This is a riot. Mississippi Braves manager Phillip Wellman puts on quite a show.
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He’s ready for the majors!
i think that was the most fun i have ever had watching baseball… that pizza throwing vid and the bird going *poof* are 2nd and 3rd respectfully.
Reminds me of the late great Billy Martin.
It’s a testament to how excruciatingly boring baseball is that even when a manager goes “wacko” the result is still mind-numbingly boring.
#4, Yup. You’re right.
#4, #5
Agreed.
What an a-hole. Grow up.
baseball is the ONLY interesting professional team sport to watch… For the same reason that watching a good western or noir is so compelling… It’s the personal battle… The pitcher vs. the batter… It’s the game in the head…
Anyone who thinks baseball is boring is just not mature enough to get it. Football… Now that s a boring game. Overweight thugs piling and patting each other on the ass… I’ll bet even Angel thinks its boring.
ALL current sports are boring. Bring back those late-night TV rollerskating matches (can’t even remember what that sport was actually called) with huge beefy women trying to clobber each other off the rink. Now THAT was sport!
😉
8. “It’s the personal battle… The pitcher vs. the batter”
Then give them a couple of those bats and lock ’em in a steel cage. That’d be worth watching!
9. “Bring back those late-night TV rollerskating matches”
Roller derby! And don’t forget foxy-boxing and mud wrestling!
#4, 5, 6 – all correct.
The only part of baseball I enjoy is making fun of people who like it
#9 – Roller-Girls – http://www.aetv.com/rollergirls/
9. “Anyone who thinks baseball is boring is just not mature enough to get it. ”
I just wanted to add.. back in the 80s I knew a guy who thought Iron Maiden was the best band in the world. His argument was that if you didn’t like them, you weren’t deep enough to get them. That argument didn’t work then, it certainly doesn’t work now.
And it’s simply asinine to base a support of an athletic competition on it being “mental!” If you want a mental exercise, watch chess. If you want athleticism, watch athletes! Look at baseball players before they started taking steroids. They were all a bunch of out of shape fat guys. I guess it was all of that “mental” exercise!
This, and Piniella getting suspended this weekend for the same antics. Lets face it, America’s “past-time” is turning into the WWF just to gain attention.
That was excellent.
For those of you that were busy playing with your mother’s pocket books and felt dirty every time you touched your own balls… let me explain:
The manager was making a point that the umpire wasn’t being fair to the pitcher regarding the strike zone. In fact, the manager felt that the umpire didn’t think the true strike zone existed…. that is wy he buried it.
#2, please post the pizza throwing vid.. I’d like to see it.
#3, no one quite like Billy. It’s a shame he had to drink & drive.
#4, #5 & # 6 aren’t you three the stars of queer eye for the straight guy?
#7 I believe you wre bounced off the show for mixing plaids and stripes.
#8 Football is for people who need to be told what to do…… no thought process involved. Nothing quite like a quality low scoring baseball game.
# 9 Try listening to Jim Croce’s Roller Derby Queen…. you’d like it. I bet your mom had some big friends when you were a kid.
# 10 – You been playing too many violent video’s. Stop playing for a month, save up some money and get a nice FEMALE hooker …. just a little overweight. Otherwise you may be headed for the same town that 4, 5 &6 live in.
Final thought: baseball is the only true team sport. Proof: You gotta buy off the whole team to have a game thrown. No quaterback, goalie or big man in the middle to fuck everything up.
Goodnite ladies!
Baseball is the best spectator sport there is but you have to know what you are watching and you have to watch it with a group of people. It is a sport best live as well it’s not made for the twitch generation but for the pre-TV generation.
I would also add that based on some of the post’s on tis blog the manager in the video just represents the physical manifestation of many folks written opinions.
#8 – Anyone who thinks baseball is boring is just not mature enough to get it.
Baseball is just softball for kids who didn’t grow up.
#14 – aren’t you three the stars of queer eye for the straight guy?
No, that’s your friend, Ted Haggard.
# 17…. Oh shit your Mike Jones!
#18
You missed the “s” in “yours”. But please… use that only with Ted.
Well, I’m still in the minority here. Baseball is just softball for kids who didn’t grow up. I respectfully disagree. There is no more difficult feat in sports than hitting a round ball traveling 100 mph with a round bat. Or an 80 mph curve ball on the inside corner. And yes, it is a chess game and a game of inches. I realize it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, and if you don’t like it, don’t watch it and don’t whine about it. It’s not called the national pastime for nothing. My only gripes are: the players make too much money, the steroid fiasco (see: football) and the designated hitter in the AL. Want boring? How about pro basketball where all but the bottom few teams make the ‘playoffs’. College basketball I love.
Hop, thanks for the vid, ESPN didn’t do it justice. Here’s a clip of the only man to get 6 hits off Nolan Ryan in one game, Robin Ventura. I was fortunate enough to be at the game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfJ1C8pGI4
#20 – There is no more difficult feat in sports than hitting a round ball traveling 100 mph with a round bat.
Try squash… the ball is small, yes, the racket is bigger, but the ball travels in average 125 mph… and you’re to hit it… how many times per minute…
…don’t whine about it.
Hehe… yeah, right… 😀
#22, Jägermeister , …don’t whine about it. Hehe… yeah, right…
Got me, I suppose that’s what most folks do here, point taken. 🙂
The crowd cheered for the manager. I think that the League should therefore withhold his Diploma of Insanity.
#23
It sort of comes with being on Dvorak Uncensoed… we’re all somewhat cranky geeks… 😉
Ralph – Here’s your pizza video:
Baseball seems to be one of the few pro american sports where the manager runs around in the same getup you might see an 8 year old in – makes this guy seem like even more of an ass, all he needs is diapers.
Sports? Sports??
So you mean to tell me summa you ppls actually like to watch some joker wave a stick at a friggin’ ball?? ¡Hijo de puta!
FYI: If it doesn’t involve a pair of skis, a golf club or a steering wheel (that gets turned both directions, often) – then it ain’t a sport, sport! 🙂
#28, Lauren, that’s ok, I enjoy baseball, flying aerobatics, stunt kite flying and Formula One too. Each to his own. Try stunt kites with snow skis should you need a thrill. If you get really good, you can water ski with a train of flexifoils (qv.) I’ve been known to bring a bunch along with me when fishing in case of engine out. You can carry a train of 5 in a package about the size of a folded up umbrella or two. I don’t know if it’s as much fun as hitting a home run, but I’ll bet it’s close.
#8
Them’s fighten’ words. Let’s see, last year’s World Series had the worst ratings recorded going back to and perhaps beyond 1985. I’ll bet the Hall of Fame game from last year got better ratings than any of last year’s World Series games and that is a pre-season game. The fact of the matter is that baseball is dying. The average viewer age is over 50. It is a sport whose interest is completely dominated by two teams: New York and Boston. Outside of these two markets, people stop thinking about baseball and switch to football in late July.
Football is far more cerebral than people give it credit. Proof? Look how long it takes a QB to really understand the game even when players come from a pro-style system. Take a look at an NFL playbook sometime; offense or defense.
#20
> There is no more difficult feat in
> sports than hitting a round ball
> traveling 100 mph with a round bat.
Ah, the classic argument. It is complete nonsense of course but it’s humorous to hear. How about rushing for 2000 yards in a single season? How about throwing a 95 yard touchdown pass? How about running 100 meters in under 9.8 seconds? How about making 20 straight three pointers in a single basketball game? How about scoring 100 points in a single basketball game? There are MANY more difficult feats in other sports. To claim that hitting a baseball is somehow more special is simply arrogance.
Oh and by the way, it is no longer America’s past time. NFL and college football surpassed that years ago. The Packers had 62000 people show up to see an intrasquad scrimmage. 92000 showed up to an Alabama scrimmage. Bad NFL games get better ratings than most World Series games.