re: Omaha Reporter's All Tourney Team

Y’all remember when everyone hated the big fella?

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you are a gifted baseball mind did you know that In 1974 Nolan Ryan purportedly threw 235 pitches in a game against the Red Sox. He would start another game 3 days later, pitching 6 scoreless innings.

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so that’s all you got? Ryan doing something that was a FACT?

It isn’t about being a gifted baseball mind. It is about playing the fricking game beyond high school, understanding what it is like being a player and failing, understanding “what you see” every single day from that player, seeing good in bad like how Jobert AND THOMPSON hit the ball hard in a massive loss in a game where fatigue got to the entire team, understanding that great players fail 2/3 of the time, understanding that winning requires day to day steps to execute a strategy.

You remind me of a sportswriter that only reads the stats and writes an article without watching the game.

You could see it from Cooper a mile away and the fact that Johnson coached his arse for all those years and Wes Johnson was trying to improve his arm slot to help him. IT WAS ABUNDANTLY clear WHY HE STRUGGLED EARLY but you knew when he was needed Johnson had more faith in Cooper than ANY OTHER PITCHER ON THAT STAFF - Floyd and Skenes included because he saw him do it multiple times in the tournament at a very high level at Arizona and in 2022. Did you even fricking pay attention to his arm slot during the CWS? I did.

Now go back to your internet stats moron.

At least be man enough to admit you were fricking dead arse wrong about Cooper and the fact that Milazzo took your lunch by out hitting SEVERAL of his teammates.
Happy 4th of July!

Your response says it all. No clue. Stick to something else besides this game. Try out basketball. At least your screen name suits dumbasses like you well. Daddy Dale and Johnny Jones did Lester and his mama a solid.

This guy is a Bozo, huh?

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Maui Ahuna makes me hungry every time I hear his name.

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Mahi Atuna

Not having a spot for Cooper, brings me back to Sam Highfill in '21 when the entire NC State team got jobbed. He beat Jack Leiter in a 1-0 game, then had to hit for the first time all year on a short handed team and went 3-4. Still didn't make the All Tournament Team.

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THERE WASN’T an improvement. That’s the point.

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As far as ERA for relief pitchers is a pretty useless stat to be frank especially if you look at a single game and leverage.

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You are the guy who hates stats because you don’t understand them

Same for the Tennessee SS

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You are the guy who hates stats because you don’t understand them

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I’m a stats junkie you moron. I LOVE STATS AND IT WAS BY FAR MY FAVORITE COURSE in college. And I hired, fired, and made a ton of critical business decisions that were both financially and from a safety perspective truly life changing had I not looked at every single detail. Performance is EVERYTHING.

It is SELECTIVE stats or broad brushing of stats without context that pisses me off from people like you.

Here is a stat you fricking idiot.

Why would Jay Johnson EXACTLY use him the same way in 2022 and 2023. I looked at his “stats and watched” how he used him and when for 2 fricking years. Do yourself a favor and NOT ONKY LOOK AT A BOX SCORE ONCE IN A WHILE.

If Johnson paid attention to only stats, he would not have been back on this team this past year based on his “overall stats like ERA”.

It is so hard teaching morons.