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Tony La Russa and his nonsense makes me hate baseball. 

posted by friendfromlowry

Tony La Russa and his nonsense makes me hate baseball. 

What'd he do?

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31468198/chicago-white-sox-manager-tony-la-russa-upset-rookie-yermin-mercedes-not-showing-respect-your-opponent-victory?platform=amp

posted by friendfromlowry

Tony La Russa and his nonsense makes me hate baseball. 

I know, that is SO stupid, IMO.

https://www.facebook.com/177037772444433/posts/2127017937446397/?d=n

I don’t think the article mentions LaRussa, but he is angry with his player and wants to punish him. 

Here’s the at bat. That 3-0 pitch looked like it would have been a strike. 

LaRussa is not wrong that there were going to be guys getting thrown at, so I think pulling him aside and saying you or your teammates are gonna get drilled now is fine. But do it on private and stick up for your guys.

On the flip side, the whole not swinging at those pitches is just ridiculous and needs to go away. 

Both things can, and are, true. But bottom line is the manager needs to stick up for his team, not call them out. Then double down. Then triple down. And if I read correctly today, it’s a quadruple down now.

^^^ I was thinking that, too. Whatever happened to handling things behind closed doors, and not publicly throwing your players under the bus? 

Tony's an old drunk, so there's that.

Kluber with a no-no. And I’m not sure it’s even in his 3 best games ever pitched. Which is incredible. 

Everyone is going to throw a no-hitter in 2021.

There have been 6 thrown already, against just 3 teams. Rangers, Indians, and Mariners have all been blanked twice.

posted by Laley23

Kluber with a no-no. And I’m not sure it’s even in his 3 best games ever pitched. Which is incredible. 

He pitched a bunch of "terrific" games for the Tribe that ended with a Loss or No Decision because of no run support.

Good for him!

posted by justincredible

There have been 6 thrown already, against just 3 teams. Rangers, Indians, and Mariners have all been blanked twice.

MLB record is 8 in a year, I believe.

posted by justincredible

Everyone is going to throw a no-hitter in 2021.

When the Pirates do, they'll pull an Andy Hawkins and wind up losing the game regardless.

posted by justincredible

There have been 6 thrown already, against just 3 teams. Rangers, Indians, and Mariners have all been blanked twice.

Amazing how much more pathetic Seattle is a hitting than the lowly bats of Cleveland

posted by Gardens35

He pitched a bunch of "terrific" games for the Tribe that ended with a Loss or No Decision because of no run support.

Good for him!

The first one that comes to mind is his 18 K game 1-hitter vs Cards. Put that game versus these teams and he is throwing a perfect game that night. Of course Tito robbed us all of potential history and didn’t throw him out there for the 9th. But that game ranks up there as a top-10 performance ever. 

From CC Sabathia:

“Tony La Russa is out of touch with the game,” Sabathia said. “He should not be managing one of the best teams in the American League, period. The fact that Tim Anderson, basically the captain of their team, had to go on Instagram and step up for his teammate, like yeah, the game wasn’t over. If you’re putting in a f--king position player to pitch, guess what, if he’s gonna lob s--t over the plate, we’re gonna f--king tee off. Put a 10-run rule up there! If y’all don’t want to see people get embarrassed, if you don’t want to see position players pitch, and people swinging on 3-0 counts and all that s--t, then make it a 10-run rule so the game would be f--king over and you don’t have these stupid ass unwritten rules.”

posted by BRF

From CC Sabathia:

“Tony La Russa is out of touch with the game,” Sabathia said. “He should not be managing one of the best teams in the American League, period. The fact that Tim Anderson, basically the captain of their team, had to go on Instagram and step up for his teammate, like yeah, the game wasn’t over. If you’re putting in a f--king position player to pitch, guess what, if he’s gonna lob s--t over the plate, we’re gonna f--king tee off. Put a 10-run rule up there! If y’all don’t want to see people get embarrassed, if you don’t want to see position players pitch, and people swinging on 3-0 counts and all that s--t, then make it a 10-run rule so the game would be f--king over and you don’t have these stupid ass unwritten rules.”

Twins pitcher and manager were suspended three and one game(s) for throwing behind Mercedes. I'm sure La Russa was horrified by that.