Saturday, June 09, 2007
Baseball Managers are Bitches
by Jes
Imagine if Bryan Murray was really unhappy with Kerry Fraser's tripping call on Daniel Alfredsson, and was tossed for swearing at the ref.
Instead of going back to the dressing room, he storms onto the ice, starts kicking ice shavings on Fraser, rolls around on the ice and draws happy faces, and then runs down the ice and throws the net down around.
You can imagine the hammer would come down on him quite harshly.
In baseball? It's pretty much standard behaviour for your boss (the Manager) to act nutso.
Now, if you are one of this guy's players, how could you ever take your boss seriously? Why is it that baseball managers have cart blanche to act like 3-year olds? Do they not realize how utterly dumb they look?
Really? What is the point? These guys look like idiots, and this NEVER actually gets an umpire to reverse a call.
Of course, this does provide us fans with a whole lot of entertainment. Who doesn't enjoy otherwise passive men act like freaks once in awhile?
Imagine if Bryan Murray was really unhappy with Kerry Fraser's tripping call on Daniel Alfredsson, and was tossed for swearing at the ref.
Instead of going back to the dressing room, he storms onto the ice, starts kicking ice shavings on Fraser, rolls around on the ice and draws happy faces, and then runs down the ice and throws the net down around.
You can imagine the hammer would come down on him quite harshly.
In baseball? It's pretty much standard behaviour for your boss (the Manager) to act nutso.
Now, if you are one of this guy's players, how could you ever take your boss seriously? Why is it that baseball managers have cart blanche to act like 3-year olds? Do they not realize how utterly dumb they look?
Really? What is the point? These guys look like idiots, and this NEVER actually gets an umpire to reverse a call.
Of course, this does provide us fans with a whole lot of entertainment. Who doesn't enjoy otherwise passive men act like freaks once in awhile?
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Really? What is the point?
To entertain us.
Seriously Jes, does it really bother you that much? Accept it for what it is, and sit back and watch the show.
To entertain us.
Seriously Jes, does it really bother you that much? Accept it for what it is, and sit back and watch the show.
And I just love how all the talking heads on TV are saying that they should take this kind of stuff out of the game.
Do you think that there has ever been, in the history of baseball, a fan that walked out of a game and said "The game was really great, except for when the manager ran onto the field and threw second base into the outfield?”
My dad had season tickets to the AAA team that used to play in Calgary for at least 10 years. So when I was growing up I saw hundreds of games, and one of things I remember the most vividly was the manager losing his mind and throwing the Gatorade jug, 10 bats, and a couple hundred balls onto the field. Why do I remember this? Because it was fucking awesome. And who was worse off because of it? Nobody; except maybe the manager who gets thrown out and looks like a donkey.
So here we have a baseball tradition, which is incredibly entertaining and enjoyable, that has no discernable downside or "victim", yet there are still a bunch of assholes out there who want to get rid of it. I swear to God there is a significant chunk of the population that just can’t feel comfortable unless they are morally outraged or offended by something.
Do you think that there has ever been, in the history of baseball, a fan that walked out of a game and said "The game was really great, except for when the manager ran onto the field and threw second base into the outfield?”
My dad had season tickets to the AAA team that used to play in Calgary for at least 10 years. So when I was growing up I saw hundreds of games, and one of things I remember the most vividly was the manager losing his mind and throwing the Gatorade jug, 10 bats, and a couple hundred balls onto the field. Why do I remember this? Because it was fucking awesome. And who was worse off because of it? Nobody; except maybe the manager who gets thrown out and looks like a donkey.
So here we have a baseball tradition, which is incredibly entertaining and enjoyable, that has no discernable downside or "victim", yet there are still a bunch of assholes out there who want to get rid of it. I swear to God there is a significant chunk of the population that just can’t feel comfortable unless they are morally outraged or offended by something.
I'm not a baseball fan, but it seems like the manager freakout functions in baseball much like the fight in hockey. It probably got his team riled up; it definitely got the fans going.
In moderation, it is terribly amusing. (That's why I find Lou Pinella dull--same old, same old, and he freaks out too often--although I blame some of that on the Cubs.)
And if anyone really wants to get rid of it, make the managers wear suits like they do in hockey. Hard to do an army crawl to the mound and toss a rosin "grenade" while wearing Armani--although it would be even funnier if someone did. Then he should get an endorsement from a dry-cleaning establishment, too.
And if anyone really wants to get rid of it, make the managers wear suits like they do in hockey. Hard to do an army crawl to the mound and toss a rosin "grenade" while wearing Armani--although it would be even funnier if someone did. Then he should get an endorsement from a dry-cleaning establishment, too.
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: 8:02 pm
Ahhh, it does this Mississippi-raised boy's heart good to see the antics of our beloved Jackson Braves manager.
Seriously, what did this do but make everybody grin. I can't believe anybody is 'outraged' by this.
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Seriously, what did this do but make everybody grin. I can't believe anybody is 'outraged' by this.
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