Jefry Yan is trash, going out of his way to embarrass the other team. It'll be a good day when he goes away. But we live in an era where not running out ground balls is accepted as is standing at the plate and watching your long fly hit the outfield wall. Sportsmanship and hustle (guys like Nimmo are a rarity) is a quaint notion from a bygone era. Punks like Yan are hailed by pundits instead of being criticized.
He's a punk because of how he celebrates and what he's celebrating about: routine strikeouts. Nobody would object to, for example, clenching his fist or saying something. His flamboyant antics embarrass the guy who struck out, rubs his nose in it. It's utterly irrelevant what his path to the big leagues is. If it justified his antics, then a guy like Mancini who came back after cancer should do somersaults after working out a walk.
Joel can have his opinion. I agree with yours. I used to be closer to Joel's viewpoint, but sports has changed ... for the better in most ways. Yan will get dunked on, eventually. But for now, let him enjoy. (BTW, no one seems to call out PCA for excessive celebrating. Rules are different when you are an MVP candidate.)
I do check in on games now to see how they’re doing—fast forwarding when they’re down until if and when they come back. My time is too valuable to watch a lousy product. Because they’re out of it, I don’t need to watch when they’re playing lousy, so only in those instances where they’re playing well buys my time. There have been some incredible times since I started watching in 1962 as a kid and a lot of bad baseball too.
Off topic but kudos to whoever came up with the hysterical “Spider-Man meme” t-shirt they gave away on Wednesday.
Imagine the Mets records if they had just retained deGrom, Wheeler, Ryan and Cone.....
Or at least replacing them adequately.
He's a few rungs down, but bring back Holmes!
Jefry Yan is trash, going out of his way to embarrass the other team. It'll be a good day when he goes away. But we live in an era where not running out ground balls is accepted as is standing at the plate and watching your long fly hit the outfield wall. Sportsmanship and hustle (guys like Nimmo are a rarity) is a quaint notion from a bygone era. Punks like Yan are hailed by pundits instead of being criticized.
He’s a punk because he celebrates? Guy thought he’d never be in the big leagues and was fully out of baseball not long ago.
Calling him a punk is ridiculous and out of line. Get a grip.
He's a punk because of how he celebrates and what he's celebrating about: routine strikeouts. Nobody would object to, for example, clenching his fist or saying something. His flamboyant antics embarrass the guy who struck out, rubs his nose in it. It's utterly irrelevant what his path to the big leagues is. If it justified his antics, then a guy like Mancini who came back after cancer should do somersaults after working out a walk.
You don’t have to like it but calling him a punk is bullshit. Sorry.
Joel can have his opinion. I agree with yours. I used to be closer to Joel's viewpoint, but sports has changed ... for the better in most ways. Yan will get dunked on, eventually. But for now, let him enjoy. (BTW, no one seems to call out PCA for excessive celebrating. Rules are different when you are an MVP candidate.)
I do check in on games now to see how they’re doing—fast forwarding when they’re down until if and when they come back. My time is too valuable to watch a lousy product. Because they’re out of it, I don’t need to watch when they’re playing lousy, so only in those instances where they’re playing well buys my time. There have been some incredible times since I started watching in 1962 as a kid and a lot of bad baseball too.