Oh sh*t Bryce Harper just threw them hands w/ Hunter Strickland

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

That's a solid side step of the question by Posey, but I don't buy it for a second.

That's a convenient excuse, because if Posey really was against the whole thing in the first place, he isn't gonna air that out in the media. This type of stuff gets handled inside the clubhouse. If his teammates believed that answer for a second, they'd all think he was a gigantic p*ssy.

Addressing your displeasure to the media with stuff like this almost never happens, even though Pedroia did something similar last month with Machado, that was the exception not the rule.

Maybe I'm wrong and Posey was just concerned about injury but I highly doubt it. If that was the case, he'd still step in front of Bryce to try to calm it before it even escalated, feel me?

I personally think Strickland knew he was doing this for some time and even gave his teammates the heads up and news went around the league he was doing this and it got back to Harper, which is why he flipped out like that and also why Posey didn't get involved because he was told not to do anything that petty by other people including Posey.

 

[CarbonBraddock]

Bryce Harper is one of those guys who talks a lot but never been in a real fight in his life lol....and what's with that throw with his helmet.

Great baseball player but what a fakkit...I knew he was sus since his own teammate choked him on the bench

what:littlesister:

 

[krackdagawd]

Pedro would've taken Williams' head off if the helmet connected.

 

[Nintendough]

Bryce looked like a bytch. How you gonna pull up on somebody and catch cleans??

 

[Won Won]

I personally think Strickland knew he was doing this for some time and even gave his teammates the heads up and news went around the league he was doing this and it got back to Harper, which is why he flipped out like that and also why Posey didn't get involved because he was told not to do anything that petty by other people including Posey.

Nah, I doubt any word got back to Harper. He and everyone that knows baseball knew that the plunking was intentional, and most likely stemmed from 3-year old homeruns

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Harper stay getting his ass beat, didn't Papelbon choke this cac out in the dugout not too long ago

 

[JahFocus CS]

at how he tried throwing his helmet at dude as he was charging him, but his throw was way off

 

[Woodrow]

Funny how baseball continues to have fights and never face any backlash

the argument, fairly or unfairly, is that fights in the NBA changed when ron artest went into the stands.

but yeah. the double standards in baseball and hockey need to be addressed. and the fighting isnt even the main issue. the real problem is a grown man can take it upon himself to aim a 99 mph fastball at another human being over a byline in some imaginary book of standards. with minimal consequences. how u allow this to continue to happen, but ban silly shyt like how runners slide into second base, i dont know...

 

[Bilz]

Next time Strickland faces him, he needs to throw a knee high fastball on the outside corner on the first pitch. Then when people think its back to business, come back with a fastball to Bryce's lower back

 

[newworldafro]

I'm at Harper throwing that helmet. The helmet damn near went backwards :RussellMartBrook:

Laws of physics were like not on my watch

 

[Texas2step]

the argument, fairly or unfairly, is that fights in the NBA changed when ron artest went into the stands.

but yeah. the double standards in baseball and hockey need to be addressed. and the fighting isnt even the main issue. the real problem is a grown man can take it upon himself to aim a 99 mph fastball at another human being over a byline in some imaginary book of standards. with minimal consequences. how u allow this to continue to happen, but ban silly shyt like how runners slide into second base, i dont know...

No the problem is they demonize fights that occur in black dominated sports such as football and basketball. And Ron wasn't the first to go into the stands and fight fans. It was done in baseball first years before

 

[yseJ]

Seeing Jeff Samardzjia take that hit reminds me of him playing Wide Receiver at Notre Dame.

He could have been a good NFL reciever but he stuck with the right sport cause MLB out here giving him $120 million Contracts.

hed be a TE, he wouldnt be a WR. and hes getting guap out here that even Gronk isnt getting, when it comes to guarantees.

 

[yseJ]

Poseys response was a combination of not wanting to get injured AND imo strickland is an a$$hole. posey shook off his pitch twice. I dont think posey or a lot of his teammates were down with beaning the dude for hitting homeruns off meatballs THREE years ago. it wasnt just posey. crawford was also like meh.

 

[TrillaMonsoon]

Salvador Perez did the same shyt last year when Yordano Ventura threw at Manny Machado and he rushed the mound. These batters aint trying to be the next one up getting hit because these pitchers can't control their fragile emotions. Bryce Gawd was right to go out there because that was some ho shyt.

Bryce didn't even take a punch, he got hit with an open hand left when Strickland was trying to gather himeself but other than that, I didn't see anything land. Those fights are only good if other people get involved but at least we got some swings out of this one.

 

[September]

what:littlesister:

1:08

Papelbon let him talk that shyt for a few seconds then choked him out :metslol: