“Offerman” Up an Ass WhoopingFormer major league All Star and future assault convict Jose Offerman has been suspended indefinitely in the minor leagues of baseball after being charged with two counts of second-degree assault.
I know what you’re thinking, “Damn, another raging, over stimulated athlete beats up a couple of poor chumps in a bar or club.” Naw, Offerman has been punished for charging the pitching mound, wielding his bat as a weapon in an independent Atlantic League game Tuesday after being hit by a pitch. The Louisville-slugging assault caught the catcher, John Nathans, on the head while he tried to stop the madman from killing pitcher Matt Beech. Nathans sustained a concussion while Beech was treated for a broken middle finger on his non-pitching hand.
Yeah, I could talk about what a crazed, mentally unstable man Offerman is for using his bat to exact his revenge on the opposing team, but that is too easy and pretty obvious. In fact, he may not even be that insane. The owner of the Long Island Ducks, the team Offerman plays for came out saying, “I can say that Jose's conduct in bringing the bat to the mound after being hit was wrong, there is no question about that. We're all saddened by this because Jose has had a 15-year major league career and is a true gentleman.” First impressions may say that this line is just a bunch of bull, but Offerman is only doing what has always been done in the game of baseball, he simply decided to make use of the weapon provided to him.
Although this was only a minor league game, this mindset of ‘going after’ each other is the same in the major league. There’s nothing like a hotdog, the 7th inning stretch, and an on-field gang fight to bring the family together while enjoying America's pastime.
NBA and NFL commissioners come down hard for the most minor infractions that could “damage the integrity of the game.” They don’t want to teach American youth bad sportsmanship or how to not play as a team since the professional athletes are their role models. According to these clownish rules a touchdown celebration by Chad Johnson or Terrell Owens the wrong way just might hurt the feelings of the other team. A new rule should tell the losing team’s crybabies to quit competing and allow the real players plan their own team celebration if and when they score. Believe me, the opposing NFL team is not heartbroken over the celebration, so who are they protecting?
In the NBA, Full game, playoff changing suspensions get handed down like Halloween candy for bench players simply setting foot on the floor when their star player is fouled hard into the first row. Just ask Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw. The natural reason of protecting their teammate is simply thrown aside by the league.
MLB allowing pitchers to throw 95 mph fastballs at the heads of batters that hit homeruns off of them because they’re mad about it only prompts the game to allow batters to retaliate by charging the mound for a good old brawl, prompting the entire benches of each team to also rush the field to ‘protect their own.’ It’s called a slippery slope, but it’s too late, now they’re using bats to try to end the career of rival pitchers that try to end the career of sluggers that are simply playing the game. Its tradition!!
Keep talking, it’s the only way they’ll ever hear you.--JJJ
I know what you’re thinking, “Damn, another raging, over stimulated athlete beats up a couple of poor chumps in a bar or club.” Naw, Offerman has been punished for charging the pitching mound, wielding his bat as a weapon in an independent Atlantic League game Tuesday after being hit by a pitch. The Louisville-slugging assault caught the catcher, John Nathans, on the head while he tried to stop the madman from killing pitcher Matt Beech. Nathans sustained a concussion while Beech was treated for a broken middle finger on his non-pitching hand.
Yeah, I could talk about what a crazed, mentally unstable man Offerman is for using his bat to exact his revenge on the opposing team, but that is too easy and pretty obvious. In fact, he may not even be that insane. The owner of the Long Island Ducks, the team Offerman plays for came out saying, “I can say that Jose's conduct in bringing the bat to the mound after being hit was wrong, there is no question about that. We're all saddened by this because Jose has had a 15-year major league career and is a true gentleman.” First impressions may say that this line is just a bunch of bull, but Offerman is only doing what has always been done in the game of baseball, he simply decided to make use of the weapon provided to him.
Although this was only a minor league game, this mindset of ‘going after’ each other is the same in the major league. There’s nothing like a hotdog, the 7th inning stretch, and an on-field gang fight to bring the family together while enjoying America's pastime.
NBA and NFL commissioners come down hard for the most minor infractions that could “damage the integrity of the game.” They don’t want to teach American youth bad sportsmanship or how to not play as a team since the professional athletes are their role models. According to these clownish rules a touchdown celebration by Chad Johnson or Terrell Owens the wrong way just might hurt the feelings of the other team. A new rule should tell the losing team’s crybabies to quit competing and allow the real players plan their own team celebration if and when they score. Believe me, the opposing NFL team is not heartbroken over the celebration, so who are they protecting?
In the NBA, Full game, playoff changing suspensions get handed down like Halloween candy for bench players simply setting foot on the floor when their star player is fouled hard into the first row. Just ask Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw. The natural reason of protecting their teammate is simply thrown aside by the league.
MLB allowing pitchers to throw 95 mph fastballs at the heads of batters that hit homeruns off of them because they’re mad about it only prompts the game to allow batters to retaliate by charging the mound for a good old brawl, prompting the entire benches of each team to also rush the field to ‘protect their own.’ It’s called a slippery slope, but it’s too late, now they’re using bats to try to end the career of rival pitchers that try to end the career of sluggers that are simply playing the game. Its tradition!!
Keep talking, it’s the only way they’ll ever hear you.--JJJ