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Friday, February 25, 2011
Players policing themselves
This is what it’s like in hockey. Crisp did the right thing, or at least the thing that would be accepted as proper. In hockey, Crisp would have gone after Bartlett. Unfortunately in baseball, the pitcher is the designated goon:
There are unwritten rules in baseball, and one of them is that middle infielders don’t drop their knee in front of the bag intentionally, or in a way that can be thought to be intentionally.... So I got up and had some choice words for [Jason Bartlett]. He didn’t even look at me.... Bartlett didn’t cover the bag; [Akinori Iwamura], the second baseman, did instead, so my mentality of how hard I was going in simmered on the last few steps. I still went in hard, because my mentality was to go in really hard, but it wasn’t nearly as hard as I was going to go in on Bartlett.... I get there for the game and one of the guys from the other team, who used to play for [us] came up and said, “What’s going on man, you trying to get hit by the baseball?” I said, “No, but if I get hit, it’s not going to be even. It is what it is.” ... I didn’t think I was going to get hit in my first at-bat, but boom, boom, bam, [James Shields] hit me in the leg.... Without thought to how it was going to go down, I took my helmet off and ran out there.
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