Bryce Harper needs some chin music

[DuWayne Steurer]

Maybe this belongs in the minor league forum, as Harper's a minor leaguer, but all I can say is........wow. Kid, you're barely old enough to shave.

 

http://content.usatoday.c...per-kisses-one-goodbye/1

 

This ball was in the stands before he even considers running, and then he blows a kiss at the pitcher.

 

I am not at all one of those 'you gotta respect the game' type of people, but something tells me this kid can expect a few beanballs pretty quick.

 

Hopefully someone in that organization will sit the punk down and explain life to him a little bit.

[RockCoCougars]

From reading several different accounts of his behavior, he's already a world-class tool. Let's put it this way, I wouldn't be a bit disappointed if he was mentioned with the all-time flops in about a decade.

[Invader3K]

Yeah, he's had a rep for having an attitude for a long time now. The Nats should have someone give him a long "come to Jesus" type moment if they don't want headaches with him once he reaches the majors.

[RobDeer 45]

Wow, that's all I can say on that one.

[Funketown]

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[pretendastronaut]

I'm thinking the pitcher may have been jawing at him, likely for standing in the box, as he rounded third, but you can't really tell. But that was my read.

[cwolf2012]

"I'm thinking the pitcher may have been jawing at him"

 

I agree. With the way he was looking back at the pitcher even after stepping on home plate made me think words were being exchanged. I wish they had a wider angle, as I suspect we could have seen the pitcher staring him down/yelling at him the entire trot.

[PrinceEatMeat]

Well, the video sure makes him look like a tool. Just staring at the homer isn't something he should be doing. You can't see the pitcher most of the time, so it's possible there were worse exchanged though. Don't know the whole story, but from what I see and what I've heard previously he's definitely a tool.

[CheezWizHed]

I've never understood how watching a HR ball is showing up a pitcher. I've never cared for it, because I've seen too many people watch as the ball bounced off the wall or was caught by an OFer. But as long as you aren't directing any "celebration" towards the pitcher or other team in general (taunting), I'm not too concerned about it. So I have no problems with how he left the batters' box.

 

However, the "kiss" around 3rd isn't a good thing, no matter what the pitcher was saying (obviously the pitcher was involved, so why didn't that get mentioned?). I'm sure he needs a good dose of reality, but I don't think that chin music is going to help anything. Probably only make it worse.

 

He might need humility, but delivered by opposing pitcher isn't the way to do it.

[DuWayne Steurer]

He might need humility, but delivered by opposing pitcher isn't the way to do it.

Oh, I agree, but that wouldn't fit in the thread title! http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

It's not just the slow trot, or the kiss, or the extreme sense of entitlement the kid displays, it's everything about him that you read, hear or see. It all adds up to a pretty ugly picture.

 

I'm hopeful (but doubt that it will happen) that someone in the Wash. organization sits the kid down and has a talk with him. I don't idolize ballplayers (especially those half my age), I don't care about their character, or what they do off the field, but this kid's going to end up getting one in the earhole one of these days, and it'll be awfully hard to feel too bad about it.

[homer]

Didn't he bow at home plate after hitting a home run in Juco?

[PrinceEatMeat]

Didn't he bow at home plate after hitting a home run in Juco?

Yeah, pretty sure I heard about that from somewhere.

[Thurston Fluff]

He seems like a tool but baseball has a way of humbling people. A few years ago the Mariners had a guy who was supposed to be the next Randy Johnson. He was such a jerk when he got sent down the team put a sarcastic note in his locker telling him how great they thought he was. If your own teammates are mocking your demotion it isn't good. Anyway the fact that I can't even remember his name now shows all you need to know about the humbling effects of baseball.

[Bikeage77]

The kid's eagle war paint from juco is a joke too. At least he's not out there looking like the Ultimate Warrior anymore.

[Raw Biz]

I heard he was drilled in the knee the day before so he probably "admired' the HR a little bit longer because of that. Then there was probably some jawing from the pitcher and that prompted the kiss. I'm not sticking up for him but the kid is still only 18. He's also been the best player in every league he's played in so that no doubt has inflated his ego. I don't like the showboating either but a lot of kids his age with his talent would probably do some of the same stuff. Hopefully he grows up a little soon because if he's still doing that stuff in the majors, he better have some ice-packs ready.

[reillymcshane]

I would love to have seen Harper do this to Bob Gibson. Gibson would have taken his head off the next time he was up. No hesitation. And I would have loved it.

[Thurston Fluff]

Gibson would have met him halfway between third base and home plate.

[Warning Track Power]

Gibson would have met him halfway between third first base and home plate.

Correction. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

 

 

[pretendastronaut]

He did get a high brush back on his next at-bat;

 

http://www.tv3winchester....s_Pitcher_123362703.html

[Blancofan1]

They were talking about this on MLB radio on the way home from work today. Turns out the actual story is that the opposing pitcher turns out to be the bigger tool in this scenario. After every strikeout he threw in the game he would stare at the batter all the way back to the dugout until he sat down. The "blowing a kiss" was such a small thing that 95% of the people in the stands would never have even seen it happen. If it wasn't Harper, it wouldn't ever be a big deal.

 

Granted I agree that Harper is a first class tool with everything he has shown so far, but at least in this case the other guy was being an even bigger tool.

[jwill535]

The "Jeff Kent" on his face is a bigger offense then the kiss.

[Principessa21]

Eh, he's young. Considering it was for retaliation, I thought it was fun to see.

[ryne100]

Hahaha that's awesome. I don't get how so many Ryan Braun/Prince Fielder fans here are hating on this. Strike him out if you don't want him to celebrate.