2019 Halfway-ish Check In: Hitters

[CyYoung31]

In the media, hell, the dude literally made a phone call threatening to leave the field, walk into the clubhouse, and physically assault a 60+ year old man for thinking about firing Snit. He's a psycho with a lifetime job now.

Huh?

[Southcack77]

In the media, hell, the dude literally made a phone call threatening to leave the field, walk into the clubhouse, and physically assault a 60+ year old man for thinking about firing Snit. He's a psycho with a lifetime job now.

Pretty sure it was motivated by Hart screaming at Snit for being dumb rather than for thinking about firing him.

[CyYoung31]

Pretty sure it was motivated by Hart screaming at Snit for being dumb rather than for thinking about firing him.

I remember reading about Hart being a douche. I don’t remember Markakis threatening to kick his ass.

[Snowman]

I remember reading about Hart being a douche. I don’t remember Markakis threatening to kick his ass.

I'll have to see if I can find an article to see if it's which of us, me or Southcack, correctly recalls the reason, but yeah, Markakis definitely threatened to kick Hart's ass.

[Snowman]

Cack's memory is better than mine.

https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2018/03/05...ecutives-butt/

In his column yesterday he sheds more light on that:

John Hart dressed down manager Brian Snitker. Shouting at him so loudly in the manager’s office that some players heard from the clubhouse . . . [Snitker] appeared almost ashen and uncharacteristically sullen minutes later when reporters entered the office, and really was never quite himself again the rest of the season.

He also writes about the response it elicited from Braves outfielder Nick Markakis:

. . . upon hearing what Hart said to Snitker . . . Markakis made it known, had the message sent up the chain, that if Hart ever treated the manager that way again that Markakis would, in so many words, kick his ass.

[CyYoung31]

I'll have to see if I can find an article to see if it's which of us, me or Southcack, correctly recalls the reason, but yeah, Markakis definitely threatened to kick Hart's ass.

I found it. I remember reading it about it now.