Posted on 08/16/2018 8:46:22 AM PDT by DFG
True. With all the time & research into sports injuries along with training going on now, you would think you would see fewer injuries. Even many position players are having TJ surgery. I guess year-round travel ball for kids is a big factor. A lot of pitchers are arriving in the big leagues having already had TJ surgery.
If you’re a baseball fan, it’s worth watching some games, and perhaps reading the book, “You Gotta Have Wa.”
The Koshien high school tournament is quite a thing, too.
Particularly in the postseason, when pitching typically dominates hitting, bat control, plate discipline, hitting behind the runner, etc. all become even more important.
The game you described is appalling but increasingly typical. While aces like Bumgarner and Syndergaard can make even the most judicious hitters look bad... these days there simply aren’t a lot of Stan Musials or Yogi Berras or Rod Carews or Tony Gwynns or, or... well you know.
I have nothing against home runs - or strikeouts. It’s just that the game of baseball should consist of much more than that.
“You, apparently, don’t know a darn thing about baseball.”
But I bet he enjoys his Koffee at the Klan Koven Klatches.
That’s interesting. I’m a big hockey fan, and I’ve heard the same complaint about the National Hockey League. It’s almost like we’ve reached the point where computers and analytics have enabled us to “manage” these games too well.
Just today they lost a 3-1 game to Tampa Bay. They loaded the bases with nobody out in the ninth inning and didn't score a single run ... they went down on a foul popup and two strikeouts.
A procession of no-name Tampa Bay pitchers has held this vaunted lineup to a total of two runs over the last two games.
“All... or nothing at all...”
God Bless, AC.
“But I bet he enjoys his Koffee at the Klan Koven Klatches.”
And he has an autographed picture of Gen. Robert Beauregard Byrd attacking the Wamsutta Sheet Factory. Truthfully, I don’t know a lot about baseball, but the last time I went to a Giants game (in Candlestick Park, g-d rest it’s soul), we sat there freezing our nuts off in the cold and fog for 8 1/2 innings and not one f*cking ball left the infield. Which was actually good because if anyone had actually hit to the outfield, the outfielders would not know where the ball went. Oh well, to each his own, I haven’t gone again since.
Agreed, he was one of the greats!
It’s the shift and the mainstreaming of sabermetrics. The game is becoming as unwatchable as the NBA did about 15 years ago.
They shold just get rid of the players and play simulations on computers, which is what they already use to determine pitch location and fielder positioning.
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