Unfrozen Caveman Manager - Rich Eisen Blasts Tony La Russa Choosing Unwritten Rules Over His Players 

Thank you!!!

He deserved to be demolished. Would have loved to see it. Sports is about crushing your opponent from start to finish. You can shake hands and sing everybody’s beautiful after the game.

Bingo!

Damn

@@enshk79 How does that song go?

I’m a huge A’s fan and that hurts, because it’s true. I loved the bash brothers, but steroids has done huge damage to the game. Records used to mean a lot in the sport.

@@robkelso2771 steroids saved baseball.

McGuire kept his steroids in his locker, visible to the coaching staff and media alike. Nobody cared about it.

McGwire spelled it with a W

@@robkelso2771 where is Canseco today? I heard he is flat broke.

You mean Ferando Tatis Jr has a new member in his fan club

Both fan clubs are growing.

Pete Alonso will always be the ROTY King

Yerminator!!!!!!

YERMIN - MERCY!

Still have no problem with him getting drilled afterwards though

@@samodudebob foh

Bull Durham is not just a great baseball movie, but it explains so much more about talent vs. work ethic.

“Hit the batter and he’s out where I come from.” - Rube Waddell

He was a catcher lol throwing a 47 lol 😂 but don't swing dude thats disrespecting the game.

@@Michaelmaddsicc disrespecting the game is allowing 15 runs to be scored

@@Michaelmaddsicc Its disrespectful to not give it your best and not show your skillset

BS, Dudes obsessed with launch angles and too much political BS and whining is why its popularity plummeted.

@@pycellesbeard9728 84 percent of at bats ending without the ball being put in play plus the glacial pace of play is what has turned people off..the game just isn't a good fit for the 21st century

I think your stupid and you don't understand the dynamics of pro sports. Or any sport for that matter. What Merceded did was an insult and could change the course of his career. Every pitcher in the league will now pitch to him much differently. No competitive players likes to see a team run up a score. You just don't do it.

@@axlejohnson9156 I think you're stupid and don't understand that these are professionals. There is no mercy rule in professional baseball. Don't mismanage your bullpen so bad that you have position players pitching and maybe you won't be put in the situation the Twins were in.

@@axlejohnson9156 How dumb is this comment? Players don’t get paid by “unwritten rules “.

@@axlejohnson9156 taking pitches when you know the pitcher has to throw a strike is not competing. It is charity. Professionals don’t need charity. This isn’t running up the score. This is different than a timed game where you could just sit and let the time run out. In baseball, in order for the game to be over, you have to get outs. If we’re up by 10 and I’m expected to play bad baseball and hand you strikes and outs, then when it’s your at bat, I expect you to also phone it in and let us collect outs. If the unwritten rule was, after ten runs, we just wind the game down, everyone concedes, and the outs add up and we go home, then fine. But that’s not it. The unwritten rule is, you stop competing while we continue to compete. This is like asking a team in American football to start taking a knee, when there’s plenty of time left because you’re up big. Teams only take a knee in football to run out the last bit of the clock, when the other team doesn’t have opportunity to possess and score. That’s sportsmanship. Asking a winning team to now quit, and give us a chance to win is not sportsmanship. It’s charity. Again - professionals don’t need charity.

Same dude. The Twins will always be my first and only true love, but I think it’s time to order that Padres 23 Jersey.

Saber Tooth Tiger 🐯

absolutely. It's his job to hit, he wants to make an impression, he wants to stay hot. Every AB matters to him. Swing away.

Unwritten rules have been around since the games creation so how are they just now ruining baseball? In my opinion these owners giving out fatass contracts to players who have one good season under their belt is ridiculous. These hitters thinking the only way they can score runs is by hitting homeruns because that's also the new fad to get a big contract. If more hitters were like Micheal Brantley at the plate then baseball would be more exiting but now almost every player thinks they have to swing for the fences which in turn is driving up the strikeout rate. Right now players don't seem to have a strategy for different counts except longball or nothing. Late in the count a hitter should shorten up just to make contact and put the ball in play.

Honestly they want to talk about respect but they're throwing in the game before its over

Very telling how this guy uses a "stooge" as his avatar.

Amen, I would watch and follow game more if it happened.

That's not an unwritten rule. That's just a millennial/losers new rule.

Tony Larussa is a millennial? Wow, crazy.

We get it bud, you don't like the game.

GTFO He threw a breaking ball BEHIND the guy.

@@pycellesbeard9728 cause hes a bad pitcher and he missed not cause he wasnt trying to hit the guy. What are you even saying. Yeah it was behind him cause he wasnt trying to hit him

@@katiewirz3869 believe it or not most pitchers don't like the idea of hitting guys in these type of situations So they pick their pitch and location accordingly and the results are like this 9 times out of 10, it's not because "they're bad".

@@pycellesbeard9728 it doesn't matter. La Russa knew they were going after him and later said he supported them doing it. That's outrageous. A 80+ mph breaking ball to the chops is still dangerous.

@@lochnessmonster5149 And...... managers know its comin ALL THE TIME!!! Mike Shildt recently asked JT Realmuto "Is it done" after Arenado was plunked in retaliation for Harper taking one in the face, He didn't cry, Arenado didn't ask for a safe space, It was done. Mercedes didn't help himself by ignoring signs from coaches either.

Thats a 2 ways street manager back the players and the players back the manager by following the signs given. The manager is the shot caller of the team not a fatass 28yr old rookie who is hot right now but could slump at any time.

@@Truckerdaddy You're assuming the manager actually is the reason they're doing well or that he's worth the divisiveness in the locker room that will cause the team to collapse. But yes, let's blame a 28 year rookie for a sign that the manager supposedly gave (but given it's TLR, in all likelihood he's lying about that).

Hilarious listening to people in the league talk about "respecting the game" as if tons of these guys weren't aware of their teams, coaches, or teammates obviously cheating. When an entire era of your sport is literally referred to as "The Steroid Era," maybe you should worry about that first before respecting a 3-0 count.

People that defend the unwritten rules of Baseball are the ones that always complain about the younger generation being soft... the hypocrisy is astounding. And the unwritten rules are about protecting "feelings" of a bunch of adults getting paid insane money playing .... a child's game

The game lost due to La Russa not knowing the rules doesn't happen with Pierzynski managing. Seriously, who sends a starting pitcher out as a baserunner? *Glug glug*

If your gonna put a position player in to pitch you might as well just concede the game and not taken the field. A defacto mercy rule. At least their won't be any injuries during pointless innings.

If only there were someplace to do that. What is it called again?

Thanks for that.

I agree but if Reinsdorf didn't want to go that route, at least ask AJ Pierzynski about the job. At least with AJ, we don't see Lance Lynn as the designated runner.

@@jasondyrkacz8270 AJ would be awesome. I'm just imagining him trying to pinch hit for himself.

I've been hit buy some of those mid-80s type pitches while standing in the batter's box and I definitely took a beating by pitches harder than that behind home plate. 80 plus mile an hour is no joke. It's still crazy dangerous and it still hurts like crap

A "stud" who is morbidly obese and has hit a grand total of ELEVEN dingers over the course of four seasons?? OK, Boomer. 😂

Deliberatley hitting a person with a baseball should be a year suspension. Second time, lifetime.

@@rodrigodepierola As should doing the same with a ball, unfortunately, it has become 'enshrined' with baseball folk law and part of the unwritten rules that teams/pitchers can hit batters with little or no (i.e. miniscule) sanctions levied against them. The point I was making is that if batters who have been hit are allowed to retaliate in kind, it would stop the habit in a heartbeat, especially if it involved the managers taking a hit as well, one single game and it would disappear, never to return.

Somebody had a rough time in Little League, huh?

Nah. Just start chucking the bat at the pitcher's head when you swing. That should even the playing field. "Oh, you wanna throw at me? I can throw at you too. Mine's bigger!"

I was just thinking the same thing. (LOL)

They got super bitter when people who were way more athletic than them started playing

Only for closet racists such as yourself, maybe.

The commment after Lance Lynn backed his teammate should've been what gotten LaRussa the boot. At this point, I'm praying that LaRussa is dumb enough to do this to Abreu.