Baseball Players - ... biggest wusses in sports?

Freak

Allow me to start off by saying I did see the Jackson/Damon collision, and it was indeed brutal.

However, I get so annoyed by how so many baseball players seem like such friggin pansies. They miss games for the lamest, tiniest injury, like stubbing a toe on first base or throwing the ball too hard. A strained groin is a horrible baseball injury, and can "hamper a guy's entire season" -- HOW? The average player spends, what, 40 seconds of a baseball game running, and even then they're always slacking off and jogging.

It just bugs me I guess, as a football and hockey fan. I remember early last year, Peyton Manning fracturing his jaw, missing ONE play, and returning. Hell, Gilbert Brown has played 5 games so far this year with a ruptured bicep, which was supposed to end his season (and likely career, he's old). A baseball player will miss like a week if they're cut on the face -- a hockey player might miss 5 minutes.

DMW

I think the difference is that baseball is a very precise game in a lot of ways, so seemingly minor injuries can really affect performance. I can see how a groin strain could really mess up a pitchers mechanics, or a sprained wrist would make it a lot tougher to react to a 95mph fastball at the plate.

That Jackson/Damon collision was friggin brutal though.

Dr. Giganto

baseball players are the biggest babies in sports (with the possible exception of shaq), but for another reason altogether

anytime you celebrate doing something good, its considered "showing up the other team". After game 5 of the A's-Red Sox series, Miguel Tejada threw a fit because of Derek Lowe's celebration after closing the game. I watched it happen, and it was not an offensive gesture like the A's and their fans made it out to be.

After Manny Ramirez hit the home run to put the Red Sox up for good, he lightly jogged up the line and pointed to his teammates in the dugout. Manny is a guy with a reputation for not being a team player, and not fitting in with the rest of his teammates. But did the announcers mention the gesture he made to his teammates. or the fact that he was bear-hugging them after he touched home and got to the dugout? no, the announcers were ripping on him for "showing up the other team". and they kept harping on it for a good 5 minutes

Last year, when the Harlem little league team made it to the Little League World Series, they were considered "showboats". They were calling their shots a la Babe Ruth, dancing down the lines after hitting home runs, stuff like that. ESPN interviewed a bunch of major leaguers about it, and almost all of them talked about how thats not a part of baseball, and it was a terrible display of sportsmanship. One player said "there's no place for that in the game of baseball at any level". bear in mind this was around the time the players were threatening to go on strike, because their average salary of $2 million isnt enough.

What those Harlem little leaguers were doing is something major league baseball players need to remember about baseball. It's a game, and they were having FUN. Thats what its about, after all.

DaveyBoy

basketball players are the biggest wussies in sports followed closely by baseball players. i mean for ####s sakes a basketball player rolls his ankle a little bit and hes done for the game, i've been playing sports many times and rolled my ankle countless times, but i get up and keep playing. hell i broke a bone in my foot one time and kept playing basketball and noone was throwing money at me to play either. that's probably why i like hockey so much, get smacked in the face with a frozen hunk of rubber? no problem just go to the bench get stiched up and get back out there.

Dr. Giganto

yeah, hockey players are tough as nails. football players too

Drunksader

I'll vote rugby players to be the flat out toughest athletes in the world. I saw a college game where a kid got his nose broken and had blood gushing from it. A little tape and a smelling salt later he was back on the field, where he fell down and had his face stepped on, breaking his nose further and knocking out a tooth. He kept playing.

That's considered a "light" set of injuries in rugby

Freak

Oh for sure, rugby players are right up there with Aussie rules football players.

IRALB

Basketball without a doubt. Slapping and bitching. They do take some hard falls, but to them its not enough to get paid for.

Disco Raheem

[quote:post_uid0="Freak"]Oh for sure, rugby players are right up there with Aussie rules football players.[/quote:post_uid0]
Actually Rugby is a lot tougher game than Aussie rules, we actually pay out Aussie rules as the softie one over here, although it's much tougher than gridiron or soccer.