Bryce Harper Megathread

thethe said:
Wow, he is such a D-Bag. I used to like him.
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I kinda felt bad for him in a way last night. I never like to see pitchers hit a batter after they have hit a HR. Just looks bad. After Bryces F bombs and this quote, what a frigging douche. Now he has EVERY right to get beaned again, and maybe this time, he just wont run his trap and will actually do something.

Natitude - All talk, no walk!!!
 
He's got a lot of maturing to do there's no question about it. His original quote about it not being over I didn't have a problem with to be honest. He's trying to motivate his team and get things going. His actions last night speak for themselves and he got beamed for it.
 
Dunit24 said:
I kinda felt bad for him in a way last night. I never like to see pitchers hit a batter after they have hit a HR. Just looks bad. After Bryces F bombs and this quote, what a frigging douche. Now he has EVERY right to get beaned again, and maybe this time, he just wont run his trap and will actually do something.

Natitude - All talk, no walk!!!
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It was a one run game, why would Julio want to put another runner on base? Make no sense. Hitters needs to use their brains, just because you get hit doesn't mean someone is throwing at you, regardless of whether you had homered earlier in the game. Pitchers give up homers all the time, do they go around throwing at everyone that hits one off of them?
 
Matt, you really don't think that was intentional? I thought it was pretty clear. First base was open.
 
I have to agree with you. I think it was very much intentional. The situation dictated too much that he could pitch around him. So why waste your pitches when you can accomplish the same thing and convey a message. If it was an accident I don't think Tehran basically tells Harper to eff off.

thethe said:
Matt, you really don't think that was intentional? I thought it was pretty clear. First base was open.
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It was certainly intentional. Look at the situation, they were going to pitch around Harper with first open to face Zimmerman anyways so Teheran saved 4 pitches and was able to send a message as well. McCann giving Teheran the middle finger signal probably shows as much. Besides, when was Teheran's fastball 3 feet away from plate?
 
Harper is a punk anyways. His comment about hitting the ball a long ways off Teheran shows why were a team and the Nats have a star who is all about individual accolades. We've won the series and were up 14.5 games. I wionder if Harper still thinks their in it? I really hope Medlen shuts these guys down tonight.
 
I really hope we don't get anyone plunked out of revenge that causes harm to our playoff run. All I can think about is Carlos Zambrano hitting Chipper in the hand the final weekend of the season a few years back and it zapping everything he had for the playoffs. Sigh. That's what I worry about. We still play the Nats 7 more times, I believe. Plenty of time for them to retaliate, unfortunately.
 
Well if it was intentional then I stand corrected and I have no problem with Harper's reaction. No excuse for throwing at another player.
 
Teheran_49 said:
Harper is a punk anyways. His comment about hitting the ball a long ways off Teheran shows why were a team and the Nats have a star who is all about individual accolades. We've won the series and were up 14.5 games. I wionder if Harper still thinks their in it? I really hope Medlen shuts these guys down tonight.
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Exactly. It was a clown remark from a guy who doesn't realize that his team is getting his ass handed to him.
 
ChapelHillMatt said:
Well if it was intentional then I stand corrected and I have no problem with Harper's reaction. No excuse for throwing at another player.
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He showed up Teheran after the homerun. Like others have said, that would have never been tolerated back in teh day. Harper needs to grow up. But at 20 years old, I needed to as well.
 
thethe said:
He showed up Teheran after the homerun. Like others have said, that would have never been tolerated back in teh day. Harper needs to grow up. But at 20 years old, I needed to as well.
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Do you believe Justin Upton should have been thrown at after Monday night?
 
thethe said:
He showed up Teheran after the homerun. Like others have said, that would have never been tolerated back in teh day. Harper needs to grow up. But at 20 years old, I needed to as well.
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I've made my feelings known on this issue in the past. Who cares what he did after the homer, it's a sport. Don't like his reaction, don't give up a homer. So people feel the answer is to throw at someone and potentially injure them because you don't like how a player celebrated. I think it's one of the stupidest reasoning anyone has ever come up with. I for the life of me don't understand it. I'm sure I'll get the customary response now where people say I've never played competitive sports growing up.
 
Harper's HBP had to do with two things:

1) Freeman was hit earlier, that's retaliation.

2) Homerun trot and the bat flip showing up Teheran.

I'm sure his comments about this not being over etc were also part of the feelings to send him a message.

There are unwritten rules of baseball in the clubhouse.

1) You never show up the pitcher. Hit a homerun and act like you've done it before. I will admit I was none too pleased with Justin's trot the other night, and Juan Francisco's consistent self-admiiration.

2) You protect your teammates. That's what Teheran did after the Freeman AB. Maddux was one of the best at protecting his teammates with HBP's. There's a Maddux-Tale of a pitcher nailing one of our guys during a late August-September game one year... the next time the Braves played that team and pitcher was the next season in late May or June, and Maddux went into Bobby's office and said "Are we still on?" and Bobby had no clue what he was talking about, and Maddux brought up how he was the guy that nailed one of our guys and if it was time to retaliate and Bobby gave him the green light.
 
ChapelHillMatt said:
I've made my feelings known on this issue in the past. Who cares what he did after the homer, it's a sport. Don't like his reaction, don't give up a homer. So people feel the answer is to throw at someone and potentially injure them because you don't like how a player celebrated. I think it's one of the stupidest reasoning anyone has ever come up with. I for the life of me don't understand it. I'm sure I'll get the customary response now where people say I've never played competitive sports growing up.
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I didn't play that much organized sports either but would you be ok with a pitcher having a celebration after every strikeout?
 
thethe said:
I didn't play that much organized sports either but would you be ok with a pitcher having a celebration after every strikeout?
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I honestly wouldn't care, he can do whatever he wants. People in this country have gotten far too sensitive imo.
 
I doubt the Freeman HBP had anything to do with it. It was a curveball that slipped and Freeman/Gio were laughing about it.
 
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