Butcher's behavior inexcusable

[nate]

The OP is definitely trolling by the way.  Blanton is a loser.  Someone should knock some sense into him.

[Mudville]

Blanton is a lousy pitcher and the Angels should not have signed him. Butcher is a lousy pitching coach and the Angels should replace him. It appears neither will change their roles before the season ends even if Trollback wants to take issue of how they discuss their dissagreements between innings.

[shellback]

Yes, he deserved getting dressed down by the pitching coach for acting like a teenager in a dugout full of men trying to win a professional baseball game. No blows were exchanged, just words. Well within reason.

 

the voice of reason!

how about some statistics on the overall useless performance of our pitching coach?

and some stats on how butchy boy's charging blanton looked to a satellite viewing audience?

[bloodbrother]

The OP is definitely trolling by the way.  Blanton is a loser.  Someone should knock some sense into him.

 

I think DFA might work. The Halos should try it out

[tdawg87]

Workplace violence? Hahaha

The watercoolers are goign to file an HR complaint.

The only person who should be filing a HR complaint is Blanton.

[Jay]

pretty wacky take shell

[Torridd]

I'm getting piecemeal what happened. Can someone describe exactly what happened from the beginning? The Instagram only showed me a picture.

[shellback]

pretty wacky take shell

workplace violence is probably over the top.

as bad as i am, my emotional response when i saw butchy go after blanton was had i been in blanton's shoes butchy would have been eating his teeth.

guess im just tired of butchy's act.

[Tank]

the event that i saw on tv was blanton attempting to throw water coolers around (which he did a weak job of). then butcher coming at blanton and butcher then being restrained by kendrick and aybar.

butcher totally lost control of himself.

So Blanton is off the hook in your eyes because all he did was toss around some coolers with his teammates present? You're not seeing the whole picture here.

[Tank]

the voice of reason!

how about some statistics on the overall useless performance of our pitching coach?

and some stats on how butchy boy's charging blanton looked to a satellite viewing audience?

Blanton 2-12

ERA over 5

Given up 23 homers already

Couldn't finish 5 innings against the mighty mariners

Yep, definitely butchers fault.

[katie]

Is there a video? The instagram one on the first page didn't work.

[Mudville]

workplace violence is probably over the top.

as bad as i am, my emotional response when i saw butchy go after blanton was had i been in blanton's shoes butchy would have been eating his teeth.

guess im just tired of butchy's act.

 

Thanks for agreeing with me.

[Mudville]

Is there a video? The instagram one on the first page didn't work.

I couldn't get it to work on my laptop but strangely enough it did on my phone.

[Jay]

Not sure a video would help, I was watching the game live and I don't know what happened.  Blanton came back to the dugout after giving up a home run in the inning and took his frustrations out on a water cooler.  Next thing you know Butcher is unhinged and it looked to me as if he was telling Blanton to get out of the dugout.  Butcher was extremely pissed though and people were restraining him.  Blanton walked out of the dugout into the tunnel.  Then things calmed down and Blanton came back out to pitch the next inning.

[katie]

I couldn't get it to work on my laptop but strangely enough it did on my phone.

Thanks, worked on my iPad.

 

Blanton runs away from Butcher like a little B. Cute.

[Troll Daddy]

Good stuff! Exactly what our pitching staff needed.

[Brandon]

For the non-video see'ers, it just shows Blanton walking pissed then pushing the water cooler a couple times against the wall (which in itself is hilarious, but then throw in his 1998 bro look with the spiky hair and disgusting chin pubes) and then it kind of does a cut screen and seems to skip to where Howie is holding back Butcher and Butcher is talking to Howie in a way of explaining what he's doing or what needs to be said while Blanton backs up.

Video does nothing but make you laugh.

[tomsred]

shellback's definition of baseball workplace violence = an adult pitcher acting like a teenager on TV.  He must also have poor vision since he couldn't find his way back to the locker room before he pitched his little fit, and where he could have dealt with his frustrations a little more maturely. 

 

If Blanton were a poster on this board, he would just pass it off as "venting."

[JAHV76]

Doesn't the fans want their coaches to light a fire under their players when they are underperforming? They should just make up some injury excuse for Blanton and let him go to the minors for a rehab assignment

[Brandon]

Doesn't the fans want their coaches to light a fire under their players when they are underperforming? They should just make up some injury excuse for Blanton and let him go to the minors for a rehab assignment

Totally reminds me of the fire Sosh threads because he was apathetic or "couldn't light a fire under players" yet this thread comes about when it does happen.

[Docwaukee]

The only person who should be filing a HR complaint is Blanton.

I think people need to read this post again and give it the attention it deserves. 

[Jimmag]

I'm getting piecemeal what happened. Can someone describe exactly what happened from the beginning? The Instagram only showed me a picture.

Butcher said Blanton, you pitch about as well as I jump over railings. Blanton then went ballistic.

[fan_since79]

I'm getting piecemeal what happened. Can someone describe exactly what happened from the beginning? The Instagram only showed me a picture.

Click on it and it will play a short video.

[HaloFan85]

If Butcher went after Blanton for simply trashing the coolers, then Butcher was absolutely in the wrong.  I'm pretty sure it's a well known unwritten rule for everyone in the dugout to look the other way unless he starts throwing things onto the field or directing his frustrations towards others, which Blanton didn't appear to do either of.  Did Blanton say something to Butcher?  Maybe, but we'll never know unless they wish to discuss it to the media.  Until then, Butcher will look like he went after Blanton for smashing coolers in the dugout, and that doesn't reflect well on Scioscia.  It makes it look like he's losing control of his team.

[Mudville]

I am actually surprised it took 3 pages to blame Scioscia.