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Harper Suspension

How many games will Harper be suspended for?

  • No Suspension

    Votes: 5 16.7%
  • 1-2 games

    Votes: 5 16.7%
  • 3-5 games

    Votes: 16 53.3%
  • 6-10 games

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • 11+ games

    Votes: 2 6.7%

  • Total voters
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redseat

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But let's imagine that Harper had never charged the mound in the first place. Let's pretend for a moment that instead of blowing a gasket, the 24-year-old former MVP simply laid down his bat and took the base that he'd just over-earned. What then?

Would home plate umpire Brian Gorman have issued a warning to Strickland and the Giants and/or the Nationals? Maybe so, given that the projectile in question was upper 90s cheese right at the hip on the first pitch of the at-bat. Then again, maybe not. After all, it had been 965 days since Harper's NLDS Game 4 bomb against Strickland.

If Bryce Harper didn't charge, would Hunter Strickland still be suspended?
 

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Yep. The two of them should go in the showers and just jerk each other off, really fast but lovingly until they blow their loads all over the floor.

Let em brawl without fine or suspension.

My dad and grandpa were at this game

 

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with nonsense like thy both did they shouldn't be allowed to appeal imo
Everyone appeals everything everytime these days. Sometimes just to beat the system and they'll drop the appeal when it's more convenient for them to miss time. In my opinion anyone that appeals a suspension and loses the appeal should automatically have their suspension doubled. That would keep people from appealing unless they legitimately believed they were innocent.
 

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Everyone appeals everything everytime these days. Sometimes just to beat the system and they'll drop the appeal when it's more convenient for them to miss time. In my opinion anyone that appeals a suspension and loses the appeal should automatically have their suspension doubled. That would keep people from appealing unless they legitimately believed they were innocent.

That would make it very interesting!
 

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Neither should be suspended. Bench clearing brawls are good for baseball. I wish they happened more often.
 

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I hate the unwritten baseball rules so much. Why can't baseball players get over this shit already?
This isn't even "unwritten rule" level stuff. This is "I threw you a couple meatballs that you crushed, and I has bad feels about it, and I'm going to show you that you should be nicer to my meatballs when I groove them".

Fuck Strickland. Fuck him right in his gaping vagina.
 

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I don't follow the Nats, so I can't put a list together without doing research, but there was the issue (last year?) where he went ballistic on the ump for tossing him after the game. I may be wrong, but wasn't there another situation or two of him charging the mound in a bat-out-of-hell manner? Also there was the Paps fight last year (though I believe that was more on Paps than Harper).
That was Papelbon being the raging dipshit that he is. Papelbon got mad about Harper saying that Paps playing stupid "hurt feels" with Manny Machado was dumb (Paps had drilled Machado a couple days before because Machado hit a home run off some scrub Nats pitcher). So, when Harper trotted out a routine fly ball, Paps tried dressing him down, which Harper rightly told him to kindly fuck himself, so Paps grabbed Harper by the throat.
 

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Appeals should be heard imediately. No reason some other team should get the benefit of a suspension. This may not be the best case for this argument, as the Giants were the instigators and if the suspensions took place immediately, they would be the clear beneficiaries of the outcome, but let's assume Strickland hit Harper and Harper just went to first and Strick was the only one suspended. Why shouldn't the Nats be the team to get the advantage of Strickland's suspension?


I think they should go back to the old way. If you appeal a suspension, the appeal is heard the next time your team visits NY. Giving the Yankees and the Mets an advantage.

I see nothing wrong with this and can't understand why they changed it.
 

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I think they should go back to the old way. If you appeal a suspension, the appeal is heard the next time your team visits NY. Giving the Yankees and the Mets an advantage.

I see nothing wrong with this and can't understand why they changed it.
That was the most ridiculous way of doing business. When exactly was that changed? It was within the last 15 years or so, was the it?
 

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What a joke. 6 game suspension for a relief pitcher is much less than 4 games for an everyday player - especially one who is one of the top players in the game. Strickland was punished less than Harper which is laughable.
 

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What a joke. 6 game suspension for a relief pitcher is much less than 4 games for an everyday player - especially one who is one of the top players in the game. Strickland was punished less than Harper which is laughable.

It will get appealed down.
 

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It will get appealed down.

Understood. However - the message appears to be that Harpers actions were on par or even worse than those of Strickland which is an outright joke. MLB is basically condoning pitchers deliberately throwing hard at batters for the stupidest of reasons.
 
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