Not if you're a sailor!!Originally Posted by moonslav59
Not if you're a sailor!!
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
Also Verdugo who is a real player.
@geoffgagnon
As a rookie, Mookie Betts wasn't exactly thrilled with the hazing in Boston -- which included getting sassed out for not fetching beers for bus rides. “My motivation was I'm going to be so good that I'm not going to get you any more fucking beer.”
Thank you, unnamed Red Sox players!
Does he think other teams didn't do stuff like that?
Mookie showed them. I heard he's so rich now that for bus rides he bought every player one of those beer helmets with the hoses attached to the can so he doesn't even have to get up out of his seat anymore.
But my point was he would have been hazed as a rookie regardless of team.. He would have had to go through something demeaning or humiliating or whatever had he been a rookie on the Athletics or the Braves or the Dodgers or the Nippon Ham Fighters...
I really didn't want to fall down this rabbit hole.
Hazing by senpai (upperclassmen), who often act as surrogate disciplinarians of their kohai (lower classmen) is also systemic and involves a variety of tortures.
Ichiro Suzuki, as a 10th-grader on his high school club, was forced to kneel on the rim of a lidless garbage can for an extended period of time as punishment for overcooking the rice in the team dormitory.
On other occasions he had to kneel with a bat between his calves and buttocks. He described these sessions as unbearably painful.
Such practices may continue into the pros. In last year's Japan Series, we were treated to the sight of Giants catcher and captain Shinnosuke Abe striding out to the mound and slapping second-year pitcher Hirokazu Sawamura in the head to scold him for a lapse in control.
"Snap out of it!" he yelled. It was all on nationwide TV.
Sawamura's reaction?
An embarrassed smile.
Joe Namath in his book, "I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow.... 'Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day" said at Alabama...
They lined up all the freshman at the goal line naked. Players had grape stuck up their butt and raced to the other end. Player coming in last place had to eat everyone else's grape.
Now we complain about fetching beer?
Yeah, I think fetching beer qualifies as 'civilized hazing'.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Well, depends on where the beer is....
I think the big question we're all wondering is which Red Sock will be the designated slapper in Hiro's U.S. pledge period?
They are bringing back Steven Wright.
Someone would also have to definitively explain where Bud Lite really comes from.
Do you think Hiro will get Wright's subtle monotone ironies?
"When life hands you knuckleballs, make knuckle sandwiches."
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