Umm 5 games for Young?

> They are actually suspending Young for that? Are they joking? They have to
> be joking.

Moral of story: If you're a pitcher and a guy charges the mound with his
fists flying, the only way to avoid being ejected, fined, and suspended is
to stand there and let him kick your ass.

Oh well, at least MLB's fighting policy makes the same amount of sense as
their TV blackout policy.
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"Chuck Stearns" <cstearns-i.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> It is only 1 start. The reason they do 5 games as a minimum for pitchers
> is so they miss one start. Even then, they often push back their start by
> one day to avoid missing a turn. He may not even miss a turn.

Which can still mess up a rotations drive.



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> "GO Mavs" <GoMavs.DeleteThis@MavZ.com> wrote in message
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>> They are actually suspending Young for that? Are they joking? They have
>> to be joking.
>>
>> What an injustice. A player can strike at you but you cant strike back
>> and if you do then you get suspended to. What is this? A prison yard?
>>
>
>
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"Barb =^..^=" <Barb331 DeleteThis @webtv.net> wrote in message
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> What about the Cub that was taking his belt off to beat someone. That``s
> not tryng to use a weapon? Young didn`t hit that stupid idiot with the
> pitch plus HE got punched first. Isn`t that a little strange ? IS this
> Bob Watson (commissioner`s office) the one that played for the Astros
> years ago?
> This was handled unfairly from the media as well, it was totally one
> sided.

its a stupid suspension and something yells race... if you suspend a black
guy you have to suspend a white guy mentality? just a guess..

ridiculous... what was young supose to do? sit their and take it? lol

and furthermore the pitch that hit lee was almost over the plate.. thats the
funny thing about all of this...
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The thing that everyone seems to be forgetting is that Young said
something to Lee that made him mad enough to swing at Young. THAT'S
what started the whole thing! I'd like to find out what Young said!
When asked, Lee seems to avoid a repy, apparently doesn't want to repeat
it.
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> It is only 1 start. The reason they do 5 games as a minimum for pitchers
> is so they miss one start. Even then, they often push back their start by
> one day to avoid missing a turn. He may not even miss a turn.

You have to suspend a pitcher 9 days for them to miss a start.
Young just received an extra days rest.
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> The thing that everyone seems to be forgetting is that Young said
> something to Lee that made him mad enough to swing at Young. THAT'S
> what started the whole thing!

Actually, what Peavy said started the whole thing.
He was just fined.
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Charged the mound? Young left the mound and approached Lee and words
were exchanged and then came the blows. If Young had stayed on the mound
and not provoked Lee with his comments nothing would of come of it. A
pitcher throws a rising fastball at a batters head walks off the mound
towards the batter and makes a comment to incite one of the most easy
going hitters in MLB and you want to blame the batter. Any time a player
takes a swing at another player regardless if he throws the first punch,
both parties will receive punishment. In this case Young got a slap on the
wrist. PItchers get a real break on this unless their relievers.
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On Jun 19, 2:04 pm, Al Bundy <abu... RemoveThis @later.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:33:46 GMT, "GO Mavs" <GoM... RemoveThis @MavZ.com> wrote:
> >They are actually suspending Young for that? Are they joking? They have to
> >be joking.
>
> He walked toward home plate.....if he would have stayed on the mound
> probably nothing would have happened.

He walked toward home plate, like all pitchers do when they hit a
batter to get another ball, and the idiot that got hit (Lee) ran his
mouth then took a swing. Young just defended himself. He is in no
way a "hotheaded" pitcher. When you get hit, take your freaking base
and shut your mouth.
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On Jun 19, 2:46 pm, Mark Anderson <m... RemoveThis @nospambrandylion.com> wrote:
> In article b... RemoveThis @hole.com says...
>
> > Moral of story: If you're a pitcher and a guy charges the mound with his
> > fists flying, the only way to avoid being ejected, fined, and suspended is
> > to stand there and let him kick your ass.
>
> Pitchers can always run away. But Young didn't run away, he went
> towards Lee and provoked him. The video tells the entire story and
> anyone who can't see Young's culpability is delusional. IMHO, Young
> should have gotten 10 days or 2 starts since he provoked the entire
> incident and maybe even threw at Lee on purpose. I don't think Giles or
> that other guy should have been fined but they'll probably straighten
> that out in an appeal.

He could have run away - and become an object of ridicule for every
ESPN talking head and sports talk radio idiot from coast to coast.
"Look at the big sissy - he's 6-10, and he's running away like a
scared little girl!" Like it or not, pro sports is a testosterone-
fueled world, and when somebody throws a punch at you, you don't run
away.
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:33:46 GMT, "GO Mavs" <GoMavs RemoveThis @MavZ.com> wrote:

>They are actually suspending Young for that? Are they joking? They have to
>be joking.

He walked toward home plate.....if he would have stayed on the mound
probably nothing would have happened.
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Exactly

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:30:27 -0400, "wolfer" <wolf76 RemoveThis @nospam.cox.net>
wrote:

> Charged the mound? Young left the mound and approached Lee and words
>were exchanged and then came the blows. If Young had stayed on the mound
>and not provoked Lee with his comments nothing would of come of it. A
>pitcher throws a rising fastball at a batters head walks off the mound
>towards the batter and makes a comment to incite one of the most easy
>going hitters in MLB and you want to blame the batter. Any time a player
>takes a swing at another player regardless if he throws the first punch,
>both parties will receive punishment. In this case Young got a slap on the
>wrist. PItchers get a real break on this unless their relievers.
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In article bung RemoveThis @hole.com says...
> Moral of story: If you're a pitcher and a guy charges the mound with his
> fists flying, the only way to avoid being ejected, fined, and suspended is
> to stand there and let him kick your ass.

Pitchers can always run away. But Young didn't run away, he went
towards Lee and provoked him. The video tells the entire story and
anyone who can't see Young's culpability is delusional. IMHO, Young
should have gotten 10 days or 2 starts since he provoked the entire
incident and maybe even threw at Lee on purpose. I don't think Giles or
that other guy should have been fined but they'll probably straighten
that out in an appeal.
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On Jun 19, 6:34?pm, tks <t... RemoveThis @somewhere.net> wrote:
> GO Mavs wrote:
>
> > Only if you have Harry Carry sized glasses on!
>
> Now if you are going to keep referring to Harry, you should at least
> know how to spell his name.
>
> It is Harry C-a-r-a-y...
>
> Please write that 50 times.
>
> Just helping out.
>
> tks

Please don't feed the trolls....
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