Glad you can find a silver lining from a Series where your team was totally dominated.
"Hey, we did really awesome on that one play! Too bad about all the ones that mattered."
I remember you were in the world series thread spewing the same hot bullshit.
Trailing every game but one in the 8th inning in no universe constitutes "dominating". Be happy your extremely opportunistic team took home the title, they earnes it, but there's no reason for this baiting nonsense.
That Mets blogs undoubtedly has bias, but you're equally as biased in the other direction.
As for this "macho man culture", some aspects of it are unavoidable in professorial sports. Where it CERTAINLY has no place is among officials. MLB umpires have a problem in this area that needs to be addressed. Love Syndergaard or hate him, that umpire was out of line.
As for the mention of the same thing happening in another game yestersay, what was the background? Was the pitcher immediately tossed from the game without even hitting the batter, with no prior warning issued? I doubt it.
It's unlikely the intent was even to hit Utley. He threw well behind him. Likely to rattle his cage and give him the middle finger without putting him on base. Obviously Utley had the last laugh, with a HUGE assist the ump.