josh beckett

It was a bullshit suspension. He wasn't even kicked out of the game.

 

Is a giant fag....

 

So Farnsworth gets 3 games for throwing behind Manny Ramirez and Joba loses a start for throwing near Youkillis head but Beckett does nearly the same exact thing and he gets his suspension reduced and doesnt miss a start.

Yeah makes sense..........

 

Everybody looooves clam chowder.

 

What Beckett did is nothing remotely similar to those instances, at least the Chamberlain instanceS. I don't remember what happened with Farnsworth. First of all, Chamberlain threw consecutive pitches at Youkilis' head in one at bat and wasn't suspended. It wasn't until he did it AGAIN, in a DIFFERENT GAME that action was taken.

Second,Beckett's suspension was complete bullshit anyway. He wasn't ejected from the game. Not a single umpire thought there was any danger or intent. Here's what Joe West had to say about it...

Abreu's reaction and Beckett's actions after that were the "issue" and the reason he was suspended.

 

While I agree he shouldn't have bee suspended, I don't understand why they would suspend him 6 games just to reduce it down to 5... so he doesn't miss anything. Its all stupid politics.

 

The only thing it does is cause him to lose 5 days of pay, but I don't think that's really a big deal.

 

It's such BS. he should have been tossed from the game and his suspension should have been upheld. Throwing at a guys head when he calls time out is almost as low was what pedro did to karim garcia. To be clear, I don't like what Joba has done throwing at Youkilis either but this was pure BS.

 

It was not a pitch thrown at Abreu, any level headed person will tell you that. Why Bud Goodell thought it was, is beyond me. Even the umps said it wasn't bad.

 

He wasn't tossed because it was unintentional and even the umpires said it wasn't close to Abreu.

 

Please. he threw near his head after the guy called for time. It was clearly intentional, I'm not saying he was trying to hit him in then hit but he was trying to send a message and he deserved to get ejected and suspended for it. That was worse than what Joba got suspended for a couple of years ago.

 

I'm going to take the word of the 4 professional umpires who were there over yours junc.

 

i mean, the umpires did say that they didnt think it was intentional, so we'll hafta take their word for it and nothing we can say changed that, but when i saw it i did think it was kinda intentional.....don't really care bout this whole situation anyways. i dont think he shoulda gotten suspended for that. like what others have said, it was the actions abreu and beckett took after the pitch, followed by the benches clearing, that was the reason for the suspension.

if i was abreu, i wouldn't wanna mess with beckett anyways. he's jacked

 

Fuck Beckett. Total asshole.

And it looked pretty damn intentional on tv when I saw it.

 

I didn't think it looked intentional. But I wasn't there. Who was? The umps. They say they didn't think it was intentional. Beckett says it wasn't intentional. I'll believe all of the above.

 

Hey, I don't know that it was intentional. And I admit I don't give him any leeway because he's Josh Bitchette. But Joba didn't get any leeway from Sawx fans when he threw over Youkilis' head. (Though I don't remember whether devil said he thought so or not. I just believe him when he says he didn't.) Joba said it wasn't intentional, and most Sawx fans refused to believe that.

It's just the nature of fandom. If you hate a player you'll give them no leeway. If they're on a hated rival, then leeway probably doesn't even enter the conversation.

All in all though, a 6 game suspension doesn't even really hurt him. Sure, it takes some cash out of his pocket, but in terms of his spot in the rotation, it just means he winds up with an extra day of rest. Selig should have sent a real message and suspended him for the rest of the year. That would have been good.

 

Still bitter about '03 I see?

With Chamberlain I DON'T believe him for a couple of reasons. One is that the umpires warned the benches, so obviously they thought it was intentional. That didn't happen with Beckett due to the pitch, warnings were only issued because the benches emptied. Second is that if he did it once and said he didn't mean it I might believe it. But he did it on BACK TO BACK pitches, and then AGAIN in another game. He clearly has some sort of issue with Youkilis.

 

OK and I know that Pedro was't throwing at garcia's head either but Joba was at Youk

 

Both Pedro and Chamberlain were and the umpires agreed since warnings were issued in both cases.