uuuuuuuuv wrote:
Not "World Series", USA Series.
It's called the World Series. Until somebody is capable of putting on an event with better talent.
uuuuuuuuv wrote:
Not "World Series", USA Series.
It's called the World Series. Until somebody is capable of putting on an event with better talent.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
ESPN article talking about the five biggest losers from this whole situation...and it mentions a few of the things I did in my post, like how the $5 million is nothing to the Astros (ESPN points out that not paying the salary of the Coach and GM will easily cover this!)
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28482487/the-five-biggest-victims-astros-sign-stealing-scandal
Are they not going to have a new coach and GM? Or will they work for free?
lil bit louder now wrote:
former baseball player and current hobbyjogger wrote:
When I played ball, we used to assume signs were stolen. We learned baseball situations so that signs weren't needed in the first place. For example: Do I really need a sign to steal a base if I'm the fastest guy on the team? Do I really need to steal a base at all? The coach can always grab me during the inning switchover and say, "if the batter ahead of you is on base, I want you to swing (or bunt) at the first pitch because he's stealing no matter what." Most of the time the other team will know the strategy anyway-kind of like when a football team lines up to onside kick a ball.
And Wejo, it's absolutely a huge advantage knowing a fastball is coming on 3-2, but if you've done your homework on the pitcher, you probably have a really good idea of when he throws what pitches anyway. Video a game, put a pro in front of the screen and ask him what pitch is coming next. I bet they have a pretty good idea. Little leaguer? Probably not. Guy getting paid millions to study the pitchers? Yeah, probably so.
Long post to say this: to me this isn't equivalent to runners cheating by doping. It would be more like Salazar saying, "Hey, Galen, I heard Solinsky saying he was going after the American record today." Good to know, coach, but I've still got to beat him.
If this is your thought process than your "when we played ball" opening sentence is 100% bs. This would be a tremendous advantage for any team and, as another poster pointed out, it was the use of electronics which the commish had expressly warned against using which brought about the punishment.
Feel free to carry on the facade that either you played or have a clue what you're talking about.
I stand by my commentary. Also, using electronics doesn’t make it “more bad” than not using them. That’s false morality. A batter knows a pitcher’s likely pitches. A pitcher knows the pitches batters are likely to struggle with. Knowing a fastball is coming and hitting it are two different things. You would probably know the fastball is coming without the signal. Also, (sarcasm font) baseball teams never change their signals when they suspect they’ve been stolen. And they’d never consider changing them at a key moment in the game. Also, (more sarcasm font), teams like, I don’t know let’s say the Rockies, have never worked to develop unbreakable codes. But yeah, I don’t know what I’m talking about.
former baseball player and current hobbyjogger wrote:
I stand by my commentary. Also, using electronics doesn’t make it “more bad” than not using them. That’s false morality. A batter knows a pitcher’s likely pitches. A pitcher knows the pitches batters are likely to struggle with. Knowing a fastball is coming and hitting it are two different things. You would probably know the fastball is coming without the signal. Also, (sarcasm font) baseball teams never change their signals when they suspect they’ve been stolen. And they’d never consider changing them at a key moment in the game. Also, (more sarcasm font), teams like, I don’t know let’s say the Rockies, have never worked to develop unbreakable codes. But yeah, I don’t know what I’m talking about.
You just keep digging down further into stupid.
If baseball is so predictable that everyone knows a fastball is coming in certain situations, then pitchers would just throw changeups in those situations.Kind of like Felix Hernandez did in his prime. It worked.
Yes there a few situations when it's pretty easy to guess right, but even then the pitcher still has an option of mixing it up for surprise element.
There's a huge difference in knowing if a fastball is probably coming in some situations vs knowing for sure in ALL situations.
It's like cards. I could go to Vegas and have someone let me know what the next card was. I'd probably still not do as well as you'd think. Why? Because I'm not a professional poker player.
I wouldn't then go on to proclaim that having foreknowledge of the next card is not helpful.
that would be moranic.
masshole wrote:
The Red Sox are next. Stay tuned.
It begins.
rojo wrote:
Man o man. The older I get the more I realize everything is corrupt. Seriously, what am I going to be telling my son in a few years?
"Son, you want to reach the top of anything, you need to be power hungry and unethical as hell as there are billions of other people that want to get there as well."
But this punishment kind of pisses me off. Why not strip the team of the WSeries title? Why not discipline some of the players as well since it apparently was originated by the players?
The manager didn't like it and apparently broke the tv monitor twice on purpose but het gets banned as he didn't stop it.
As for the GM, he says he was unaware of it? Do you guys believe that?
One last thing - it also kind of reminds me of Salazar as there is no proof that any of this cheating actually helped them but what they were doing was clearly against the rules.
Just look at the NE Patriots. They cheated to the top and nobody blinked an eye.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts