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

[Rusty_Savage]

Bautista being unusually calm

[ValiantJaysFan]

Bautista being unusually calm

 

I thought that was savage. Stoeten described t as patting an old man on the head and being polite while tearing him apart at the same time.

[G-Snarls]

[Key22]

I'm here to make baseball great again I tell you. Folks there is a problem in baseball. People come to me all the time and tell me that there is a problem in baseball and I know it. I know it. No one knows more about baseball than I do and I know that baseball fans are suffering. They're really suffering and I want baseball to be great again. And I can make it great again because I know the right people to fix the problem. You may have never heard of them but I have a list of people who can make it great again and these people are the best. First I'm going to build a wall - that wall in Fenway is nowhere near as good as my wall. I am going to build a wall around every park. A big wall and Jose Bautista is going to pay for the walls. I'm going to make him pay for the walls. Look I know all about walls. And they're going to be really big walls - so big that Jose can't hit the ball over the walls. Jose is paying for them. In fact he's going to build the walls. And we're shipping out all the emotional players back to their countries. You're fired! How's that for emotion. No more emotions. Look I love Jose Bautista - some of my best friends flip their bats. But we have to make baseball great again. No more bat flippers. If you see those crowds supporting the bat flipping - you should assault them - don't worry I will pay your legal bills. Bat flippers and bat flipper fans are losers. They make our country worse and they make baseball worse.

 

Look, I flipped more bats than anyone in the history of the world. No one is more of an expert on bat flipping than me. I flip my bat three times a day and I often want Ivanka to flip my bat as well if she were not my daughter. I know all about bat flipping. I have a big bat too - my bat is bigger the most - can you see my hands - I have a big solid bat and I flip sure - but this is baseball.

[Jonzo]

I'm here to make baseball great again I tell you. Folks there is a problem in baseball. People come to me all the time and tell me that there is a problem in baseball and I know it. I know it. No one knows more about baseball than I do and I know that baseball fans are suffering. They're really suffering and I want baseball to be great again. And I can make it great again because I know the right people to fix the problem. You may have never heard of them but I have a list of people who can make it great again and these people are the best. First I'm going to build a wall - that wall in Fenway is nowhere near as good as my wall. I am going to build a wall around every park. A big wall and Jose Bautista is going to pay for the walls. I'm going to make him pay for the walls. Look I know all about walls. And they're going to be really big walls - so big that Jose can't hit the ball over the walls. Jose is paying for them. In fact he's going to build the walls. And we're shipping out all the emotional players back to their countries. You're fired! How's that for emotion. No more emotions. Look I love Jose Bautista - some of my best friends flip their bats. But we have to make baseball great again. No more bat flippers. If you see those crowds supporting the bat flipping - you should assault them - don't worry I will pay your legal bills. Bat flippers and bat flipper fans are losers. They make our country worse and they make baseball worse.

 

Look, I flipped more bats than anyone in the history of the world. No one is more of an expert on bat flipping than me. I flip my bat three times a day and I often want Ivanka to flip my bat as well if she were not my daughter. I know all about bat flipping. I have a big bat too - my bat is bigger the most - can you see my hands - I have a big solid bat and I flip sure - but this is baseball.

 

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[Jimcanuck]

Stroman backs Bautista.... shocker!

 

http://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2016/03/11/marcus-stroman-backs-joey-bats-after-gossage-rant-against-jays-slugger.html

[G-Snarls]

I think Bautista is generally liked by his team mates. People have always wondered but he's probably not a "clubhouse problem" like some have wondered. I mean, we never REALLY know but it seems they like him as a teammate. It seems like the problem was maybe the lackadaisical guys. (Who are all gone now)

[The Cats Ass]

I think Bautista is generally liked by his team mates. People have always wondered but he's probably not a "clubhouse problem" like some have wondered. I mean, we never REALLY know but it seems they like him as a teammate. It seems like the problem was maybe the lackadaisical guys. (Who are all gone now)

 

I feel like the lackadaisical guys may not have like Bautista because he probably gave them s*** all the time for being lazy.

[Angrioter]

I feel like the lackadaisical guys may not have like Bautista because he probably gave them s*** all the time for being lazy.

 

Hello Danny Valencia

[G-Snarls]

I feel like the lackadaisical guys may not have like Bautista because he probably gave them s*** all the time for being lazy.

 

From Bautista's parting words on Colby I suspect this night be true. Also probably Adam Lind.

[Jimcanuck]

From Bautista's parting words on Colby I suspect this night be true. Also probably Adam Lind.

 

One of the best things about last season was not having to look at Lind's dumbf*** expression.

[G-Snarls]

Ortiz unloads on the topic:

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2626326-david-ortiz-comments-on-critics-of-bat-flip-in-mlb?utm_campaign=tsiphone&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter.com

[Boxcar]

Ortiz unloads on the topic:

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2626326-david-ortiz-comments-on-critics-of-bat-flip-in-mlb?utm_campaign=tsiphone&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter.com

 

Lol wow. That's like 10 times harsher than Harper's quote but I bet Ortiz gets a quarter of the hate. That was pretty great.

[burlingtonbandit]

Lol wow. That's like 10 times harsher than Harper's quote but I bet Ortiz gets a quarter of the hate. That was pretty great.

 

Rare time when the white guy gets more hate than the minority.

[Stangstag]

Ortiz unloads on the topic:

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2626326-david-ortiz-comments-on-critics-of-bat-flip-in-mlb?utm_campaign=tsiphone&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=twitter.com

 

Niiiiice.

[Slot Machine]

Ortiz has won championships tho. The old school clowns will be completely confused on whether they should be upset or whether they should ride his dick. Decisions. Decisions.

[HERPDERP]

He does have a point though, it seems all the whining is from pitchers. Why are pitchers such pussies?

[Dr. Dinger]

Man I really love David Ortiz. No f***s given.

[baseballsss]

He does have a point though, it seems all the whining is from pitchers. Why are pitchers such pussies?

 

Because pitchers are the ones giving up that huge homerun when the bat gets flipped. It's a s***** feeling to give up that homerun so they need to bitch about something to get it off of their minds.

 

In the end the pitchers just look like whiney bitches but really they just feel like s*** to.

[Boxcar]

Because pitchers are the ones giving up that huge homerun when the bat gets flipped. It's a s***** feeling to give up that homerun so they need to bitch about something to get it off of their minds.

 

In the end the pitchers just look like whiney bitches but really they just feel like s*** to.

 

I wonder what the reaction would be if a batter struck out, the pitcher fist pumped, and the next batter avenged his teammate by walking up to the mound and cracking the pitcher one time in the ribs? I bet that player would receive a lengthy suspension.

 

Baseball makes no sense.

[Brownie19]

I wonder what the reaction would be if a batter struck out, the pitcher fist pumped, and the next batter avenged his teammate by walking up to the mound and cracking the pitcher one time in the ribs? I bet that player would receive a lengthy suspension.

 

Baseball makes no sense.

 

I'd prefer the bat toss - ala Machado. #pinetarcosts$$$

[Boxcar]

Pitchers need to suck it up if a guy hits a dinger and flips the bat but doesn't stare him down or do anything to taunt the opposition. If he pimps it a bit while looking at his teammates or something, that should be fine.

 

If a guy hits a dinger and stares at the pitcher while running to 1st then I can see the pitcher drilling him next time. That happens in every other sport.

 

There's celebrating and then there's taunting. Just last week Henson stuffed Barnes and stared at him and then there was a confrontation.

 

If Rodney somehow saves another game and shoots his arrow into the sky, that's fine. If he shoots it at the batter, then there will be a fight.

 

I'm sorry, but there's no situation where the appropriate response is to hurl a hard projectile 90+ mph at a defenseless person. That's really an attitude that needs to be fixed. There are pitchers who stare guys down too, should they get a bat to the knee? It's really the same thing.

[Brownie19]

I'm sorry, but there's no situation where the appropriate response is to hurl a hard projectile 90+ mph at a defenseless person. That's really an attitude that needs to be fixed. There are pitchers who stare guys down too, should they get a bat to the knee? It's really the same thing.

 

I think MikeM is bang on. The form of retaliation is up for debate. In baseball, it's always been the bean ball. In hockey, it's the big goon punching your lights out. In basketball, it's hay makers and bitch slaps. In football, it's huddles and face masks (seemingly the 15 year major penalty seems to prevent a lot of retaliation in football.....)

[Boxcar]

I think MikeM is bang on. The form of retaliation is up for debate. In baseball, it's always been the bean ball. In hockey, it's the big goon punching your lights out. In basketball, it's hay makers and bitch slaps. In football, it's huddles and face masks (seemingly the 15 year major penalty seems to prevent a lot of retaliation in football.....)

 

I don't agree that any of those other sports are validated either. If the guy is a dickhead, the guy is a dickhead. Deal with it.

[Governator]

I'm sorry, but there's no situation where the appropriate response is to hurl a hard projectile 90+ mph at a defenseless person. That's really an attitude that needs to be fixed. There are pitchers who stare guys down too, should they get a bat to the knee? It's really the same thing.

 

Getting hit in the ass, or back, or back of leg, elbow pad, ankle guard, shoulder is not the same as a baseball bat to the knee.

[Brownie19]

I don't agree that any of those other sports are validated either. If the guy is a dickhead, the guy is a dickhead. Deal with it.

 

um....they do. In hockey - they fight him. Society shouldn't have to "accept" dickheads.

[Sammy225]

Getting hit in the ass, or back, or back of leg, elbow pad, ankle guard, shoulder is not the same as a baseball bat to the knee.

 

Kinda How many times have you seen a guy get injured due to a a broken bone in the hand, foot, elbow, knee (not everyone wears a pad). A pitcher can't always predict where he is going to hit the guy especially when he is reaching back for something extra. As far as i am concerned throwing at someone is intent to injure and would like to see more suspensions I.E in Royals vs Donaldson Bau vs O'Day even when stroman admitted to hitting a Oriole. I Think it is very cowardly from a pitcher standpoint because they can't do a damn thing about it.

[Brownie19]

Kinda How many times have you seen a guy get injured due to a a broken bone in the hand, foot, elbow, knee (not everyone wears a pad). A pitcher can't always predict where he is going to hit the guy especially when he is reaching back for something extra. As far as i am concerned throwing at someone is intent to injure and would like to see more suspensions I.E in Royals vs Donaldson Bau vs O'Day even when stroman admitted to hitting a Oriole. I Think it is very cowardly from a pitcher standpoint because they can't do a damn thing about it.

 

I agree - but it just goes back to the "don't be a dickhead - or there will be consequences" argument. Nobody ever threw at Johnny Olerud b/c he's a beauty who didn't piss anyone off.

[Krylian]

I agree - but it just goes back to the "don't be a dickhead - or there will be consequences" argument. Nobody ever threw at Johnny Olerud b/c he's a beauty who didn't piss anyone off.

 

And they were afraid of hitting him in the head and killing him.

[Governator]

Kinda How many times have you seen a guy get injured due to a a broken bone in the hand, foot, elbow, knee (not everyone wears a pad). A pitcher can't always predict where he is going to hit the guy especially when he is reaching back for something extra. As far as i am concerned throwing at someone is intent to injure and would like to see more suspensions I.E in Royals vs Donaldson Bau vs O'Day even when stroman admitted to hitting a Oriole. I Think it is very cowardly from a pitcher standpoint because they can't do a damn thing about it.

 

It is very cowardly and I'm not advocating that it's okay or that it should be morally accepted, just the comparison given was poor. Getting hit by a pitch is extremely common and usually doesn't result in broken bones or serious injuries whereas a baseball bat to a pitcher's knee would most certainly end his season or career. There were over 1500 hit by pitches last season alone.