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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    What a start to the 2018 season! 1st pitch HR by Happ! 
  • Gtilley8
    Gtilley8 Detroit Posts: 985
    Nice start to the season by Happ.  Little first pitch ambush.  
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  • lolobugg
    lolobugg BLUE RDGE MTNS Posts: 8,195
    Gtilley8 said:
    Nice start to the season by Happ.  Little first pitch ambush.  

    nice! I got to see that on my lunch break!!!

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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Off to a great start.  I"m already in fuck-this-shit mode.  A combined 1 run in 35 innings in 3 losses.  Set the NL record for strikeouts through the first 5 games of the season with 58.  Same old fucking story.  No patience in the box.  Fuck Baez, fuck Schwarber, fuck Russell.  They're all fucking worthless at the plate.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO HIT A HOME RUN EVERY AT BAT. STOP SWINGING FOR THE GOD DAMN FENCE AND JUST GET ON FUCKING BASE!
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  • Gtilley8
    Gtilley8 Detroit Posts: 985
    HesCalledDyer said:
    Off to a great start.  I"m already in fuck-this-shit mode.  A combined 1 run in 35 innings in 3 losses.  Set the NL record for strikeouts through the first 5 games of the season with 58.  Same old fucking story.  No patience in the box.  Fuck Baez, fuck Schwarber, fuck Russell.  They're all fucking worthless at the plate.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO HIT A HOME RUN EVERY AT BAT. STOP SWINGING FOR THE GOD DAMN FENCE AND JUST GET ON FUCKING BASE!
    These guys are in their own head.  Taking way too many good pitches in the first 6 innings, swinging wildly at BS down a run in the last 2 innings.  But you're right.  It's a lot of the same.  Getting runners on, and then absolutely no situational hitting going on after that.  Just a bunch of grip and rip hacks.  Hayward is absolutely terrible.  His hands look so unbelievably slow, and it's clear he's refused to change anything about his approach.  
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  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,546
    Lol...you good brother? They will be alright. I took the optimistic approach about the strikeout stat. I bet the strike out record they broke did not include 9 extra innings of play. That equates to the amount of innings played in 6 games. :look_at_the_time:
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    I can't name a single starting pitcher they've faced.  It's not like they're going up against Max, Verlander, or Kershaw in these games.  17 innings or not, 20 K's against the Marlins is atrocius!!
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Hitters give up the first 2 strike too easily. It’s one thing to run up the pitch count, but there’s a bunch of grooved pitches floating by.
  • bflynn1
    bflynn1 Posts: 1,394
    I'm still on the rails but I agree with you guys... Taking too many good pitches and not being happy to just swing for a single and get on base/knock runs in. 
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,546
    This ought to give us all a little something to lighten the mood.

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  • Degeneratefk
    Degeneratefk Posts: 3,123
    Like it or not, a strikeout isn't a big deal anymore. Personally, I'd be embarrassed as hell to k 180 times a year. I don't care if I hit 30 homeruns. 

    I remember the days when you struckout 100 times, you dropped to 8th in the order. Now youre a leadoff man. 
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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Degeneratefk said:
    Like it or not, a strikeout isn't a big deal anymore. Personally, I'd be embarrassed as hell to k 180 times a year. I don't care if I hit 30 homeruns. 

    I remember the days when you struckout 100 times, you dropped to 8th in the order. Now youre a leadoff man. 
    This is unfortunately true.  And you see it all the way down to the youth.  #LegKickNation is a common thing now.  Everyone just wants to hit dingers and this is what they're teaching from children all the way up.
    I'll take a lineup of 8 guys hitting .300 with 80 RBI and 80 Runs each (see: Houston Astros) over a lineup of 6 guys hitting .225 with 30 HR and 150K each (see: Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles) any day.
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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    Cubs are up 5-0 without a single HR! That’s what I’m talking about! 
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,633
    HesCalledDyer said:
    Degeneratefk said:
    Like it or not, a strikeout isn't a big deal anymore. Personally, I'd be embarrassed as hell to k 180 times a year. I don't care if I hit 30 homeruns. 

    I remember the days when you struckout 100 times, you dropped to 8th in the order. Now youre a leadoff man. 
    This is unfortunately true.  And you see it all the way down to the youth.  #LegKickNation is a common thing now.  Everyone just wants to hit dingers and this is what they're teaching from children all the way up.
    I'll take a lineup of 8 guys hitting .300 with 80 RBI and 80 Runs each (see: Houston Astros) over a lineup of 6 guys hitting .225 with 30 HR and 150K each (see: Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles) any day.

    I’ll take Barry Fucking Bonds.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    Wobbie said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    Degeneratefk said:
    Like it or not, a strikeout isn't a big deal anymore. Personally, I'd be embarrassed as hell to k 180 times a year. I don't care if I hit 30 homeruns. 

    I remember the days when you struckout 100 times, you dropped to 8th in the order. Now youre a leadoff man. 
    This is unfortunately true.  And you see it all the way down to the youth.  #LegKickNation is a common thing now.  Everyone just wants to hit dingers and this is what they're teaching from children all the way up.
    I'll take a lineup of 8 guys hitting .300 with 80 RBI and 80 Runs each (see: Houston Astros) over a lineup of 6 guys hitting .225 with 30 HR and 150K each (see: Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles) any day.

    I’ll take Barry Fucking Bonds.
    Well yeah.  Power, hit for average, drew walks, and scored runs.  He hardly ever struck out.  He was an on-base machine.  You give me 8 Barry Bonds and you'll see the first 162-0 team in baseball history. 
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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,633
    Dyer gets it!
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    This f’n team sucks in the early going. I’m fully aware it’s April, but it’s the same exact shit as the 2017 team. Incredibly inconsistent pitching and hitting. If anything, they’re both consistently bad.  Frustrating...
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    I seriously don't understand how these fucking bums won a world series.
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  • bbiggs
    bbiggs Posts: 6,965
    HesCalledDyer said:
    I seriously don't understand how these fucking bums won a world series.
    Well said, buddy. Well said. One of life’s great mysteries. 

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