The knee that's where the knee is or the knee that's about halfway between the shin and the ankle? Because clearly he had the full range of motion in the latter.
Incidentally, this is why you either set up inside the base path or with your torso blocking the plate (illegal, but no more illegal than straddling the base path). I don't really get why you would set up with your torso inside the base path and your leg blocking the plate. You know the guy is coming in either with his shoulder or cleats-up. Either get your body in front of him or try to tag him from the side. Blocking him with your shin doesn't really get you anything.
Heard lots of people say today that he was hit unfairly, but I totally am with you, isaac- you set up with your leg blocking home, your leg is going to get hit. He knew that and did it anyway.
watching the replay on ESPN. Doesn't show where Santana is stationted at the beginning of the play, but it looks like he steps towards first base to catch the short hop and swings his left leg behind him as he swivels back for the tag.
Honestly, the slide didn't look that bad to me at all. At least in the angles I saw, it looked like he was trying to go under the leg. The only way he could have avoided the leg the way that Santana was dropping it was by sliding around to the right and trying to slip his hand in from the back side. But why would he do that? The base path belongs to the runner, I think part of the problem was that he was late enough in a game that was not close enough that people are pissed that he headed home at all. But there wasn't anything dirty in it.
If Kalish played for the White Sox, he would have slid fist-first with brass knuckles.
My ALOTT5MAball team thanks you for not linking to video of the Santana injury. Blergh.
ReplyDeleteNot cool.
ReplyDeleteMan, why couldn't it have been the Harry Caray statue?
ReplyDeleteWell, the Phanatic has been monopolizing the mascot scene in Philadelphia. Viva GreenMan!
ReplyDeleteNot worse than the Carlos Santana injury.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet initial reports out of Cleveland, still pending MRI results: "knee contusion." That seems hard to believe.
ReplyDeleteThe knee that's where the knee is or the knee that's about halfway between the shin and the ankle? Because clearly he had the full range of motion in the latter.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, this is why you either set up inside the base path or with your torso blocking the plate (illegal, but no more illegal than straddling the base path). I don't really get why you would set up with your torso inside the base path and your leg blocking the plate. You know the guy is coming in either with his shoulder or cleats-up. Either get your body in front of him or try to tag him from the side. Blocking him with your shin doesn't really get you anything.
ReplyDeleteHeard lots of people say today that he was hit unfairly, but I totally am with you, isaac- you set up with your leg blocking home, your leg is going to get hit. He knew that and did it anyway.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Theismann/Krumrie knee, right between the shin and ankle.
ReplyDeleteActual diagnosis after MRI: high grade LCL strain and hyperextension of left knee. To the 15-Day DL after all.
watching the replay on ESPN. Doesn't show where Santana is stationted at the beginning of the play, but it looks like he steps towards first base to catch the short hop and swings his left leg behind him as he swivels back for the tag.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, the slide didn't look that bad to me at all. At least in the angles I saw, it looked like he was trying to go under the leg. The only way he could have avoided the leg the way that Santana was dropping it was by sliding around to the right and trying to slip his hand in from the back side. But why would he do that? The base path belongs to the runner, I think part of the problem was that he was late enough in a game that was not close enough that people are pissed that he headed home at all. But there wasn't anything dirty in it.
ReplyDeleteIf Kalish played for the White Sox, he would have slid fist-first with brass knuckles.