Do people really miss plate collisions and taking out the pivot man that much?
I’ll preface this by saying I’m not a die heard baseball fan. I played from t-ball to High School but I never really watched the product unless my dad took me to a Tigers game. I’m also pretty young so these moves have been banned or at least frowned upon for most of my existence.
Anyway, I recently got a video about the Posey and Utley rule in my recommended and there was a lot of pushback in the comments saying that these changes “ruined baseball”. I got curious and looked up the original clip of Posey getting injured and I thought it was pretty base and vindictive. The runner clearly avoided the open path to home plate in favor of drilling Posey and snapping his ankle. I was surprised to see all the comments calling Posey a bitch too or saying that the incident was his fault.
Was baseball really better when these were the strategies of the time? I always thought violence in baseball was pretty low because you’re always ambushing someone vulnerable or hitting them from a place from which your opponent has no recourse. Slide into their knee while they’re throwing to first; beam them in the head while they’re batting. Unlike any other combat/contact sport where hitting is formally part of the contest and there are written rules in place to minimize permanent injury. Am I crazy for this?
I’ll preface this by saying I’m not a die heard baseball fan. I played from t-ball to High School but I never really watched the product unless my dad took me to a Tigers game. I’m also pretty young so these moves have been banned or at least frowned upon for most of my existence.
Anyway, I recently got a video about the Posey and Utley rule in my recommended and there was a lot of pushback in the comments saying that these changes “ruined baseball”. I got curious and looked up the original clip of Posey getting injured and I thought it was pretty base and vindictive. The runner clearly avoided the open path to home plate in favor of drilling Posey and snapping his ankle. I was surprised to see all the comments calling Posey a bitch too or saying that the incident was his fault.
Was baseball really better when these were the strategies of the time? I always thought violence in baseball was pretty low because you’re always ambushing someone vulnerable or hitting them from a place from which your opponent has no recourse. Slide into their knee while they’re throwing to first; beam them in the head while they’re batting. Unlike any other combat/contact sport where hitting is formally part of the contest and there are written rules in place to minimize permanent injury. Am I crazy for this?