Re: Ozzie Guillen
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On what planet was this ok, but what Ozzie does is out of control? I swear, for some reason I hear Barrett get lauded a bit too much on these boards for this incident. If it had been A.J. doing the same thing you'd be screaming for the death penalty. Compare A.J. to the crap Barrett has been pulling the last couple years (incidents with Oswalt last year, Dave Roberts of the Padres this year and the Pierzynski incident) and tell me which of the two is the biggest douchebag. If you still say A.J., you're not looking objectively.
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I'm not going to spend too much time defending Barrett's actions. But a difference is that he picked the fight on his own. Also, I dislike AJ, so it was nice watching him catch one in the kisser.
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Guillen is obviously out of control. I predict he gets the boot soon.
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Hit our people, we'll hit yours. That's been going on in baseball since the beginning. Perhaps you need to examine why that's "out of control" when Guillen follows those guidelines but it's "just baseball" when 29 other managers do it.
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In a subsequent post I said that I'm all for throwing at hitters. I agree it's part of the game. I don't like when the throwing is so blatantly ordered by the wacky manager. It should be done in a way that an 8 year old kid would just assume the pitcher lost a little control, but adults will have to assume it was on purpose.
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