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I’m confused and admittedly ornery but Dave Roberts with a sacrifice bunt so they instantly walk Ohtani strikes me as having a lot of faith in Mookie. That’s cool, and it worked, but that seems more like jumping off of a building into a pool whose water level is maintained by a drug addict and being pleasantly surprised he did, in fact, do his job.

Seems like a really curious decision.
 
rockaction said:
I’m confused and admittedly ornery but Dave Roberts with a sacrifice bunt so they instantly walk Ohtani strikes me as having a lot of faith in Mookie. That’s cool, and it worked, but that seems more like jumping off of a building into a pool whose water level is maintained by a drug addict and being pleasantly surprised he did, in fact, do his job.

Seems like a really curious decision.
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Mookie is an MVP and has been hot for a month. Rordvedt is a .100 hitter. Bunt avoids the DP, brings up Shohei with a RISP. You want to walk him to give Mookie a shot with two guys on base, fine.
 
Question as I don't follow baseball much anymore but watched chunks of the Dodger wild card.....

Has the pitch clock lowered the average total pitches of pitchers or has the game changed where the bullpen is used more than it use to be? Something the announcer had me thinking... it seems to me that the pitchers don't go as long as they use to. Or is that a bad impression on my part?
 
Chadstroma said:
Question as I don't follow baseball much anymore but watched chunks of the Dodger wild card.....

Has the pitch clock lowered the average total pitches of pitchers or has the game changed where the bullpen is used more than it use to be? Something the announcer had me thinking... it seems to me that the pitchers don't go as long as they use to. Or is that a bad impression on my part?
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likely nothing to do with pitch clock. analytics and the fact that bullpen specialists have evolved.
 
Quick question. Judge was obviously signaling to home tonight what pitches the Sox were throwing and did it the other night when Chapman was pitching. It's on Twitter, so I saw him do it with a video breakdown, and my nephew caught him months ago, which stunned me because the nephew didn't even play in high school but caught it live when he or another Yankee was on second against the Mariners that night they came back from down four or something in the ninth (the media might have already been on it).

The Cardinals coach told Chisholm if he ever saw any of them do it again he'd be wearing a baseball in his ear.

The Blue Jays simply pouted and griped.

We don't really know what the Mariners would or will do.

What is going to happen? I mean, if the Sox didn't know last night, or didn't have any opportunity given that the bases were loaded, then they know tonight.

It's Game Three so obviously runners on base is huge, but I'd rather they start wearing a few baseballs rather than have the game determined that way. I'm just pretty sure it's going to be next year, just like in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

As for those who love the modern, corporate-slick, "there's a time-honored tradition of stealing signs, so we can't do anything about it but disguise it better because we just absolutely would never, ever, ever intentionally hit a player with a really fast moving object because that is for barbarians" is such a weird, PR ******** line to offer up in this day and age where . . . well, you know what passes for discourse and behavior about things that are so crucial to just existing and living.

I don't know. Somehow finding virtue in a pit of vipers is an odd way to behave given what we know about how people are, so it's kind of like get back to me with the sanctity of sport another day.
 
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Cedanne’s attempt
Duran’s BS
Eaton/3rd base coach
:hot:

And now the Connor Earle’s 5th MLB game is a sneer take all in NY

On the plus side Payton Tolle is going to be a beast
 
rockaction said:
Quick question. Judge was obviously signaling to home tonight what pitches the Sox were throwing and did it the other night when Chapman was pitching. It's on Twitter, so I saw him do it with a video breakdown, and my nephew caught him months ago, which stunned me because the nephew didn't even play in high school but caught it live when he or another Yankee was on second against the Mariners that night they came back from down four or something in the ninth (the media might have already been on it).
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This is on the Sox
 
-fish- said:
pulling a pitcher on a 1-2 count is such a weird thing to do, but pinch hitting right there is even more bizarre.
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I've never seen anything like it. I think this is one where Tito did too much overthinking. Or he just doesn't like Benson. Andujar came in and swung on the first pitch 2 feet above the zone.

Too many other head-scratching moves from a HOF manager, but I'm sure there were reasons. We heard all near the end of the year, that in a short best of 3 series Reds would have a decent chance because of Hunter/Abbott/Lodolo.

Hunter choked (although I'm convinced the Dodgers were tied into the pitch com), Lodolo threw 14 pitches, Abbott zero.
 
rockaction said:
Quick question. Judge was obviously signaling to home tonight what pitches the Sox were throwing and did it the other night when Chapman was pitching. It's on Twitter, so I saw him do it with a video breakdown, and my nephew caught him months ago, which stunned me because the nephew didn't even play in high school but caught it live when he or another Yankee was on second against the Mariners that night they came back from down four or something in the ninth (the media might have already been on it).

The Cardinals coach told Chisholm if he ever saw any of them do it again he'd be wearing a baseball in his ear.

The Blue Jays simply pouted and griped.

We don't really know what the Mariners would or will do.

What is going to happen? I mean, if the Sox didn't know last night, or didn't have any opportunity given that the bases were loaded, then they know tonight.

It's Game Three so obviously runners on base is huge, but I'd rather they start wearing a few baseballs rather than have the game determined that way. I'm just pretty sure it's going to be next year, just like in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

As for those who love the modern, corporate-slick, "there's a time-honored tradition of stealing signs, so we can't do anything about it but disguise it better because we just absolutely would never, ever, ever intentionally hit a player with a really fast moving object because that is for barbarians" is such a weird, PR ******** line to offer up in this day and age where . . . well, you know what passes for discourse and behavior about things that are so crucial to just existing and living.

I don't know. Somehow finding virtue in a pit of vipers is an odd way to behave given what we know about how people are, so it's kind of like get back to me with the sanctity of sport another day.
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Sign stealing has been going on since baseball started. It's nothing new. Hide your signs/grips/etc better. Hit people if you want but that isn't going to stop it from happening. Every team does it given the opportunity.
 
-fish- said:
pulling a pitcher on a 1-2 count is such a weird thing to do, but pinch hitting right there is even more bizarre.
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Very bizarre. It's like one upmanship of stupidity going on. Talk about putting a batter in an absoulutely terrible position and setting him up to fail. Here you go. Sitting for six innings but go up there with 1-2 count. You can't really even settle in by taking a strike or seeing a pitch or two. Just terrible managing.

Changing the pitcher is just as bizarre. I trusted you to get the count to 1-2 but not to finish off the batter. Maybe Roberts knew Tito would pull an even dumber move by pinch hitting a guy with a 1-2 count. Terrible, terrible managing going on.
 
HellToupee said:
Rafaela looked like Masa on that ball
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There’s quite a bit to say, but I’m going to eat it again.

eta* We have a nine-man starting lineup with three 4AAA guys and a rookie pitching who is doing an imitation of Superman and you’e just melting down behind him and Cora is just leaving him in?

I had something in place here, and it’s simply emotion but it’s not a wildfire caused by arson; it’s the longest-steeped teakettle that happened to catch a paper towel and spread slowly.

eta2* Oops, hey Aaron, wanna steal pitches? There ya go. Free shot. LOL. I mean, his reaction wasn’t to walk to first because he knows what he was doing and how it gets handled. If I’m Cora I just say “Okay, bro, next time it’s the helmet.” I mean, I told everybody that this isn’t the Jays or the Pacific Northwest. I just didn’t understand their reaction. I got the Atlanta coaches. That only made sense given what I remember about the game even from Legion ball. Holy smoke. Him doing that so indiscreetly was never gonna fly.
 
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General Malaise said:
Mariners vs Tigers

Should be a very close, very well pitched series. Playoff baseball in October in Seattle? Just lovely visuals.
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The Tigers road there was a roller coaster but they ended up where they needed to be so I'll take it. The season really starts Saturday.
 
fruity pebbles said:
Red Sox falling apart. Not super surprising but there was always hope. With no Anthony, they are basically Crochet and a bunch of boobs.
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Yeah, they are falling apart (sorry, I didn’t clarify). A little bit trickier than that, though. A Gold Glove in right and one for sure this year in center and that ball falls.

You just shake your head.

Dang. I really want to get my head out of this and go to the football game, but it’s halftime. Romy Gonzalez and Nathaniel Lowe. 4AAA guys, one killing them with an error at first, which is a hole never addressed with plenty of time to address it.

Let’s see if Duran can ditch the leg kick. Can we? That thing has him off balance something horrendous. It’s awful. You can’t micromanage but someone needs to tell him about the flamingos and what makes them unique as a species.

Yep. He has no prayer and hasn’t since he started that. I mean, maybe you run into 99 MPH once and hit it 450, but then you’re all fouled up.
 
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rockaction said:
fruity pebbles said:
Red Sox falling apart. Not super surprising but there was always hope. With no Anthony, they are basically Crochet and a bunch of boobs.
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Yeah. A little bit trickier than that. A Gold Glove in right and one for sure this year in center and that ball falls.

You just shake your head.
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They’re not playing like that this series. Poor communication in the outfield and it seems like every ball out there is a nail biter. Only down 4 but with this batting lineup it feels like a mountain to climb.
 
fruity pebbles said:
rockaction said:
fruity pebbles said:
Red Sox falling apart. Not super surprising but there was always hope. With no Anthony, they are basically Crochet and a bunch of boobs.
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Yeah. A little bit trickier than that. A Gold Glove in right and one for sure this year in center and that ball falls.

You just shake your head.
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They’re not playing like that this series. Poor communication in the outfield and it seems like every ball out there is a nail biter. Only down 4 but with this batting lineup it feels like a mountain to climb.
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You’re absolutely right. I don’t much more to say than that. I clarified my last post. I was agreeing, but with the caveat that these are really good outfielders, so this is surprising even if this series has seen sketchy communication and fly ball tracking.
 
HellToupee said:
Not going to miss Duran
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My nephew and folks love him even with the stupidity with the fans.

I don’t care that he has rabbit ears or uses slurs, although he’s at an age and of a generation where those shouldn’t have been part of the lexical word bank. But I remember a lot of slurs and dumb **** from when I was in my twenties, so growing up is certainly not out of the question.

But I don’t think they’ll keep him and I kind of tell my fam that. I sort of prep them.

And folks, welcome to your new $35M third baseman next year who can’t run or hit anymore. He’s opting in. Nobody is paying him that amount of money. I was lobbying to trade him, and it would have nuked this year, but it was nuked the way they handled it anyway, so if they knew that, why not shave $70M off of the books?

I need to go back to football. Peace, folks. It’s been a nice season, and there are still three innings to go. Never over.
 
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