Hoping for save situations in each of the games he's out (and losses in all others, obv).
― Andy K, Friday, 25 September 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
papelbon-harper fite!
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 September 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
omg lol etc
― Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Sunday, 27 September 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
Wonder how that would have played out with Harper the attacker from above.
― Andy K, Sunday, 27 September 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman 58s58 seconds agoFitting that Papelbon's first instinct vs Bryce was... Wait for it... To choke.
― usic ally (k3vin k.), Sunday, 27 September 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
pls fight strausberg/scherzer next
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 27 September 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
fuck a reliever telling the mvp to run out a popup
hope they change that error on trea turner to a hit so all five of pap's runs are earned
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 September 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
loved the espn article title "NATIONAL DISGRACE" before i realized it was a play on the team name
― qualx, Sunday, 27 September 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
obviously the most impt story from that game though is back-to-back HRs from desmond (den) dekker
― qualx, Sunday, 27 September 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
I don't think I've ever disliked a player as much as Papelbon, even when he was on the Red Sox.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 27 September 2015 22:26 (eight years ago) link
Just watched it. I'm not saying Papelbon's right and Harper's wrong, but it does remind me of something from Ball Four: you're only as smart as your ERA. I forget the specifics, but I think it was a journeyman having an argument with a star player, and Bouton was pointing out that it didn't matter what the journeyman said, he wasn't winning that argument. So Harper's the league's MVP, a billion dollar property, and Papelbon's a reviled jerk who's worn out his welcome. But I wonder how that would be perceived if it were Harper getting on Papelbon for not hustling.
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 September 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
i think the issue is more that papelbon was the one who escalated it into a physical fight. i mean of course the fact that he was attacking the league MVP and the franchise cornerstone for what is likely a decade to come means he toast obv.
― nomar, Sunday, 27 September 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
if harper was the one who escalated it i think papelbon would still be getting hate but i don't think it would potentially end his career with the team.
― nomar, Sunday, 27 September 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
Yeah--it was Papelbon who lunged at him (at his throat, no less), I guess that's the issue.
― clemenza, Sunday, 27 September 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2015/09/27/mlbtv_phiwas_505505983_1200K.mp4
― pandit pran nathalie (sanskrit), Monday, 28 September 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
Apology:
"First of all, let me say, I'm in the wrong there," Papelbon said. "I've got to leave that up to our manager.
"I've talked to Bryce and told him how we feel and we're on the same page now, which is good. Squash this and (play) tomorrow's game. You know, I grew up with brothers, he grew up with brothers. I view him as a brother of mine. Sometimes in this game there's a lot of testosterone and there's a lot of intensity that spills over, and I think that happened today. For me, I can't allow that to happen in the middle of a game. You handle that after the games or allow the manager to handle that. In that light of it, I'm wrong."
You could take that at face value, or not. Obvious the Machado thing lurks in the background here.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 September 2015 00:38 (eight years ago) link
i guess bull durham has taught us all not to throw punches with our pitching hands, but grabbing at someone's throat seems like a strange reaction to me
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2015 00:48 (eight years ago) link
http://sports.cbsimg.net/images/visual/whatshot/414papgrabsharpbyneck.jpg
u wan play spies
― qualx, Monday, 28 September 2015 00:55 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CP9ySspVEAAp2G1.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/794522/images/o-ASHAMEDANIMALS-facebook.jpg
― nomar, Monday, 28 September 2015 06:16 (eight years ago) link
http://mlb.nbcsports.com/2015/09/28/former-players-think-papelbon-was-right-wha
come on, cj
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
@jay_jaffeSMH. focusing on quallity of Bryce Harper's hustle shouldn't the issue when HIS ASSHOLE TEAMMATE TRIED TO CHOKE HIM IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
― Andy K, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Like Papelbon wasn't motivated 100% by revenge.
Did he ever pull anything like that with Ortiz, Ramirez, Howard...?
― Andy K, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CP_xlV_VAAIQLBV.png
mark derosa otm
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
it's like papelbon learned about calling out a lack of hustle from a babelfish translation of a misspelled brian mccann facebook rant
― nomar, Monday, 28 September 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
@jay_jaffeSMH. focusing on quallity of Bryce Harper's hustle shouldn't the issue when HIS ASSHOLE TEAMMATE TRIED TO CHOKE HIM IN BROAD DAYLIGHT― Andy K, Monday, September 28, 2015 10:55 AM (18 minutes ago)
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 28 September 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
unless harper was bragging about sleeping with pabelbon's partner or something i have no idea why it matters what they were arguing about
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 28 September 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
i guess this Friday's NYM-WAS game i have tix for might be suspenseful after all
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 28 September 2015 15:34 (eight years ago) link
Absolutely. I kind of missed the throat-lunge initially; it makes everything else irrelevant.
― clemenza, Monday, 28 September 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
@LaTroyHawkins32@CJNitkowski loved the article CJ, Pap will take a beating for this from everyone who doesn't play the game. #EntitlementGeneration
kids these days think they *deserve* not to be choked
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
― nomar, Monday, September 28, 2015 11:09 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol so otm
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 28 September 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
Also see Showalter's quote above -- top step as turnbuckle.
― Andy K, Monday, 28 September 2015 16:04 (eight years ago) link
wtf Latroy Hawkins.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 September 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
The 'play the right way' shit from old-timers is extra bizarre since this is the first season Harper hasn't hurt himself for hustling too hard.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 28 September 2015 17:32 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQAeJAVUsAIuFBW.png
― Andy K, Monday, 28 September 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
Today's lineup -- the Nats' last home game. Thanks, fans!
Taylor CF Turner SS Rendon 3B Robinson 1B Ramos C Moore LF den Dekker RF Uggla 2B Scherzer P
― Andy K, Monday, 28 September 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
@MarcCarigSo, Harper had a scheduled day off, and now it’s being labeled as a benching. This guy is amazing.
― Andy K, Monday, 28 September 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
tbf the nats fans are some of the worst in baseball, so maybe they deserve dan uggla starting at 2B still being in the major leagues
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
they are?
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
ha, well it's obviously anecdotal, but every game i've attended there has been dismal. i chalk it up to DC being such a transient place. feels like the nats are everyone's second favorite team there.
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
better that than real-life hatcats/caps/terps fans
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
not sure how the nats are going to finish this game without their closer
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 September 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
don cherry is weighing in on the papelbon affair; i'll bet you (canadians) can guess where he stands
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 15:11 (eight years ago) link
given that papelbon has authority as judge and deliverer of punishment, and that he judged harper to be guilty of not hustling enough, the only question left was whether the sentence would be an immediate choking, a suckerpunch in the locker room, or a spinning Zangief-style piledriver into a pile of empty fragile crates in the corner of the room.
― 1997 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
(xpost) Ditto Don Cherry Jr., Gregg Zaun, who says that Harper would have lost his MVP vote over this incident. You read that right the first time.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQFbOIJVAAA1fDX.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
judge lee judge
― nomar, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
CJ Nitkowski has opinions. as usual, they're terrible
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
I've been focused on the what and not the why about Pap/Harp, so it's been interesting to figure out that this wasn't really about hustle but about Harper criticizing Papelbon in public Thursday night for beaning Machado.
― Exit, pursued by Yogi Berra (WilliamC), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
baseball's juvenile self-governance horseshit is outdated and stale.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link