Maybe Mattingly ought to look at the tape of Brandon Crawford's HR. No bat flip and I'll bet it took Puig (which must be Cuban for Pig) twice as long to trot his fat ass around the bases. That's what the issue was. Maholm is right, this idiot flips the bat on outs. What he fails to account for is the time around the bases.
from Giants Extra:
POSTGAME NOTES: “I was just congratulating him. It was a really good hit.” – Giants Extra:
“I was just congratulating him,” he said with a straight face. “That was a really good swing. I don’t know why everybody got so mad. That was pretty impressive. I don’t know what happened.” There was a hint of a smile, but Bumgarner held back.
A couple hundred yards away, the Dodgers, on the losing end of a close game for the second straight night, seemed not to be in a joking mood. Don Mattingly said he thought home plate umpire Will Little should have done something.
“It always surprises me when guys react to things when their team does the same type of stuff,” Mattingly told local reporters. “It’s always amazing to me.” Paul Maholm, tonight’s other starter, seemed to shrug it all off. “He bat flips when he gets out,” Maholm said of Puig. “I don’t think he was technically pimping it.”'via Blog this'
Mattingly and some of the Dodger veterans tried to get this ass-wipe to play the game right, now they've clearly given up the fight and joined the chorus of "Oh, what's the harm? He's just having fun playing a kids game" meme. See the NBA and the NFL -- both inherently kids games, also played by men -- where any measure of sportsmanship or respect for your opponent is a horse that long since left the barn.
Fortunately, MLB and the NFL remain self-policing and Mattingly knows this. So when his guys starts wearing fastballs, he can start blaming the umpires, as he is now shamelessly beginning to do, to step in and clean up the mess of his own failure to police his own ballplayer.
Beltran was right, and now Bumgarner is right. What is that these guys know, that Mattingly can't admit, cause he chooses to take the cowards way out in dealing with his player? It's a growing list of players and organizations that don't seem to understand poor little Miss Puig?
You're own guy doesn't respect you Donnie Baseball. WEAR THAT!!! And this is coming from someone who USED to respect you and what you stood for -- you USED to BE somebody who played the game right. Now, because you have one guy who can't fit in -- but maybe can win a game or two for you -- your values as a player are flushed down the toilet? Talk about being a pimp? Oh no, wait a minute, that's the definition of being a whore. My bad.
What happened to the example these guys are setting for the kids? Is it now OK for kids to disrespect and show up an opponent willy-nilly? I guess the ultimate PED argument goes down the toilet as well for these panty-waists in the media who never played the game. Let the kids learn it's OK to be a clown-ass as a teammate, disrespect your opponents, as long as your having fun and making people laugh. Like a clown would. A hundred years of playing the game right flushed down the drain because one guy, who barley speaks the language, never mind understand the culture can't / or won't get acclimated. Yeah, where do I sign up for that logic?
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