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He seemed very cross.

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Can we institute some kind of drama-queen filter on this board?

Jimmy King wrote:Can we institute some kind of drama-queen filter on this board?

This. Half of this board turned on 22 year old with massive talent because of a baserunning mistake, hilarious.

jrsmith wrote:

Jimmy King wrote:Can we institute some kind of drama-queen filter on this board?

This. Half of this board turned on 22 year old with massive talent because of a baserunning mistake, hilarious.

i don't think anyone has turned on lawrie. but all the criticism he's received over his blunder yesterday is well-deserved as it was one of, if not the worst baserunning decision many of us have ever seen and could have very well cost the team a couple runs. no one should be exempt from criticism for attempting such a high-risk, low-reward play.

Lawrie deserves every bit of criticism he gets for that play. It was ridiculous. Farrell went too easy on him in that clip.

Michael Bradley wrote:Lawrie deserves every bit of criticism he gets for that play. It was ridiculous. Farrell went too easy on him in that clip.

Which actually echo's the sentiment that this board needs a drama queen filter.

It was a stupid decision, but even Farrell's reaction puts it into perspective. He's 22, he's going all-out all the time, and there will be plenty of scenarios to come where the team will benefit from his exuberance and I'd bet this won't be the last time in which a decision of his makes us shake our heads. Christ, throwing himself into the wall the other night and risking injury was probably a worse decision on his part, if only because this team would be in dire straits if he was out of the line-up for any length of time.

But the OP is an overreaching drama queen for trying to make this into something larger.

There There wrote:

Michael Bradley wrote:Lawrie deserves every bit of criticism he gets for that play. It was ridiculous. Farrell went too easy on him in that clip.

Which actually echo's the sentiment that this board needs a drama queen filter.

It was a stupid decision, but even Farrell's reaction puts it into perspective. He's 22, he's going all-out all the time, and there will be plenty of scenarios to come where the team will benefit from his exuberance and I'd bet this won't be the last time in which a decision of his makes us shake our heads. Christ, throwing himself into the wall the other night and risking injury was probably a worse decision on his part, if only because this team would be in dire straits if he was out of the line-up for any length of time.

But the OP is an overreaching drama queen for trying to make this into something larger.

Well, yes, if the argument is the OP made it seem like Farrell went off when in reality the interview was quite tame, then I agree it is overdramatic. But questioning Lawrie for that play is not overdramatic, IMO. Throwing himself into the wall to make a catch, fine, I will give that up to exuberance and youth, but what Lawrie did yesterday defied common sense. Bases loaded, 2 outs, best player in baseball (slump or not) at the plate. You don't steal home there. Even if it somehow worked it still would have been stupid.

But yes, Lawrie will make emotional plays every now and then. You have to take the good with the bad with him.

Lets put this in a little bit of perspeective guys. It was the 2nd inning, had Lawrie made it, he would have totally rattled the Orioles pitcher for the rest of the game and we probably would have won easily.

We are blaming a loss on a player for a 2nd inning play because we are banking on a batter who has a 30% chance of getting a hit (and that's being kind to Bautista at this point) and probably a 10% chance of hitting a HR.

We are playing an inferior team at home and have already lost the 1st game and we are using a play early on in the game for losing when it shouldn't even have come to that. Somehow I think if Curtis Granderson had done the same thing in the 2nd inning with Teixera at the plate the Yankee fans would have been more concerned as to why are we losing to the Orioles to begin with in the other facets of the game when we should be blowing them out rather than using a 2nd inning play as a scapegoat to mask the real problems with the team.

Michael Bradley wrote:

There There wrote:Well, yes, if the argument is the OP made it seem like Farrell went off when in reality the interview was quite tame, then I agree it is overdramatic. But questioning Lawrie for that play is not overdramatic, IMO. Throwing himself into the wall to make a catch, fine, I will give that up to exuberance and youth, but what Lawrie did yesterday defied common sense. Bases loaded, 2 outs, best player in baseball (slump or not) at the plate. You don't steal home there. Even if it somehow worked it still would have been stupid.

But yes, Lawrie will make emotional plays every now and then. You have to take the good with the bad with him.

Matt Kemp plays for the LA Dodgers not the Blue Jays.

Yosemite Dan wrote:8-) Lets put this in a little bit of perspeective guys. It was the 2nd inning, had Lawrie made it, he would have totally rattled the Orioles pitcher for the rest of the game and we probably would have won easily.

That's quite an assumption, I think there is something to be said about not talking outrageous gambles. It's not like it was late in a tie game with a weak-hitting batter and we've already used our closer. I love the guy and his enthusiasm, and I don't think Farrell was wrong or particularly heavy handed. You want him to learn from his mistakes and there is no way this wasn't a mistake.

There There wrote:But the OP is an overreaching drama queen for trying to make this into something larger.

Michael Bradley wrote:Well, yes, if the argument is the OP made it seem like Farrell went off when in reality the interview was quite tame, then I agree it is overdramatic.

Settle down.

I think it's clear he was "none too pleased" and "seemed very cross." If you were to look up the word 'cross,' you'd see it means 'annoyed.'

I am one of the more careful posters of this board. No drama-queen antics.

It was a mistake. I bet you can point out 100 mistakes a game in the MLB, regardless of which team. Some are bigger than others but life goes on.

Don't try to argue the move wasn't stupid, it was, but I bet he won't try a bases loaded steal of home ever again in his career.

Yosemite Dan wrote:We are blaming a loss on a player for a 2nd inning play because we are banking on a batter who has a 30% chance of getting a hit (and that's being kind to Bautista at this point) and probably a 10% chance of hitting a HR.

Who's blaming the loss on him?

There's a difference between saying it was a boneheaded play and a mistake he shouldn't make again, and saying 'it's his fault we lost'.

The bullpen lost that game not Lawrie

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/b ... le2402948/

I still don't like the play, but I'm glad Bautista took it in stride. Class act. A lot of people with bigger egos would have sulked over it.

Hilarious interview on the MLB Network.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=20689963

Kevin Millar, on Intentional Talk, asks Lawrie about the play, and then they begin to riff on the differences between Canadian and American snacks, marriage proposals from teachers, and 'got heem.'

Hamyltowne wrote:Hilarious interview on the MLB Network.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=20689963

Kevin Millar, on Intentional Talk, asks Lawrie about the play, and then they begin to riff on the differences between Canadian and American snacks, marriage proposals from teachers, and 'got heem.'

Funny stuff. But he's a Canucks fan yet he calls the Sedins "sisters"...ya okay

Kapono wrote:Funny stuff. But he's a Canucks fan yet he calls the Sedins "sisters"...ya okay

That surprised me, too. I had to rewind it back to be sure.