And yet when a team gets ultracomfortable against us and a purpose pitch is made the manager apologizes and demotes the pitcher. You don't see anything wrong there?
Oberholtzer didn't throw a purpose pitch... he got ejected for beaning somebody in the midst of an inning that he was getting crushed. He was marked for demotion anyways... lets not act like he was some integral part of the rotation and he was sent away to teach him a lesson.. unless you also have an uncomfortable obsession with yet another unspectacular player.
Exactly. A lot of people on here agree that when Springer went down the team suffered and went into a tail spin.
They weren't going to injure another Royals player. Even with a token beaning by the Astros, would that have really brought Springer back sooner... or given them any sort of realistic "payback"? Pitching inside effectively has always been part of the game... and its not malicious. Seeking pay-back and retribution is the part of the game that may exist... but doesn't really benefit anybody.
Sure, it did... he was their best hitter and he got hurt by an inside pitch. The same sort of pitch that broke Jeff Bagwell's hand 3 years in a row (I guess you're still wanting the Astros to get payback for those too?) How was a token beaning of a Royals player going to change that?
Again your evaluation of a player and his effect on a team is wrong and yet you continue to back it. Jake has sparked this team any you won't admit it. Obie sucking is beside the point, it was the message that was sent by the way it was handled but anyway I'm going to enjoy the game.
Having opinions about stuff like this that's impossible to quantify is fine. Saying it's an absolute and thinking someone is wrong for not "admitting it" doesn't make much sense. A lot of stuff happened at or around the same time, and every player is constantly changing and going in or out of a slump/hot streak. To attribute something to a single player's unquantifiable "spark" is simply impossible to be sure about.
