NNN;859032 wrote:At the college and pro level, spiking the ball is not 15 yards. High school varies widely in both rule and enforcement.

A player hanging on the rim after a dunk is a technical because the rim and backboard aren't meant to continuously support enormous amounts of weight; it's not a technical if there are players in the vicinity, since dropping down would be a safety risk. Besides that, hanging on the rim has always been dumb in the first place; while you have someone hanging there, the other team can quickly inbound and have a 5-on-4 the other way.

There are multiple actions that we see in the NFL/college game that we will see nearly every game that get flagged for 15 yards. In basketball guys will get T'd up for hanging on the rim, taunting an opponent after a dunk, pushing, shoving, etc. The point is in baseball there is no penalty for acting like a dbag. They can't enforce an out on your team, or take a run away. That is why there are these "unwritten rules" of the game. To keep the players in check, and to uphold the history/tradition of the game.

And I agree w/ you, if you don't want to watch a guy pimp a bomb, get him out next time. But, I don't want my players to play w/ that disrespect to our opponent and don't enjoy watching it, especially from a little leaguer or some high schoolers. The college and pro guys are big boys and can do whatever they want.

Wooball;859042 wrote:If you would have actually read my original post, I said I didn't think throwing at a guy is the right thing to do, but it happens because there is no other way to police other players during the game. Their aren't penalties in baseball for guys being jackasses, and you can't give the cheap shots that you described above to tick them off to make them retaliate in baseball either like you can in other spots.

Allow me to sum up this entire sorry thread in two sentences.

(From me, and others who use common sense): "It is ridiculous that people get so worked up over something so stupid."
(Others, particularly part of "the baseball establishment"): "Celebrating is unsportsmanlike, and the only way to eliminate unsportsmanlike behavior is by throwing a baseball at someone's head."

Glory Days;859003 wrote:flipping the bat happens routinely? i can probably count the number of times its happend in the MLB this year on my hand. and yet, each time, the next batter gets one in his earhole.

Lol you obviously don't watch alot of baseball.

Tiger2003;860983 wrote:Lol you obviously don't watch alot of baseball.

you obviously dont know me.

Glory Days;860994 wrote:you obviously dont know me.

Thank god.

Just saw the piece on ESPN about how they fucked over the Uganda team that qualified for the LLWS. That has to be terrible for those kids, thats literally all they had to look forward to

Hb31187;861992 wrote:Just saw the piece on ESPN about how they fucked over the Uganda team that qualified for the LLWS. That has to be terrible for those kids, thats literally all they had to look forward to

It's shitty, but what is the Little League Baseball supposed to do? Uganda fucked themselves over. Maybe they will learn how to get their paperwork together for now on.

like_that;861998 wrote:It's ****ty, but what is the Little League Baseball supposed to do? Uganda ****ed themselves over. Maybe they will learn how to get their paperwork together for now on.

Yeah, I guess LL kinda had its hands tied with this one. What really is shitty is that they wouldnt even tell them what was wrong with the paperwork, just that there was something wrong.

Why is their not a vBookie line for the LLWS games?

^^^^

Are we seriously going to go there? lol