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it s allowed in mlb obviously it is it s bullshit that mlb allows it and that a player like utley who has done this before just not with such horrible results feels perfectly fine going in that way with the knowledge regardless of what he says that someone could get seriously hurt hell not only is this not the first time utley has made such a slide it s not even the first time he s wiped out ruben tejada when he did it in 2010 david wright commented we re going to have to reevaluate the way we go into second base that was five years ago no reevaluation no admission from mlb last night that something needs to be done just a young player in the playoffs for the first time in the hospital with what could very well be a career ending injury joe torre tried to sound concerned but if you read this transcript from last night his concern sounds more for saving chase utley s reputation and defending the umpires than worrying about tejada or any other infielders getting hurt so i m angry and i have no solutions except to stop allowing players to tackle other players we hear all the time how bat flips or watching a home run disrespects the game none of those things will end up with a player being broken how do you not believe going at someone with no protection and usually no way to avoid you is a legitimately clean play maybe it is finally time that major league baseball does some evaluating i m not holding my breath october 11 2015 posted by cyn 2015 2015 nlds buffalo bisons chase utley david wright joe torre kelly o connor los angeles dodgers major league baseball new york mets ron darling ruben tejada umpires leave a comment nesn drops the ball don orsillo with gary tuck june 2010 photo courtesy of kelly o connor sittingstill and used with permission it s like he s trying to speak to me i know it you know you re really cute but i don t know what you re saying say the first thing again marlin baffled by squirt in finding nemo also me to all the students presenting at the saber seminar last weekend if i had to guess i d say maybe every other presenter at the saber seminar this past weekend made a not all baseball fans are like this group here comment every time someone said it i thought hell i m not even like this group i love baseball love it fall asleep every night to a random game playing on extra innings long after the red sox have finished their game but i have to admit that the advanced statistics often times go right over my head i try to have the same passion for it that i do the game itself but i don t and that isn t to say that i didn t enjoy the saber seminar i did it was two days of a lot of fascinating discussions baseball stories and like minded people getting a chance to interact it was my first time there and it was time well spent but there are a boatload of genuine passionate baseball fans who would have lasted about a half an hour and then gone looking for a bar with a tv showing a baseball game and that s okay we ll get back to this in a moment as i m guessing anyone reading this already knows it was announced today that after the 2015 season nesn will not be bringing don orsillo back to the broadcast booth i mean what the hell after giving it some thought my reaction was well this is terrible news but i guess no one has their job forever and then i thought why the hell not i mean unless you are absolutely terrible at your job why shouldn t you be able to keep it yes yes if the outpouring of emotion all over social media outlets today is any indication most red sox fans as well as the boston sports media are quite fond of donnie o and genuinely upset about the situation there are support hashtags for d o and nasty comments to nesn s twitter account that have been flooding twitter all afternoon people are threatening to cancel their extra innings or mlbtv subscriptions next season while others are posting videos of don and jerry remy at their most entertaining but one tweet stood out for me it was in response to a chad finn tweet globechadfinn i like analysis and not a comedy show which is what people are defending with orsillo he is not that good joe palladino palladinojoe august 25 2015 platform twitter com widgets js now joe palladino is quite possibly a very nice man so i m not here to specifically call him out especially since he isn t the only person to make this observation but it was the first tweet of its kind that i saw today and it made me think about baseball fans and their expectations as an important aside it was pointed out to mr p and many others that don orsillo s job is to provide play by play not analysis that fact doesn t take away from the point i m about to make don orsillo has two jobs the first is to tell us what is happening in the game the play by play if you will the second and this is so very important to his job is to entertain us some will argue that plenty of announcers do their jobs perfectly fine without breaking into giggle fits or showing off their packing skills and those people would be correct but that doesn t mean that you can t do your job without acting like you re enjoying the heck out of it and that s what don orsillo has done ever since the first night he took the microphone next to jerry remy there are so many different levels to enjoy baseball some people enjoy lots of hits and runs some prefer pitching duels others keep their noses buried in their scorecards while others go to the park to take photos of the action some spend hours and hours pouring over statistics and working on creating new statistics to mark every moment of the game there are fans who go to the park to enjoy a summer evening outdoors and fans who collect baseball cards for the pictures of the cute guys and there are many many fans who use baseball as their soundtrack to summer either with the radio or the television every night around 7pm people some people settle in to spend a few hours with their baseball friends there is no wrong way to be a fan unless you re a jackass don t be a jackass but i digress the saber seminar s connection to mr palladino s above tweet is tenuous but does exist in my mind the majority of the folks at the seminar were wonderfully welcoming interesting and fun and obviously passionate about baseball they were also incredibly focussed on the science and statistics surrounding baseball for the most part the weekend wasn t about being entertained by the game it was about the deeper meaning behind each pitch hit and run and that s great and i get that some people like the folks at the seminar and mr p above might turn into a baseball broadcast to learn more about the statistics and the science they want more than just swing and a miss or hitters are batting 283 versus smith over his last 12 appearances but in fairness those folks passionate and wonderful as they are don t make up the entirety of baseball fans the fans who just want to hear the game being called by a familiar voice make up the majority of the fans the folks who enjoy hearing don and jerry lose their minds over some idiot who tossed a slice of pizza at another fan or who get excited that jerry surprised don with a desk lamp those are the fans who thought nesn got it with don orsillo we ve celebrated three world championships and three no hitters four if you count derek lowe but orsillo didn t call that game we ve mourned the losses of ted williams and johnny pesky among others and we laughed holy cow have we laughed what folks like mr palladino above and apparently all the suits at nesn don t get is that for many of us a member of our family is being kicked out of our home with seemingly no good explanation if he was spreading his wings and taking his talents elsewhere on his own we d be sad but understanding being unceremoniously dumped makes no sense to us and we re left hurt and angry and with questions that nesn probably won t ever answer don orsillo isn t an analyst but he s an entertainer and he does that job well nesn is taking away someone who has grown dear to so many of the people they rely on for their ratings maybe they don t care it s a fair bet that they don t care but that doesn t mean that we can t care watching nesn next season might not be an option for me because i don t know that i want to support a business who cares so little about people i guess what i ve been trying to say is that i will miss don orsillo terribly when he s gone and that makes me sad i m so tired of baseball making me sad august 25 2015 posted by cyn 2015 boston red sox chad finn don orsillo nesn saber seminar 5 comments i m not sorry never forget this is how i was greeted tonight so what do you think about whatshisname in the herald writing that the red sox owe a rod an apology i had no idea what he was talking about or who whatshisname was so i was forced to go look and i found this from steve buckley bottom line failing to acknowledge a rod friday night wasn t as bad as the stunt dempster pulled in 2013 but it was a failure nonetheless and the red sox owe a rod an apology while i am tempted to use salty language i will try to refrain at least for now but is steve buckley freaking kidding me is he trolling us all is he now turning into a dan shaughnessy click bait machine i mean what the good hell steve buckley thinks that by not acknowledging that a rod is now tied for 4th place with willie mays on the all time home run list that they have perpetuated some tragic miscarriage of justice everyone knows what stfu means yes also i d just like to say that if i ever meet ryan dempster he s getting a hug a kiss and as many free beers as i can afford to buy him i watched the game on nesn friday night while also watching online via twitter a few reporters on twitter immediately noted that fenway park did not mention the home run and seemed perplexed by this my first thought about it was why antagonize the fans seriously the home run that a rod hit his 660th tied him with mays for 4th place but more importantly in the moment it gave the yankees the lead in a game they ended up winning red sox fans already felt lousy enough why would their own team rub salt in that wound by making the fans cheer for the guy by announcing his milestone while i m ranting about it i dig willie mays as much as the next person but we re talking about 4th place here where is it written that we have to celebrate you for coming in fourth but i digress regardless of how petty others might think it is there is a large contingent of baseball fans the majority of them probably red sox fans who flat out do not like a rod we could point to his suspension for steroids for the entire 2014 season we could talk about his interview with peter gammons where he claimed the only time he used was in 2001 2002 while he was in texas and that he didn t even know what substance he used or we could talk about how he announced to the world that he was opting out of his contract with the yankees during the 2007 world series i could keep listing reasons why alex rodriguez is not popular in general but specifically if there is a fan base renowned for hating him it s the red sox fans steve buckley along with the rest of the baseball world knows this quite well some of our reasons are rational and some aren t some are thin and stretch the limits of why we wouldn t like someone and some of them involve the freaking 2004 alds and a rod slapping the ball out of bronson arroyo s hand and then acting all surprised when the umpires got together and called his ball slapping ass out red sox fans do not like alex rodriguez a rod knows this steve buckley knows this most importantly the boston red sox know this they didn t ignore his home run on friday to show solidarity with the yankees i d like to think they ignored it to show solidarity with the red sox fans for the record dr charles steinberg claims the intent was to acknowledge it during a rod s next at bat but he didn t get one in that game there are many many people who believe home runs 1 654 we ll give him the benefit of the doubt for 2015 just for the sake of argument are irreparably tainted good for you if you are not one of those people but at least understand not only that people feel this way but why and if you can t figure out why then you with your head in the sand and your eyes blinded by yankees pinstripes are part of the problem i will be terribly disappointed if the red sox do decide to apologize to him in my opinion what the red sox did friday night wasn t to disrespect alex rodriguez it was to show respect to their fans if a rod wanted respect he should have gone about it a completely different way if anyone owes an apology it s a rod for pretty much everything he s ever done and he should issue it every single day of the rest of his life because really screw that guy may 4 2015 posted by cyn 2015 2004 boston red sox alex rodriguez boston red sox bronson arroyo dr charles steinberg major league baseball mlb new york yankees peter gammons ryan dempster steve buckley willie mays 4 comments previous entries about this is where i house the archives to my red sox chick and toeing the rubber blogs posts from july 2005 through february 2012 so far because i never intended this all to go on as long as it has many of the posts here don t have the original pictures with them in some entries i ve deleted the dead photo links altogether some you ll get the notice that the picture is no longer available and some i actually inserted new pictures but really you re not going to get photos with the majority of the red sox chick posts and a good chunk of the toeing the rubber posts that were written during my time at weei com thanks as always for stopping by toeing the rubber despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage this is opening day sox opening day postponed opening day 2016 mother nature s revenge it was a winter weekend remembering hell catching hell we should not be okay with a broken leg nesn drops the 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