best homerun celebration ever

[duan]

apparently Barry Zito plunked Prince Fielder the other day because of this.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6511913

baseball's whole "don't show people up" is such bullshit .

[seawolf17]

Immortalized on Prince's Topps card this year also.

[Ceetar]

I love that celebration. Excellent stuff. They plunked him, he took his base. it's over. well, until next time. :-D

[Guest Edgy DC]

Whether you believe in that "rule" or not, all bets should be off on a game-winner. Sorry guys, the game is over, and your feelings are no longer an issue.

If Zito wants to send a message he really needs to plunk about 24 more guys.

[Guest attgig]

you mean he plunked him with his 80 mph fastball? oh zito...

[Ceetar]

Whether you believe in that "rule" or not, all bets should be off on a game-winner. Sorry guys, the game is over, and your feelings are no longer an issue.

If Zito wants to send a message he really needs to plunk about 24 more guys.[/quote:9png7xfa]


yeah, especially when the game is over. Wasn't their a stupid NFL (not that they're aren't a zillion of these) rule issue this season where someone did something to the Giants after the half ended and since the quarter was over the Giants automatically had to decline the penalty?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

apparently Barry Zito plunked Prince Fielder the other day because of this.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6511913

baseball's whole "don't show people up" is such bullshit .

[Frayed Knot]

I'm generally against the trend towards more 'check-me-out - over-the-top' type of celebrations ... but this one was pretty funny and the game was over at that point.
By the same token, Zito plunking Prince on the broad side of his broad body with a BP fastball in ST is just a not-so-subtle way of saying that the Giants remember the incident but it's not like there was a whole lot of menace behind it.

If the details of this thing were different I could see getting more riled up by it but, as is, it's mostly a non-story IMO.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It may be just a thiing, but eventually somebody is going to seriously hurt somebody else with a payback or purpose pitch, and it probably won't be a big-leaguer, but some kid in Rapid City just doing what the pros do.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This is still hilarious, and that may just be the best photograph I've ever seen on laminated cardboard ("french" playing cards included).

[duan]

apparently Barry Zito plunked Prince Fielder the other day because of this.
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6511913

baseball's whole "don't show people up" is such bullshit .

[dgwphotography]

It's often said that scoring a goal is better then sex [/quote:2xhkcwpo]

Whoever said that just isn't doing it right

[metsmarathon]

maybe you're just not a good enough goal-scorer.

[ashie62]

Screw Shawn Estes

[Guest Edgy DC]

Exactly! If you think goal scoring is better than sex, it's because you haven't screwed Sean Estes.

[duan]

I didn't say that I thought that goal scoring was better then sex, just that it's a common enough assertion.

But it is a great rush.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Kinda like shaking hands with Jerry Grote.

[seawolf17]

Kinda like shaking hands with Jerry Grote.[/quote:1x70e4x0]
But NOT Moises Alou.

[metirish]

Um , I for one didn't think the celebration was all that.

[Guest attgig]

I still like Lastings' high fives.