My Pet Hate in Baseball

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PHL_Baseball

43 posts since
May 30, 2007

Aug 17, 2007 1:46 PM

My Pet Hate in Baseball

Probably from LL Majors and LL All Star Level up to MLB level, but my Pet hate in baseball is watching players who do not hustle, even on the supposed easy pop fly.

RUN HARD ALWAYS.

Always put pressure on the fielders as a base runner or batter no matter how easy the play seems.

What is your Opinion?

CranberryBlue

42 posts since
May 25, 2007

1. Aug 16, 2007 5:00 AM

in response to: PHL_Baseball

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

I don't think I'd use the term hate - 'peeve' maybe......

You're mostly a coach/manager so I'd expect more playing related things but as my role as a league administrator/umpire I see things a little differently. My biggest pet peeve is those whose argument/discussion ends with "It's about the kids.", like that's some kind of moral highground they've staked out. Isn't that a given? Isn't that obvious? Who in their right mind isn't there for the kids? The thing that really bugs me is that when a parent says that, what they really mean is "It's all about MY kid.". I just wish they'd be honest about it. As LP, for me it actually is "all about the kids.", but that includes all ~400 of them. I expect a parent to lobby for their kid. I just have to weigh their desires against what's best for everybody. My two children are long gone from LL so I have a unique perspective on what goes on. Nobody could ever accuse me of featherbedding since I have nothing personally (other than personal satisfaction) to gain.

PHL_Baseball

43 posts since
May 30, 2007

2. Aug 16, 2007 5:26 AM

in response to: CranberryBlue

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

Yeah CB.

Just replace every "hate" word for "peeve", Pete Rose?

I wish every kid I coached could play baseball and have the attitude like him... without the betting problems of course.

CB,

Last weekend I just helped grade 60 of our U8 and U10 players.. I can tell without even watching them throw the ball who will be our clubs best baseball LL players in the next 3 years . Next weekend will be all our 80 club LL Minors and Majors players to grade,

Hustle means everything in Baseball as you well know mate.

MyTwoSons

53 posts since
May 30, 2007

3. Aug 16, 2007 1:16 PM

in response to: PHL_Baseball

Re: My Pet Peeve in Baseball

My biggest pet peeve in baseball are managers that question every call by the umpire. In one case, with a runner on 2nd, a ball was hit at the SS and got by him. The manager immediately had a fit, saying the ball hit the baserunner. Neither umpire saw it hit the runner. The manager then filed a protest saying it was a rule interpretation. Sorry guy, judgement calls are not protestable. End of story. I think umpires are the bane of his existence. I think even now, two years latter, he still thinks it's a rule interpretation.

Trish18

384 posts since
Jun 5, 2007

4. Aug 16, 2007 1:07 PM

in response to: PHL_Baseball

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

I'm with you on this one. Especially at the professional level. It is inexcusable to not be hustling at that level (not to mention with that paycheck). Not only would I like to see players not have to kick it back into gear after an unexpected bobble or mishap, which is embarrassing for both parties--I also appreciate it when ballplayers hustle on and off the field. Whether it be after striking out and jogging back to the dugout or after your team makes the third out on the field

Frank_B

20 posts since
May 30, 2007

5. Aug 21, 2007 7:45 AM

in response to: Trish18

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

My pet peeve...MLB players;.... particularly pitchers.

All the "bling-bling" hanging from their necks......some from their ears.

Frank!

Frank_B

20 posts since
May 30, 2007

6. Aug 31, 2007 2:48 PM

in response to: Frank_B

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

One more pet peeve....

People who come to a game, sit in great seats, and spend most of their time on their cell phones, talking and hoping the TV cameras will pick them up so they can wave to the people at home. What a waste of good seats!!

Frank!

MyTwoSons

53 posts since
May 30, 2007

7. Aug 31, 2007 8:59 PM

in response to: Frank_B

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

I'm guilty. I'll usually call my brother while muh-Angels are in the midst of a rally and the crowd is going monkey wild. Oh and when the A's were visiting and a fellow Angel fan asked my 7 year old (it was his 1st Angel game) what he thought of Piazza. I can't post the politically incorrect response here.

Michael_Taylor

49 posts since
May 25, 2007

8. Sep 2, 2007 8:59 AM

in response to: MyTwoSons

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

My pet peave is lack of hustle on and off the field. It has been mentioned but I see it at all levels, I don't have a big problem with coaches questioning calls as long as it's legit or they have a clue what they are talking about. A manager that wants to argue and doesn't know the rule gets a short discussion. I will explain it and then send him on his way.The "We're here for the Kids" quote is almost always in close proximity to a jerk.

Manny_A

26 posts since
May 25, 2007

9. Sep 4, 2007 1:36 PM

in response to: PHL_Baseball

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

I also don't care for players who don't hustle. I get amused when I see a position player not hustle out a batted ball he feels is a sure out, and then he gets embarrassed when the fielder boots the play, and still ends up having time to throw out the player.

But if I really had to pick a pet-peeve, it's the lack of respect amateur players nowadays have for the game. I can't stand seeing youth players who don't wear the uniform properly, who trash-talk opposing players, who talk back to adult managers, coaches, and umpires, and who feel they are the focus of the team. It's bad enough to have to watch the million-dollar prima donnas in the pros act like fools. But when I see it in high school and below, it bugs the heck out of me.

Manny

Mason_Dixon_Blue

35 posts since
May 25, 2007

10. Sep 5, 2007 5:40 AM

in response to: Manny_A

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

Manny,

Your pet peeve (the lack of respect amateur players have for the game) goes hand in hand with mine. I have a real problem with professional athletes who can't realize that they are role models for young impressionable kids.

These amateur athletes see their favorite professionals wearing so much jewelry that it looks like a "Mr. T Starter Set". Baseball players running their mouths about the umpires (Chipper Jones). Basketball players with tattoos all over their bodies. Football players who can't score a touchdown without performing a choreographed endzone act.

Why can't they understand that the young athletes expect the pros to show them how things should be done? When the young kids see the pros act like clowns, they think that this is how they should act?

They should leave the jewelry in their lockers, shut their mouths and when they score, act like they've done it before.

Trish18

384 posts since
Jun 5, 2007

11. Sep 6, 2007 1:28 PM

in response to: Mason_Dixon_Blue

Re: My Pet Hate in Baseball

I agree. "Act like you have done it before"... well said.

If the influence always comes from the top down, how do you all think attitudes of the pro athletes that act that way can be changed to be more positive role models for today's youth? Or, maybe the root of the answer comes from why they started acting that way in the first place?

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