The Twins Announcers Being Mad Yermin Mercedes Swung 3-0 And Hit A Homer Off Willians Astudillo Is The Softest Thing I've Ever Seen
I want to say this, I hate the unwritten rules in baseball more than I hate anything ever. Just shut up about the unwritten rules. Take em and shove. Here we have another example of old white people getting upset at people breaking "rules" that don't matter. White Sox are up 15-4 in the ninth and put in Willians Astudillo to pitch. He's a position player, he's fat, it's funny. You're getting your dick kicked in and don't wanna use more bullpen guys, I get it. So when he's out there throwing 40 MPH you can not be mad if a guy swings out of his shoes trying to hit a home run, you just can't. Jared called it here, the second the video came out and we heard the Twins announcers bitching and moaning over Mercedes swinging 3-0 and clobbering it. Just listen here....
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FURIOIUS! These old guys are FURIOUS! What a bunch of soft crybabies. "I don't like it up, now up 15-4 I don't like it." Shuttttttt uppppppppp. If you disrespect the game enough to throw a guy throwing 47 MPH up there you deserve to have guys swinging for the fences, because guess what, Yermin Mercedes is trying to feed his family, he's trying to make money for himself. You think he gives a shit who he hits a homer off of? If you're gonna toss that weak stuff up there than be prepared for when it goes 450. If he would have put the bat on his shoulder and closed his eyes in the box people would have said he was disrespecting the game and needs to act like he wants to be there, so which is it? Like we can't do this again, we can't debate if its okay to swing on 3-0 when your team is up a lot, because it's perfectly fine. Thats baseball baby. If you're gonna pitch like it's slow pitched softball than prepare for the ball to get hit like it's slow pitch softball. At 15-4 the game is not over, you never know what comeback is lurking, you're a fool if you don't want your guys swinging for the fences regardless of score, inning, or count.
The Twins announcers being upset is the softest thing I've ever seen, legitimately the softest thing I've seen. This is the same Twins team that had no problem when Jonathan Schoop homering off Chris Davis a few years back when the Orioles were getting killed. We've got to stop caring what the count is when someone is swinging, especially the guys in the booth being upset at it. If a pitcher gets upset, sure, handle it your way. But an announcer who gets paid to sit there and talk? Shut up dude, shut that old mouth and watch your team get crapped on. I hope we see Yermin Mercedes swing 3-0 every single time, just to make these guys more and more upset. I honestly thought they would start crying, that is how upset they were. Tears the whole way home I'm sure.