OT: Louisville pitcher with the f-bombs
I was listening to the game on the radio and heard the announcers talking about it, but seeing Luke Smith hurl some f-bombs at the Vandy player, and then seeing the crowd cheer, was -- I have to admit -- a little shocking to me. I don't know if I've ever seen that in a college game. I'm of the "Let Your Pitching Do The Talking" school.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/baseball/cws/story/_/id/27027839/vandy-rallies-9th-pitcher-profane-taunts
Dude looked like he should be driving a vehicle in Mad Max with that hair and goggles.
Team is a Four-Letter Word.
The Team, The Team , The Team.
He took one four The Team.
Team You!
Big Wind Up, No Pitch in the Finale......
GO BLUE!!!
Dude gave up 3 runs, punched out 10, and walked 2.
His team needed to give him a little bit more than 2 damn runs.
At that point in the game he had only given up 1 run. Maybe he should have waited an inning to be an asshat.
Lol I suppose.
I'm just finding irony in the OP's "the team, the team, the team" comment when his team basically did nothing for him.
Pretty sure he only gave up two runs.
Love seeing shit talkers get shit on
No crying in baseball but he apparently thought extreme doucheness was A, OK.
Love the passion but wasn't expecting that in a college game. Also a very dumb move if you're coming back out for the 9th.
The ESPN commentators said the same thing, which I'm not sure I agree with.
You don't think hitters on a team losing by one run heading in to the 9th inning (with a chance to go to a national championship series) are already giving it their all and doing absolutely anything they can to get on base/score a run?
If the pitcher didn't curse them out, what were they gonna do, just stand there, take 3 pitches and walk back to the dugout?
While I agree with what you say in regards to giving it their all, there are universal laws that when these things happen, they tend to come back and bite you in the ass. That is more of what I was referring to.
Curse words are great
You're fucking right!
F-bomb, f-bomb,
Drop those f-bombs
And baby you can turn me on...
I've got no problem with it. I love the fiery passion and think that people give too much power to curse words anyhow. We've got bigger problems to worry about than if someone said a naughty word. Fuck yah, go get em kid!
And I love it even more that he got hammered on! That's what makes (college) sports fun. The emotion, the twists, the pageantry, and the morning after!
Go blue! Look out Vandy, our boys got something for you.
Only in baseball. One day someone will charge the mound and teach that young man a lesson that his words have repercussions.
Vandy didn't need to charge the mound. Their response was way better. They settled it with their bats and sent Smith home.
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Hopefully that isn't the vehicle for the lesson. As fun as it was to watch Nolan Ryan attempt to remove Robin Ventura's brain with his right fist back in the day, even at that level you really should let your play do the talking.
Saw it and while I love the passion, I don’t see a place for it in college sports, or any level of competition. Too many kids. I don’t think I’d want my grandkids replicating that “passion”.
Oh boy....you must not sit close to the football field during Michigan games. More F’s used than good jobs. Sports get emotional and emotional people use profanity’s. Unless your Don Brown then you use them constantly ?.
Yeah... we go to 2-3 games a year and only once can I remember someone dropping the F-bomb in front of kids/grandkids. And this guy was so loaded he could hardly walk. His wife finally walked him out.
Generally, we’ve found M fans to be respectful and decent.
The "football field." For fuck's sake, reading is fundamental. Athletes swear in the heat of competition. I can't tell you how much worse it is in youth sports when silver spoon ass suburban kids throw tantrums while coach Dad does nothing.
Obviously, he broke one of baseball's "unwritten rules" with his potty mouth.
But being that the rules are unwritten, I don't know where to look it up.
I've played at Louisville a couple times. Their fans are the worst. Not surprised that extends to their team.
I admit I did chuckle when Vandy knocked the punk out of the game in the 9th. I was hoping for a closeup of Smith and Infante during the handshake line after the game, but I was denied. I'm glad Smith got the loss.
He was easy to root against after that. Just pitch, & don't be a dick. It's really not that hard.
exactly!
...well the pitching part is not that easy even though he made it look that way
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and well judging by twitter the other part is actually pretty hard
Is all the swearing we are seeing normal? A catcher in our game calls someone a bitch, this guy dropping F-bombs. I would think an umpire could toss someone for unsportsmanlike conduct or something. I have seen players get a technical in basketball for dropping an F-bomb on the court.
He didn't toss out f-bombs out of the blue, the Vandy hitters were talking smack at him, also. It was a back and forth action, as it always is. But yeah, pitcher was rolling and should have just listened, smiled, tipped his cap, and said 'now sit the fuck down'.
He had it rolling - was in complete control of the entire Vandy lineup with a three hitter and a bunch of strikes. It looked just like Henry's game against FSU! But he let it attitude get the better of him, and missed 9 pitches in a row in the 9th. He should have been pulled after the first walk and the next two balls (8 balls in a row at that point). L'ville's manager tried to roll him a bit too long.
Karma caught him, rightfully so.
And Fuck Louisville for letting Vandy off the hook and giving them more time to rest up their pitching staff.
How did karma rightfully catch up with him, when you had previously stated that Vandy players were also chirping at him? Where is their rightful karma?
Greatlakesstate said it - the Vandy players didn't lose their focus through the chirping... But I do agree that the Vandy players didn't get their Karma last night.
That bitch is coming for them Monday night...
I think this is the right take. In sports in as in any human endeavor, passion is good but too much passion will cause you to lose focus. The Louisville pitcher was in the “zone” and lost it by getting too angry.
I don’t know about the f bombs but that a nasty curveball.
saw it..the guys a JERK..and STUPID all he did was enflame Vandy and they stormed back to win...in his FACE
ehhhh.
Not a great look, but love the passion.
It's not surprising that in a tense, emotional situation, amped up by passion that words flew.
I doubt in football or basketball bad words are used. Ha!
I’m not gonna say I loved it, but shit talking and swearing on the playing field is okay in my book. They aren’t in church or a library, this is what these kids work for all year and their ultimate dream, if they have emotion and an opponent is jawing at them, jaw right back. ESPN should be to blame from publicizing it so much, I don’t blame the kids.
Dude was over the top. I am not a fan of players showing up the opposition, I think it just shows crappy sportsmanship. But if people want to do it, fine, it’s their business. But that kid looked like Roger Clemons back in his roid days when he threw the bat handle at Piazza, I believe.
It was shocking to see someone from Louisville act that way.
Was watching when this happened. They didn’t show the Vandy Player or bench ONCE. There is no way to know what they were saying. Announcers were very obviously pulling for Vandy, so their take was one-sided. Also, when Louisville finally pulled Smith, the umps issued a warning to the Vandy dugout. This tells me it was coming from both teams. Also, if his talk was on-sided, he would have been tossed. This is another case of ESPN creating a crisis for clicks.
Louisville players spit more than most. Spitting is pretty damn disgusting and I noticed our guys don’t spit that much.
Now all we need to do is improve on the damn 1-4 streak in NCAA major sport titles going back to Fab Five-Duke. Tired of Brides Maiding.
Love the pearl clutchers in this thread. Maybe we forget when Darius Morris told the Spartans to GTFO his court.
Or when Novak had his aneurism and I believe a "Fuck" can be read from his lips.
Who knows what personal history may exist.
If you’ve ever played baseball you know that the catcher is usually always jawing ...the Ump talks and the dugouts will banter. I never heard shit when at the plate ..nothing. But I sure as hell ran my mouth from CF or 2nd or wherever I was defensively.
This example of the L’ville pitcher just makes me want to bury Vandy even more.
Fuck Vanderbilt!
This. Catchers and hitters talk all the time. Personally I love it. Brings a little more excitement to a somewhat boring game.
I don't care about swearing, dropping f-bombs, etc. It was the way he did it, with eye contact, and, in case you didn't hear it the first time, asshole, "Fuck. You." It was more directly adversarial than I'm used to. But my son tells me it happens every day in the game and they usually don't show it.