Baseball - 2014

[Rome]

I figured Jay would love this...

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10964445/mlb-baseball-confusing-contradictory-unwritten-rules

Chaos? Several years ago, Joe Horn, a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, scored a touchdown, pulled out a cell phone that he had taped inside the goal post, and made a call, or at least pretended to.

"And no one in football cared!" Baker says. "If that had happened in baseball ... if someone had hit a home run, reached home plate, took a cell phone out of his stirrup and called someone, he wouldn't finish the phone call. There would be balls flying into both dugouts. It would be like a Cuban winter-ball game, with guys running around with bats in their hands. Oh my God, the world would stop spinning on its axis. The ice caps would melt."

McCarthy laughs and says, "Oh my God, he would never get to home plate. Bats would be tomahawking out of both dugouts. Where would a player hide a cell phone, under a base?"

McGehee says, "The game would never get to the next hitter. It would be so ugly."

Says the Tigers' Torii Hunter, "That would start the greatest brawl in major league history. I would drop my glove, chase the guy down, and beat the s--- out of him. And I'd do the same thing if he was on my team. The camera shot would be of his entire team, piled on top of him, pummeling him. I hope that never happens in baseball."

Haha... now that's great.

[PhillyPhreak54]

That was a great read.

farg the Braves and their fun police shtein.

And I do miss pitchers who would come inside or smoke a guy.

You wanna bat flip and pimp it? I'm cool with that bc it's fun

But prepared to be smoked.

I don't like slow running the bases tho. And many other unwrittens I agree with

[Rome]

I guess Big Faggy in Boston got his knickers in a twist over being drilled by David Price last night.

I hate that fake ass bitch.  Drill him every time he gets in the box until he stops his Hoyda bat-flipping nonsense.

[Geowhizzer]

His mouth didn't stop moving the rest of the inning.  Will Myers certainly got an earful.

And as soon as Ortiz was hit, the home plate umpire issued warnings to both teams.  Then Sox manager John Farrel got tossed for arguing about the warnings, because they weren't able to exact revenge and Price wasn't ejected.  Then more ejections after the benches cleared in the 4th inning after Price hit another Sox player (Carp) - and Price still wasn't ejected, but Red Sox bench coach and acting manager Tony Luvollo was.  Then a Rex Sox reliever (Workman?) threw behind Evan Longoria in the sixth, and he and coach and acting manager Butterfield were tossed, resulting in the Red Sox having four managers in the game.

These teams plain don't like each other. 

[Rome]

Issuing a warning after one is colossally farging stupid but it's how Joe Torre wants the games to be run and this is what happens.

You'd think a guy who actually played and managed for decades would understand that but evidently he doesn't give a shtein.

Seriously, that article I posted was so spot on.  MLB has done everything in its power to ruin the game yet amazingly enough it still survives despite the idiocy of clowns like Bud Selig.

[QB Eagles]

You wanna bat flip and pimp it? I'm cool with that bc it's fun

This shtein is hilarious:

http://www.youtube.com/v/6H_DPFkuyP8?version=3&hl=en_US

I like the unwritten rules, and I like when they are broken and all hell breaks loose. I just don't want it to become a regular thing because it would take the fun away.

I would like to see someone real strait-laced and known for "playing the game the right way" like Jeter or Utley pimp the hell out of a HR or dance while crossing home plate in the AS Game for laughs, though.

[ice grillin you]

im all for anything that pisses off the traditional baseball set but even if you are a traditionalist you should agree that you can basically do anything you want on a walk off johnson

also I love the other team there all upset but not doing anything...either shut up and hit the bus or farging brawl

[PhillyPhreak54]

That walk off vid was some Pedro Cerrano shtein. Awesome!

And like I said in the nba thread no one likes a fake tough guy. Baseball is full of them. David Ortiz is one and his statement about how next time he's gonna box Price? Yeah right.

He'd run out there juuuuust slow enough so the catcher would catch him or so his teammates would get in front of him.

I'd like to see Utley do that too. But as unhinged as he will ever be is by dropping the world farging champions and the all star response of "boo? farg you"

I love when Jimmy pimps one or when Choke used to smash one against Washington and straight up zoot suit pimp it.

Then Sarge would say "time to hop in that Cadillac!" Which he got in trouble for bc the Phillies sponsor is Toyota

[Geowhizzer]

I didn't think that was overly egregious, particularly for a walk-off.  The petulant reaction of the other team is what made it funny.  The pitcher just gave up a walk-off home run.  He should be hanging his head, walking off the field and worrying about getting cut for sucking, not yapping at the guy who just crushed his zesty pitch.

[Dillen]

Astros promote Jon Singleton and sign him to an 5 year $10M deal, club options up to 8 years $35. First time a player w/ no MLB service time got an extension like this.

Also, this: http://deadspin.com/japanese-pitcher-throws-an-insane-eephus-pitch-1584840156

[PhillyPhreak54]

It's like a shot put!

I'm curious to see how singleton turns out...

[PhillyPhreak54]

@ThisDateInBBall: 1944 Baseball cancels today's scheduled eight-game slate due to the Allied invasion of Normandy, known as D-Day. #MLB

[PhillyPhreak54]

What's up with Manny Machado being bitchmade?

The wanting to fight the other night when being tagged and now throwing his bat at the As 3b?

[ice grillin you]

I love the macho man but that was weak sauce

[hbionic]

Also, this: http://deadspin.com/japanese-pitcher-throws-an-insane-eephus-pitch-1584840156

Now this is a farging hilarious quote from there:

You may remember Kazuhito Tadano from his time spent in the major leagues with the Cleveland Indians, and also from that one time he did gay porn.