Manager ridicules his player for hitting a home run, a breakdown

what's the grave mistake that this guy's

player made that

the family is gonna make him endure he

hit a home run

in garbage time when the other team

threw up the white flag said hey

we're gonna put a position player on the

mound because we don't care about this

game anymore

but can you guys please not try because

if you do it'll get our feelings hurt

that's what happened here we're slowly

learning over and over again that the

generation

of baseball players that consider

themselves tough are actually

the biggest babies when it comes to

getting their feelings hurt

here's some more in it if you had been

at the ballpark just about the time that

guys told me to pitch i ran

i took several steps from the dugout

onto the field yelling take take take

because just the way he was set up i

looked at me like he was going to swing

and the whole time he's around basically

i'm out there and i'm

you know i was upset because that's not

a time to swing three and oh and you

know i happen to look over there and

i know the twins knew that i was upset

you know it won't happen again because

you know joel will be able to look out

and i will be too and we'll go running

in front of the pitcher

we have to he's not going to do that

again i

i heard he says something like i played

my game but

no he doesn't he plays the game of major

league baseball

respects again respects the opponents

and that was not

and he's going to respect the signs when

he gets to take signing takes

so yeah if he if he blatantly

disregarded a sign from his coach

i get it you can't do that here's the

2-0 pitch

but i mean i call bull spit and my

personal opinion on the whole sign like

tony the russo

says maybe he's looking at the sign

there well i'll show this again

so the 2-0 pitch gets thrown it's a

position player pitching the twins have

given up on the game does he look for

the sign there it's kind of too quick to

maybe even get a sign

he barely even looks he steps in now

tony the russo says at this point

he saw that he was digging in and he ran

up the top step

because the horror of the horror don't

swing don't swing at this pitch

you'll get everyone mad at us so tony

says he ran up the steps screaming take

take take take take

which i mean show me the footage

otherwise i don't i really don't believe

i think he's exaggerating it for

effect and then he does swing at the 3-0

pitch and he hits a home run

and that's the grave mistake that he

made i actually apologize to the twins i

said the message order

i'm not acceptable he apologized

to the opponent because his player

hit a home run after the opponent

put a position player on the mound and

said we don't care about this game

anymore

we're not even gonna try he went and

apologized

do you expect anything in retaliation

of sorts from the twins you know

i'm hoping that they they know i know

they know that i was really upset

with with with it it shouldn't have

happened uh i hope it's enough

so i think that's the crux of the whole

thing i think tony larussa

is giving this ridiculously terrible

optics interview

hoping that the twins don't hit one of

his players and he's actually in a

pseudo way defending his clubhouse by

trying to get in front of it

and saying i formally apologize to the

twins it was a grave mistake i

ran up the steps to try and stop it i'm

so sorry we should have never done that

we should have never done that

so that his players don't get hit i mean

that's what a lot of people are saying

it could be it

it's just a weird way to go about it and

i don't think

it worked when you got his own players

backing the player and not the coach tim

anderson says the game wasn't over

keep doing you big daddy and lance lin

said

if a position player is on the mound

there are no rules

let's get the damn game over with and if

you have a problem with whatever

happened

then put a pitcher out there if it's a

pitcher whose stats are on the line and

pitching garbage time and like a young

kid

sure maybe let him get back in the count

still don't really think so but it's a

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position player the twins gave up on the

game

anyway the next game duffy's on the bump

and he's breathing heavy because he

got told by his twins coaches that he

has to hit yerman

i don't think duffy acted on his own

phil hughes was on the part in my take

podcast talked about a time when he got

told he had to hit someone it wasn't

even like that like it was

um this guy was being an idiot and our

pitching coach came over and said like

hey next inning you gotta hit this guy

and i didn't do it i missed twice

i threw one right at him and he like

somehow got out of the way and then the

next one i'm like okay i gotta go in a

little bit more to get this guy and i

went behind him

and he was pissed the manager got thrown

out he got thrown out and i stayed in

the game

so you know maybe duffy acts on his own

here or maybe he got told by the coaches

that he has

to hit this guy which i think is what

happened he throws behind him

everyone kind of like whoa that guy gets

a little fright

right behind him your min grabs a look

at him right here and he's like

oh okay maybe you guys are mad

hmm and duffy's like oh [ __ ] i missed

him i'm gonna have to hit him again

the umpires get together to figure out

what's going on and they say you know

what let's just get this guy out of here

this is a stupid situation

they throw him out me

all right tim anderson says get your ass

out of here

get out [ __ ] weak ass

anderson's got his players back rocco

comes up the manager of the twin says

you had the whole crew get together to

make that decision

and that's what he's mad about he says

you should have given one at the plate

before the game saying like

hey if you're gonna throw them out just

for throwing behind a guy we should have

got warnings

before the game otherwise you have to

give warnings now also you're the crew

chief why did you need everyone else's

help to make this decision

and he says that is [ __ ] [ __ ]

that is [ __ ]

[ __ ] that's what he's mad about

he's like why'd you pull them all

together like give warnings out you make

the decisions kind of semantics

that is [ __ ] [ __ ] that is [ __ ]

wrong

that is [ __ ] wrong okay and he's

gonna say like i don't care what they

think i don't care what anyone thinks

you're the home plate umpire you should

have made the call why'd you get your

friends together

which is kind of a weird argument i

think so he gets tossed

but it's kind of a weird argument

because it's like well they were trying

to like you know put the brain trust

get out see you later you're out

goodbye bam bam bam bam

stay mad rocko's out

he probably is a little mad tony russo's

like oh wow okay

cool baseball i'm doing the damn thing

i knew that would happen i called it

here's what he said after the game about

this

it's it's bizarre umpire's opinion

going obviously i threw a sinker and

you know it'll look good so

he said that it wasn't obvious to him

that they threw out his player on

purpose

even though his whole before the game

preamble was to stop

them from throwing at his hitters

this dude's just gatekeeping for this

his version of the sport of baseball and

the umpires

and the other team i don't even i don't

get i wasn't that suspicious

i suspiciously close to somebody's head

and they're not suspicious

i don't i don't have a problem with how

twins handle that

he has no problem with how the twins

handled it he only has a problem with

how his team handled it

not the opposing team i don't know man

just bizarre all around and

stupid and just dumb and this is the

weirdest part of the whole

uh interview it didn't really have

anything to do with the main storyline

but i wanted to throw it in here at the

end

it's just funny he was asked

are your players allowed to swing at 3-0

pitches

and swing big in blowouts if they have a

regular pitcher on the mountain not a

position player and

he said this you know if you could do it

differently i'd sin

and and and we'd have to play position

i'd send three pictures up there

you know just to stand there and tap the

ball someplace

he would send three pitchers out there

and just

tell them to tap the ball because he

doesn't want to tell his own guys

he doesn't want to tell his hitters to

go up there and get out on purpose so

he'd

if the other team sends a position

player in a blowout he'd just send up

pitchers to hit

because too many feelings are on the

line

what are we doing if you want the other

team to stop trying

quit i guess

[ __ ] man i'm absolutely certain that the

guy's not gonna swing three or no

in another situation but i'm not going

to tell you

you know i didn't try to spank him he's

too big and strong and i didn't try to

spank him he's too big and strong and

i didn't try to spank him he's too big

and strong and