Gossage: Jose Bautista a 'disgrace,' baseball ruined by 'nerds'

[ValiantJaysFan]

TAMPA, Fla. -- Hall of Fame reliever Goose Gossage called Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista a "disgrace to the game" and blasted "nerds" for turning baseball into a "joke" during a 10-minute interview Thursday.

 

"Bautista is a f---ing disgrace to the game," Gossage told ESPN. "He's embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. [Yoenis] Cespedes, same thing."

 

Bautista famously flipped his bat after launching a three-run, seventh-inning homer to give the Blue Jays the lead in the Game 5 of the American League Division Series.

 

Eight years before Bautista was born, Gossage began his playing career in 1972. After pitching for 22 years, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008. He is among a group of former Yankees greats who are in camp to help out the current players.

 

"He's a great ambassador for the game," Bautista told ESPN after being told of Gossage's comments. "I don't agree with him. I'm disappointed that he made those comments, but I'm not going to get into it with him. I would never say anything about him, no matter what he said about me. I have too much good stuff to worry about his comments. Today is my first game [of the spring], getting ready for a new season; hopefully, we will whoop some more ass."

 

On a separate subject, Gossage, 64, said he does not like the trend in baseball to have people who never played at the highest level running the game.

 

"It is a joke," Gossage said. "The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it.

 

"I'll tell you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---.

 

"A bunch of f---ing nerds running the game. You can't slide into second base. You can't take out the f---ing catcher because [buster] Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can't pitch inside anymore. I'd like to knock some of these f---ers on their ass and see how they would do against pitchers in the old days."

 

"Ryan Braun is a f---ing steroid user. He gets a standing ovation on Opening Day in Milwaukee. How do you explain that to your kid after throwing people under the bus and lying through his f---ing teeth? They don't have anyone passing the f---ing torch to these people.

 

"If I had acted like that, you don't go in that f---ing dugout. There are going to be 20 f---ing guys waiting for you."

 

Gossage began his comments after being asked about Aroldis Chapman, who was scheduled to make his debut for the Yankees on Thursday. Gossage has long lamented how much more difficult it was for relievers in his day, going multiple innings instead of the one inning that specialists of today pitch. He thinks that pitch counts have directly led to injuries.

 

"They have been created from the top, from their computers," Gossage said. "They are protecting these kids. The first thing a pitcher does when he comes off the mound is ask, 'How many pitches do I have?' If I had asked that f---ing question, they would have said, 'Son, get your ass out there on that mound. If you get tired, we'll come and get you.'"

 

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons, when informed of Gossage's comments about his team, said it is a new era in the game.

 

"The game has definitely changed," Gibbons told ESPN. "Baseball was kind of always the one game that policed itself and there was no showing everybody up. Players would handle it. Umpires would let players handle it. That's not the case anymore. If somebody doesn't like something you do, you buzz somebody, they suspend you. The whole game has changed. The fans love it. Honest to God, the only team that is not animated that much is these guys [the Yankees]. But that has been their history, and I admire that."

 

http://www.espn.com.au/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball

[Sammy225]

http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg?fb

[King]

Full retard.

[BTS]

Goose Gossage is very stupid.

[Spanky99]

http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg?fb

 

lol... perfect.

[intrigid]

Agreed on the self policing part, otherwise meh.

[glory]

Goose isn't very intelligent.

[Lil Looper]

http://www.espn.com.au/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball

 

I've been on the record saying I don't like Bautista personally as a man, but i liked the bat flip. Gossage comes off as a total self-absorbed moron here.

 

Side note is Gossage a f***ing drunk? Is he autistic?

[Sammy225]

Someone should ask him about Harper...

[fireballW]

People that don't like when players show emotion or their personalities during the game confound me. This is not to mention just how stupid it is to act like things like this never used to happen. Didn't Babe Ruth, one of the most revered players of all time, point and call his homeruns? That's gotta be cockyness / showboating to the extreme and you never hear old guys bashing that.

[Jonn]

Wow that article was embarrassing. Interesting he would choose Bautista. I guess the Machado antics pale in comparison too Bautista's bat flip emotional bat flip. God forbird Baseball Players show emotion.

[Abomination]

Very good response by Bautista this time.

[HERPDERP]

[GD]

lol sammy beat me to it

[Swervin81]

http://i.imgur.com/91sn32Q.jpg?fb

 

http://i.imgur.com/oGebivS.jpg

 

Obtuse Gossage.

[Boxcar]

Can't wait till all these guys die so they can stfu.

[Grant77]

Can't wait till all these guys die so they can stfu.

 

We've been saying this about you for years.

[BTS]

We've been saying this about you for years.

 

We have?

[jays_fever]

Bautista pimping a major homer in an intense atmosphere is a disgrace.

 

But throwing a blazing object at a defenseless hitter who isn't allowed to retaliate is perfectly okay.

[Sammy225]

We've been saying this about you for years.

 

http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/tmimn.gif

[Maahfaace]

http://www.espn.com.au/mlb/story/_/id/14943065/goose-gossage-rips-jose-bautista-toronto-blue-jays-nerds-ruining-baseball

 

Its kind of ironic that he calls Bats a disgrace and then immediately acts likes a complete disgrace with how he structured his comments. Its also amusing how he references "how do you explain to your kid" while dropping F-Bombs.

 

While I find this interview hilarious, he's the last person that should be speaking out about class and lessons for children

[Dr Negative]

He's probably just campaigning to be Trump's VP.

[Boxcar]

We have?

 

He meant the royal We.

[Dick_Pole]

Damn right. f***ing nerds ruining baseball and humanity with all their technology and sciency s***. Look at all these nerds on this message board right now calling out a Hall of Fame hero instead of getting outside and playing the game for real. f*** them and their 15 Harvard rotisserie leagues they yap about in the off-topic sub-forum.

 

f*** Ryan Braun too. We don't need "these people" lying through their teeth and throwing people under the bus in the game either.

[Boxcar]

He's right about Ryan Braun though.

 

What was his point? That Braun is a scumbag? Pretty sure that's common knowledge.

[Sorrow]

All these old guys are f***ing annoying. It's a game people should be having fun and showing emotion, do bat flips, do fist pumps, stare downs etc. It's good for baseball.

[Dick_Pole]

All these old guys are f***ing annoying. It's a game people should be having fun and showing emotion, do bat flips, do fist pumps, stare downs etc. It's good for baseball.

 

I'm sure right now there's some poor 65 year old pipsqueak who went to Colorado State during Gossage's time whose asscrack and nipples are cringing from hearing the man say "f***ing nerd" again even all these decades later. Uh oh, Mr. Saint Rich Gossage is calling out other people for their perceived bad behaviour!

[Moo3]

Not sure what annoys me more: his comments or a thread dedicated about his comments.

[Maahfaace]

All these old guys are f***ing annoying. It's a game people should be having fun and showing emotion, do bat flips, do fist pumps, stare downs etc. It's good for baseball.

 

its that jealousy creeping in, it eats at some watching the youth of today.

[Terminator]

I'm sure right now there's some poor 65 year old pipsqueak who went to Colorado State during Gossage's time whose asscrack and nipples are cringing from hearing the man say "f***ing nerd" again even all these decades later. Uh oh, Mr. Saint Rich Gossage is calling out other people for their perceived bad behaviour!

 

Gossage once got in a fight with a teammate and injured himself. He was out for 6 weeks. Not sure why fighting a teammate is ok in his book.