Anybody see this happen? San Francisco Giants second baseman Jeff Kent holds up a bird that was killed when it flew in the path of a pitch thrown by Arizona Diamondbacks ace Randy Johnson in the seventh inning Saturday. ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
Why does Jeff Kent think thats so funny. Im no animal rights activist or something, but cmon, the bird was unfortunate enough to go out that way, no need to mock it further ------------------
Wow -- that's crazy. It's almost like an omen of sorts, but what could it mean? - D-Backs sweep all "bird" teams this year. Cardinals, Orioles, etc.. - Randy will hit Mark McGwire (a Cardinal) in the head with a wild pitch this season, ending his career. - Larry Bird is in serious trouble. ------------------ My dream job is to be a Houston Rockets towel boy.
Yeah, its funny if youre not the guy taking the bird off the field. But if you are that is just pretty pathetic. "HAHAHA, Randy killed this bird and now I have to take it off the field. HAHAHAHA that is so funny." I mean cmon....and it looks like hes trying to check out the spot where the bird was hit by spreading it open. I mean, leave the dead bird be...just get it off the field and get back to the game. ------------------
I agree. Now it'd be really funny if Jeff Kent got hit by a pitch and somebody carried him off on a stretcher. I'd be laughing my ass off! ------------------ "We need a chicken butt." -- heypartner is moving swiftly to help make the CC.net BBS more efficient and run faster. RAM was the first step, apparently this is the second!
This picture is a perfect depiction of our present day society, which is you and me. We're all turning into a bunch of unfeeling pathetic bastards. Hey though, lighten up, the games must go on. ------------------
I know I certainly take every opportunity to kill a bird so that it won't get in the way of me watching a baseball game. ------------------ "Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian." Lee Simonson
Who says he is mocking it? Someone had to pick it up to take it off the field, and you have to admit that the circumstances are quite funny, so maybe he was laughing while he did it. Lighten up. ------------------ "Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian." Lee Simonson
As Paul Harvey would say, here is "the rest of the story": March 25, 2001, 8:33PM Randy Johnson kills dove with pitch Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. -- A pitch by Randy Johnson hit and killed a dove flying in front of home plate. The lethal pitch came during the seventh inning of the Arizona Diamondbacks' 10-5 victory against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday. The bird flew over the catcher Rod Barajas' head and landed a few feet from the plate amid a sea of feathers. "I'm sitting there waiting for it, and I'm expecting to catch the thing, and all you see is an explosion," Barajas said. "It's crazy. There's still feathers down there." Johnson, the NL Cy Young winner and perhaps the game's hardest thrower, was not amused. "I didn't think it was all that funny," he said. In 1983, Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield killed a seagull in Toronto with a warmup throw. Police charged him with animal cruelty, although the charge was later dropped. "This was a little more dramatic," Arizona manager Bob Brenly said. "I can honestly say I have never seen that before." ------------------ Behad Sergeant at Arms of the Clutch BBS
I'd feel bad too if I accidentally killed a bird, but what are the chances that a fastball would hit a bird? I mean, a fastball gets to the plate in a fraction of a second, and when you consider the realtive sizes of the bird and ball and the space involved, its far-fetched that something like this would happen. ------------------ Founder and President of the Houston Homers Club(HHC) - Are you a homer? Join now! The Rockets will be NBA champions. Believe.
My mom killed a duck that was in flight one morning while driving me to school many years ago. She was yelling at me about something when all of these ducks came flying pretty low across the road. Next thing we know, WHAM! Mom nailed this poor duck. I looked back and saw nothing but a cloud of feathers floating in the street. It was sad, but looking back, it was pretty darn funny in a dark, morbid kind of way. I relate this tale every time my mother's driving skills are called into question. ------------------ "We got f*cking smashed every day. And then when we came here to Beverly Hills, we had drugs, we had chicks, we had orgies. I thought I'd died and gone to f*cking Rome" ---Ozzy Osbourne, on the early days of Black Sabbath
Jeff Kent isn't laughing because he's holding up the dead bird. He's laughing because the weekly paycheck he got yesterday is larger than the total combined yearly salaries of everyone on this BBS! ------------------ "Blues is a Healer" --John Lee Hooker
I find it pretty amusing considering the odds. I can't believe ya are arguing over this when we have people starving in africa and dying every minute of the day. Poor Bird ... Bah! ------------------ Nice guys finish last ... and im surely not going to finish last!
I can't believe you're sitting here posting messages on a bbs while "we have people starving in Africa and dying every minute of the day". Damn BBS... Bah! ...big ol' sarcastic grin ------------------ "We need a chicken butt." -- heypartner is moving swiftly to help make the CC.net BBS more efficient and run faster. RAM was the first step, apparently this is the second!
Who cares about the damned bird! I'm interested in what this means for baseball! What happens when your pitch hits a bird? Is it a re-try? Should one play it as if the bird is irrelevant? Serious questions here, people! ------------------ Boston College - Big East -East Division Regular Season Champs Worst to First in 2001!
I always understood the case to be this: If the pitch leaves your hand on the way towards the plate in this situation, it is treated as a ball, a like if you bounced a crappy pitch up there. Any die hard baseball fans who have the rule book memorized out there? Is this correct? ------------------ "Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian." Lee Simonson
I believe it was a no pitch. ------------------ www.swirve.com...The reason Al Gore invented the internet.
It was a serious flaw in the article not to report if the pitch was called a ball, strike or nothing. I mean, we all feel for the bird (ok, some of us anyway), but obviously, the pitch had to be called. Did anyone see the game? ------------------ RealGM Gafford Art Artisan Cakes
For anyone that hasn't seen the video footage it's on ESPN. WARNING A BIRD DIES IN THIS VIDEO ------------------ Mmmm ... open-faced club sand wedge.
LOL Band! The ESPN broadcast is hilarious, sounding like they were describing one of the worst things in US history! That was BRUTAL, I feel for the bird! But wrong place, wrong time my friend! This is almost as wild as that fly ball that hit a bird in mid-air over 2nd base and killed it in the late 80s. I can't remember exactly who it was, I think it might have been Andre Dawson or Kevin Mitchell. Birds beware! There looks like there will be a bird killed at least once every 10 or 12 years. Is it a conspiracy? You decide! ------------------ Meow! [This message has been edited by RocksMillenium (edited March 27, 2001).]
