Running Baseball Thread XIV: AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME!

Even if they tie, the Yankees would win the division on the head-to-head tiebreaker. So Bucky Dent 2007 would be Derek Jeter, last week.

 

Oh I know. But if I fall one save or a fraction of an ERA/whip/K-BB point short...there will be hell to pay. HELL.

 

So ... no one else got a comment on the Milton Bradley thing?

Even for him, this is weird.

 

It sucks that he probably blew his knee out, and if Bradley's explanation is accurate, then that umpire deserves to be suspended a long time.

That said, this probably doesn't happen if Bradley's not one of the hottest heads in the game. Umpires aren't taking any shit from him. If you go apeshit enough and you fashion a rep as the ticking timebomb of baseball long enough, well, you lose any benefit of the doubt when your bat ends up in the general vicinity of the umpire (it was hard to tell from that rant what set the whole thing off...thought it was the first base ump thinking Bradley threw the bat at him) after you are called out on strikes. So it sucks this happened, but when your reputation precedes you, shit like this happens.

I also got a kick out of Bradley saying he's never hurt anyone. How about your wife?

 

It would be hard to cover this story without at least a vague idea what the ump said. All I've seen so far is it wasn't racial.

 

Bradley after the game.

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3033615&n8pe6c=2

Is there video of what happened on the field?

 

I haven't seen any clips, but how would an ump cause the knee injury?

 

Quite possibly the funniest video ever

...this is unbelievable...

You're going to have to work awfully hard to find a video funnier than this one today. Milton Bradley, kids. He's world class.

 

Clavin

 

Unbelievable that the ump started chirping at Bradley almost as soon as Bradley got to first base.

Winters appears to be 100% wrong here but, of course, Bradley's reputation automatically makes him the bad guy.

 

Anybody else think Bradley was faking the knee injury? I didn't see anything that looked like it would have hurt him that badly.

Never mind. Watched it again, and it does look like the knee got tweaked a little. I wouldn't be surprised if Bradley is milking it a bit, though.

 

Oh sure, they can make the playoffs, with all that momentum and with another unprecedented divisional lead flushed. The Globe began yacking about it last week - it's incredulous the resignation Boston approaches life with when it comes to anything Yankee. 2004 was indeed one of those shake-the-earth things that comes along every, oh, 86 years.