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Yunel Drop Kicking Ryan "HUGE LOSER" Church In The Face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDQ-dxrIX58

That's the clip. Fast forward to the one minute mark. I am going to the game tonight (dugout seats y'all) and I want to see some retaliation. Church is a showy player and Yunel could have been seriously hurt there. I understand he wants to break up the play, but what if Yunel goes end over end and lands on his neck. Look at the clip. Could have happened. RETALIATION! For those of you that'll say that the Braves are too classy to retaliate: It, like chewing tobacco and pine tar, is part of the game.

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I think karma already smacked Ryan Church. Yunie didn’t end up at Piedmont hospital, you know.

by Lauren T. on May 21, 2008 3:56 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Church

was pretty much on his own neck.

by OntheGo on May 21, 2008 4:00 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

This post is ridiculous and pointless .

by yondaime4 on May 21, 2008 11:53 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow

Just wanted to post the clip. Don’t be so grumpy.

"You never know what I'm going to do..."
- Michael Vick (Palm Beach Post 11/6/2005)

by jamesrael on May 24, 2008 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Debating...

I’ve been debating with myself over whether I think the Church “slide”was dirty or not. On one hand, he’s playing hard and trying to break up the double play, which he should do in that situation. On the other, he didn’t even attempt a slide at all, and he was only one step away from going all Albert Belle and still-arming Yunie in the face! Since he plays for the Mets, I’m inclined to think that it was a dirty play, but if you use your dome as a battering ram, he got what was coming to him.

by skipcaray on May 22, 2008 10:15 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

...he got what was coming to him.

Agreed.

by Smoltz's Beard on May 22, 2008 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Agreed, as well.

I have watched the replay a dozen times and I still aren’t really sure what Church was doing. Honestly, I thought Church gave Yunel the business a bit on the pop-up slide the first time. But, it wasn’t what I’d call a “dirty” play, just sort of cheap I guess. The final play, it was as if Church wasn’t intending to slide at all; he just sort of turned his body sideways and threw it at Yunel. I don’t get it. As skipcaray above said ”...if you use your dome as a battering ram…” you are bound to get hurt.

I don’t think we need to retaliate. We are 1 game away from a convincing 4 game sweep, and despite Santana taking the mound, I like our chances. I would normally, and did earlier, say we should plunk somebody in the ribs just to show that we aren’t going to take this crap. But, in the end, we have enough problems with injuries that we don’t need some suspensions to go on top of it.

I do wish the Mets would all get food poisoning or something (not the deadly kind) just for karma’s sake.

by jug on May 22, 2008 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Proper retaliation would be...

Church getting sent to Grady Memorial Hospital for concussion examination, and then the staff there could just steal all his valuables. ZING, local joke.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on May 22, 2008 11:16 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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