Excuse me while I leave my Yankees bias and “homerism” at
the door because Goose, “you wrong buddy.” On a serious note though Goose
Gossage was interviewed last week by ESPN New York’s very own Andrew Marchand
and in the interview the former Yankees pitcher was very critical of some of
the game’s best both in the front office and on the playing field. Gossage got
to share his thoughts so I figured I would share mine as well, because why not?
First this article means nothing if you don’t know exactly what Gossage said so to quote the article the Goose said “(Jose) Bautista is a f***ing disgrace to the game. He’s embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. (Yoenis) Cespedes same thing… Ryan Braun is a f***ing steroid user. He gets a standing ovation on Opening Day in Milwaukee. How do you explain that to your kid after throwing people under the bus and lying through his f***ing teeth? They don’t have anyone passing the f***ing torch to these people.”
Grammar nazi here, but Bautista is AN f***king disgrace to
the game, not A disgrace to the game. Why is Goose going after Cespedes and
Bautista directly? Has David Ortiz never flipped a bat? And why just Latin
players, did Colby Rasmus not flip a bat against the Yankees in the AL Wild
Card Game in 2015? Has about a million instances of bat flipping happened
before Bautista did it? Be consistent, don’t just pick and choose who you
attack. Braun is a steroid user and got a standing ovation, Alex Rodriguez is
also a steroid user and got plenty of them in 2015. He also got a gig covering
postseason and World Series baseball for Fox. No mention of this, no mention of
Barry Bonds and his standing ovations he receives in San Francisco or his new
gig in Miami as a hitting coach. Again, consistency.
But wait, there was more. “The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it. I’ll tell you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f*** they went and they thought they figured the f***ing game out. They don’t know s***. A bunch of f***king nerds running the game. You can’t slide into second base. You can’t take out the f***ing catcher because Buster Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can’t pitch inside anymore. I’d like to knock some of these f***ers on their ass and see how they would do against pitchers in the old days.”
I don’t think the nerds you are referring to, the ones that
rely on analytics and sabermetric stats to tell the tale rather than the eye
test, had anything to do with Chase Utley sliding into second base and hurting
the Mets Ruben Tejada and ending his season. The media and in turn the
Commissioner Rob Manfred has everything to do with that, not sabermetricians.
The same can be said for the catcher rule, what does looking at how a certain
player would perform in a vacuum or how he stacks up against the league in
certain categories, basically what sabermetrics does, have anything to do with
Buster Posey getting hurt? Nothing, you’re right. Pitching inside can be more
prevelant than ever, FYI, because the hitters go up to the plate in basically
full chain arm and won’t feel a thing… so go ahead and pitch inside, no one
cares. You’re just upset you couldn’t intimidate hitters and you would have to
rely on your talent rather than your head games, that’s okay. And one final
note, you’ll catch more bee’s with honey than you will with crap and the use of
vulgarity makes you lose all credibility with some whether what you are saying
is 100% accurate and correct or not.
You’re a Hall of Famer and an ambassador not only to the New
York Yankees but to the entire game of Major League Baseball but you sure
aren’t acting like it right now. You’re better than this Goose!
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