re: Victor Robles goes psycho after getting hit by pitch

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Giancarlo’s was very much a check swing.

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Go watch the video. He easily makes it 3/4 of the way and only stops because he got hit in the friggin face and went to the ground. That’s one of the best and strongest hitters in the game not victor robles


If I’m Robles, gotten hit multiple times, am a major leaguer on a friggin rehab assignment yeah I’m going to be friggin pissed

This is a great example why youth baseball is turning into a shitshow. Great example to our youth to swing bats at pitchers if you get hit one too many times.

People are in love with the cult of the tough, bad arse pitcher (large and in charge and going nine if he’s a starter) throwing at people and giving noogies to people who charge the mound. It’s why people share memes six times a day in Facebook baseball groups about how mean Bob Gibson was (when the man himself until the day he died hated being remembered that way) and about Nolan Ryan vs. Robin Ventura like that was a seminal thing in baseball history (Ryan would have gotten out of Dodge if Frank Thomas or Bo Jackson had charged the mound rather than have a mudhole stomped in his arse).

The pitcher initiates the action so he’s always going to be the most significant person on the field. But he’s not the most important person on the field to the exclusion of all others, especially in the world driven by metrics.