I'm of the belief that baseball players today can be a bit hypersensitive. There's nothing more annoying then when everyone comes out from the dugout and from the bullpen just to stand around and jaw at each other. It's fake tough guy bullshit. But why does this shit always happen around Carlos Gomez? What's the greatest common denominator here?
Looking at it from a fans perspective is very different than looking at it from within the spectrum of competition. We watch baseball for recreation, these guys put their entire lives into it. Chris Capuano has been cut from this team like 8 times this year, he's fighting for his baseball life and he's got Carlos Gomez up there swinging out of his shoes in a 9-0 game, screaming and flinging his bat after popping up like it was a high-leverage AB. Pros don't do that. Nobody does that actually.
You can counter this argument and talk about how Gomez plays with "intensity" and "fire" or whatever you want to say but that's bullshit. He's like Rudy in practice when Vince Vaughn screams at him for playing like it's the Super Bowl. Except instead of a kid on the practice squad at Notre Dame trying to make the team he's a professional baseball player making millions of dollars. And there's NO CHANCE his teammates appreciate when he does shit like this. Yea they're going to come out of the dugout and defend their guy but you know when it happens they're all rolling their eyes thinking "oh shit here we go again".
So I think we all agree that baseball can do with far fewer bench-clearing, hold-me-back type scenarios but I'm not blinking before Carlos Gomez. He should wise up before everyone else does. My only suggestion would be that next time he pulls some shit like this just put one in his ribs the next time he gets up. Don't say a word, just subtly let him know that we noticed you being an asshole and we'd like you to stop.
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