re: What's your take on the current homerun situation in the MLB?

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Ok boomer

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Ok, Chris Berman.

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I bet you fricking hate lebron and kaepernick

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Hate them? No. Hate their idiotic politics? Yes.


I bet that has nothing to do with baseball, though.

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How did I know this

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Same reason I knew you loved those two. When someone takes the time to write out a reasoned argument for something, people know that person is most likely a conservative. When someone answers with emoji's, abbreviations, and hysterical name calling, everyone knows it's a liberal. Doesn't matter what the topic is. A person's mindset is made obvious through their ability to reason, or not.

Liberals just think that speaking like children is reasonable.

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Lol

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And there it is, again.


Have a nice day.

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I've never seen such a biased and myopic view of political differences. There are reasoned, smart people and idiots on both sides. And it sounds like you spend way too much time online.

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I'm not talking about two "sides", as in republican versus democrat. I'm talking about liberals vs conservatives. Yes, there are plenty of so-called republicans who don't know what they're talking about, because, like a lot of people in this generation, they don't bother to educate themselves.

But a true conservative always has the ability to reason. Liberals don't. Who are the people out rioting over criminals being shot after resisting arrest? Liberals. Who are the people blaming a virus on the President? Liberals. Who are the people who ignore statistics showing that COVID is as, or less deadly than the flu, and want to keep the country shut down? Liberals. Who are the people calling EVERYTHING racist, if it doesn't align with their world view? Liberals.

They never have a cogent explanation. It's just "rah! rah!... you're a racist, you want people to die, rah! rah!".

A conservative can show you the stats on corona virus, police "brutality", economic growth, regression, or whatever the topic may be.

That's not bias. That's simple observation.

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Lol

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now I see why you just lol.

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Because, once again, you can't control the flight path

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I’m too tired to spank your hiney too much tonight, but I may revisit this in the morrow. However, I felt like ai needed to address a few of your wrong points. And btw, I’m about 10 years older than you and am certainly not of the mind that analytics are everything. But I understand math and probabilities. And baseball too, quite frankly.

So to your point I quoted—yes, you absolutely can control the flight path of the ball (over time). But it’s not something you just decide on deck and try to “think it” into happening in the box. You drill the shite out of it years in advance off the tee, then soft toss, and all the other drills hitters these days go through. They are not altering their swings mid game, that simply IS THEIR SWING. Because that’s how they’ve developed it over hundreds of thousands of cuts over several years.

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So what makes an offense good? Launch angle, or good hitters?

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Good hitters with good launch angles and a good grasp of the strike zone who know a walk is as good as a hit make good offenses.

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Someone showed earlier that the scoring this year was on par with the 1993 season. So if this is some kind of revolutionary philosophy, why is that?

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It’s because pitching philosophy has changed as well. You don’t have guys now who go out and pitch 9 innings, having to gut out the last couple. You don’t even have them go out and throw 8 and bring in a closer throwing 95 with maybe a good 2nd out pitch. Have you been watching MLB lately? Every team can run out 5-6 guys from the pen throwing it up there at 98/99. It’s absurd.

You don’t get to face a starter 4 times through the lineup whose stuff is dulled and is just getting outs with big balls and being crafty. As soon as his stuff show signs of slowing down, they just bring in a guy in the 5th throwing 97. And they keep running the same guy with a different name for the rest of the game. It’s retarded how many guys throw that much gas on just about EVERY TEAM.

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I think hitters today have a significant advantage over guys 30 years ago,

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Against these dudes throwing that hard?

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they have so much information they can use to understand what the pitcher on the mound is going to try to do.

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Yes, they do have a ton more information. And a bunch of analytical, mathematical dudes have plugged all that information into some very intricate algorithms with incredibly predictable outcomes. And guess what? They’ve broken the data down and deduced the 3 outcome philosophy is the best way to win.

You’re not totally wrong, though. Sure, if you play 162 games, the outcomes will eventually work themselves out to the mean. So you can’t really worry too much about individual games, just trust the process will eventually move to the mean with the huge sample size.

The playoffs, though, are a little different. Individual games DO matter—there’s not enough games in a series to just wait for it all to find its way back to the mean. Down by 1 in the 8th or 9th against better pitchers with more pressure each at-bat, and you do need to be able to get guys on, over, and in.

Even though those moments happen much less often in the much longer regular season, the best teams will be able to play long ball most of the the time, yet still have the ability to play small ball when the few times it’s necessary present themselves.

As a Reds fan, the only home run situation Im presently aware of is WE DIDNT HIT A SINGLE frickING ONE v Atlanta

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Someone showed earlier that the scoring this year was on par with the 1993 season. So if this is some kind of revolutionary philosophy, why is that?

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Because the pitching side is much further along in the technology/analytics arms race.