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From: rainbow@ihuxe.UUCP (Rob Buchner)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: RE:beanball tactics
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Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 17:22:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 17:22:54 1984
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> I suppose it's ok for the cub pitchers to go head-hunting?  If you had
> stayed around for the rest of the game, you would have seen
> Smith and Frey get bumped too.  

> Sure the ball gets away.  If you would watch more games, you
> would see it happen quite often.  

First, I posted my met flames before the Smith affair took place.
Second, Smith's pitch was high and inside and probably would have missed
Foster entirely if he had stood still(as seen from the highlites). But 
Foster decided to take a dive anyway. I don't blame him. Safety comes first.
It's nothing to gamble on. Even the ump didn't take it very seriously other
than to warn Smith about inside pitching. Only after the mets vehemontly
protested did the ump decide to throw Smith out. There was a big difference
in Terell's case. Not saying he did it intentionally, but if you pitch
enough high and tight ones, some are going to go closer than you want them
to. I think the met pitchers were going out of their way pitching close.
Hence the unreasonable number of hit batsmen. I watch most cub games and
rarely see a hit batsmen. Three in three games by the mets is a little much.
So don't justify it by saying things like that happen quite often. Though 
maybe a person watching the mets games regularily might have gotten a 
different impression about normal frequency. This method of pitching is
what I disagree with. Making batters fear for their lives is not baseball.
We're talking bush league here.

>And how about the jerks sitting behind the Mets dugout?  

Fans will be fans. If you want to complain about them, do it under seperate 
heading. I won't argue much. Though I don't blame them for their reaction.
Anyway, I wonder what kind of hospitality the met fans will have next time
around. Their was an article here in a paper after the last series on
how the met fans were the worst ever encountered. I'm sure I could find
it if necessary. Yes, I agree, there are always fans around who are jerks.