Originally posted by Cowtipper
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Is Don Mattingly kidding us or what???
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Originally posted by PaulypalDavid Wright slid well before the bag on this play but was outside the bag as the infielder was on the CF side of 2nd. He was called out because he couldnt touch 2nd base but his slide was legit not high and without intent to injure.
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Originally posted by Paulypal View PostMattingly was a great player for a 5 year period so I wont knock him for that. Keith was better with the glove for sure, but Mattingly was a superior hitter. I just think his approach to defending his guy was absurd.
Using David Wright as an example was ridiculous. If David Wright did do that I would have started a thread on what a douche David Wright is, but he didnt. I just dont see any room for that type of "slide", and I am using the term slide really loosely.
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I have no issue with a clean hard slide to break up a DP, but what Utley did was not clean, it was late, MLB says it was late. The fact that the Umpire did judge it at the time is just hid opinion.... it sucks that it hurt the outcome of the game.
Originally posted by ipitch View PostYeah, David Wright would never do such a thing...
5/24/2005: "Wright thought his slide at second base had forced a wide throw to first, denied the Braves an inning-ending, 3-6-1 double play and left the Mets in position to win. But second base umpire Jeff Nelson ruled Wright had "intentionally interfered with the [shortstop, Rafael Furcal] in the act of turning a double play" and awarded the Braves two outs. The call irked the Met as much as the loss would. Wright erupted as he disputed it with Nelson, prompting his first ejection since he was in Class A. And the other Mets acted stunned as the Braves returned to their dugout. "I've seen a lot of worse slides," manager Willie Randolph would say later. "You see that call usually when the shortstop gets flipped. But David never touched him. He put pressure on him, but he just threw it away. "We're not playing footsie ball. We teach hard, aggressive baseball. I thought it was an unnecesary call.""The Mets had seen only the saccharine side of David Wright. Ever since they had deemed him their top prospect and promoted him to the major leagues, he had been the boyish face of the franchise, too wholesome and well mannered to be believed. But even Wright has his limits, and at the end of an eventful Monday night, he showed the Mets that he was not all milk and cookies. With the bases loaded and one out in the eighth inning, Wright slid high and hard into Atlanta shortstop Rafael Furcal to break up a double play, hurling himself a few feet right of the second-base bag.
called out for being out of the baseline...
only image I could find.... doesn't look at all the same
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Originally posted by stkjock View Post
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oh, now I see you're a Nats guy... no wonder......... since you don't site a source....
non NY writer:
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But second base umpire Jeff Nelson signaled a double play because of Wright's wide slide into Furcal. Television replays backed up the call, showing the runner sliding late and at least three feet wide of the bag in an attempt to disrupt Furcal.
his toes are on the ground... not his feet, so maybe you want to check your anatomy knowledge.
20151011-Utley-Tejads.jpgLast edited by stkjock; 10-13-2015, 11:02 AM.
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Originally posted by stkjock View Posthis toes are on the ground... not his feet, so maybe you want to check your anatomy knowledge.one of the terminal members of the vertebrate foot; the fore end of a foot or hoof; a terminal segment of a limb of an invertebrate… See the full definition
toe: one of the five separate parts at the end of your foot
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