is because the Umps "support" the message - meaning that A Rod is playing is a garbage move....

Pretty interesting - lots of drama in the game (and the Sox are winning, so far anyway)

Renew Deal

(81,856 posts)

8. I don't read too much into it

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 12:07 AM

Aug 2013

I didn't see the game. Were there any previous incidents? Did the umps have a reason to believe it was intentional? From what I saw, it looked dirty to me, but I don't know if it's 100% clear.

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)

9. game still going - it is Sox Yankees - they are nearly always LONG games....

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #8)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 12:09 AM

Aug 2013

if they would have pulled Dempster, maybe Farrell wouldn't have left him in to get shelled (then again the bullpen isn't much better tonight).

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

10. yes...previous pitch thrown behind him...even announcer said no reason for a ball

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #8)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 12:14 AM

Aug 2013

going there unless you were trying to hit him

hughee99

(16,113 posts)

15. That's not correct, though, there are plenty of reasons to throw behind someone.

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #10)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 11:05 AM

Aug 2013

What if you're "Just trying to work the inside of the plate" or if you're "trying to throw the two-seamer in"?

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/56610-more-joba-youkilis-tension

Having said that, of course Dempster was throwing at him.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

17. Well we can definitely agree he was trying to work the inside of the plate. I have always

Reply to hughee99 (Reply #15)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 03:26 PM

Aug 2013

had so much disdain for ARod - so much money - such attitude and lack of performance. But, I am starting to actually feel sorry for him given the whole world despises him. How much public humiliation can one person take - even a consummate egotist? What's really kind of ironic about the whole thing is that FINALLY I see fire in his eyes - He's clean now and he seems to be actually trying.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

6. That's A-Roid to you.

Reply to El Supremo (Original post)

Sun Aug 18, 2013, 11:57 PM

Aug 2013

Lugnut

(9,791 posts)

11. It was very obviously intentional.

Reply to El Supremo (Original post)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 02:10 AM

Aug 2013

I can't stand A-Rod and his tactics but it's not the job of a pitcher to exact justice during a game. Alex is playing right now under the rules that the players agreed to so they're stuck with that process playing out.

It makes my teeth itch to see that lying, cheating narcissist in the line-up hiding behind his attorneys and getting his way but it is what it is. Dempster should've been ejected rather than Girardi but the dumbhead pitcher kicked the sleeping dog. His stupid move motivated the players to pour it on and win the game.

Berlum

(7,044 posts)

12. Arod homer sparks Yanks to 9-6 victory

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Mon Aug 19, 2013, 05:55 AM

Aug 2013

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karma is krappy when you are intentionally stupid and mean.

Having said that, I'm glad the Sox still have a 1 game lead on the Rays

Bluzmann57

(12,336 posts)

13. Dempster proves he's a punk

Reply to El Supremo (Original post)

Mon Aug 19, 2013, 09:53 AM

Aug 2013

He never plunked Pujols while with the Cubs. Why? Pujols may have killed him. And Rodriguez is in no position to fight back right now. If Dempster doesn't get a suspension for his actions, that tells me that MLB has it in for Rodriguez and it will be open season on him.
Leave it to the red cocks to actually make people have sympathy for anything yankee.
I just thought of something: Maybe Dempster had 'roid rage and that's why he hit Rodriguez after throwing at him three times.