Manufactured outrage.
Manufactured outrage.
He had every right to be furious. I would be as well if I just took a 101 MPH fastball up and in, regardless of my player status or numbers, but not to mention you are the leading NL MVP candidate playing against the team who you are trying to overtake in the division.
PIT has a right to be mad, we have a right to feel like it was nothing, it is just the way it works, and I will be shocked if I do not see some retaliation tonight. It is fair.
"Today was the byproduct of us thinking we can come back from anything." - Joey Votto after blowing a 10-1 lead and holding on for the 12-11 win on 8/25/2010.
I'm just hoping if/when they do retaliate, we don't charge the mound. The last thing we need right now is any suspensions, or Votto and BP slugging it out while injured.
Last edited by Big Klu; 08-04-2012 at 09:45 AM.
Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman. Damn glad to meet ya.
Sorry. I have to disagree. How many times have we seen Chapman overthrow his fastball and miss really high our outside. He doesn't have pinpoint control.
McCutchen stands close to the plate, Hanigan set up inside and the pitch was in a little too much. Good hitters get pitched inside. That's why Votto gets hit or brushed back. It's baseball, and a HBP there makes no sense. It's only a 3-0 lead, and why wake a team that was sleepwalking all night.
I don't blame McCutchen for being mad, though. That's got to hurt. He should be more upset for being a spectator on Heisey's inside-the-park HR.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
JoJo thinks somebody on MLB.com is livid about something anytime someone wants to find someone livid about something.
JoJo is glad for redszone.
"This isn’t stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
So McCutcheon says this is going to fire the Pirates up?
They're having their best season in years, are playing well, and they're playing the first-place team they've been chasing all summer and THIS is now going to fire them up?
OK, then. Go back in your irrelevant hole soon Pirates.
I'm not real keen on the "Cutch" nickname, esp. on a Reds fan board, but that might just be my pet peeve.
"Rounding 3rd and heading for home, good night everybody"
Oh, and the Jolly Roger needed some Viagra last night.
"Rounding 3rd and heading for home, good night everybody"
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