I guess you’re right. I just get an ARod vibe from him. Not sure why exactly.
NLCS Gamethread: Dodgers vs Brewers
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Hear me out--A-Rod desperately swatted at that ball because he could feel himself failing and wanted it not to be so bad it revealed his character: a total fucking dink when shit was on the line.
Manny Machado had no shot of being safe because he was Hollywooding into second and was worked up about something and decided to just try and hurt a guy.
No I hear you, they're in the same neighborhood, just that was extra ugly. Yikes, why would he do that?
How dumb is it to risk injury to yourself in the playoffs and before free agency? He definitely went out of his way to run into Aguilar’s leg while running and stepping into a base.
The other thing is that the Brewers are going in spikes up every time they slide into 2B from here on in.
Thousands of routine plays at first, I have never seen that.
What is the custom there? Is the fielder supposed to remove his leg quickly or the runner supposed to touch the outer part of the bag?
What is the custom there? Is the fielder supposed to remove his leg quickly or the runner supposed to touch the outer part of the bag?
Aguilar looks like a guy in the movies who gets hit in the head with a sledgehammer and keeps coming at you. That’s a big dude.
The "optics" aren't going to look good? wtf? It was clearly intentional. How far inside the line was he? It doesn't have to look bad - it *was* bad.
Yeah - I agree. I don't recall ARod ever trying to hurt someone.
Machado clearly had a chance to run to the outside of the bag and he chose to try and sting Aguilar.
Machado has always been a bum. He may have cried about it with Showalter, but he ruined Pedey's career on a dirty play too. Fuck him. I'm glad people finally recognize it in this series. He's, by his own admission, lazy and also plays dirty, yet cries when people retaliate.
The 1B is supposed to step off immediately after they have the ball and the runner is supposed to try and avoid the fielder.
The Pedey thing is always going to bug me. And it's going to bug me because Pedey defended him and then went against his own team. I lost a lot of love for Pedey on that one. Does anyone still think now that that wasn't intentional too?
Pedey is the one who undercut his own guys with the "it wasn't me" and the "I love Manny" shit. I love the guy, but that was and will always be wrong.
Usually the first baseman should move off the bag a little quicker but when you are out by two steps it is clearly a dirty play to go after his leg.
Still in all that, usually a first baseman gets his foot the hell off the bag so fast we wonder if he stayed on long enough. Why didn’t Aguilar get off the bag when the out was made? Not a fan of Machado because of numerous previous dirty plays, esp. Pedroia, but Aguilar you could say was baiting him. Stupid too because he could have been spiked and injured.
A-Rod had several total bush league moments, from slapping Arroyo's arm to yelling to distract the third baseman who was catching a popup.
Machado is also a better player than Milton Bradley, but is as big a d-bag as anybody.
I didn't see the veer but as Buck correctly acknowledges - and credit to him and Smoltz to not completely excuse it - Machado had time to avoid him and did not. Thankfully Aguilar seems ok but if he gets hurt, that potentially changes the series. Milwaukee, as you can see, doesn't have a ton of hitting.
Well, at least Judge gave us a new song.
If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you, New York, New York
It looked like he dragged his foot to make sure he clipped him but maybe I should watch it again.
Milton Bradley was an asshole, but like there was obviously something extra at play there. Who knows. But you always got a scary lack of control from him. Trying to clearly hurt someone when the play is dead with 10,000 cameras on you, you gotta wonder about that guy a little.
Bush yes - JtB acknowledged as much. However I don't recall him trying to hurt anyone. Except himself against 'Tek's mitt of course.
Well, you generally only remove your foot that fast on bang-bang plays to make it look faster (which doesn't matter anymore with instant replay). When the guys is out by a few steps it's entirely on the runner. It's not like his foot was in the middle of the bag either. There was plenty of bag available to the Douche.
Aguilar isn't the most athletic guy as you can see. I think he got lazy and just didn't get off quickly enough. I don't think he was baiting him but who knows...
Aguilar doesn't really strike me as someone with cat-like reflexes. Maybe he was just being his big slow self
You don't like how he breaks up hiiiiiis sentences across time over aaaaand over?
edit my formatting joke didnt work. terrible job by me
For anyone trying to say Aguilar didn't move out of the way fast enough, you've obviously never played much, if any ball. That was a super easy routine play, and that asshole had zero reason to run inside the line, nor did he need to change course too move closer to elbowing him in the back too. It was 100 % intentional, kids playing 8-9 year old baseball know that play is wrong and aren't taught that way
Joe Buck has 4 kids. One day, at least one of them will get a job as a really irritating announcer on Fox Sports and stay there for decades.
Not sure what you mean by that. You were blaming the victim of that play, which I ridiculed by using a classic victim-blaming trope. If anyone thinks I am gender-insulting with my post, I apologize.