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On Retaliation: Would it Kill Us to Use Our Brains for Once?
By Kyle Pagan
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I’m a little ornery today. I’m tired of this fucking rain and waking up to 56° and now I’ve got dumbasses going on 48 hours of talking about retaliation. Rob Thomson told reporters before game one on Thursday that the Phillies didn’t retaliate after Bryce Harper got hit by a Spencer Strider 95 mph fastball because they didn’t think it was intentional:
I love the way Dave Uram phrases the question, “The talk of the town…” meaning he listened to 12 straight hours of WIP and their idiot callers ranting about revenge because they had to fill show time on a random Wednesday after Memorial Day. Is it too much to ask this city to use their brains sometimes? I just don’t understand what people expected. If you wanted someone to retaliate, Ranger Suarez and his 91 mph fastball ain’t it. So then what? A reliever in a one-run game goes head hunting? Then, if they lose that game, the narrative in town switches to “Rob Thomson let his emotions get the best of him.” This guy is managing the best team in the NL and can’t win. It’s crazy. And don’t get me wrong, I think a Braves player should wear one today, but I promise you if the Phillies don’t win the World Series this year it won’t be because Topper didn’t throw at a Braves player in May. You want a fuck you? How about the Phils sweep them Thursday and put them in the rear-view mirror and 11.5 games out of first place?
Does this look like a team scared to retaliate?
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com