utley suspended 2 games for that "slide". well deserving. they should do it in game. it's just as dangerous than a tackle from behind in soccer.
Agreed. The ONLY purpose of that slide was to take out the player and its dangerous. People are arguing that it's too harsh on the Dodgers since they lose Utley for 2 games. Well Tejada is gone for the season and that is much harsher.
Oh, bullsh!t. Throw him out, sure, suspending him is a joke. You cannot reinterpret the rulebook in the middle of the playoffs just because twiitter exists now. He should consider himself lucky it wasn't the other New York team a few years ago, if he had done that to Jeter he would be banned for life.
How would you feel if that play happened to one of our Astros? I don't understand the correlation with twitter because I never used it before. If it was an accident, it's understandable. He intentionally wanted to harm/hurt another player and he has a record of dirty plays.
The correlation with twitter is because these things have been happening for 100 years in baseball and the game has seemed to be ok, there's just so much more instant worldwide scrutiny. They will tweak the rules in the offseason, just like they did for collisions at the plate, and all will be well for a year or so.
Maybe someone can corroborate. Were the slides in to second ALWAYS as blatantly reckless as they've become for the last 10 or 15 years? I swear I don't remember these dangerous plays at second when I was watching baseball growing up (the 80s and 90s).
Jackie Robinson taking out Phil Rizutto in the '47 World Series Same play, different angle Kirk Gibson vs. Pat Borders (they changed the rule about collisions at the plate just recently, after Buster Posey's injury). Remember when Pete Rose ended Ray Fosse's career with a collision in the freakin All Star Game? Probably the most famous one of all, Hal McRae vs. Willie Randolph, '77 ALCS (video below) Thurman Munson vs. the Red Sox <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GIiYw53nGd0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Unrelated, but anyone that likes baseball history with cool stories and great pictures should check out http://90feetofperfection.com/
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I get it... but if your entire argument is basically "its always been allowed... so it should continue...", its really not going to be good enough. Sure, its more publicized now... just like a lot of things are in the world that lead to an impetus for change. Most societies have evolved past major injustices (not saying this is one of those) because of a sentinel "public" event that led to a widespread movement for change. The game will survive without egregious slides into second base.
I was just answering his question. Nowhere have I said that MLB shouldn't tweak or simply just enforce the rules they already have.
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