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Gregory Polanco is...

Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
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...living up to the hype! Fourth appearance in the majors and he has a five hit game, including a game-winning two run homer in the top of the 13th inning! Raise the Jolly Roger!!! Methinks this kid is the real deal!!
"When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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  • danielzreyesdanielzreyes Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    He can either be like

    a. Trout, a humble baseball player with amazing all around talent.

    or

    b. Puig, a dumbass
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    321/412/557 - Puig 294/382/557 - TroutVin Scully approves, which makes any argument you have invalid ;) Bat flips, cannon throws...I like it.
  • danielzreyesdanielzreyes Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never said he wasn't a good player. He's a great player, but a dumbass for sure. You're in denial if you don't think he is.
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    He's a 23 year old kid in a foreign country. Yeah, he's got some growing up to do.Disclaimer - I'm a fan of shenanigans in sports. Joe Horn pulling out a cell phone after a TD? Yes please. I watch sports to be entertained.
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rain:
    He's a 23 year old kid in a foreign country. Yeah, he's got some growing up to do.Disclaimer - I'm a fan of shenanigans in sports. Joe Horn pulling out a cell phone after a TD? Yes please. I watch sports to be entertained.
    ^^This. I don't get the outrage over the "bat flip." In every other sport... football, hockey, tennis, soccer, golf... when a player makes a great play or scores, they celebrate. I could see it if Puig flipped his bat AT another player... there's a difference between celebrating and taunting... but expecting guys to suppress their excitement when they make a great play is just stupid.
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Puff_Dougie:
    Rain:
    He's a 23 year old kid in a foreign country. Yeah, he's got some growing up to do.Disclaimer - I'm a fan of shenanigans in sports. Joe Horn pulling out a cell phone after a TD? Yes please. I watch sports to be entertained.
    ^^This. I don't get the outrage over the "bat flip." In every other sport... football, hockey, tennis, soccer, golf... when a player makes a great play or scores, they celebrate. I could see it if Puig flipped his bat AT another player... there's a difference between celebrating and taunting... but expecting guys to suppress their excitement when they make a great play is just stupid.
    Baseball is fundamentally different from other sports. It is better. Its player are better. They are held to a higher standard. Thugs and hooligans need not apply.

    There is also a level of stupidity inherent in taunting a man who will later hurl a 100 mph projectile at you that could potentially 'accidentally' bean you in the head and leave you a vegetable.

    Additional note: The bat flip is a taunt to the pitcher, it is not a celebration. A celebratory fist-pump around the bases is fine. There is a huge difference: one is celebrating an accomplishment, the other is denigrating a competitor. This is my main beef with football: the taunting. I don't mind end-zone celebrations, but taunting a competitor, especially one you just physically tackled, is tasteless.
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  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ken Light:
    Additional note: The bat flip is a taunt to the pitcher, it is not a celebration. A celebratory fist-pump around the bases is fine. There is a huge difference: one is celebrating an accomplishment, the other is denigrating a competitor. This is my main beef with football: the taunting. I don't mind end-zone celebrations, but taunting a competitor, especially one you just physically tackled, is tasteless.
    I agree with this completely. Taunting is always bad sportsmanship. I guess I didn't see the bat flip as a taunt, but if that is the intent, then the criticisms of Puig are on point.

    Additional note: This thread was about Gregory Polanco. Is thread jacking the same as bat flipping? ;^)
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Puff_Dougie:
    Ken Light:
    Additional note: The bat flip is a taunt to the pitcher, it is not a celebration. A celebratory fist-pump around the bases is fine. There is a huge difference: one is celebrating an accomplishment, the other is denigrating a competitor. This is my main beef with football: the taunting. I don't mind end-zone celebrations, but taunting a competitor, especially one you just physically tackled, is tasteless.
    I agree with this completely. Taunting is always bad sportsmanship. I guess I didn't see the bat flip as a taunt, but if that is the intent, then the criticisms of Puig are on point.

    Additional note: This thread was about Gregory Polanco. Is thread jacking the same as bat flipping? ;^)
    Fair enough. Polanco's played 4 games. Remember Kevin Maas? I mean other than the Kevin Maas rule about crowd interference? Probably not. Let the league find the holes in his swing in a few months, see how he adjusts, let pitchers catch up again, see what happens...
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  • ThreadJacker3000ThreadJacker3000 Posts: 192 ✭✭
    Puff_Dougie:
    Ken Light:
    Additional note: The bat flip is a taunt to the pitcher, it is not a celebration. A celebratory fist-pump around the bases is fine. There is a huge difference: one is celebrating an accomplishment, the other is denigrating a competitor. This is my main beef with football: the taunting. I don't mind end-zone celebrations, but taunting a competitor, especially one you just physically tackled, is tasteless.
    I agree with this completely. Taunting is always bad sportsmanship. I guess I didn't see the bat flip as a taunt, but if that is the intent, then the criticisms of Puig are on point.

    Additional note: This thread was about Gregory Polanco. Is thread jacking the same as bat flipping? ;^)
    nah
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    "The bat flip is a taunt to the pitcher, it is not a celebration"Not sure if this can be argued since it's an opinion. I bet some people would say the slow home run trot and fist pump is a taunt to the pitcher. Not that I think about it too much...if the pitcher is offended he'll hit someone, then we'll hit someone, a few media complaining sessions will go on about "the unwritten rules" that nobody really knows. ;) It's also about your perspective. I'm not an LA Dodger. But they are MY team. If Puig says that Trout looks like a woman, I'll be laughing. If Trout says it about Puig, I'll be furious. Like Fallon says in Fever Pitch, "It's good to invest in something you have no control over."image
  • danielzreyesdanielzreyes Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Randy, to me you're a baseball fan who likes the Dodgers not a "Dodger fan". Living here in So Ca you don't want to be labeled as a Dodger Fan lol.

    "The bat flip is a taunt to the pitcher, it is not a celebration" Let them do a bat flip. Its part of baseball. But if you're going to show up a pitcher by doing so, expect a heater to your rib cage on your next AB. The fact that Puig does this every single AB where he thinks it's out the yard to me that's disrespecting the pitcher.

    Doug, no disrespect to your thread. nothing much to talk about yet as he's only played a few games. Comparing him to young all stars of today is a start.
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Anything in the batter's box or it's vicinity is directed at the pitcher. Anything past 1st base is fair game. Simple logic of line-of-sight. not to mention timing of when the ball actually leaves the park. If I managed I'd have every pitcher throw at Puig until he left baseball. I'd fill my rosters with pitchers so if they get tossed it's all good.
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  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Mattingly's as much to blame as Puig, just like I'd blame a kid's parents as much as the f*ck-up himself. I'm really happy the Yankees didn't make him manager, he's clearly unfit to lead a team. Even if it did leave us with Clueless Joe, who couldn't manage himself out of a paper bag.
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  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    After a pitcher gives up a home run, most turn around to watch/check/cry about it...which would put the fist pumping harlem shaking batter in his line-of-sight. I guess a pitcher owns the whole field? Let's not act like pitchers don't celebrate a big K...Fernando Rodney, Brian Wilson and countless others. Guess they need to wait until the batter is out of sight so they don't "show em up".I see your point Ken, I just think it's wrong. As for calling him an eff up, he's making millions flipping a bat.....wish my parents "failed" me like his did. Gotta love NCR :) XOXO
  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    Rain:
    After a pitcher gives up a home run, most turn around to watch/check/cry about it...which would put the fist pumping harlem shaking batter in his line-of-sight. I guess a pitcher owns the whole field? Let's not act like pitchers don't celebrate a big K...Fernando Rodney, Brian Wilson and countless others. Guess they need to wait until the batter is out of sight so they don't "show em up".I see your point Ken, I just think it's wrong. As for calling him an eff up, he's making millions flipping a bat.....wish my parents "failed" me like his did. Gotta love NCR :)
    I didn't say his parent's failed, I said Mattingly failed as a manager and made the analogy. 'Course...wasn't he kidnapped or something? Anyway, not the point. Rodney's a sh!thead too. I don't know Brian Wilson (at least if, as I'm assuming, he's not also a Beach Boy). Joba's fist pump was borderline because he made a point of turning his back to the batter first.
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  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Bwahaha...a Beach Boy.
  • danielzreyesdanielzreyes Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ken, you don't know Brian Wilson? We're back to not being friends again. ............ think stupid hideous beard.
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rain:
    "The bat flip is a taunt to the pitcher, it is not a celebration"Not sure if this can be argued since it's an opinion. I bet some people would say the slow home run trot and fist pump is a taunt to the pitcher. Not that I think about it too much...if the pitcher is offended he'll hit someone, then we'll hit someone, a few media complaining sessions will go on about "the unwritten rules" that nobody really knows. ;) It's also about your perspective. I'm not an LA Dodger. But they are MY team. If Puig says that Trout looks like a woman, I'll be laughing. If Trout says it about Puig, I'll be furious. Like Fallon says in Fever Pitch, "It's good to invest in something you have no control over."image
    I actually hadn't seen it... but that's definitely a taunt.

    And Daniel... I know there's not much to say about Polanco yet. It was just cool to see him hit the game winner in OT last nite. It will be interesting to see how he develops.
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    I think it was also a fly out to CF.
  • danielzreyesdanielzreyes Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's getting out of hand
    image
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    ^^^Bet he could not do that again if he tried.
  • BigshizzaBigshizza Posts: 15,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My two favorite teams are the Dodgers and Pirates. I grew up with the Dodgers but loved the explosive Pirate teams of the '70's. Those players were something else..
  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    danielzreyes:
    Ken, you don't know Brian Wilson? We're back to not being friends again. ............ think stupid hideous beard.
    Is he the one that dyed it black a couple years ago? I Googled him but he doesn't look familiar. What antics does he do on the field?
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  • danielzreyesdanielzreyes Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ken Light:
    danielzreyes:
    Ken, you don't know Brian Wilson? We're back to not being friends again. ............ think stupid hideous beard.
    Is he the one that dyed it black a couple years ago? I Googled him but he doesn't look familiar. What antics does he do on the field?
    yep that's him

    Funny you mention his antics. I never knew what it meant until a friend of mine told me. After he closed a game he does this sign of the cross, cross thingy. I was told that among other things, it was a gesture to his belief in Christ and his Father. I have no problem with that at all. Same thing when batters touch home plate after a HR.
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • Ken_LightKen_Light Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭
    danielzreyes:
    Ken Light:
    danielzreyes:
    Ken, you don't know Brian Wilson? We're back to not being friends again. ............ think stupid hideous beard.
    Is he the one that dyed it black a couple years ago? I Googled him but he doesn't look familiar. What antics does he do on the field?
    yep that's him

    Funny you mention his antics. I never knew what it meant until a friend of mine told me. After he closed a game he does this sign of the cross, cross thingy. I was told that among other things, it was a gesture to his belief in Christ and his Father. I have no problem with that at all. Same thing when batters touch home plate after a HR.
    Yeah, that's no big deal to me either. His beard is silly though.
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  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    The 22-year-old Polanco is hitting .241 with a .308 on-base percentage and a .349 slugging percentage. His .657 OPS ranked seventh among eight NL rookies and 16th among the 21 Major League rookies who have at least 250 plate appearances this season. Raise your hand if you expected the following guys to outhit Polanco: David Peralta, Travis d'Arnaud, Tommy La Stella, Billy Hamilton, Kolten Wong, Kevin Kiermaier and Rougned Odor. No, there aren't many hands in the air at this point. -MLB.com
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Rain:
    The 22-year-old Polanco is hitting .241 with a .308 on-base percentage and a .349 slugging percentage. His .657 OPS ranked seventh among eight NL rookies and 16th among the 21 Major League rookies who have at least 250 plate appearances this season. Raise your hand if you expected the following guys to outhit Polanco: David Peralta, Travis d'Arnaud, Tommy La Stella, Billy Hamilton, Kolten Wong, Kevin Kiermaier and Rougned Odor. No, there aren't many hands in the air at this point. -MLB.com
    Yeah... I know. Rookie came out sluggin' and had a great debut but seems to have hit a wall. Got sent back down to AAA for a bit to hone his skills and settle down. Still believe he's got the potential to be one of the great ones though. Give the lad some time. He's just a baby bucco. :^)
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    I agree. I just ran across the article and thought about this thread. Makes baseball great.
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That, and guys with names like "Rougned Odor"... Seriously??
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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