I find it interesting and humorous that the forum calls for benchings at the drop of a hat when someone screws up in a game or doesn't hustle, and screams "fire *insert name*" for being lax and not disciplining the players.
but then when a benching happens as a form of discipline, the forum starts crying and wailing and calling for the Manager to be " strung up by the balls but I'd settle for him being burned in effigy."
so which one is it? do you want people held accountable, or do you want the country club?
or maybe, you want certain golden boy players immune to being held accountable for everything?
I was taught when I was playing ball to run out ground balls, no matter what. you run it out, until the Umpire calls the play dead. hell, sometimes even in little league, i was instructed to run and touch first base, even if the umpire called me out. it was a habit-forming exercise, whose purpose was to instruct me to hustle out every single play. every single one.
nothing wrong with Bryce being benched for not doing so. unless you think Bryce should be immune to discipline.
I wonder if there would have been as much uproar about it, if it was Espinosa, or some other "lesser" player getting benched for not hustling.
freakin fanboys.
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