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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 19:05:54 GMT -5
Don't ever change Noetsi, don't ever change....  If you like walks and strike outs than the new way is wonderful. I like baseball when they hit for average a billion times better. The modern game has become incredibly boring because of its narrow focus on those, which is why it is going to increasingly fade out of the spotlight with younger fans who like things to happen offensively. It is not a question of what works. It is a question of what you enjoy watching. To me the new focus has ruined the game. It was a lot more exciting in the past. That certainly explains the world's and this country's growing fascination with soccer, which is just filled with high scoring matches.  |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 19:11:15 GMT -5
If you like walks and strike outs than the new way is wonderful. I like baseball when they hit for average a billion times better. The modern game has become incredibly boring because of its narrow focus on those, which is why it is going to increasingly fade out of the spotlight with younger fans who like things to happen offensively. It is not a question of what works. It is a question of what you enjoy watching. To me the new focus has ruined the game. It was a lot more exciting in the past. Let’s advocate for the return of the nine ball walk… I like to see patient hitters work the count. I also like to see aggressive first pitch hitters. I like to see balance in the line up, with some guys that work to gef on base and others that have a strong hit tool looking to find the right pitch to drive to move those other runners along. I like some aggressive base runners with the skill to steal a base. I even like to have a couple of more fellows that will drop a bunt, or push the ball the opposite way. But when you come right down to it, there’s nothing like a good old home run. Watching one. Hitting one. Seeing one. Being one. In sports, there’s little to compare that feeling to. A big strike while bowling comes close. Sinking a big putt in golf. Catching a long TD pass. I don’t think throwing a long TD pass compares, because it several seconds before you know if you succeeded. The catch becomes the most important part. Those come close. For the less physically gifted, maybe a really slick checkmate move. A seven letter hook on word that touches two triple word scores and yields a couple hundred points. (My highest I can recall was 251 to date. Very demoralizing to an opponent). The home run reigns supreme though. I’ve done most of the things on both lists. I say most because the touchdown passes I threw were just playing in the yard with kids, etc.. I made a couple receptions playing with the guys in school in practices. They’re okay-ish. The gel of crushing a baseball that you know is going to go a long way is magnificent. When it exceeds the barrier on the field and you can glide around the bases without concern it’s like you’re taking a cruise of honor. Leading the parade. Look at me on these bases. Not a thing you can do except to watch me cap this feat off… An interception or even better a pick-six in football is right up there. A hole in one has to be the ultimate - I wish I could tell you definitively. For me on the mound, a strikeout swinging on a fastball felt awesome. Game winning RBI/walk-off is right there, too. Any hockey fans? Scoring a goal must be pretty fulfilling? |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 19:12:39 GMT -5
Let us just not have walks or strike outs at all. Eventually the pitchers would start throwing pitches batters could put in play. A simpler alternative would be to require all starters to pitch 5 innings and relievers 2. I disagree on the home run. I don't think its exciting at all. A guy looks into the stands and walks around the bases. Yippee excitement. A guy turning a double by aggressive base running is far more exciting to me. Taste differ. Just ask Jeffrey Dahmer. |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 19:14:39 GMT -5
We will have to disagree on this one. On the bright side, for you, home runs are the only type of hit Yankee management pay attention to. Which is why we had like two regulars bat over .250 last year. Yes, but your personal sporting high was a good tiddly on the winks course or perhaps a spirited game of jacks followed by a hopscotch game. I never could figure out if the people doing hopscotch were doing the correct moves or not.., I never had any idea what hopscotch was - there were no streets or sidewalks in the sticks of south Louisiana.  |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 19:17:52 GMT -5
I think we are done for "major" deals or free agency this year. I hope they don't sign Rizzo who will add lots of salary and do little to improve our offense. I expect our offense to be pretty much like last year. Lots of strike outs few hits. Rizzo is a huge upgrade over Voit defensively and adds balance as a left-handed hitter, and Rizzo is a battler, takes pitches, and fouls off a ton of pitches, which just tires out starting pitchers for the next batter or next inning. Rizzo is not a speedster but he's a better and smarter base-runner than Voit, too. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 14, 2022 19:20:20 GMT -5
And now I see I transposed his initials. I shouldn't post during my second gin and tonic of the afternoon. I may have asked you this previously, Pipps, but what is your gin of choice? Mine used to be the tried and true Bombay Sapphire. I periodically change my gin of choice. Bombay Sapphire has long been in my rotation and is always a solid choice. Plus you can get it anywhere in the world (and that includes Saudi Arabia cough cough.) I also like Hendricks a lot and for the past few years I've been getting Plymouth Navy Stength (114 Proof) when I can find it. One of my uncles recently gave me a big supply of Tanqueray Ten and I've been enjoying it. For tonic it has to be Schweppes. I tried all the high-priced hipster brands, but to me Schweppes is synonymous with tonic. I can change gins, but not tonics. What's your bourbon? My go-to is Woodford Reserve, but anything aged long enough can get my attention. Lots of good ones thankfully. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 14, 2022 19:27:28 GMT -5
Let’s advocate for the return of the nine ball walk… I like to see patient hitters work the count. I also like to see aggressive first pitch hitters. I like to see balance in the line up, with some guys that work to gef on base and others that have a strong hit tool looking to find the right pitch to drive to move those other runners along. I like some aggressive base runners with the skill to steal a base. I even like to have a couple of more fellows that will drop a bunt, or push the ball the opposite way. But when you come right down to it, there’s nothing like a good old home run. Watching one. Hitting one. Seeing one. Being one. In sports, there’s little to compare that feeling to. A big strike while bowling comes close. Sinking a big putt in golf. Catching a long TD pass. I don’t think throwing a long TD pass compares, because it several seconds before you know if you succeeded. The catch becomes the most important part. Those come close. For the less physically gifted, maybe a really slick checkmate move. A seven letter hook on word that touches two triple word scores and yields a couple hundred points. (My highest I can recall was 251 to date. Very demoralizing to an opponent). The home run reigns supreme though. I’ve done most of the things on both lists. I say most because the touchdown passes I threw were just playing in the yard with kids, etc.. I made a couple receptions playing with the guys in school in practices. They’re okay-ish. The gel of crushing a baseball that you know is going to go a long way is magnificent. When it exceeds the barrier on the field and you can glide around the bases without concern it’s like you’re taking a cruise of honor. Leading the parade. Look at me on these bases. Not a thing you can do except to watch me cap this feat off… An interception or even better a pick-six in football is right up there. A hole in one has to be the ultimate - I wish I could tell you definitively. For me on the mound, a strikeout swinging on a fastball felt awesome. Game winning RBI/walk-off is right there, too. Any hockey fans? Scoring a goal must be pretty fulfilling? High-sticking an annoying player right into the boards is a good hockey thrill. A buzzer beater in basketball. An ace in tennis feels really exhilarating. Hitting your opponent with a metal chair in wrestling seems like it would be fun. |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 19:36:57 GMT -5
I may have asked you this previously, Pipps, but what is your gin of choice? Mine used to be the tried and true Bombay Sapphire. I periodically change my gin of choice. Bombay Sapphire has long been in my rotation and is always a solid choice. Plus you can get it anywhere in the world (and that includes Saudi Arabia cough cough.) I also like Hendricks a lot and for the past few years I've been getting Plymouth Navy Stength (114 Proof) when I can find it. One of my uncles recently gave me a big supply of Tanqueray Ten and I've been enjoying it. For tonic it has to be Schweppes. I tried all the high-priced hipster brands, but to me Schweppes is synonymous with tonic. I can change gins, but not tonics. What's your bourbon? My go-to is Woodford Reserve, but anything aged long enough can get my attention. Lots of good ones thankfully. I agree on Schweppes - accept no substitute! For bourbon, I actually don't know. When I drank the most was in college, and bourbon was so often mixed in cocktails - extending the time and need to reach into one's wallet and purchase more booze - I never drank much straight up. And, most of the time, we didn't venture into the top shelf categories, so most often we imbibed in whiskeys and blends, like Crown Royal, Jack Daniels, Seagram's 7 and VO. Sometimes the occasional Irish Whiskey like Jameson. If we really came into card-game money - rare - or someone pilfered from their granddaddy's liquor cabinet, a Maker's Mark or a Johnny Walker Black - Scotch preferred by the Saudi Royal Family and Christopher Hitchens. I think I tried a Woodford Reserve on a cruise with Sarah, when I bought a couple fine cigars from the humidor lounge on the ship. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 14, 2022 19:36:59 GMT -5
Rizzuto and Gary Sanchez not quite up to Maize and Ichiro levels of hate or me and Womack, but hilarious nonetheless!  Did Maize hate Ichiro? Why don't I remember that? I always thought Ichiro was a fun-loving, baseball-lifer kind of guy, who kept himself in excellent shape, played hard defensively, ran hard up the line all the time, and was popular in the clubhouse. Maize hated the 40 year old version of Ichiro who signed with us. He would rant and rave about him like he was Womack lite. Surely other posters (inger?) remember. I even have a few photoshops about it:
Where are you maize? Come back!
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Post by inger on Mar 14, 2022 19:55:42 GMT -5
Rizzuto and Gary Sanchez not quite up to Maize and Ichiro levels of hate or me and Womack, but hilarious nonetheless! Did Maize hate Ichiro? Why don't I remember that? I always thought Ichiro was a fun-loving, baseball-lifer kind of guy, who kept himself in excellent shape, played hard defensively, ran hard up the line all the time, and was popular in the clubhouse. I read that in Seattle some perceived that if they lost, but he got his two hits, he was too happy. If they won and he was 1-5 or 0-4 he would be down… |
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Post by inger on Mar 14, 2022 19:59:19 GMT -5
My little weedhopper, when will you learn to follow your master with the fullest of faith? … Sometimes, I think Russ just wants me to look up baseball stats for him.  He gets his jollies out of that, no doubt. It’s a Marino-ish trait for an other wise adequate kind of fellow… |
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Post by inger on Mar 14, 2022 20:04:24 GMT -5
According to CBS Sports, both the Rays and Jays are aggressively pursuing Freeman, along with the Yankees and Dodgers. Seems Freeman has ties everywhere. His parents are from Ontario and he has dual citizenship. If Tampa Bay outbids us for Freddy Freeman, I may have to rethink my place in the universe. Perhaps, Ignatius J. Reilly was correct about the world being out of sync in theology and geometry. No doubt in my mind that theology walks it’s own plank… |
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 20:05:05 GMT -5
Did Maize hate Ichiro? Why don't I remember that? I always thought Ichiro was a fun-loving, baseball-lifer kind of guy, who kept himself in excellent shape, played hard defensively, ran hard up the line all the time, and was popular in the clubhouse. Maize hated the 40 year old version of Ichiro who signed with us. He would rant and rave about him like he was Womack lite. Surely other posters (inger?) remember. I even have a few photoshops about it:
Where are you maize? Come back!
Now that you have supplied the excellent photoshop, I remember! I guess I somehow erased that from my memory banks, but the visuals brought it back! |
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Post by inger on Mar 14, 2022 20:11:10 GMT -5
Let’s advocate for the return of the nine ball walk… I like to see patient hitters work the count. I also like to see aggressive first pitch hitters. I like to see balance in the line up, with some guys that work to gef on base and others that have a strong hit tool looking to find the right pitch to drive to move those other runners along. I like some aggressive base runners with the skill to steal a base. I even like to have a couple of more fellows that will drop a bunt, or push the ball the opposite way. But when you come right down to it, there’s nothing like a good old home run. Watching one. Hitting one. Seeing one. Being one. In sports, there’s little to compare that feeling to. A big strike while bowling comes close. Sinking a big putt in golf. Catching a long TD pass. I don’t think throwing a long TD pass compares, because it several seconds before you know if you succeeded. The catch becomes the most important part. Those come close. For the less physically gifted, maybe a really slick checkmate move. A seven letter hook on word that touches two triple word scores and yields a couple hundred points. (My highest I can recall was 251 to date. Very demoralizing to an opponent). The home run reigns supreme though. I’ve done most of the things on both lists. I say most because the touchdown passes I threw were just playing in the yard with kids, etc.. I made a couple receptions playing with the guys in school in practices. They’re okay-ish. The gel of crushing a baseball that you know is going to go a long way is magnificent. When it exceeds the barrier on the field and you can glide around the bases without concern it’s like you’re taking a cruise of honor. Leading the parade. Look at me on these bases. Not a thing you can do except to watch me cap this feat off… An interception or even better a pick-six in football is right up there. A hole in one has to be the ultimate - I wish I could tell you definitively. For me on the mound, a strikeout swinging on a fastball felt awesome. Game winning RBI/walk-off is right there, too. Any hockey fans? Scoring a goal must be pretty fulfilling? I never had a hole in one, either. Maybe I’ll change my mind some day, but I view it as mostly luck. I did drop a 100 yard wedge for an eagle on a par 5 once, and I once holed out from 140 yards for a birdie after having been in the woods after three shots on a par four 18th hole…and I told a buddy it was luck, to which he replied, “No. you were trying to do it. Take credit for it.” Not a bad philosophy… |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 14, 2022 20:28:17 GMT -5
I work for the state. Who can afford to golf?
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