He's been down this road before with Padres catcher Austin Hedges. Maddon continues to defend him and denigrate the rule. Until one of his guys gets blasted. The fact that Rizzo apologized to the Pirates catcher before his next AB indicates he knew he was wrong.
I watched the Pirates broadcast and then the Cubs and two different perceptions of reality and the ruling. MLB needs to get a handle on this if, as the Pirates broadcasters were discussing, there appears to be a lack of enforcement on the part of the umpires. As I've discussed before, this is the initial problem that precipitated both the Posey rule and the Utley rule. Lack of enforcement of existing rules on the books.
So now it appears we will need the Rizzo corollary and the St. Joe Maddon addendum's to the Posey rule and then another set for the Utley rule when a Cubs player decides to go old-school at 2B.
Thanks Cubs!! Rizzo is a dirt bag for doing it, but Maddon is a bigger scuz bag for condoning it. Why don't we just changed the MLB rule book to "The World According to St. Joe"?
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