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Saturday, June 16, 2007 |
Another Reason To Hate NL Rules: Jered Weaver Jams His Shoulder Sliding
Buried in this ha-ha-only-serious notes piece about today's game comes this shocker:
Weaver probably wouldn't admit it, but he looked gassed. He needed 95 pitches to get to that point and got out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam in the second inning and a two-on, one-out jam in the fourth.Great — so interleague play, in which the pitcher gets to pretend to be a position player and swing a bat, possibly causes Jered Weaver to acquire yet another potential injury. Hey, National League: get over yourselves. Your minor league teams (below high-A or whenever they play an AL team's affiliate, regardless of which team is home or away) and all the NCAA teams use the designated hitter. The Giants even used it in spring training at home this year. Time to get rid of the hitting pitcher.He also jammed his right shoulder a bit in the third when he slid hard into second base on Chone Figgins' fielder's choice grounder. Weaver had reached on his first big league hit, a single to right field.
"I was trying to break up a double play — it was fun," Weaver said. "But I know now to pull off or to not go in too hard to second."
Labels: angels, dh rule, injuries
Comments:
One pitcher hurts himself sliding, and we should change a fundamental rule of baseball because of it?
I'm fine to get rid of interleague play, but since it's here, I think we should blame the coaches for not telling Weaver how to slide feet-first (or reminding him, since presumably he learned to slide 15-20 years ago). Don't blame the rulebook.
If Russell Martin got hurt because he didn't know how to stay loose while batting four times a game without playing the field, would we ban the DH?
Or, if you want to look at it another way, since many infielders and outfielders slide head-first and are therefore at risk of injury, should we change the rules for them?
I know you like the DH, Rob, but the one-person-got-hurt and peer-pressure, everyone-else-is-doing-it arguments are kind of disappointing, especially coming from someone who usually challenges the conventional wisdom. Though I disagree with you, you're better off sticking with your usual argument that the DH offers a more interesting game.
I'm fine to get rid of interleague play, but since it's here, I think we should blame the coaches for not telling Weaver how to slide feet-first (or reminding him, since presumably he learned to slide 15-20 years ago). Don't blame the rulebook.
If Russell Martin got hurt because he didn't know how to stay loose while batting four times a game without playing the field, would we ban the DH?
Or, if you want to look at it another way, since many infielders and outfielders slide head-first and are therefore at risk of injury, should we change the rules for them?
I know you like the DH, Rob, but the one-person-got-hurt and peer-pressure, everyone-else-is-doing-it arguments are kind of disappointing, especially coming from someone who usually challenges the conventional wisdom. Though I disagree with you, you're better off sticking with your usual argument that the DH offers a more interesting game.
Just another reason to get rid of it, Jon.
Stupid double switches: something else for the manager to screw up.
Offensive incompetence at the plate, caused by seeing one-fifth the at-bats (if that) of position players.
Everyone else is doing it because it makes sense. Pitchers are too valuable to waste on something they can't do.
The NL will eventually adopt the DH. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and the game will be better for it.
Stupid double switches: something else for the manager to screw up.
Offensive incompetence at the plate, caused by seeing one-fifth the at-bats (if that) of position players.
Everyone else is doing it because it makes sense. Pitchers are too valuable to waste on something they can't do.
The NL will eventually adopt the DH. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and the game will be better for it.
By the way, I guess it was a feet-first slide, which is my mistake. Although it sort of proves my point - I mean, Weaver could have gotten hurt doing anything. Certainly more risk of him getting hurt on the mound than there was on the field.
But now we're getting rid of things because people make mistakes doing them?
Should we get rid of defense because people make errors? Where's the designated fielder? Where's the designated runner?
I just can't wrap my head around the argument that if something allows for human error, it's bad. We're not making cars. We're playing a game.
But now we're getting rid of things because people make mistakes doing them?
Should we get rid of defense because people make errors? Where's the designated fielder? Where's the designated runner?
I just can't wrap my head around the argument that if something allows for human error, it's bad. We're not making cars. We're playing a game.
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