On Tuesday night at YES, David Conn was on a roll.
In the fourth inning against the Braves – in another game that challenged the better senses to get something, anything, more sensible – Cone said how he looked at Luis Tient manipulation batters and “improvisation” as a game. Inspired as a child.
“I think pitching is part of the art lost today. You give different forms to maximum effort, maximum velocity, fewer innings to start, and that ‘improvement’ allows you to pitch more innings.
“I do not blame the pitcher, nowadays, they simply do not allow us to go as far as we have been allowed. If I got 100 pitches after five innings, I had two or three more innings left. I was not done after five; I finished with 130 pitches. “
OK got it. Good stuff, too. But one question: why? Why has it changed? That part is nobody who gets it.
It is not that such management has reduced injuries. The IL of each team seems to be more clogged than ever before. Then why, and for what good ending?
But “modern” baseball is filled with good questions in search of good answers.
Also on SNY, the Cubs “star” Xavier Badge, batting .200 and infamous for his failures, even though working hard for first base during the postgens game, was able to strike four times in his four at-bats. Was busy, swinging as much as possible. Trying to hit home runs on well outside pitches as well.
Gary Cohen said that Baez had killed half of his bats so far. He was killed 31 times in 60-bats over the night. hidden.
Even after this season as a free agent, bidding for Baez is expected to bring the total to nearly $ 200 million.
Why then? But in this c, why should he bother to walk on first base?
History is being retrofitted with the label ‘Walk-off’
If only sports were subject to telecast quality life graffiti / vandalism laws.
Just as YES’s Yankee games don’t have enough screen clutter, they now include a large “THE YES APP” graphic in the upper right, not to mention the live-play destitution that superimposed on the back of the YES app Hai Mound Plus is another pitch visible in a crawl at the bottom of the screen.
Thus YES App promos sometimes appear in triplets during live play. But it’s the perfect gift for those who want DH Giancarlo Stanton’s $ 29 million per season whiff and immediate word of return-to-dugout-exit velocity.
SNY’s Cubs-Mate went into ESPN-like graphics mode on Tuesday, informing us that this is the 105th anniversary of the first game played at Wrigley.
This should suffice, but it was added to the text that the first game was won by the Cubs in 1916, “on a ‘walk-off’ run in the 11th.”
But with the fact that the silly, one-phrase-fit-all expression didn’t make the scene for nearly 95 more years, all games were won by “walk-offs” – whether in the ninth inning, extra innings and now the MLB’s regret According to Doubleheader Tona, sometimes the seventh inning is won at “walk-off”.
This fluent game brought to mind two ESPN graphics written in fiddle: 1) All four walk-off home runs allowed by Mariano Rivera “came on the road.” 2) Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Herd ‘Round the World” was a “walk-off home run” that won for the Giants “1951 NLCS.”
There was no NLCS until 1969, but how could America’s All Sports Network possibly know this?
The Cubs lost 16-4 meters on Wednesday, with attention-thirsty Pete Alonso – a typical, check-me-out appearance despite a poor foul weather – hitting a two-run homer to make it 7-4. Then there was an exaggerated, home run skit with star newcomer Francisco Lindor, who entered the hit. -171. He acted as if Alonso had just won the game.
Although it’s hard to remember, neither Gary Cohen nor Ron Darling said anything about it, but I loved hearing what they thought – what they honestly thought. Why would Alonso be so eager to show such foolishness?
The common thread between all these sports gambling operations is shamelessness.
Alan Iverson – suffering from bad cards, bad bets, bad losses and bad scenes at the casino (he was banned from Atlantic City casinos for stopping a rottenness, was thrown from two Detroit casinos for rotten behavior) – Now the TV advertising star is for the entry of the Australian based sports book.
Makes you wonder for whom Iverson defeated for the gig.
Torres not alone in dissatisfaction
For Aaron Boone when / if it expires, it doesn’t have to be for any other reason than he expected: at least his players could.
On Wednesday, he passed on another occasion to show that he is no idiot, this time by not pulling Gelber Torres when he finished first in a close game and another loss, a base hit that could be easy. There may be a flaccid tupper in front of the plate.
But Torrage, batting .186, was indulged by Boone, then excused / explained as “heard” by David Coan.
Is he disappointed? How about the thousands of Yankee fans who paid to watch this top tier junk on YES, not to mention those who bought tickets to watch in the winter season?
Even the smartest, most careful horseplayers resist the bow. They are often called hump bets, based on nothing more than a four-legged, or in the case of Mike Soper, imagined eyelid in their direction by a call from above.
Souper, a longtime pen pal, a Georgetown, DC, chef (try his mushroom barley soup), mixologist and author. He was also friends with three Walsh Brothers from Albany, N.Y., the eldest, Richard, a prominent Albany lawyer and Saratoga horseman, passed away at the age of 77 last week. The scene was Sunday.
Also on Sunday, Soper misused the racing entries and “Mr.” Walsh, “A winless entry in the eighth at Lexington, Keenland, Ky. How could he not?” Spirit took me, “Soper explained.
At 16-1, Mr. Walsh paid $ 34.40.
The late-COVID football team from Monmouth University in New Jersey plays Friday at Sam Houston State in Texas. It is the Big South vs Southland Conference playoffs. Nevertheless, the Big South representative is also not in Monmouth, South Jersey.
On Sunday, YES producer Josh Issac produced two Yankees pregame shows – a tape for streaming – from the studio in Stanford, Conn., Then sent to Brooklyn as an emergency fill-maker for the Nets-Heat. Who does he think he is Kenny Albert?
Question for Rob Manfred: In your new, seven-inning games, should the “seventh-inning stretch” be seen after the game or in the fifth inning?
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