Doesn’t Matter Who Wins the K Race; We’re All the Same

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

IIRC the Red Sox take pitches cuz it helps them get hits?

Like some other major league teams, the Sox used to try to take a lot of pitches to wear out pitchers. But the league-wide trend of going to relievers sooner more often means that this doesn't work so well anymore.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

If ty and bank were in 3rd grade together:

Ty “I know you are but what am I?”
Hank: POW
Ty: “teacher Hank hit me!”

I'm sure that one's up there with your Moth stuff.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Like some other major league teams, the Sox used to try to take a lot of pitches to wear out pitchers. But the league-wide trend of going to relievers sooner more often means that this doesn't work so well anymore.

So, you all have Dombrowski, I know your team understands baseball. A relief pitcher wasn’t coming in. Everyone knows that. Are you a Penske sock?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I'm sure that one's up there with your Moth stuff.

No. I handed off replying to you to a clerk.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So, you all have Dombrowski,

Not any more.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Not any more.

Really? What happened?

Holy shit. Maybe we can get him back?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Like some other major league teams, the Sox used to try to take a lot of pitches to wear out pitchers. But the league-wide trend of going to relievers sooner more often means that this doesn't work so well anymore.

It’s also out the window bcs first pitches tend to be fastball strikes.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Baseball query. Read this. I don't get it. What were the Sox doing wrong? Swinging at the first pitch in the late innings against a tired pitcher who you think will be throwing strikes? The writer seem to think the Sox were intentionally making non-K outs, but that's loopy.

Newsflash: Deadspin is written by losers.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I am confused by this entire conversation. If you see a guy going for a strikeout goal, you know he's coming with a fastball. Fuck your stupid goal. I want a hit. Why shouldn't I take advantage of your stupidity? This "play the right way" bullshit, which amounts to "give me a strike so I can reach my goal" is ridiculous. This huge "book" of unwritten rules is stupid. If you can strike me out, I will shake your hand. If you can only do it if I give you the first pitch for free, you can't fucking do it, so shut up.

TM

And . . . 200 strikeouts. That's cute. The good pitchers have that by the beginning of August.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Adder

The writer seemed to be suggesting that they weren’t swinging at good pitches, thus the weakly balls, and using “contact swings”. Didn’t see it but can imagine preferring a ball in play to deny a strikeout.

The writer is a loser idiot who never watched a game where deGrom, Verlander, Cole or some other great pitched.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

And . . . 200 strikeouts. That's cute. The good pitchers have that by the beginning of August.

But that’s why it mattered to him. Remember when Galarraga got cheated of a perfect game on the final out? I remember thinking Verlander could have laughed it off, he will/had made history. To the lesser guys it means more. That was Galarraga best day, the only one. Like when GGG finally wins an argument, don’t you smile inside a little?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

I'm sure that one's up there with your Moth stuff.

If you went to Cosplay Star Wars they’d give you a Stormtrooper outfit.

[Icky Thump]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

But that’s why it mattered to him. Remember when Galarraga got cheated of a perfect game on the final out? I remember thinking Verlander could have laughed it off, he will/had made history. To the lesser guys it means more. Like when GGG finally wins an argument, don’t you smile inside a little?

Ahh got it. Like wat Yankee fans say every day bout da Mets.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The wall is a moronic policy.
Putting kids in cages is definitely asshole policy.
Trade war is a dumb policy, but there are argument for disciplining China.
Police state shit is 100% asshole.

But these aren't the only policies of conservatives.

Well, keep going. Find something conservatives get excited about today that isn't about being an asshole. Go ahead, show me I'm wrong and that these folks aren't just assholes, plain and simple.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Bull. Shit. Conservatives do not embrace the urgent need to do something about climate change. Republican climate policy for the last three years has been to deny climate change, muzzle climate scientists, undo what Obama did, and de-regulate. There is *no* bipartisan consensus, in large part because conservatives are allergic to the idea of bipartisan consensus. Just for example, the Trump Administration just said it's going to roll back California's authority to promulgate higher tailpipe emissions standards, which we have had for fifty years, and opened an antitrust investigation of auto companies for agreeing to those standards. Did you see Republican politicians disagreeing with that?

All you have to look at is the conservative reaction to Greta Thunberg, which has been deranged. She pointedly avoids specific policy prescriptions -- she just keeps saying there is a huge problem. Conservatives cannot stand it.

"The RNC says they’ll be handing out hamburgers and soda with plastic straws at Senator Elizabeth Warren’s New Hampshire rally today to 'push back on climate messaging.'"

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