Brewers pitcher Abner Uribe gets a one-game suspension for crotch-chopping celebration
MLB suspended Brewers pitcher Abner Uribe one game for directing a crotch chop at the Cardinals dugout after an inning-ending strikeout this weekend.
The Milwaukee Brewers will be without pitcher Abner Uribe for one game after he was suspended for breaking one of baseball's biggest unwritten rules:
Never direct a Kenny Powers/D-Generation X crotch chop at the opposing dugout.
...No, not even if it was very funny.
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Uribe hit the iconic celebration this weekend after an inning-ending strikeout against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Maybe a bit much when you're up 6-0...
Brewers' manager Pat Murphy did not condone the celebration, and Uribe himself apologized for it.
"First and foremost, everyone here knows me and knows who I am, and knows I have a bit of a history of being emotional out there," Uribe said. "I owe an apology to the Brewers, I owe an apology to my teammates, to my manager, all the bosses of the team. I understand that’s unacceptable to go out there and react in a way like that."
Well, that should be enough in my book. Who hasn't gotten wound up in the heat of competition and chopped their crotch at an opponent?
I almost did it on Memorial Day while playing some game on Netflix.
But, nope.
I think I can live with that punishment.
The MLB has to do something. I mean, they've already got the San Francisco Giants hip-thrusting in the outfield; the last thing they need is players feeling like they have carte blanche to crotch chop.
Uribe — who was also hit with an undisclosed fine, per MLB — is appealing the decision, and I could not be more interested in seeing how that plays out for him.
There's really no doubt about it: he crotch-chopped at the opposing dugout.
But perhaps he has an explanation.