Cox angry at Church's slide

[NYgiantsfan5689]

Manager Bobby Cox is angry that Church's aggressive slide at the very end of the last Mets-Braves game is keeping Yunel Escobar out of the lineup tonight and possibly for a few more games with a badly bruised knee. Escobar said his knee was feeling "not good."

"The slide was extremely late," Cox said. "You have to slide before you get to the bag, not after you get even with it. I don't know if he got his stride messed up or what."

I don't know what Cox is talking about. I only saw the slide once, but from what I remember, it was a pretty legit slide. He did obviously slide at Escobar to try and break up whatever the play was, but that's normal. I think it was just a freak thing that they hit knee-to-head. But I definitely it wasn't meant to hurt anybody, from either side.

Your thoughts?

[Kingdom]

Did he yell God Damn it to Church?

[DravenX]

Church was dumb enough not to duck when Escobar was trying to raise his leg. He got what he deserved. It sucks that Escobar got hurt though.

[ljshorty89]

Church was trying to slide, but Escobar came about 5-7 feet across the bag. I don't blame Escobar, and there should be no blame on Church. It's an unfortunate accident.

[Bon Bon]

An agressive play on both part. From what I saw of the play and that was only once on a replay I saw two player trying to be agressive and get the job done. Too bad Escobar got hurt.