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Or you could title this
“Umpire throws out Bryce Harper for spiking his helmet after disagreeing on a called third strike”
Sarcasm doesn't play as well in the morning hours I see
Clearly he deserved to be ejected
Or you could title this
“Eric Surkamp makes best prospect ever look silly on a called third strike”
Mr. Flibble is very cross.
It wasn't Surkamp
It was the home plate umpire. Harper overreacted, but it doesn’t mean he was wrong on the call. That pitch was way outside.
catcher stuck the pitch
didn’t move much.
Pitcher hits his spot he gets the call most of the time in the low minors. To close to take with 2 strikes. No excuses for Harper please.
Harper's got a pattern going, doesn't he?
Don’t know the kid so I can’t say he isn’t like this all the time. At some point the Nats have to get him reigned in because public perception (right or wrong) is going to label him throughout his career.
And you can’t say it doesn’t matter I’m my own person because that is ignorant.
Hmmm
Don’t know the kid so I can’t say he isn’t like this all the time
Of course, for the same reason you can’t say he IS like this all the time. He gets pretty good marks from his coaches and teammates, FWIW. Paul O’Neill argued with umps and crunched water coolers for a long time, and ended up with pretty good stats and five WS rings before he retired. Sometimes it’s hard to tell where the line is between “intense competitor” and “jerk” falls (although most fans will cut a player a lot of slack … if he’s playing on the team they root for :-)
And beward of confirmation bias
Once you project a pattern on something (correctly or incorrectly), all data received tends to be analyzed within the confines of that pattern first. For strongly held beliefs, studies have found that the tendancy is so strong that when facts are produced that contradict that pattern/belief, most people will distrust and discount the facts and not the belief.
Yep
confirmation bias is one of the most interesting phenomena out there. Absolutely fascinates me. It makes sense why one of my other fascinations, paradigm shifts, happen so rarely and are such a big deal.
It’s so hard to break the status quo.
“Jerk” and “Intense Competitor” are a fine line, but that temper is going to get him in trouble. I’m not saying that he’s a bad person, as I’ve gotten into a few altercations over sports myself; just saying his image and possibly his game is going to suffer.
Da'Sean Butler - A Mountaineer Legend
by McCutchenIsTheTruth on Aug 18, 2011 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Although
I will say this, he did react strongly, but left pretty quickly and presumably didn’t make more of a fuss so he handed that bit professionally.
No throwing of balls, bats, bags, beating on water coolers etc.
Da'Sean Butler - A Mountaineer Legend
by McCutchenIsTheTruth on Aug 18, 2011 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
nobody's going to give a shit about public perception if he hits like most expect him to.
i didnt see the giants caring too much about bonds…or the indians or sox caring too much about man ram or countless other examples. unless he starts throwing bats at umpires, nobody really cares. and now that i think about it, nobody really cares that delmon young threw a bat at an umpire either.
Fire Everyone
by billybeingbilly on Aug 22, 2011 3:25 AM EDT up reply actions
dont lump me in with you...
i thoroughly enjoy having some ‘villains’ around. i was hoping that tiger would embrace it…that lebron would embrace it…but they both just stuck with their middle ground….im hoping harper’s not the same
Fire Everyone
by billybeingbilly on Sep 5, 2011 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions
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