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May
I was trying to hit him,” the Philadelphia left-hander said after the Phillies’ 9-3 win. “I’m not going to deny it.” Major League Baseball rewarded Hamels’ candor by suspending him Monday for five games. “That’s something I grew up watching, that’s kind of what happened. So I’m just trying to continue the old baseball because I think some people are kind of getting away from it,” Hamels said Sunday. “I remember when I was a rookie the strike zone was really, really small and you didn’t say anything because that’s the way baseball is. But I think unfortunately the league’s protecting certain players and making it not that old-school, prestigious way of baseball.
“Prestigious?” Do you know what that word means? Here: reputable, distinguished, respected, esteemed, eminent, august, highly regarded, well-thought-of, acclaimed, authoritative, celebrated, illustrious, leading, renowned.
Please explain how plunking a rookie fits any of those words.
Right.
I’d have a lot more respect for you if you just admitted that you hit him because you don’t like him. So next time, man up and admit it, and spare us this horseshit excuse about the integrity of the game.
Oh yeah, by the way, you want ‘old school?’ Try working a summer job in a men’s clothing store in between consecutive-World-Series-winning seasons like Phil Rizzuto, dickhead.
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