Player Excitement?

[jr86]

Ok so maybe because i am from the 'other' side of the pond from you guys but i just don't understand this lack of excitement when a player makes a big play or HR.
I am sitting here watching the Reds/Phillies game and Jay Bruce has just hit a 2 run HR to tie the game after the Reds are 4-0 down and he barely cracks a smile. A few high 5's in the dugout and he sits?
If this was any other sport the players go crazy celebrating and what not.
What gives?
Etiquette?

[KSUowls]

Re: Player Excitement?

Isolated incident. Also, the bigger celebrations come when there is a big hit/play to end the game. If the game is still in question then there isn't any reason to get overly excited.

[DieHardYankee26]

Isolated incident. Also, the bigger celebrations come when there is a big hit/play to end the game. If the game is still in question then there isn't any reason to get overly excited.

Basically. I think the thing that baseball players get that a lot of other athletes don't is it isn't over until it's over. Look at the NBA playlets. What happens when LeBron crushes somebody on a dunk, and then the Heat lose the game? The cameras are gonna follow him to the locker room. And another thing is showing up your opponent. The reaction is much more direct in baseball. If you dunk in basketball and showboat, there's not much you can do as an opponent. If a guy hits a game tying home run and does cartwheels around the bases, he'll be ducking fastballs the rest of the game. That's why they save it for walk offs.

[av7]

Re: Player Excitement?

Ok so maybe because i am from the 'other' side of the pond from you guys but i just don't understand this lack of excitement when a player makes a big play or HR.
I am sitting here watching the Reds/Phillies game and Jay Bruce has just hit a 2 run HR to tie the game after the Reds are 4-0 down and he barely cracks a smile. A few high 5's in the dugout and he sits?
If this was any other sport the players go crazy celebrating and what not.
What gives?
Etiquette?

Like its been said earlier. Competitors aren't happy to just tie a game, theres still game left to be played.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Player Excitement?

Baseball players are just cut from a different cloth. There's celebrating, sure....like after a big strikeout or a huge double play to end the inning, but it's under control. You don't have showboating like a linebacker making a tackle on a 4 yard play, or a routine dunk in the first quarter....

[55]

Re: Player Excitement?

Baseball players are just cut from a different cloth. There's celebrating, sure....like after a big strikeout or a huge double play to end the inning, but it's under control. You don't have showboating like a linebacker making a tackle on a 4 yard play, or a routine dunk in the first quarter....

This x 1000

Baseball players aren't nearly the prima donnas that football and (especially) basketball players are.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Player Excitement?

Well, I don't know about that....there are quite a few primadonna, spoiled types....but still a different cloth.

[fugazi]

Re: Player Excitement?

Baseball is such a marathon, too...162 games...9 innings, etc...

Not to mention that by the time someone in the Majors has hit their 10th HR, they have already done it BAJILLIONS of times...

[Antec]

Re: Player Excitement?

I think it has more to do with the nature of the game than baseball players being above celebrating or that they care less in comparison to NFL/NBA players.

One factor is that I believe baseball players (mostly pitchers honestly) are in a more focused mindset. Players say how they won't even talk to their pitcher in between innings. Players are more in a zone whereas other sports you're playing looser and more emotional.

Also, there's less, I don't know, 'flash factor' in MLB plays. You struck somebody out or hit a homer but it looks just like any other strikeout/homer. Dunks/Big hits/TDs are just more flashy and give more reason to celebrate. I don't mean that as a knock on baseball or anything. It's just it would seem more fulfilling and adrenaline inducing to do those things.

[rsox]

Re: Player Excitement?

In Football or Basketball there isn't anyone throwing the ball at you at 95mph. Celebrate a walkoff homer and nobody bats an eye, celebrate a solo homer in the third inning and next time up fear for your life!.

[Gibbz]

Re: Player Excitement?

Baseball players aren't nearly the prima donnas that football and (especially) basketball players are.

No idea where you got that notion. Stuff that goes on in MLB dugouts (cussing at umps, fans, other players) that doesn't even garner a reaction would result in suspensions in the NBA. Baseball has a lot of the biggest prima donnas around.