May 21, 200818 yr Did anyone else see it? It was pretty bad, Church was bleeding from above his forehead and probably has a concussion. Escobar didn't fare too well either. Here: Collision
May 21, 200818 yr that sucks for Church, he had a concussion in Spring Training too. That dude has been playing off the chain this year.
May 21, 200818 yr I saw it on sportscenter, OUCH!! damn that sucks, he had been tearing it up...its the Muts, but still, good luck to him.
May 21, 200818 yr saw the play too. part of me says that's what church gets for trying to hurt escobar (he hit him earlier in the game), but i hope he gets better soon so we can put him on our public enemy list for being a dirty player. i think the mets are resorting to beating our players up because they can't beat us otherwise. i'm a bit concerned about escobar though, i'm hoping there isn't any kind of lingering damage from that dirty hit from church, but i'm thinking he sits out until the weekend.
May 21, 200818 yr saw the play too. part of me says that's what church gets for trying to hurt escobar (he hit him earlier in the game), but i hope he gets better soon so we can put him on our public enemy list for being a dirty player. i think the mets are resorting to beating our players up because they can't beat us otherwise. i'm a bit concerned about escobar though, i'm hoping there isn't any kind of lingering damage from that dirty hit from church, but i'm thinking he sits out until the weekend. Yeah, ok. Slides like that are part of the game, it was copmletely clean, he was in reach of the bag and didn't slide past the bag at all. And if Escobar can't take it he should put the ball in his pocket and take the one out, that's the risk you take.
May 21, 200818 yr saw the play too. part of me says that's what church gets for trying to hurt escobar (he hit him earlier in the game), but i hope he gets better soon so we can put him on our public enemy list for being a dirty player. i think the mets are resorting to beating our players up because they can't beat us otherwise. i'm a bit concerned about escobar though, i'm hoping there isn't any kind of lingering damage from that dirty hit from church, but i'm thinking he sits out until the weekend. There was NOTHING wrong with that slide, it was about as textbook as you can get. Sometimes you let your homerism get in the way of your commonsense. For you to worry more about your guy, who gave someone a concussion and ended up with a bruise, than the guy who got the concussion, is an insult to humanity.
May 21, 200818 yr saw the play too. part of me says that's what church gets for trying to hurt escobar (he hit him earlier in the game), but i hope he gets better soon so we can put him on our public enemy list for being a dirty player. i think the mets are resorting to beating our players up because they can't beat us otherwise. i'm a bit concerned about escobar though, i'm hoping there isn't any kind of lingering damage from that dirty hit from church, but i'm thinking he sits out until the weekend. There was NOTHING wrong with that slide, it was about as textbook as you can get. Sometimes you let your homerism get in the way of your commonsense. For you to worry more about your guy, who gave someone a concussion and ended up with a bruise, than the guy who got the concussion, is an insult to humanity. We will never know whether it was a clean or a dirty slide because there's no way of knowing if Church would have being able to reach the bag without the collision. The fact that he ended up with a mild concussion doesn't sway it towards the clean side.
May 21, 200818 yr saw the play too. part of me says that's what church gets for trying to hurt escobar (he hit him earlier in the game), but i hope he gets better soon so we can put him on our public enemy list for being a dirty player. i think the mets are resorting to beating our players up because they can't beat us otherwise. i'm a bit concerned about escobar though, i'm hoping there isn't any kind of lingering damage from that dirty hit from church, but i'm thinking he sits out until the weekend. There was NOTHING wrong with that slide, it was about as textbook as you can get. Sometimes you let your homerism get in the way of your commonsense. For you to worry more about your guy, who gave someone a concussion and ended up with a bruise, than the guy who got the concussion, is an insult to humanity. We will never know whether it was a clean or a dirty slide because there's no way of knowing if Church would have being able to reach the bag without the collision. The fact that he ended up with a mild concussion doesn't sway it towards the clean side. He would have easily touched the bag. See it for yourself: http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200805202740733 BTW, I love the new MLB highlight page.
May 21, 200818 yr Just an accident clean slide tried to take out escabar but he ended up getting cleated
May 21, 200818 yr Author Just an accident clean slide tried to take out escabar but he ended up getting cleated No, Escobar's knee went into his head. Knee or shin area one or the other. If it was cleated it would have been much worse.
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