Unfrozen Caveman Manager - Rich Eisen Blasts Tony La Russa Choosing Unwritten Rules Over His Players
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2021
- Rich Eisen explains why Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa needs to let go of baseball’s antiquated ‘Unwritten Rules’ and step into the 21st century.
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The only thing disrespectful here is putting a position player to pitch and expecting the opposition to lay down.
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?
Tony La Russa really cared about all of the unwritten and written rules of baseball. He would have knocked the needle out of Mark McGuire's arm.
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.
Tell you what, Yermin has a new member in his fan club. And his name is Fernando Tatis Jr.
You mean Ferando Tatis Jr has a new member in his fan club
Both fan clubs are growing.
Dude has been in the minors for 10 YEARS. This is his moment and his year. All hail the Yerminator ROTY
Pete Alonso will always be the ROTY King
Yerminator!!!!!!
YERMIN - MERCY!
Still have no problem with him getting drilled afterwards though
@@samodudebob foh
Tony larussa really told his own team to get off his lawn
“Tony knows more about the unwritten rules of baseball than he does the written rules” -Trevor Plouffe
Larussa and the unwritten rules are one of the major reasons baseball’s popularity has plummeted. If you’re pitchers suck, how is that a ME problem?
He was a catcher lol throwing a 47 lol 😂 but don't swing dude thats disrespecting the game.
@@MichaelW52883 disrespecting the game is allowing 15 runs to be scored
@@MichaelW52883 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
" You throw the ball, you hit the ball, you catch the ball." Those are the rules.
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
As a Twins fan I say good for Yermin. If we're going to be so stupid as to throw a bunch of slowballs, we deserve to have one sent out of a park. I have very little time for the Twins this year and I have even less time for them after that ball was thrown behind Yermin.
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.
Tony also covered up obvious steroid use by his players in Oakland, crediting it instead to "hard work" in the gym...
I am a diehard White Sox fan and frankly, LaRussa's handling of this disgusts me and I am honestly fuming right now but I am hoping the team handles this like adults within their own locker room and can all move forward but if this becomes a legitimate rift I don't care what TLR's resume is he has to be the one who goes...
Saber Tooth Tiger 🐯
LaRussa and managers with that old school mentally need to go.
Lobbing pitches over the plate is disrespectful. It’s the Twins fault their pitching staff is overworked in mid May.
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.
Yermin has spent the past 10 years between the minor leagues and independent ball. This is his first go around in the big leagues so for him nothing is guaranteed he’s playing for a contract. These “unwritten rules” are ruining the game to follow all that up our manager handled this entire situation poorly the game has passed him this team is full of young talent that has World Series aspirations.
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.
“Caveman” manager 😭😂
The unwritten rules of baseball can die
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.
We are finding out the generation who claimed to be so tough is actually a bunch of snowflakes.
We need more Trevor Bauers in the league. Dude doesn't care about unwritten rules and just wants to play baseball. We need some younger managers in the league that aren't worried about how the other grandpas at the country club look at you
I expected this from TLR.
He's got a mindset from 100 years ago.
I happy we are in first but damn man back your freaking guys.
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).
The only thing I thought during this was “That’s one hell of a microphone.”
You stick up for your guys no matter what.
La Russa is more supportive of the opponent potentially killing his player with a fastball than he is of his player hitting a 3-0 pitch in a 10-run game. That's the current state of the MLB.
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.
If you're going to handle it internally, your comment to the press is: "No comment," or "I support my guys." Anything else is handling it out in public.
The 'respect' the game unwritten rules are why I don't watch MLB baseball. Play the game to win.
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.
As an untimed sport, a baseball game is not over until the final out. Granted, the odds are very much against the Twins getting 11 or more runs in the bottom of the 9th, but you never know.
La Russa is the guy, before he was hired, who said he wanted to "restore the balance" of baseball... saying he hates metrics and the modern game. And sure enough, here he is -- more concerned about what he feels the game should be, instead of his own team.
The “unwritten rules of the game” are just another reason why people have been flocking from baseball to football for years. People don’t want games where one team is supposed to let off the gas just because the other side can’t field a competitive team. That’s not the White Sox fault. You don’t want homers being hit off you while down 10 runs? Blame your team’s management for putting them in that situation to start.
It's a mistake to think that LaRussa has anything to do with the 2021 White Sox success. He is actually holding this team back.
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*
"When someone hurts your feelings, throw a temper tantrum (by intentionally trying to hit them with 90+ mph pitch).". Isn't that the same logic people hate to see from younger generations?
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
Not fast?! A slider is usually thrown in the mid 80’s.
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
The unwritten rules are that, unwritten. If they matter that much write them down. As others have said: You don't want me to score, stop me.
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.
Personally, I feel it's disrespectful for a pitcher to throw anything faster than 75 when they're ahead in the count 0-2.
From my understanding the player brushed off the manager's correction with something like "I'm just being me", so the manager said fine. You go out there with that same attitude in the next few games, we'll see what your peers think of that. Message sent. I agree with the manager. He's in charge. You want to score a TD for example when your coach says take a knee and run out the clock? Don't be surprised if you get punished. Sometimes tough love is more than justified with a player who is directly challenging your authority. Well done. If you don't want to dodge pitches, next time listen to the man who's been doing this longer than you've been alive. No time for coddling Rich.
Mr Rich speaks waaaaay too much common sense. This is why I watch all the way to the end! (Yooobech'ya Mr Rich!)
Thanks for that.
Ah yes, old baseball heads. Complain about disrespecting unwritten rules like flipping a bat while being alright with sliding cleat first or absolutely crushing a catcher, or throwing at a guys dome piece.
Some people may disagree with me here, but Ozzie Guillen would be the perfect fit for a young team like this. The guys would have so much fun, and Chicago loves him. Bring back Ozzie!
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.
When position players started pitching everything else goes out of the window. It's gotten ridiculous. So why hold any other standards especially "unwritten" ones
Is Larussa mad that his guy broke an unwritten rule or is he mad that he disregarded his sign?
He should have had a conversation with his player. Making threats is quick way to disrespect the best hitter in the American league
If only there were someplace to do that. What is it called again?
It's just weird that he got hired in the 1st place
Bring back Ozzie Guillen! He might be a dinosaur who knows nothing about analytics but Ozzie Guillen managing a team with Tim Anderson, Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech and Yermin Mercedes would be unbelievably entertaining. Do it for the fans, Reinsdorf!
Were I in the room, my next question for La Russa would have been "Do you think your opinion is relevant or that you have any business being in the game anymore?" Because in my opinion, the answer is no.
Rich you're more mad than Tony was!!?? RESPECT!!
Best nine minutes and 45 seconds I’ve seen in a very long time thank you Rich Eisen
Respecting the game, just like Tony did back with the As with the most steroided up team in all of baseball history? That kind of respect for the game?
Larussa can't follow the written rules of the road, yet expects his players to follow unwritten rules of baseball...that's the real joke...
Mr. Purity of the Game is only mad because Yermin is hitting home runs without steroids.
These unwritten rules are so stupid. Put the ball in the damn atmosphere any time you can, that’s what everyone wants to see. And to put your own player in harms way like that and not even get his back afterwards is grounds for firing or a suspension I think.
Hahahaha!! This was almost as good as Angry Jets Fan Rant!!!
Also... maybe La Russa comedy just writes itself?
These young players are trying to bring life back to baseball, no matter what these oldies or the MLB try
Unwritten rules are the dumbest thing and what’s killing baseball between that and the stupid shift every at bat
It’s very disrespectful to your opponent when you don’t even try hard, in my opinion. And if there is one worthwhile unwritten rule in baseball, it’s do not throw your players/teammates under the bus - you stand up for your players.
The one who got the worst of all of this was Duffy the Pitcher who clearly didn't want to throw at him
Baseball and it's new rules suck. Put in a game clock. You got 2 hours to play. That's it....game over. That's next 😠
Poor Yerminator
IF YOU LET THEM DOWN, DON'T LET THEM UP!
Our job as hitters is to protect the opposing pitcher's ego.
Our job as pitchers is to destroy the opposing batter's ego.
Fans don't watch baseball to see players take 3-0 cookies.
This is perfect example. It’s not checkers it’s chess with La Russa, everything he does is calculated… best manager
I kept hearing Rich call my Mercedes "mean".
It is but how did he know?
You question a baseball manager at his age but no one questions the president when he is that advanced in age and more?
A football guy who runs the 40 yard dash during the combine every year shouldn’t be explaining baseball to viewers
Tis better to be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Eff the take sign. Pudge vs. Pudge may very well happen again. You might as well get upset with Rocco Baldelli
I thought straight out of geico was about the car accident at first lmao
Throwing bean balls should get you a lifetime ban. That will fix this whole unwritten rules BS real fast when you lose your career for trying to enforce them.
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!"
Best part about baseball is that it’s not a timed event like all other sports. Meaning you can be down 20-0 with 2 outs in the bottom of the 9th and still win the game. A lot of times, I usually see it in football that teams get a big lead early and then play to not lose the game. They go into prevent defense and guess what? The other team comes back and wins the game a lot.
As a lifetime Dodger fan, I will never forget that when Tony LaRussa coached the Cardinals, his pitchers were beaning the best Dodger players, every time we played them.
Emperor Palpatine running the White Sox, who knew?
So where is the footage of LR "sprinting to the top step and screaming to take"?
The last thing LaRussa sprinted for was of the alcoholic variety.
Clicked like before the commercial was finished. Just knew it.
You can't give up at bats...period. Robbie Cano gave up more at bats than anyone I ever saw. Imagine if he cared like Jeter.
Tell me you’re not a baseball fan without telling me you’re not a baseball fan
Ask him with his interpreter if he saw the sign please. If he didn't see the sign then fine. If he did most all of this is moot.
La Russa’s just bitter cause he’s not allowed to have a beer after the win
So if every player started playing their own game then don't get pissed off when pitchers throw at the head or players slide dirty like Machado, because their just playing their own game.
That’s me I’m swinging at 3-0 pitch knowing it’s gunna be right down the pike. This isn’t little league baseball. This is Major League Baseball. Professional not middle schoolers
If you don't write them down, they're not rules
LaRussa trying to placate everybody ended up pleasing nobody. TLR needs to prioritize the team he's hired to coach first and foremost.
Tony LaRussa : allows Twins to throw at Yerminator because it’s an unwritten rule
Also Tony LaRussa : defends McGwire and steroid legacy ignoring unwritten rule
why tf does it matter? the twins had put a position player out there cause they had given up. its childish stuff out of la russa
Baseball got the dummest “unwritten” rules smh
I’m an NL guy and have always believed the unwritten rules play.. But there are some unwritten rules that are just ridiculous..
For example, Tatis peeking is unacceptable, and should be dealt with by the players, because MLB won’t do anything about that.. But unwritten rules involving celebrations, or this situation, are ridiculous.. And always have been..
It's "8 men out" the unwritten version
If it’s not written, it’s not a rule.
Ironic TLR cares about rules unwritten or not in baseball, but not the rules of real life like not driving while hammered and nearly killing someone eh?
tony is funny, his player cant hit a home run and u talking bout consequences lol man plz
Thank you rich!
TLR is perfectly fine with breaking the written rule of not drunk driving but loses his mind when it comes to his own player hitting a home run even goes as far as saying Mercedes deserved to get plunked the day after. What a cowardly coach and man. I love baseball, love watching it, it’s perfect for a Saturday afternoon but guys like TLR push me away from the game at times, the backlash from the older generation towards fun kills the game for younger generation.
Your world is strange and new to me, Rich. Presented by Happy fun ball...still legal in 16 States!
Why are managers deciding if their player should swing or not?
Nice take...except you left out the most important part, the fans. Do they want to see a take or a 450ft bomb?
At least the kid didn't break written rules, like drinking and driving.
I have said this before and I will say it again, notwithstanding the so-called 'unwritten BS rules' invented by God knows who and God knows when, but in particular the one that states it is OK to deliberately strike a hitter with a ball for some perceived 'slight' or 'injustice' could be stopped over night within Baseball as a whole, not just the MLB, with the introduction of a single rule change. Namely, if a pitcher hits a batter, regardless of if it is deliberate of not, it either automatically earns the side hit a home run OR the batter is allowed, without interference, to walk up the mound and hit the pitcher with a bat full power but is only allowed to hit him in the same location as he was struck, regardless of what part of the anatomy that is. Alternatively, the manager of the pitching side would be allowed to substitute himself for his pitcher as a form of 'designated target'. Job done, situation resolved. Anything else is pure BS.
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?
His own coach threw him under the bus
Tony was just as upset the batter didn't take because of the take sign than anything. His pride won't stand younger players being on the field much less defying bullcrap unwritten rules. He would walk out of press conferences often hearing a question he didn't like. It's completely predictable.
La Russa, in his way, I think, is trying to prevent season-long, interdivision bad blood between a 1st place club and a club whose season is perhaps already over. The optics are strange and his Sox already have serious injury issues. He doesn't want more injuries caused by beanballs.
A good way to work towards that would be not defending opposing teams throwing balls at your guys
I hope Riesdorf figures it out.
WE NEED YOUNG MANAGER ,IN MLB ,FIRE ALL THIS GRAMPA
Part of the reason I wanted AJ Pierzynski.
PLAY HARD, PLAY FAIR, PLAY TO WIN!