re: Mainieri after Duplantis homerun

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So Mainieri “grabbed” a player and the player didn’t even turn around to see who was “grabbing” him? You’re just wrong and now you’re doubling down on being wrong. My question remains: why are you lying about what happened?

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Did you eat paint chips as a kid?

What is your fricking point that the player didn’t turn around? Does that prove that he “tapped him”? Again, I don’t care if he tapped him or pulled him. The player barely responded. You going to argue that?

You’re wrong, too.

His right hand is on beck and his left hand is on someone else behind him in purple. He pulls both players back.

Go get your eyes checked and stop attacking me for describing the video accurately.

The players take one step back and then go forward again cheering while mainieri heads back to the dugout.

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I can clearly see that he pulled a player by the shoulder from behind. Your dumbass can’t. You are just playing a game of semantics.

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It doesn’t fricking matter if he did or didn’t
It’s against the rules to be outside of the dirt in front of the dug out

To act like he was being an a-hole to the players because he wants to be is not true
I have posted the rule & rule book

I have also posted where A&M starting pitcher Lacy was ejected & is disqualified next weekend for arguing balls & strikes

Assuming it was Beck & he stayed in the grass & ump ejected him & disqualified him against Auburn would you be ok with that because at least CPM was letting the team celebrate a HR?

There’s a ton of crap with the program I am not pleased with but to shite on CPM for enforcing NCAA rules is petty & childish

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while you get all worked up because I said the player was grabbed

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No, I’m “all worked up” because your OP is a complete lie.

Like JML said, there are plenty of valid reasons for criticizing Mainieri but starting a thread claiming he was pulling players away from celebrating a truly happy moment with a teammate in a big game when that didn’t happen is beyond pathetic on your part.

And then you continue to parse words (maybe he just grabbed and not pulled) makes you look worse than pathetic. It makes you look dishonest.

You go from making it seem like he should be getting happy, and allow his players to get happy.... To making it seem like he’s getting physical with his team. Which is it?

Facts:
- Mainieri grabbed, pulled, or tapped more than one player
- They barely respond to him and continue cheering
- Paul walks slowly back to the dugout by himself while everyone is celebrating

Not a single word of that is a lie. It’s not up for debate.

It’s my OPINION that mainieri should be encouraging a celebration or some emotion because this team desperately needs a spark. Regardless of the rules I think it’s worth the risk. Again, that’s my opinion and I could easily be wrong. However the facts are the facts.

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Facts:
- Mainieri grabbed, pulled, or tapped more than one player

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Nope. Not a fact. At most he said something to them, probably something along the lines of "Don't go too far out on the grass." As JML has already posted, there's a rule prohibiting players from going on the field who are not in the game. Players can be ejected for doing so. And that would mean they'd likely be suspended for part of the Auburn series. If that had happened you'd be on here bitching that Mainieri had lost control of the team, he didn't know the rules and by letting the players violate rules he got players suspended when we're already short handed.

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They barely respond to him and continue cheering

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Respond how? What were they supposed to do? They continued celebrating because nothing Mainieri said to them was intended to dampen their celebration, which was the whole point of your OP.
"Boo-hoo, Mainieri is a big ole meanie. He won't let the players celebrate a homerun. " That's not a fact. That's a lie.

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Paul walks slowly back to the dugout by himself while everyone is celebrating

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Not a fact. There were others who never left the dugout. Dunn was still in the dugout. So were Gibbs, Cory and Fury. I didn't see Ochinko outside the dugout so he may have still been there. So what? Should Mainieri have climbed on the roof of the dugout to do a T-Rex walk? It was a one run lead and there were still 6 outs to get in the game. My guess is he went back to Dunn and they started debating how far they'd let Peterson go in the game. Should someone else start stretching and/or warming up?

We get it: you hate Mainieri. And that's your right to do so. But to continue lying while calling your lies "facts" is idiotic and dishonest and makes you look childish.

Are you too dumb to point out actual issues with the team/program so you have to settle for this? I'm just dumbfounded by this thread. He walks out and says something to a player who takes a couple steps back and he goes back into the dugout. Jesus Christ, who cares? Let's talk about why the catcher position has been trash for two years. Maybe about why our pitchers seem to have regressed the last couple of years (when they aren't being shelved for weeks at a time with soreness). Maybe talk about the seeming lapses in focus and intensity for stretches of games. This is just stupid.