Fucking bloop double to the opposite field drives in Semien (whom I am contemplating elevating to piss-ant status).
When did the A's become known as the Sea Hags?
Man the A's are not going down easy tonight. They are making JV throw a lot of pitches.
What happened to all the vaunting? Overkill?
I'm not anxious to see the bullpen have to work four innings again.
It's strange how the wheels can come off two or three games in a row after romping for several games.
"That's the way baseball go."- Ron Washington
I thought Reddick had knocked that one out.
I didn't see anything that could overturn a safe call. Maybe I'm blind, though. Or biased Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk
Altuve fails to put the ball in play. Up to Brantley.
Dammit, Altuve. So selfish.
All Altuve had to do was a ground ball.
That was the time for one of his crazy bunt attempts.
Same here. Maybe there was a zoned in view that showed it more clearly.George didn't protest.
Then he would get bitched at for trying to bunt. Altuve can't do anything right in this forum. Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk
Altuve does a whole bunch right but not as much as he could with a little more focus and a little more effort in certain instances.
Then he would get bitched at for trying to bunt. Altuve can't do anything right in this forum.
Altuve is an elite hitter. It is impossible to fathom how much better he would be if he had any sort of plate discipline or demonstrated any sort of situational awareness whatsoever.
Or as someone here once said, imagine how good he would be if he was perfect. Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk
On another subject. Profar and throwing doesn't go together very well. Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk
Bullshit. Chuck is right. You are a worshiper.
This coming from someone that thinks osuna is above criticism. Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk
Fuck you.
I just discovered that U-Verse quit carrying NFL Network.
No one is criticizing him for lack of perfection, dude. We all know that the greatest batters in the league fail 70% of the time. I don't mind that he expands the zone. He gets a lot of hits on bad pitches. There have been other hitters like that. I'd just love to see him be a little more selective. More importantly, time and time again he goes up to the plate in important situations and shows zero recognition of what's needed at that time. I don't know where that comes from, why he's not more sensitive to the game situation.
And right on cue he draws a walk.
Of course I'd like to see him be more selective as well. My thought is simply, at this point in his career does any expect that to suddenly change? He is what he is. So why (not YOU) constantly bitch about it? What he is won an MVP so I guess I'm mostly satisfied with him. But I get what you're saying.
I don't think anybody is expecting him to change, and that's actually what's so exasperating. It's not like asking to re-tool his swing or something. It's something that would seem to achievable: be more selective in certain easily recognizable situations. And yet the change never comes. Hence the frustration.
... be more selective in certain easily recognizable situations.
I'm not sure it's as simple as that, even if it seems that way. Ballplayers are like everyone else. They're creatures of habit.
As everybody is pointing out, if it were as simple as I wish, everybody would do it.
That was about the last outcome I expected from a Bregman AB.
Altuve tries to steal 3rd, Diekman throws him out.WTF
Inexplicable. The steal attempt, Yordan missing a pitch *before* it bounced in front of the plate, then taking strike 3.WTF was that?
Bad baseball?Sent from my GM1915 using Tapatalk
When someone figures out a reason to steal third in that situation, please post it.
Alvarez at the plate. Stay there, tell him what pitch is coming, then jog home.
If you want to dance around 2nd base some to distract the pitcher in the hope that he'll lose a little focus and groove something to Alvarez, then by all means do so. Just don't get picked off.
He did not get picked off. He took off for third with the pitcher holding the ball.
Tucker takes low/away 1-0, fouls a FB 1-1, takes low 2-1, can't check on a low slider says 3BU 2-2, same pitch same result ends the inning
Checked swings on bad pitches?
Tempting pitches. They started out looking like fastballs at the bottom of the zone, but of course that's not where they wound up.
So he struck out on balls 3 and 4?
Yes
My feed cut out before they showed the replay on strike 2. Strike 3 HPU made the call that he swung.
Damn. Bases loaded.
He had the first pitch well timed; just missed and fouled it straight back. Late/defensive on everything else. That's what 98-100 mph will do.
