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Posey’s heartfelt message to Cousins 12 years after collision initially appeared on NBC Sports activities Bayarea
Almost 12 years in the past, Giants followers watched in horror because the reigning NL Rookie of the Yr suffered a gut-wrenching harm at dwelling plate.
On Might 25, 2011, Scott Cousins of the then-Florida Marlins raced dwelling as he tried to tag up on a pop fly at Oracle Park, which was AT&T Park on the time. He plowed right into a 24-year-old Buster Posey because the catcher tried to make a tag, fracturing Posey’s fibula and tearing a number of ligaments in his ankle.
Posey, now only a month shy of his thirty sixth birthday, hasn’t personally spoken to Cousins since that day. He went on to have a legendary Giants profession regardless of the harm, and he not too long ago instructed The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly he could be prepared to have a dialog with Cousins.
“I most undoubtedly could be open to a dialogue with him,” Posey instructed Baggarly. “It was a type of issues. Within the second, I didn’t need to discuss straight away. There was lots of frustration on my half. However I’d most undoubtedly have a dialog with him.”
The day after the collision at dwelling plate, Joe Capozzi of the Palm Seashore Put up reported Cousins was in tears discussing Posey’s harm.
“It’s in all places,” Cousins mentioned, per Capozzi (h/t Bleacher Report). “Regardless of the place I look. It’s on TV as a quickly as I flip the TV on. It’s outdoors on TV. It’s on TV right here as quickly as I stroll in. And once I see it I flip away. I simply do not like understanding that I might have probably ended any person’s season.”
Within the aftermath of Posey’s harm, Giants then-general supervisor Brian Sabean mentioned the collision was “malicious” and “premeditated” on Cousins’ half, prompting a press launch from the Giants the subsequent day that mentioned the feedback “had been mentioned out of frustration and out of true concern for Buster and weren’t meant to vilify Scott Cousins” (h/t Solar Sentinel).
In brief, it was a attempting time for everybody concerned, from followers of each franchises to the 2 gamers on the controversy’s heart. New dwelling plate guidelines have been established since then, and wounds have healed after all this time — each figuratively and actually.
In his dialog with Baggarly, Posey revealed what he would say to Cousins if the 2 had been to have a dialog right this moment.
“Properly, I’d have to speak to him first,” Posey mentioned. “Determine what he’s been doing the final 10 or 11 years, how he processed that play. I don’t know. I’ve by no means talked to him.
“However … I hope he’s not carrying a burden. That’s what I might inform him. And if I might assist him ultimately to not carry that burden, that’s what I might need to say to him.”
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Posey went on to get pleasure from a 12-year MLB profession after the collision, incomes two extra World Sequence championships in 2012 and 2014 to go along with San Francisco’s first in 2010. He was named the Nationwide League’s MVP and Comeback Participant of the Yr in 2012, and he retired following the 2021 season with a bevy of awards on his shelf.
He mentioned he does not imagine the harm shortened his profession, although Giants followers actually want their homegrown slugger nonetheless was on the sector.
Now, in an possession position, Posey has his sights set on San Francisco’s future — although it by no means hurts to revisit the previous.
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