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Sox/Cubs Tag Team Wrestling
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:56 am
by bwohlgemuth
So to the Cubs fans on the board, what was your impression of the melee on Saturday?
As a White Sox fan (and a baseball fan overall) when the catcher covers the plate like that, it is the duty of the runner to get home which means running thorugh the catcher. It was a hard but clean play...
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:00 pm
by Massage...Bored
I didn't like the fact that the Sox player (forget his name) boasted afterwards, its not professional wrestling. The classy thing would have been to help the guy up not run into him again (which was accidental but could have easily been avoided). The catcher said after the game that he blacked out and when he got up he thought the dude intentionally ran into him so he took a swing. He ran into home like he was Pete Rose, you sir, are no Pete Rose.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:05 pm
by 7WetCigarettes
ditto
that was an awkward play, and I see why Barrett would be pissed.....he shouldn't have slugged AJ like that.....but I can see why.
BTW...AJ is an oaf.
Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 2:13 pm
by The_Dude
Barrett was in the wrong 100%. Even if the catcher doesn't have the ball, if he's blocking the plate he's basically putting his ass on the line
That being said...Pierzynski is a douchebag (and was a douchebag well before this ever happened) and he deserved to get clocked and I loved seeing it. Barrett deserves his suspension, too.
Maybe this will light a fire under the Cubs' asses and they can fire off 2 or 3 wins in the next month.