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Post by kyledriver1980 on May 1, 2024 20:06:11 GMT -6
Disappointing Bregman.
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Post by Saint on May 1, 2024 20:09:57 GMT -6
Altuve robbed and Yordan with rotten luck. Should be at least 3-2
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Post by kyledriver1980 on May 1, 2024 20:32:15 GMT -6
Extras again…
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Post by kyledriver1980 on May 1, 2024 20:38:44 GMT -6
Kwan needs to go away.
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Post by kyledriver1980 on May 1, 2024 20:40:42 GMT -6
Dubin is just absolutely blowing this.
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Post by Saint on May 1, 2024 20:51:18 GMT -6
One of the rare losses this year where we played better than the other team and still lost. Horrible luck on offense tonight.
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Post by Ashitaka on May 1, 2024 21:38:28 GMT -6
Bad luck, sure. But there was no bad luck on the Bregman AB in the 8th. Just need a fly ball for crying out loud...another popup. Horrible AB. And what in blazes was Caratini thinking in the 10th. Way to just assume hit and take the bat out of Altuve's hands.
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Post by paastrosfan on May 1, 2024 22:09:00 GMT -6
Bad luck, sure. But there was no bad luck on the Bregman AB in the 8th. Just need a fly ball for crying out loud...another popup. Horrible AB. And what in blazes was Caratini thinking in the 10th. Way to just assume hit and take the bat out of Altuve's hands. Missed another ugly loss tonight. That is sports, a hero one night and a goat the next. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 1, 2024 23:06:14 GMT -6
One of the rare losses this year where we played better than the other team and still lost. Horrible luck on offense tonight. Winners make their own luck. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 1, 2024 23:07:05 GMT -6
Bad luck, sure. But there was no bad luck on the Bregman AB in the 8th. Just need a fly ball for crying out loud...another popup. Horrible AB. And what in blazes was Caratini thinking in the 10th. Way to just assume hit and take the bat out of Altuve's hands. I’ve got an idea for Crane to save money: fire the base coaches. What good are they if the players ignore them? |
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Post by Saint on May 2, 2024 9:09:04 GMT -6
One of the rare losses this year where we played better than the other team and still lost. Horrible luck on offense tonight. Winners make their own luck. It's a cute quote, but it isn't always true. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 2, 2024 10:24:30 GMT -6
Winners make their own luck. It's a cute quote, but it isn't always true. Bad luck is loser talk for a team that’s 10-20. |
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Post by Saint on May 2, 2024 10:33:24 GMT -6
It's a cute quote, but it isn't always true. Bad luck is loser talk for a team that’s 10-20. I'm just saying this was one game where, yes mistakes were made, but...we still played better than the result. Cleveland was fortunate. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 2, 2024 13:58:00 GMT -6
Bad luck is loser talk for a team that’s 10-20. I'm just saying this was one game where, yes mistakes were made, but...we still played better than the result. Cleveland was fortunate. I’m not criticizing you. It just gets old when you hear on tv about bad luck and exit velocity constantly. That ball was hit at 137 mph! Was it an out, though? |
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Post by Saint on May 2, 2024 14:20:16 GMT -6
I'm just saying this was one game where, yes mistakes were made, but...we still played better than the result. Cleveland was fortunate. I’m not criticizing you. It just gets old when you hear on tv about bad luck and exit velocity constantly. That ball was hit at 137 mph! Was it an out, though? It's frustrating, but it's also true. If hitters go up and hit screamers right at people, it's bad luck for the offense. Especially when the defense makes a great play. The percentages are in your favor when you hit the ball hard. So if you hit the ball hard and it doesn't end up a hit, you had bad luck in a situation where you should have had success. It's just how it is. I'm not going to be mad at the team that loses when things just aren't getting through for them. I'll be mad for things like Bregman's popout for sure, but if he had hit it 105mph instead and lined out, that's rotten luck. I hear people on the radio compare today's hitters to Tony Gwynn a lot. Great hitter, blah blah blah, could slap the ball wherever he wanted, yada yada yada. All true. But he also hit during a time where the average fastball velocity was in the high 80's. The year after he retired in 2002, the average velocity was 89. In 2024, out of the current 337 pitchers in baseball, 288 of them throw harder than that now. (151 of them throw 94mph or higher...) Hitting is harder now than it has ever been before. You can't just slap the ball around as easily as you used to. |
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Post by unionstation82 on May 2, 2024 14:29:36 GMT -6
I’m not criticizing you. It just gets old when you hear on tv about bad luck and exit velocity constantly. That ball was hit at 137 mph! Was it an out, though? It's frustrating, but it's also true. If hitters go up and hit screamers right at people, it's bad luck for the offense. Especially when the defense makes a great play. The percentages are in your favor when you hit the ball hard. So if you hit the ball hard and it doesn't end up a hit, you had bad luck in a situation where you should have had success. It's just how it is. I'm not going to be mad at the team that loses when things just aren't getting through for them. I'll be mad for things like Bregman's popout for sure, but if he had hit it 105mph instead and lined out, that's rotten luck. I hear people on the radio compare today's hitters to Tony Gwynn a lot. Great hitter, blah blah blah, could slap the ball wherever he wanted, yada yada yada. All true. But he also hit during a time where the average fastball velocity was in the high 80's. The year after he retired in 2002, the average velocity was 89. In 2024, out of the current 337 pitchers in baseball, 288 of them throw harder than that now. (151 of them throw 94mph or higher...) Hitting is harder now than it has ever been before. You can't just slap the ball around as easily as you used to. They can’t swing and advance runners often enough. The least they could do is send runners to avoid DP’s or bunt a runner over to third in extras. Shit, maybe do a squeeze play once in a while. They just keep losing and talking about luck and exit velo like some consolation. It’s gotten old. |
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Post by Saint on May 2, 2024 14:35:45 GMT -6
It's frustrating, but it's also true. If hitters go up and hit screamers right at people, it's bad luck for the offense. Especially when the defense makes a great play. The percentages are in your favor when you hit the ball hard. So if you hit the ball hard and it doesn't end up a hit, you had bad luck in a situation where you should have had success. It's just how it is. I'm not going to be mad at the team that loses when things just aren't getting through for them. I'll be mad for things like Bregman's popout for sure, but if he had hit it 105mph instead and lined out, that's rotten luck. I hear people on the radio compare today's hitters to Tony Gwynn a lot. Great hitter, blah blah blah, could slap the ball wherever he wanted, yada yada yada. All true. But he also hit during a time where the average fastball velocity was in the high 80's. The year after he retired in 2002, the average velocity was 89. In 2024, out of the current 337 pitchers in baseball, 288 of them throw harder than that now. (151 of them throw 94mph or higher...) Hitting is harder now than it has ever been before. You can't just slap the ball around as easily as you used to. They can’t swing and advance runners often enough. The least they could do is send runners to avoid DP’s or bunt a runner over to third in extras. Shit, maybe do a squeeze play once in a while. They just keep losing and talking about luck and exit velo like some consolation. It’s gotten old. I agree on the SB attempts. I thought that was supposed to be increased this year... |
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