MLB Thread Number 3, 2007

The 410-foot blast on a bad pitch is more exciting, but if every hitter on every team tried to do that, baseball would be an ugly game. Every play in football isn't a fly route. The NBA went downhill when people forgot how to pass and tried to either dunk or chuck it from 30 feet.

I respect patient, smart hitters ... and not everyone has the ability of Vlad or Frenchy to do that. It doesn't have to be a SportsCenter highight for me to appreciate it.

 

Why?

Did you make a bet with someone else to disappear if he won three dozen?

 

Scroll down to where it says with runners on

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/splits?playerId=4085

 

How dear to my heart was the old-fashioned batter, who scattered line drives from the spring to the fall.

He did not resemble the up-to-date batter, who swings from the heels and misses the ball.

The up-to-date batter I'm not very strong for; He shatters the ozone with all of his might.

And that is the reason I hanker and long for -- those who doubled to left, and tripled to right.

The old-fashioned batter,

The eagle-eyed batter,

The thinking man's batter,

Who tripled to right.

 

You have neither the wit, or knowledge or perspective to keep up with me.

It avails itself in the meek little-old-man bleatings.

 

Hammer, I am not disagreeing with you about every hit has to be a SportsCenter highlight. My question was simply, which one do you prefer. Simple question, nothing behind it.

 

Charlie Manuel has a tie score and men on first and third with two out in the 7th.... and leaves Eaton in to hit.... and bounce out.

What an idiot.

 

Buck, the days of the triple are over. Parks are becoming smaller and smaller, and players are becoming stronger and stronger. The days of 28 triples is past us. We have to settle for Reyes and Rollins who get maybe 18 a year.

 

Reyes will have at least 20 triples/IPHR.

 

It's a poem, not an ethos.

 

I know that it was a poem, I wasn't an English major for the girls. I was just saying that the days of the triple are gone.

 

Xavier Nady thinks both of you are liars.

Also ... Sorry for the confusion Mayday.