Moose Milligan

I like being a killjoy from time to time. CoC is just a miserable misanthrope. Big difference.

Like this place isn’t geeky to begin with? C’mon. You’re our resident minor league geek who has fits of rage. Settle down, junior.

Use your head. It's the same ball against the same kind of bats, usually made out of maple, maybe hickory. If ballplayers are swinging at the same speed, it's going to make the same sound. The variables here are the ballparks, specifically how many people are in the ballpark. Human beings packed close together absorb sound. That's why Gunnar's homer sounded so loud last night, it ricocheted off the seats in Fenway. That's why spring training homers sound so loud, those little stadiums are rarely full and the sound bounces off the seats which are metal and/or plastic. The other variable is the microphone placement for the TV crews and where they're located. No one here heard Gunnar's shot last night with their own ears unless you were at the stadium, you heard it through a TV microphone somewhere in Fenway and out through your TV speakers. The closer that microphone is to the batter's box, the louder it'll be. I'm sure a guy like Henderson sounds different than Phillips on average because he's bigger and stronger, but no one can tell me that a 110 EV from Stanton and a 110 EV from Phillips hit with the same type of bat on a pitch at the same velocity sounds drastically different. That's why Buck O'Neil said what he said about Bo Jackson. He heard Bo hitting in batting practice, in an empty Royals stadium, the sound rifling off empty seats. I'm gonna do a @DrungoHazewoodand be a baseball romantic killjoy, but do we trust a man in his 70s and his memory of what Babe Ruth's bat and Josh Gibson's bat sounded like 50 or 60 years prior? No. But it makes a great story, it gets people right in their feelers. Babe Ruth. Josh Gibson. Bo Jackson. Wow. But I'm sure if Phil Rizzuto really got a hold of one at one point, it'd sound similar.

Too bad there’s not an eye roll rep. TEH SOWND OFF TEH BAT!!! Yeah, the sound ricocheting off empty plastic seats in a cramped park like Fenway will sound like that. C’mon, don’t fall for the whole romanticized Buck O’Neil Babe Ruth, Josh Gibson, Bo Jackson thing. OMG GUNNARS right there with them!

No. Great guy, meant a lot to the franchise, meant a lot to his teammates but the answer is no.

Yep. By a good bit, too. Davis' lowest OPS+ was 49.

Higher batting average, OBP at home. Lower slugging percentage by .012 points. .751 OPS at home, .699 away.

Weird.

Let the teabagging continue!!

Live lookin at Frobby realizing that Matchick was an Oriole for 5 minutes:

Someone bookmark this thread for when RZNJ gets uppity next year about how they need Gunnar at 3rd and someone else at SS.

You know as well as I do that Orioles twitter is by and large, a complete dumpster fire. Uneducated fans who don't know much.

Well, fair enough on your part. The other 29 owners would be stupid not to.

No, it wasn’t sarcasm, what would ever give you that idea? And no, they’d be stupid to shut down his bid before he submitted it for the reasons I stated. Rising tide lifts all boats. MLB instantly becomes more valuable if he owns a team. Considering you’re one of the guys on here who’s always arguing “the way we’ve always done it is a poor excuse,” and rails against antiquated thinking, being against Bezos and falling back on “the country club set” falls in line with what you’re typically against. Bezos isn’t Cuban, that’s a pretty poor comparison. Hell, Cuban isn’t even Cuban anymore, he’s mellowed considerably over the years. People have issues with Amazon, sure. People hate billionaires, fine. IMO, it’s jealousy. Don’t get it twisted, I’m not a huge Bezos fan in general but Amazon does make weekly deliveries to my house and I watch Prime a good bit. If anyone can point to good reasons why he WOULDN’T be a good owner other than the ideas of “he’s slimy” or “I hate Amazon” or “I hate greedy billionaires” or “he’s a jerk” or something else that’s unoriginal and based on feelings, I’d love to hear it.

I'm not taking it back.

I'm over DL Hall.

Wow, called him out! **** off, Bregman!

Ugh I think he was safe.

He couldn't command anything last night. Again, I'd rather have him miss somewhere with 100 MPH to someone who's swings are screaming I CAN'T HANDLE THIS VELOCITY rather than run the risk of hanging a splitter and giving Tucker the chance to hit something at a velocity that anyone in the MLB can handle. Fine, if you want to make him chase, throw a shoulder high fastball. Throw one in the dirt. Set up outside so if he misses the corner of the plate, hopefully it runs outside. I understand the concept of not having to have it in the zone when Tucker's behind in the count but the battle is 75% won when you realize Tucker can't catch up and another fastball, even if it misses the target, stands a better chance of putting him away or inducing weak contact rather than something at 89 MPH. I'll take 100, 101 all day every day, ANYWHERE, especially when the rest of his stuff isn't sharp. That's the thing, 100, 101 doesn't have to be sharp or precisely located to be effective. That splitter had to be precise on a night where precision wasn't there for Bautista.

I agree, bury one in the dirt. I don't think he necessarily hung it, but it wasn't a sharp splitter. IIRC, it was too high up in the zone and rather flat. But yeah, @Sports Guygets it, Palmer gets it, and as much as I love Palmer I want to vomit every time I hear him say "...speeds the bat head up." ...I mean, Tucker wasn't handling the fastball at all. The whole situation screamed that he couldn't get around on it or even make solid contact. So why would you give him something 11 mph slower? Make him beat your best stuff, the stuff he's showing that he can't handle it. Bautista didn't have great command of practically anything last night, so if he's going to miss with something it should have it to be 100 mph gas somewhere near the zone rather than a flat-ish splitter that doesn't bite hard. You bring up good points that they did the same thing on Vazquez and Alvarez, however Alvarez is a top 10 hitter in the game. He's probably 3rd in the MVP voting in a race where the two other guys are putting up historic, unbelievable seasons. Tucker, while a good hitter, isn't in the same class as Alvarez. Hyde brought short relievers in the middle of the game when he should have had Tate go for 2, maybe 3 if he's efficient to bridge to the back of the bullpen.

Yeah, let's not have the richest man in the world purchase one of our teams which would single handedly increase every team's value as well as all of MLB's value. I'm sure they'd be vehemently opposed.

That’s where I’m at. And not to open up a whole OH can of worms but it made me wonder if he got that pitch selection from the dugout because I’ve been trained to believe that Adley’s baseball IQ is off the charts. And that wasn’t a smart call. A fastball up and in the zone gets the job done.

Gotta wonder if he’d consider coming back next year at this point, especially with the NL adopting the DH. He probably doesn’t but it’s gotta be hard to walk away when there’s still something left in the tank.

I don't give a Frenchman's **** if the owner is from Baltimore. He could be a Russian oligarch for all I care. Maybe that's getting a little too carried away, I'm sure the Ivans don't care about baseball. I don't know if Bezos does but I'd be all for someone who could find the payroll luxury tax in his sofa cushions. Not that Bezos though, he looks like a twerp there, hold on... There. That Bezos. Who says no?

Akin, yes, Hall, no. I don't trust him enough right now. I think Hall, at the moment, is a mop up guy. I can see the blame for Hyde but I think it's a bit over the top. I also think it's natural for an autopsy after a game like that and it's also natural for people want to look for one person to blame. IMO, it's not all on Hyde. Hays missing that cutoff man was terrible. Now, we'll never know if Mateo would have nailed Alvarez at the plate but I liked his chances. Mateo has a great arm and Alvarez isn't a burner. Even if the throw was a bit off target, I think there'd have been plenty of time for Rutschman to recover and make a tag. Bautista going to the split that wasn't working for practically his entire appearance when he had two strikes on Tucker was unforgivable. I'm not sure who called that pitch but it was a terrible idea, Tucker was having trouble handling 100 mph heat, a well placed fastball at 100 or 101 gets him swinging. Like I said, there's a lot of blame to go around. I don't think Hyde should have pulled Baumann at that particular instant and I don't know why he went to short relievers first. That said, there were some guys that didn't execute on things they've been executing on all year. It sucks, but it happens.