What a douchebag. Always has to try to get around the rules. Like faking an injury to a pitcher when he's getting hammered so the reliever can warm up.
How can you be upset about him trying to get every advantage possible? I'd do the same god damn thing.
So you had no problem with the Patriots little video project? Or teams putting cameras in the bullpens to steal signs? No, it's because he's a douchebag who likes to go outside the rules as often as he can.
That's a completly different issue. The Patriots went out of their way and activly sent people hundreds and thousands of miles to videotape a practise. This is a manager who is bending the rules to get an advantage, at the very moment. Totally different.
Zambrano suspended INDEFINETLY by Cubs http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=5328972 Oh no, his Cy Young aspirations are dashed!!
I'm talking about when they taped the opposing sideline during games. And you didn't address putting cameras in the bullpen. It's not a different issue. Any time you do something that is not permitted by the rules, you are cheating. And there are no degrees of cheating. Cheating is cheating.
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Yep, which makes me go back to this....which Devil thought was worth arguing. Scratch that, 2 perfect games and a no hitter since the middle of last season. This team chokes under the pressure of potentially being no-hit...big time.
Of course it is. It's idiotic to think that there's any more to it than that. First of all, only 4 players (Pena, Upton, Bartlett, and Longoria) were in the lineup all 3 times. It's not like one identical lineup was no hit 3 times. Secondly, what exactly do you propose happens? Do they progressively stop trying as hard with each batter that gets out? Do they try super hard until they have no hits in the 3rd inning? Or the 4th? What's the cut off? Third, no hitters are incredibly flukey things to begin with. Teams can smash the ball all over the park right at people for 9 innings. Does that mean they had no focus or choked? No, it means that they had some shitty luck. If a bloop found its way over the shortstop's head instead of him making a diving catch on it would that mean the team was more focused? If you took the total number of times teams were held to 2 or fewer hits, I'd be willing to bet that teams with similar offensive numbers would have similar totals. The difference between being no hit (choking/no focus in your book) and being one hit (steely resolve/the burning intensity of a billion suns?) is very often a bloop, bleeder, or bad outfield positioning. They struck out just 6 times in each game. They were putting balls in play. Anything beyond that is really out of their control. Fourth, baseball is by far the most individual team sport there is. It comes down to 9 separate players each taking 3 separate at bats. This idea that the entire group of them will just lose focus for their second and third ABs if no one gets a hit in their first one is ridiculous. The most recent one was a 1 run game, obviously the players who came up in the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings were focused on getting on base to try to win the game. Jackson also walked 8 guys, so it's not like they were not on base at all. Finally, you are ignoring the obvious. Teams and players know they are being no hit, and guys try like hell to break it up. If what you are suggesting is true, that means that a group of some of the most competitive, driven people in the world suddenly stop trying to prevent not only losing, but making negative history for themselves. Players who don't have the drive to compete very rarely make it to starting positions in any professional sport. For what you are claiming to be true, Tampa would have to somehow have to have managed to acquire enough players without top level competitiveness to field 3 separate lineups. It's asinine.
I said six words and got you that riled up? Yowzaaa.... Just saying, how many more times do they need to be no hit this year? I figured 2 perfect games and a no hitter on top of that would be enough to screw with their heads. What's that saying.........baseball is 90% mental? Nahhhhh, of course its a fluke. Wow, oh wow. I had no idea I even suggested that they stopped trying. Never said that once. I merely suggested that they let the mental aspect of it get to their heads because of the frequency that it happens. So.... Yea, that last part was pretty funny.
The Phils have put both Chase Utley (thumb) and Placido Polanco (elbow) on the 15 day DL. They are also unsure if they will be out longer than two weeks. Considering how poorly they played when Rollins was out, it will be interesting to see how this affects them, and whether they look to make trades.
