2021 MLB Regular Season thread

I wonder why? You should educate them.

 

I wonder why, too. But someone much smarter than I, someone who knows everything about everything and is never wrong, should educate them.

 

I’ll let you know how it goes.

 

oh for pete's sake.

Yes. I've made an 'industry' of it. About to retire from it. It's been extremely lucrative.

 

All this knowledge wasted on this message board.

 

MVP!

 

You don’t think 99.9% of sports philosophy on these threads were not first heard by listening to a professional?

I want to say Seaver is the first I heard say this and a couple weeks ago Smoltz was talking about the maximum effort used by Cease of the White Sox to throw and he didn’t think he would be healthy very long pitching this way. When you hear “easy 94” that means they are throwing that hard and still not topping out because they either want to pitch more than four innings or they want to have a career of some length.

Seaver and Smoltz are former pitchers in the major leagues. They were pretty good.

 

Oh, no. According to apparently unspoken but well established parameters , you actually have to BE (or have been) a professional in order to comment on things here. Or bring something brand-new and profound, which clearly JC does all the time, though almost nobody else ever does. I topped out in baseball in Division I. I only threw a few innings, could only hit the mid-80s on the gun (though I did hit 86 once, so I'm counting that as the high-80s and even almost 90) and I pretty much sucked at that level, so I will recuse myself from these conversations, because the scope of my knowledge, which clearly falls short of the likes of JC's and Poindexter's, is that pitching is motherfucking hard or everyone would do it.

I will also refrain from commenting further on professional football (or any level above youth flag). My dad was a NFL assistant coach for one season, but it was only shortly after they started wearing helmets, so I'm sure anything gleaned from him is now irrelevant.

Now, if you'll excuse me while I head over to the politics thread, where all the career politicians apparently are commenting, while I wait for someone to start a college professor thread, since these days that would be the only place in which I would meet the standards set by the overlords.

 

Pitcher wins > FIP!

 

With all that experience you’d think you would have more educated takes.

I also don’t believe in any of that. Some of the worst takes come from old players, mangers and media who refuse to adapt to the changes in the game.

 

And with all your worldly genius, you'd think you'd ever have a take. But you don't. You sit back like a tough guy and bust everyone else's chops, acting like you know more than anyone without offering a shred of evidence. You're a coward, bulging with internet muscles. Do you stand in front of a mirror and flex them?