I'm a fan of this rivalry that has been sparked since last year's ALDS, here's what I get out of what took place.
1. Sam Dyson puts a pitch right over the plate that Bautista crushes for a home run in one if the craziest playoff games that I've personally seen. He flips his bat and runs the bases, toronto wins the series.
2. The Texas Rangers aquire a pitcher who's had multiple DUI's, been in jail and is by no means an MLB caliber pitcher.
3. After playing 6 games against each other and 90% done the 7th, in Jose Bautistas 33rd (or whatever) plate appearence of the 6.9 games and facing Matt Bush who coincidentally enough was called up 2 days prior to make his major league debut, Bautista is hit in the ribs by a 97 mph fastball, the ump gives warnings to both benches and Bautista takes his base.
4. On the next play a Jays player hits into a double play and the slide by Bautista (cleats down) on Odor is by today's lame ass baseball standards deemed illegal. If Jose wanted to hurt Odor he could have by sliding cleats up or barreling into his legs but he was, justifiably so, upset with being hit by a pitch. We all know what happens next to let me digress and move onto my next point.
5. In all the fracas that was the bench clearing brawl, where was the guy that was initially responsible for this entire feud in the first place? Yes I'm talking about Sam Dyson, well he was seen on the video running out from the bullpen and in the middle of the pile throws a few rights or lefts what have you, at who? Of all people it was the Blue Jays bullpen catcher a guy who none of us know by name, when you see a clear shot of Dyson in the full video he's seen wiping blood off his face and clenching his fists.
6. Now let's get to the if's... if Bautista wouldn't have done a bat flip or if he never hit that home run would the Texas Rangers pick up a train wreck of a pitcher in Matt Bush (NO), If Matt Bush wasn't given instructions to beam Bautista (And I'm sorry I'm not buying that his 97 mile an hour fastball which just happened to be against the player who bat flipped a team in which at the time it happened last September he was sitting in jail, ended up "getting away from him") would Bautista have slid into second the way he did (NO)
Take whatever you want out of this I'm not trying to take sides or make one team look better than the other but the facts speak for themselves, I'm a fan of baseball and on this particular day, the Texas Rangers organization made baseball look bad by conjuring up this plan to get back at a guy who bat flipped after a home run 8 months ago.
