Despite death threats, Florida Marlins’ Scott Cousins defends his play - MLB News
The interesting saga continues over the collision at home plate that left San Francisco Giants’ Buster Posey out for the entire season, as Florida Marlins’ Scott Cousins has to deal with death threats.
Even though the Rookie for the Florida Marlins had profusely apologised time and again for the collision, no one seems to believe him. Everything started on May 25, in a game between the Marlins and the reigning World Series Champions, the San Francisco
Giants. A collision that took place at home plate between the Giants’ beloved Posey, who was a vital part of the 2010 World Series win and Marlins’ Rookie, Cousins who’s trying to make an impact in the Majors left Posey with a broken bone in the lower region
of his left leg and tore three of his ligaments in his ankle.
Cousins told reporters that he tried contacting the Posey but couldn’t. "I do believe, however, that the play was clean and totally within the rules of the game," Cousins said. "Explaining over and over that I would never intentionally hurt another player
for any reason won't change the minds of those who doubt my sincerity or intent.’’
Cousins stated that whatever he did was in compliance with rules and regulations and that he was only fulfilling his duty towards his team. He went on to say that the Giants or any other players from any other team would’ve done the exact same thing in the
given circumstances.
Manager for the Marlins, Edwin Rodriguez said that he will not defend his young out-fielders because he didn’t do anything that was wrong in the first place.
If fans boo and point at Cousins, that is understandable. It is what is expected. What was unexpected is when the Giants’ General Manager Brian Sabean went on to publically criticise Cousins’ play on his radio show that comes on weekly. He was very clear
as he wished ill upon Cousins, saying that he never wants to see him in the Majors again and called the play ‘malicious’ and ‘unnecessary’. He claimed that getting Posey out was Cousins only claim to fame in baseball.
This evoked quite a strong reaction from Major League Baseball and grabbed the attention of the Vice President of baseball operations, Joe Torre. Sabean was asked to apologise and the Giants’ team tried their best to do damage control. They said that the
comments were made in the heat of the moment and the team as a whole wants to move past the comments, the event and solely focus on Posey’s recovery.
The Giants’ President Larry Baer talked to Marlins’ President David Samson about Sabean’s comments. As for Posey himself, he doesn’t have any problems with Cousins' play stating that it was fair, but he could’ve slid around.
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