MLB Hot Stove / Offseason 2015-2016

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@dalej42

I prefer Goose Gossage’s take

Of course you do. If someone makes an argument for 1950s attitudes about anything in sports, we can be pretty sure that you’ll be on board with it.

I love how, for Gossage, it’s not OK for someone to do a bat flip after a home run:

"So let me tell Bryce Harper something: go look at the history, figure it out and quit acting like a fool.”

but apparently this sort of behavior is completely fine, and represents the way the game should be played:

“What’s wrong with the manager coming out and arguing with an umpire and kicking dirt all over him and throwing bases and getting kicked out of the game? That used to fire up the people, on both sides. It used to fire all of us up. That’s gone. Now they’ve got replay, because who died in the last 100 years because of a bad call? No one.”

He doesn’t like replay and, to my complete and utter lack of surprise, he’s also angry about the use of computers and data to help with baseball decision-making. He’s a hybrid of Joe Morgan and Grandpa Simpson.

I’m sure that back in Gossage’s day, they could probably also whack a girlfriend or two without it making the news or getting them suspended. No wonder you’re on board with him.