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Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

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Pretty much everyone but Davis and Pearce can be mocked for not taking walks. They'd rather swing at ball 4.

I'd agree but if I am a national writer I would think I have better things to do then mock an obviously in over his head 22 year old rookie.

But KLaw has never been one to ignore low hanging fruit.

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Pretty much everyone but Davis and Pearce can be mocked for not taking walks. They'd rather swing at ball 4.

I'd characterize it more as they don't have the ability to tell ball four from a strike. Nobody wants to swing at ball four. Well, almost nobody... I'm sure Vlad was fine with it because of that almost superhuman ability to drive a ball that was 24" out of the strike zone.

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I'd characterize it more as they don't have the ability to tell ball four from a strike. Nobody wants to swing at ball four. Well, almost nobody... I'm sure Vlad was fine with it because of that almost superhuman ability to drive a ball that was 24" out of the strike zone.

true, but in all fairness, if you were playing today and with the quality of the umpires behind the plate calling balls and strikes, what would you be doing?

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I'd agree but if I am a national writer I would think I have better things to do then mock an obviously in over his head 22 year old rookie.

But KLaw has never been one to ignore low hanging fruit.

Law knows his stuff, but I've always found him to be an arrogant piss ant. I'm trying to figure out how I could have put that more delicately.

Na, it's fine.

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Law knows his stuff, but I've always found him to be an arrogant piss ant. I'm trying to figure out how I could have put that more delicately.

Na, it's fine.

He is very talented. And a person I would not enjoy as a friend. It is easy to be dismissive in a game of pure failure.

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No wonder we disagree so often. A very arrogant man. I could never use the word love to describe him.

Law is very snarky. And isn't afraid to go out on a limb about things, and sometimes he is wrong about those things. So the combination of those two things is going to rub people the wrong way. But if you listen to Buster Olney's podcast, and each day he has a different talking head come on, but always the same group of talking heads. Law is really the only one you hear that seems to have an understanding of baseball, breaks it down in a very logical way where even if you disagree with him, there is something there to respond to, and you'd have to really know what you are talking about to respond. And he brings something to the table in terms of personality, even if it is like a nerdy, snarky, heel commentator. To me sports is just better when you have somebody that everybody hates. Law is like the Bobby the Brain Heenan of baseball (nerdy old school wrestling reference.)

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