[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]therajraj wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
In other news, the Giants are the best team in the NL, hands down. Best staff 1-12, underrated lineup and young studs in Bumgarner, Posey and possibly Sandoval and Belt. I like it. But I’m still pulling for a Phillies/Giants rematch in the NLCS. Every game will be 1-0, with the Giants taking it in 6 again due to their superior ability to manufacture runs.[/quote]
1-0 games???
Pitching duels are great and all… but come on you gotta like seeing SOME runs on the board. Not 9-8 but a 4-3 or 3-2 games are always the best.[/quote]
The 1-0 nailbiter does it for me in postseason baseball. Why? Because when the game gets into the late innings and it’s 0-0 or 1-0, you KNOW that runs are at a premium and 1 run being scored probably isn’t going to be answered by a five-spot. So the margin for error is reduced to practically nothing in games like those. Plus, in general a 1-0 game seems to be much more cleanly-played. I was a D1 pitcher and I’ve coached a lot in the past as well, so for me I like to see good, clean baseball played fundamentally well and good pitching. Besides, pitchers’ duels move along much quicker and have a nicer pace to them. I can’t tell you how inferior a brand of baseball it is when you’re watching the Red Sox and the Yankees and it’s 5-4 in the fifth inning, you’ve seen three pitching changes already, the game’s well into its second hour and you can’t even remember actually seeing anyone swing the bat since all they do in the AL is sit there and wait for the perfect pitch every fucking time. That’s why Cliff Lee dominates the Yankees everytime: they get up there keyholing the motherfucker to a specific location early in the count and before they blink it’s 0-2 and they’re whole approach is fucked.
Naw, I’ll take watching the Defending World Series Champions play clean, cerebral baseball and leave the braindead bashfest for the casual fans and the chicks.[/quote]
Then I guess you must’ve hated the Bonds years. All those home runs must’ve hurt your head.
I agree Yankee-Red Sox game lengths have gotten out of hand but to call it inferior brand of baseball is retarded. The Yankees and Red Sox matchups have produced some of the most entertaining baseball in history. And that’s not just what “casual fans” think.
You’re just bias because A) you’re a pitcher and B) the Giants don’t score many runs but pitch and play D very well.[/quote]
Yankees, Red Sox and entertaining baseball don’t belong in the same sentence, unless you count all the side show bullshit as baseball, like Pedro/Zimmer and that sort of thing. They may play winning baseball, but it’s an inferior form of winning baseball. And that is what true-blue baseball fans feel. It’s not bias, it’s a well-formulated opinion. Besides, I know tons of hardcore fans and they all the say the same thing: they are sick and tired of watching the Red Sox and Yankees blow each other’s brains out in games that take four hours to finish and feature roughly 12 pitching changes per game, with little in-game strategy other than deciding when to yank the pitcher. But it’s Opening Day and I don’t want to beleaguer the point anymore.
