‘Go Home And Cry’: Gomez’ s Intense Comments After Telling Yankees To ‘Shut Up’

After getting into an altercation in which he told the New York Yankees dugout to “shut up” several times, Carlos Gomez, one of the MLB’s well-documented “hot-heads,” made some rather heated comments about his opposition to the press.

“If [the Yankees] feel frustrated, that’s not my problem,” he said in an interview with ESPN reporter Marly Rivera. “This is part of the game, part of the nature of competition, and those who don’t know how to compete can just go home and cry.”

Gomez also said that “If you misunderstand the way I play, it’s your fault.”

These harsh words stem from a brawl that occurred on Tuesday night. The Houston Astros, Gomez’s team, were leading the Yankees 9-0 in a game at Yankee Stadium when Gomez flew out and threw his bat on the ground in frustration. Several players in the Yankees dugout yelled something at Gomez, presumably telling him to cool it; his team was dominating the game, anyway. Gomez walked over to the Astros dugout for, according to him, clarification on what was being yelled.

“I did not understand very well what people were yelling at me. I just asked, ‘Why are you yelling at me?’ And then someone came out of the dugout and started screaming, and I said, ‘Shut up, shut up; if you want to tell me something, come here and say what you have to say.'”

Gomez’s words angered the Yankees even further. A benches-clearing squabble soon broke out on the field, although it never got to the point of punches being thrown.

While some may see Gomez’s post-game reaction to the incident as overly harsh, most fans and reporters see it as justified. Michael Terill of Rant Sports, for example, wrote a spirited opinion piece about the subject.

“Even though the Yankees were not happy about losing in embarrassing fashion, it should not mean the Astros should be forced to be conservative with their emotions. They are still trying to put up as many runs as possible, which is exactly how it should be,” Terill wrote.

Furthermore, the site points out, the New York Yankees’ history is filled with players becoming over-emotional and disrespecting the opposing team during games, making their retaliation to Gomez’s initially self-contained show of anger even more uncalled for.

ESPN‘s Buster Olney also weighed in.

“I really feel this was a case of baseball’s silly unwritten rules… it’s not okay for a player to show frustration after making an out in a one sided game, but it is okay to scream at a player on another team, to empty the benches…?”

This last bit was said sarcastically.

The general consensus is that Gomez’s intense comments, all brought on by him telling the Yankees to “shut up” and them overreacting in their response, were perfectly understandable.

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