There’s one thing in baseball I’ve never really understood and that’s the tradition of hitting batters. If a guy’s better than you and getting the best of you, the only way you can respond is by hitting him? What kind of jacked up sportsmanship is that? One guy gets hit then another guy gets hit and next thing you know you have bad blood. Some pitchers are OK doing the deed, others aren’t. In the end, whether or not you like doing it, there’s one thing for sure: you better not run away like a pussy if you do hit someone.
Apparently Dodgers reliever and PED user Guillermo Mota does not understand the rules of manhood and has become one of the biggest chicken s***s in the game. Mota retaliated against the Brewers who hit Manny Ramirez in the 7th of Tuesday’s 17-4 blowout by nailing Prince Fielder in the 9th. Prince was steaming after the game and stormed across the tunnel from the visitor’s clubhouse to the Dodgers clubhouse looking for Mota. Unfortunately Prince was restrained by a few Brewers and security guards before he could snap Mota like a wishbone. The pussy Mota refused to look at Prince after dosing him with the pitch and then left without speaking to the media after the game. Mota hid behind the security of knowing he hardly comes to bat as a reliever and didn’t even face Prince to man-up to his actions.
Of course this whole story isn’t complete without finishing the Guillermo Mota/Mike Piazza tail. Back in Spring Training of ‘02, Piazza grabbed Mota by the neck after Mota hit him with a pitch. A year later in Spring Training, Mota threw at Piazza twice, hitting him with the second pitch. Piazza went after Mota on the field and was restrained. About five minutes later, Piazza went across to the Dodgers clubhouse looking for Mota (sound familiar?), peeking into the showers and investigating the locker room before leaving. Even though Piazza (and Mota) were likely roid-raging at the time, there’s no doubt this twerp Mota is hiding behind his pitches and not facing his confrontations. What a chicken s*** pussy.
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I’m just glad this team is standing up for their slugger unlike last year against the Phillies in the playoffs.
Even though the pitch barely grazed Manny, (I actually didn’t think it hit him) he got hit a couple weeks ago and was not happy.
Here’s the thing though, regardless of whether hitting batters is a good or bad thing, shouldn’t it be kept on the field? Shouldn’t Prince’s reaction be to tell his guys to hit Manny in the 1st inning tomorrow?
Mota does seem to be a magnet for this stuff though. I would run away from Prince Fielder and MIke Piazza too. Those dudes are scary.
He pretty clearly didn’t just throw at Fielder because Fielder was better than him. He threw at Fielder because the Brewers threw at Manny. If the Brewers throw at Manny, someone’s gotta retaliate.
Mota isn’t a pussy… he’s a teammate. If the Dodgers had thrown at Fielder first, you’d definitely see a Dodger get hit and this whole thing could be turned around. This happens every week in baseball. Just because two of the batters Mota faced were overly angry about it doesn’t change the fact that this is just a common occurrence, and possibly the only manly thing about baseball.
I have to agree with John on this one. You don’t think Mota on his own decided to throw at him? Every move a player makes comes from the dugout, especially something like this. The picture of Macca above with his hands outstretched in surprise is so funny because he knows the game just as well as anybody.
I’m pissed they hit Manny because the way he was hitting last night, he would have probably hit another one out of the park.
What Mota did was cowardly and stupid. You don’t throw at someone when you are up by 13 runs and there are two outs in the 9th, and you don’t throw an off speed pitch to achieve the desired result. Mota relishes hitting batters. Notice how Mota left the field without disputing the ejection. He probably couldn’t wait to get to the safety of the clubhouse. Mota does this crap all the time, the Piazza incidents clearly show.
If the Dodgers were looking to retaliate, it would have been done the next day during a meaningful encounter, maybe when there were two outs and nobody on. This way, it loses a lot of the message they were trying to get across to the whole NL, because their most cowardly pitcher did the retaliation act during the least important part of the game, and quickly disappeared into the dugout to avoid further confrontation.
So is there no way Torre called for him to hit Fielder?