Ya, Kaiser was in his own world when it came to arrogance and incompetence. I remember a game (in Texas?) where he blew a call at 1st base early in the game and then instantly tossed Eddie Murray because Eddie looked at him wrong. It was no surprise that after the mass resignations Kaiser was one of the few who wasn't allowed to return. Everybody in the game wanted him gone. Same with Rich Garcia and Eric Gregg.
I don't think the Yankees will destroy Orioles pitching this week. I think the Orioles are now in their heads and from the sixth inning on tonight the Yankees looked increasingly helpless, Soto's bomb excepted.
Soto doesn't really get a lot of pushback from pitchers for doing his thing. I don't really have a problem with it as long as he's mostly being good natured about it (though, how good-natured can grabbing your crotch after taking a pitch outside the zone possibly be?)
But I'd expect him to get plunked a lot more than he actually does. I wonder if players actually like him off the field, or if the fact that he's 6'3" 230 dissuades most people from trying to start stuff with him.
I'm kind of with Moose on this one. There's just something more appealing about knowing what you're watching is happening in real time, and that you can talk about it with other baseball/Orioles fans while it's happening.
I've done the recording option several times before, and the game just loses some of it's luster even if I don't know who won.
Minor counterpoint is that he somehow managed to throw 7 innings while throwing less than 100 pitches, despite giving up 4 walks. So he didn't seem to be really laboring even when he had moments where his command disappeared.
The double plays helped with that, to be fair.
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