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I just watched the replay because I was interested in all the attention this received. Before watching the replay, I was ready to say "A hard slide, is a hard slide, Protecting the players is important, but sometimes crap happens and people need to deal with it"
After watching it? Holy hell. Who in their right mind is even calling that a slide? He does NOT go for the bag. Watch his hand people, it landed close to two feet after the base. His supposed "slide" happened when he was even or maybe a hair past the bag.
It is one of the sickest, most disgusting plays I have ever seen in my life. Utley should be suspended for the playoffs and any umpire involved in that travesty should be sent home NOW. Seriously, what the Fing F?!?!?! How can anyone try to defend this? It's against the rules of the game, it's cheap and dirty and the player involved should have been ejected.
Two more things:
1) You don't need to change the rules for this. Just enforce the damned rules on the books that already exist for this cheap ass behavior.
2) I don't give a damn about the "result" here. If Tejeda doesn't break his leg, it's still cheap, the intent is still to injure, Utley should still be ejected and the inning should have been over.
So disgusting. So unbelievably disgusting.
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