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

[Boxcar]

I've said this before, but it bears repeating. These baseball "traditionalists" are almost almost white, American men, and their version of being a "disgrace to the game" or "playing the game the wrong way" is almost always directed at Latin players. This out of touch piece of trash has no idea about Latin culture, or how the game is played in those countries. This ******** is just another example of "This is America. If you're not like us, you're wrong".

 

Here I thought Goose Gossage was definitely white.

[Orgfiller]

To be fair, people also hate Bryce Harper for similarly idiotic things.

[Slugger]

r/lewronggeneration would love this. Holy f***.

[Abomination]

They're just cranky that players today get millions of dollars a year and they didn't, which happened after the nerds figured out how to turn baseball into a big, profitable business.

[G-Snarls]

OMFG. What an embarrassing rant.

[G-Snarls]

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

 

This guy has been replaced. Lame.

[Dick_Pole]

They're just cranky that players today get millions of dollars a year and they didn't, which happened after the nerds figured out how to turn baseball into a big, profitable business.

 

Meh.

 

Lifetime Salary: $10,103,330, and those numbers don't include his first 5 years in the league though I'm sure that's marginal.

 

Gossage had the opportunity to put his money into Microsoft stock 'run by nerds' and make more than 100 times his money. Hell, if he didn't like the stock market because it's for nerds, he could have bought luxury property and be sitting on something that's 20 times what he paid for it. Baseball salaries have outpaced inflation, but inflation still exists.

 

No baseball player from the 70's and 80's is starving unless they drank or snorted their life savings away.

[Slugger]

No baseball player from the 70's and 80's is starving unless they drank or snorted their life savings away.

 

Which is the huge irony here. "Oh, what am I supposed to tell the kids?" Dude, you guys were hitting the dings so hard it wasn't even funny.

[Maahfaace]

Meh.

 

Lifetime Salary: $10,103,330, and those numbers don't include his first 5 years in the league though I'm sure that's marginal.

 

Gossage had the opportunity to put his money into Microsoft stock 'run by nerds' and make more than 100 times his money. Hell, if he didn't like the stock market because it's for nerds, he could have bought luxury property and be sitting on something that's 20 times what he paid for it. Baseball salaries have outpaced inflation, but inflation still exists.

 

No baseball player from the 70's and 80's is starving unless they drank or snorted their life savings away.

 

not to mention the pension is pretty decent, I think its over 200k a year for 10 year vets. Whats crazy is one day in the majors nets you lifetime healthcare coverage, 43 days nets you minimum pension of 34k a year.

[o2cui2i]

this is another dinosaurs who will soon be extinct. sad old man who thinks he has a clue.

 

http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dead_triceratops11.jpg

[King]

[Jimcanuck]

Gossage was the pigf***er of his day.

[gbill2004]

Gossage is on Tim and Sid right now.

[Soft Hands]

Gossage is on Tim and Sid right now.

 

That made my ears bleed

[GD]

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/attachments/pro-baseball/117348d1457642889-mlb-off-topic-img_20160310_144559.jpg

[Boxcar]

http://www.operationsports.com/forums/attachments/pro-baseball/117348d1457642889-mlb-off-topic-img_20160310_144559.jpg

 

Congrats on failing to post a likely incredibly hip and witty gif.

[GD]

Congrats on failing

 

Calm down mom

[Jonn]

Can't get a link to this interview fast enough.

[ValiantJaysFan]

Wilner: "Gossage is an old man yelling at clouds"

 

Think he reads this forum much?

[King]

Wilner: "Gossage is an old man yelling at clouds"

 

Think he reads this forum much?

 

The exact same joke has been tweeted out many times today.

[Maahfaace]

The exact same joke has been tweeted out many times today.

 

i knew sammy wasnt that quick

[Dick_Pole]

this is another dinosaurs who will soon be extinct. sad old man who thinks he has a clue.

 

http://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/dead_triceratops11.jpg

 

Aren't you like 5 years younger than Gossage?

 

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[o2cui2i]

Aren't you like 5 years younger than Gossage?

 

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

nothing to be sorry about... it's 12 years, but sure. lol I've tried to embrace technology. Gossage says that the smartest people shouldn't be running baseball. That's simply a asinine. To be against a system that is smarter than the old "eye test" really makes no sense now that most people understand that it works.

[Jimcanuck]

Wilner: "Gossage is an old man yelling at clouds"

 

Think he reads this forum much?

 

I'm 100% certain he does. Whether he understands it is much less certain.

[Boxcar]

Goose Gossage:

https://youtu.be/CuzVlyEET3s?t=29m30s

[GeorgiaPeach]

I wonder if Gossage would've preferred Gibson's '84 WS blast celebration when Gibson blew kisses to the crowd and nearly took half a dozen team mates arms off.

[ValiantJaysFan]

Sid did a good job arguing with Gossage. By the end of the interview Tim and Sid were exchanging looks like they were talking to drunk Uncle.

[GeorgiaPeach]

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.

 

I don't mind seeing some personalities show, but some of it is just dumb.

 

Pointing to the sky to acknowledge a higher power is lame. Sammy Sosa's antics were also annoying.

 

And sports in general, when your team is getting slaughtered and you hit a bomb, score a goal or score a TD........the celebration afterwards is dumb.

[GeorgiaPeach]

He's right about Ryan Braun though.

 

I wonder if he's ever attempted to knock former teammates McGwire & Canseco's teeth out?

[o2cui2i]

I wonder if Goose still uses a rotary phone.

 

smoke signals... Morse code is too modern.