apparently he ran over the marlins catcher last night who suffered a separated shoulder, done for season.
I know that I'm in the minority here, but I really don't think that Morgan did anything wrong. First he got hit for running over the catcher in a tie game in extra innings--exactly what any manager would want him to do in that situation. Then he gets hit for stealing bases. You know what? If you don't want him to steal bases, either throw him out or don't plunk him. Throwing at him because your lead is too big for steals is bullshit. After Volstad threw at Morgan twice, and also hit two of Morgan's teammates, he deserved to get rushed.
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=11615635 watch morgan celebrate as he leaves the field. after he just got knocked the fuck out
Morgan seems to be a major headcase, constantly looking for trouble on the basepaths (the incident yesterday, and one a day or two earlier when he went out of the baseline to bump the catcher, are only the latest examples), and getting into it with fans (he threw a ball at one a week ago and got into an argument with another yesterday). Charging the pitcher when he throws it 10 feet behind you is also moronic, and I'm glad to see that he got his ass kicked as a result. Maybe it will knock some sense into him, but considering his reaction after the brawl (shown below), I doubt it.
I can't stand some of these faggy baseball "rules." This was the first time I put on MLB Network since the week of the All Star Game (Mets soured me on the sport around that time). I put that channel on because I saw the Morgan thing on ESPNEWS and wanted to see it replayed again. I saw Morgan plow through the Marlins catcher from last night. Big fuckin' deal. Too bad. Maybe the catcher should not have been standing on home plate. Maybe he should be in a different line of work. So sick of these fags.
At most it was one foot. edit- after seeing it again, maybe it was two feet away from him You may have been exaggerating on purpose, of course. The thing is, though, we have seen pitchers miss home plate by 10 feet so I don't know about the exaggerating.
I don't have a problem with running into catchers on a close, bang-bang play at home. Thing is, with how he put out that catcher last night, he would have been safe if he just slid into home, but he didn't even slide. The catcher wasn't even going to apply a tag. He didn't even need to run that catcher over, but he did it anyways because he seems to just like to do that type of shit. We saw this the other day as well when he bumped the catcher scoring on a play where the catcher didn't even have the ball.
Why was he not going to apply a tag? The catcher did get the ball and Morgan was out. I saw the replay but was not intenself paying attention to that part. What was the situation (score and number of outs) that the catcher was going to get the ball and not try to apply a tag on the runner? What am I missing here? Where the bases loaded?
Seems like Morgan got tired of the bullshit and acted like a man. He ran that catcher over last night, and I'm sure he'd do it again. You cannot stand on home plate, in extra innings, with a tied game and NOT expect to get trucked. It's baseball. Quit fucking whining and take it like a man. Tonight was also great. Who cares if the 1st baseman clotheslined him? It seems Morgan didn't. I'm sure he expected it. You can't plunk several teammates of mine, and then throw behind me, and expect no reprisal. Fuck you for thinking that. I hope he fucking charges the mound some more. And makes more of these faggy players think twice before they try to act tough and can't back it up.
Yes, I was exaggerating deliberately, but I did think after a quick look at the video that it was more like 5 feet, so it was closer than I thought. That really wasn't the point of my post anyway. Morgan has been involved in about a half-dozen incidents with players, fans, and his manager just in the past few weeks. This one was, in fact, the most defensible. He's a whack job, and at the age of 30 with a .635 OPS this year (and .709 for his career), he's nowhere near good enough for the team to want to deal with it. I expect that the Nat'nals will be giving him his walking papers in a month or so, and I can't imagine why anyone else would want him (that probably means that Omar will sign him to a 3 year $7 million contract in December).
He did somethin silly earlier in the year, too. Thought he caught a home run ball and then when he saw it wasn't in his glove he gave up. The ball rolled around in the outfield before another Nat got it. It was something like that. I don't remember it too well.
I don't disagree with any of this, but it doesn't change the fact that Morgan was 100% in the right last night. If a catcher stands on the plate and has the ball, he's gonna get run over. That's just a fact of baseball--Morgan had to make a split second decision whether or not he could slide and reach the plate without getting blocked and tagged, and the choice he made was not at all ridiculous. It's unfortunate that the Marlins catcher got hurt, but if he didn't we never would've heard about this incident because it's a perfectly legitimate baseball play. If you want to hit him in retaliation, that's fine. But you don't do it in two at bats in a row because you thought that your lead was "too big to steal." And you don't hit 2 of his teammates as well. That's bullshit, and the fact that Nyjer Morgan is a headcase and a shitty baseball player doesn't change that fact.
that was one one the most pathetic plays i have ever seen in professional sports. forgot that was morgan.
Two times in four nights did we see this pathetic crap. I just posted the following in another thread- I put on MLBN this morning and saw some crap from the White Sox-Red Sox game. At a play at the plate Carlos Quentin ran into the Red Sox catcher. The minor collision caused the ball to come out of the mitt and Quentin was safe. The next time Quentin batted he was drilled by John Lackey. Both teams were then given warnings. I don't understand it. This sport keeps becoming more and more sissified and pathetic each year. This was more pathetic than the Morgan incident because Quentin used less force when colliding with the catcher. There was no reason for Quentin to be purposefully hit by a pitch and there was also no reason for the White Sox bench to be given a warning. Did the Red Sox bench deserve a warning? Absolutely. Maybe the White Sox bench had to be given a warning too? Maybe for gayness reasons? I think that might be it. I always see both teams get warnings. I don't ever remember a time when only one team got a warning. It shouldn't be that way.
The clip of the fight is infinitely better with a Japanese broadcaster to add to the effect. [YOUTUBE]ljv7yoVsmLQ[/YOUTUBE]
