The Workermonkey

Thursday, May 13, 2004

jorge needed a nose job anyway 

# posted by josh @ 5/13/2004 06:12:00 PM

such a big deal's been made about the guy hitting posada in the face w/ the ball while trying to turn the double play. did the angels guy violate some code of ethics/morals? no, the answer is no. if you look at the replay, posada was sliding AT the player, like 3ft right of 2nd base. and in baseball, you're taught to complete the play. it's the runner's responsibility to slide andget out of the way. in fact, technically you're out if you slide out of the baseline and at the fielder rather than the base to intentionally take the fielder out. what happened was nothing short of fair and rule-abiding. no one complained about this in the old days when baseball players had sub-million dollar contracts and were actually athletes, rather than high paid pretty boys who get injured every week because they dont run and stretch like they hsould, instead they just lift. so all the yankees fans need to shut up and stop complaining about this. maybe next time posada will think twice about sliding outside the baseline to take out a shortstop.

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