It's not over until you get the 27th out.
Whitesox to try to pry Tony Larussa out of retirement with booze and money
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It's not over until you get the 27th out.
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Yep. I always loved this about baseball, you can't run out the clock.
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Imagine if the Brewers would have took their foot off the gas and pulled starters after getting up 8-0 and winning 10-9
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A couple more things: you're going to bitch about your player not taking your sign and hitting a home run instead? And do the "unwritten rules" really matter when a position player is pitching? The Twins and TLR are being huge cunts.
Oh good. I do see chatter on this. You know, I was raised by a traditionalist and have rather traditional values for the game. But, I find them eroding more and more as time goes on.
I get the aspect of not swinging at a 3-0 when you’re up 12 runs as a general sportsmanship. But, aren’t we past that at this level? Where every pitch taken and swing made can end up being part of an arbitration.
OK, grown men can get angry. We should do everything we can so that the practice of guys fighting and clearing the benches never starts happening aga......oh....wait.
There seriously isn’t an angle I can see as to exactly why this should be an unwritten rule.
I’m just waiting for this proponent of such an unwritten rules to come up with “think of the children”. Fuck that. I taught my girls if it’s 3-0 and it’s the pitch you want take it. I don’t care the score. I want them learning to “see it, hit it”. Score is irrelevant at this stage anyway with run limits and slaughter rules.
The fact that old man TLR is the one bitching just adds some optic fun to this.
I get the aspect of not swinging at a 3-0 when you’re up 12 runs as a general sportsmanship. But, aren’t we past that at this level? Where every pitch taken and swing made can end up being part of an arbitration.
OK, grown men can get angry. We should do everything we can so that the practice of guys fighting and clearing the benches never starts happening aga......oh....wait.
There seriously isn’t an angle I can see as to exactly why this should be an unwritten rule.
I’m just waiting for this proponent of such an unwritten rules to come up with “think of the children”. Fuck that. I taught my girls if it’s 3-0 and it’s the pitch you want take it. I don’t care the score. I want them learning to “see it, hit it”. Score is irrelevant at this stage anyway with run limits and slaughter rules.
The fact that old man TLR is the one bitching just adds some optic fun to this.
This is becoming must-see TV.
Lulz.
"My guy should have took one in the ear" isn't a take you want your manager having.
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Dudes been hitting the bottle.
As previously alluded to... from my perspective, raising a white flag and coasting to the end is poor sportsmanship. You work as hard as you can through the last out or the clock hits 0:00 or you cross the finish line. Exclamation point!
In this case, I say the Twins and LaRussa were the poor sports here.
When my daughter was in 7th grade I coached her school's 7th & 8th grade basketball team. The game against our cross-town rival was in their gym. I had a really good 7th grader point guard* on my team and the other team struggled to stop her. We opened a double-digit lead. In the 4th quarter, I began to get heckled by the opposing team's parents for keeping her in the game. After the game I had various parents passively-aggressively express their displeasure directly to me. Opposing parents complained to their school admins about it. A couple parents of my own school were noticeably displeased/embarrassed that I kept my star point guard in the whole game.
Knowing I was probably going to hear about it from the AD, I preemptively met with him to solidify my perspective on the situation. I expressed (nearly verbatim) the above sportsmanship perspective. I also told him that driving home that "never stop" mentality on girls that age will serve them well later in life. I also reminded him that I only had seven girls total on my roster and the other six were not adequate point guards; had I tinkered with what was proven to work, I would've run the risk of shaking the focus and confidence of my own players and potentially open the door for a comeback from the other team.
Following that preemptive conversation, the AD was exponentially more displeased that he was going to have to deal with disgruntled people who subscribed to that "unwritten rule" than with what I had done.
[* she was named First Team All-Conference Point Guard as a high school senior]
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... Yeah, winning ain't priority. Doing the best you possibly can ain't priority. Getting paid ain't priority. Respect for baseball is priority.
I’ve seen that with Little League Softball. Kids that are good should get reps and not limited because of a score. Good on you to be preemptive before this became a bigger thing.
Oh shit oh shit oh shit am I late to the dunking on La Russa party?
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Tony La Russa is a drunken dinosaur
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Keeps sending Luis Robert out there instead of letting him get healthy. What a swell guy.