No. That's an assumption. There might be discussion of whether South Oklahoma was dumb enough or naive enough to do it in a situation where it's counter productive.
You're assuming his appeal is refused and not reduced. Not a bad assumption considering who is hearing the likely appeal. But I want the immediate suspension of all players who've hit any of our batters all season long. Because I can read minds too and they were ALL INTENTIONAL.
So now, the "very first pitch" indicates intent, when Garcia got hit with the "very first pitch" after his showboating. LOL.. Contradictions are endless when there's a biased agenda involved.
Exhibit A: Dismiss an assumption because it's an assumption. Exhibit B: Give credence to an assumption when you agree with it. ____ You guys make it easy with all the contradiction. No big deal, it's just typical human behavior. Again.. switch the jerseys, and there would be plenty of "intentional" rhetoric by the same posters who are saying it wasn't intentional.
“In February 2020, Young was promoted to senior vice president to replace Joe Torre as the MLB's enforcer of discipline action, such as deciding fines and suspensions.“ Well, now it all makes sense. Chris Young made a few phone calls to his boys in the MLB front office. What a joke.
You guys did see that MLB explained why they did it, right? They said all 6 umpires agreed that it was intentional. Right or wrong, that's all the info they are going to rely on, and they aren't going to throw the umpires under the bus and say they were wrong without a reason to do so and the initial suspension doesn't involve talking to the players or teams. The appeal is where Abreu and the Astros can make their alternative case, so we'll see what comes from that - but MLB is not going to do it for them in the initial suspension ruling. This seems like a fairly normal process for how MLB suspensions work and why so many get reduced after appeal.
So how do you explain Garcia getting no suspension? The clown pushed Maldy, who according to the MLB is innocent in it all since he didn’t get a suspending or fine, and put his hands on multiple umpires.
All this whining from the Arlington Clown Show and the Try Hard Corps about pitchers intentionally throwing at hitters...Man, just wait til they hear about this guy named Nolan Ryan that used to play for them.
And now that I think about it...crying about their guy getting thrown at and hit for 36 hours straight while simultaneously jerking off to this one time their guy threw at and hit another guy because it's, literally, the greatest moment in the history of their entire sorry ass franchise sums them up perfectly as a fan base. Josh Hamilton, despite the fact that he's a walking, talking pile of garbage, absolutely nailed it when he escaped Arlington a decade ago and pointed out that "it's not a true baseball town."
Stupid question, for a suspension to be served, do they tell MLB Abreu will serve from today's game? Does Baker fill out some sort of roster card and hands it to the ump and Abreu will be unavailable. Or as long as Abreu doesn't pitch, that would count as serving a suspension?
Let's not forget Rangers fans also celebrating Rougned Odor sucker punching Jose Bautista in the face like a little b**** for pimping a HR in the exact same way Garcia did. Arlington hypocrisy and douchery at its finest.
So to those who continue to say it was intentional, then you're saying not only were they OK with putting runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs in a two run game in game 5 of the ALCS, but they also didn't care if one of the best relief pitchers in mlb would be suspended (in the remaining game(s) in the ALCS or in the WS if they move on).
NO. Not at all. I'm not okay with the suspension. Again, we had plausible deniability. And, MLB overreacted. (they're concerned with perception after the scandal)
I still find it hard to believe this was intentional. The only way i can see it be intentional is Abreu going rogue. I don't think Dusty or Maldy could predict what would happen after that pitch and Dusty certainly knows that the risks of that far outweigh the rewards.
