Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 525203)

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

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 525205)

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!”

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 525206)

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.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 525207)

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

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 525208)

So, you all have Dombrowski,

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 525210)

Not any more.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 525206)

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.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 525176)

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.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 525198)

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

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 525201)

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.

Originally Posted by Icky Thump (Post 525214)

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

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 525207)

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

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 525216)

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?

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 525197)

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.

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 525194)

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.