2013-09-23 - 2013-09-25 Brewers at Braves

[gypcasino]

McCann deserves a fat suspension and fines for serving as an instigator. Gomez acted stupidly and should be fined, but his actions did not lead to the fight. Even the mouthing off with Freeman and Maholm did not get the fight going. But McCann blocking the plate?!?!?! I'm not happy with Gomez, but I think McCann has acted shamefully this season. From my recollection this is the third major incident that he's played a major role in. Gomez was foolish, but why was Maholm staring him down, too? Didn't he just serve up a homer to a guy that's owned him throughout their careers?

 

I accidentally had ESPN 540 on the radio on the way home from work and they were right in the middle of discussing the incident. Barry Larkin was falling all over himself with praise for McCann. Something like "I love McCann and I love what he did tonight." He might have said some other stuff but I couldn't change the station fast enough.

[DHonks]

The Braves' tv crew (from the MLB.com highlights) seemed really fair. They were pointing out Maholm staring down Gomez, Gomez acting foolishly, Freeman acting crazy, their past history, etc.

[torts]

McCann confronted Fernandez last month for doing the same thing, he's a goon, what he did was nothing less than that. he didnt "do the right thing", he's an instigator and a bully

[jerichoholicninja]

This is the 2nd time McCann has done that this season. If that isn't bad enough this is the 2nd time this season that Reed Johnson has ran into a fight from the bench, caused a raucous, ran out, and not gotten tossed from the game.

 

MLB Network did a real nice breakdown of the history between Gomez and Maholm last night. Gomez has owned him his whole career so the last couple times they've faced each other Maholm has just hit him. When Carlos came to the plate McCann was already jawing with him. There has to be something going on between Gomez and the Braves.

 

I will say that I am very surprised that Ron actually somewhat, kind of, sort of defended Gomez last night.

[sdcheezhd]

You can get the TV and radio calls from both markets here:

 

http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=30950699

 

Powell and Sutton go on and on about whether GoGo is on something and I started wondering if they were on something. I'm glad Powell walked it back. And I still don't see how staring and jawing gets you ejected but blocking someone from scoring (in violation of, like, the actual written rules of the game not the hallowed unwritten rules) and initiating a physical confrontation doesn't. So if you stare at a HR and then get plunked the next time up do you get thrown out instead of the P?

 

BBTN had Reynolds saying GoGo was out of line and he liked McCann sticking up for Maholm. Machado said the Braves reacted poorly and 2 wrongs don't make a right. The stat nerd guy I hadn't seen before noted the previous incident 2 weeks ago and asked who made these sanctimonious jerks the guardians of all that is true and holy in baseball? I guess the Braves don't know that's the Cardinals' job.

[sdcheezhd]

McCann confronted Fernandez last month for doing the same thing, he's a goon, what he did was nothing less than that. he didnt "do the right thing", he's an instigator and a bully

 

Exactly. In the real world, if guy A mouths off and guy B blocks his movement while guy C hits him guys B and C are arrested for assault. In the real world, if guy A stares at something he just did and guy B hits him with a baseball thrown 90 miles an hour guy B is charged with assault with a deadly weapon.