Mac Shupe on Gate City Baseball

[661]

i dont know much about this guy - all i can say is 'show some class.'

Burton head coach Mack Shupe said, "that sets baseball back 20 years. If you can't make simple, routine plays, you can't play. That makes a mockery of the game. This is their only game this week and this is our third game in a row."

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[greencrest1272]

I dont get where he's coming from. GC had 12 errors and still won the game. Its a mockery of the game to not put someone away when they give you every opportunity to do so.

[imported_mega]

I could be wrong(and most people from norton dont like mack anyway) but it seems like hes saying its pathetic for 2 teams to make 15 total errors, thats bad baseball in any form or fashion.

[greencrest1272]

You might have a point. Who knows?

[imported_Mercury]

I think you've got what he's saying....like you said most people don't like Shupe, but most people haven't been around him as a teacher or coach so it's hard for people to judge him. I think he was just saying that that many errors in one game is crazy.

[Craes]

I have been around him as a teacher, and he is an A$$. He is mean and degrading to people (whether he coaches them or not) and has no remorse. I was in class one day when he decided to make comments about a guy's father passing (the guy was in my class) That is uncalled for and rude, like most of what the man says.

[imported_Just_wandering]

What did Key say to get ejected? I guess he has to sit out tomorrow's game?

[imported_Reese]

I think most of us that support GC have more or less been numbed by what he has said and done in the past, whether it was directed towards our program(s) or others. I try to overlook him and his comments, but it's as if he really believes everything he said is gospel and should be treated that way.

It was funny watching him dance & prance around outside the dugout around near the end of that game last night, he really thought he had the game won. Too bad he couldn't pull out a win against a team that committed 12 errors (5 or 6 in one inning). I'm sure that fact made a mockery of the game too if he wants to think in that manner.

[GCDAD]

I learned along time ago not to take anything Shupe says to serious. Had Burton won the game, he would have said that they were ready to win the State championship now. Wasnt a pretty win, but it was a win. I will take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day. Wait, there's not anything such as a pretty loss. We're basically a very young team & they had a couple of chances to fold the tent & did not. I think the manner in which we won the game will help tremendously for the guys confidence.

[661]

i dont know... the fact that he brought up the # of games his guys have played vs. the # GC had played makes it look (to me) like he was digging on the devils. i hope the next time Carter & crew hammer the raiders (11-1, for example) they remember this remark.