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Totally off-topic, but what do you guys think of Goose Gossage's tirade against Jose Bautista and Baseball in general? I feel like he's of course completely wrong about batter celebration "disgracing the game". Seriously people need to lighten up, it's a game it's supposed to be fun, but on the other-hand I do think not allowing the players to police the game has hurt the game. If you didn't like the guy's HR celebration, I think it's dumb, but he should be allowed to throw at a guy without fear of an immediate long suspension. It's kind of a weird thing, the old-school guys want to take emotion out of the game by getting rid of these celebrations, and new-school folks want to get rid of the emotion of bad blood and the self-policing of the game. I say keep it all in there, the game would be much more fun and interesting for it. Get rid of the stupid play at the plate rules, I agree with him there, those rules have been a disaster, a play at the plate is in my opinion the most exciting thing in sports, don't mess with something that's perfect. Yeah it's an injury-risk, but you're playing a sport for a living and being paid millions of dollars, there's somethings you just deal with. His statement about "nerds" ruining the game is just idiotic. Sabremetrics and advanced stats is one of the best things that's ever happened to baseball, and while other sports are trying to catch up with their own advanced stats, it's not stuck like it has in baseball, and it's one of the things that makes baseball stand out from the other sports.
Anyway, just read that ESPN article, and had to get my thoughts down.
The article is here: http://espn.go.com/newyork/mlb/story...ining-baseball
Anyway, just read that ESPN article, and had to get my thoughts down.
The article is here: http://espn.go.com/newyork/mlb/story...ining-baseball
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