Ben Macdonald - Merit to Brewers cheating?

[Explosivo]

Ben Macdonald alluded to something being off with their at bats yesterday and now today…is there merit to what Ben was talking about today?

[survivedc]

2 minutes ago, Explosivo said:

Ben Macdonald alluded to something being off with their at bats yesterday and now today…is there merit to what Ben was talking about today?

I was most interested to see Hyde getting into it a bit. There was definitely something everyone was aware of. He wasn’t telling Adames to get his “back-a**” in the box

[Going Underground]

Seems  very petty and expect better from MacDonald. Imagine if  the Red Sox announcers said the Orioles were cheating with all their comebacks. Everyone cheats somewhat.

Edited April 13 by Going Underground

[Explosivo]

1 minute ago, Going Underground said:

Seems  very petty and expect better from McDonald. Imagine if  the Red Sox announcers said the Orioles were cheating with all their comebacks. Everyone cheats somewhat.

Agreed. It was an odd assertion.

[Orioles0615]

Yea we have crappy pitchers 

[Malike]

We'll see tomorrow. I don't think the guy going is known to be a crappy pitcher.

[baltfan]

Short of tapping into the pitchcom not sure how you would cheat at the plate. 

[dystopia]

I’m not saying there’s any truth to it, but I don’t think Ben would say that just because our pitchers were getting hammered. 

[Going Underground]

1 minute ago, dystopia said:

I’m not saying there’s any truth to it, but I don’t think Ben would say that just because our pitchers were getting hammered. 

Hopefully he has some type of proof because otherwise he comes off as a homer hack .

 

Was Noffolk cheating last week when they scored a ton of runs last week? Because this week they haven't scored over 4 runs in a game and are so far getting shutout on 1 hit tonight. Perhaps they were playing a team with a bad pitching staff and beanbox  ballpark and all the hitters were hot.

[baltfan]

24 minutes ago, dystopia said:

I’m not saying there’s any truth to it, but I don’t think Ben would say that just because our pitchers were getting hammered. 

I think he wasn’t thinking about the fact there is pitchcom now. 

[survivedc]

36 minutes ago, baltfan said:

I think he wasn’t thinking about the fact there is pitchcom now. 

You think he just forgot about pitchcom?

[rm5678]

3 hours ago, Explosivo said:

Ben Macdonald alluded to something being off with their at bats yesterday and now today…is there merit to what Ben was talking about today?

He was specifically referring to the Gary Sanchez homer on Friday night. He noticed that Sanchez was late on a fastball on the previous pitch, but then on the next pitch (high fastball) hit it as if he knew what was coming. I don't know if there's any merit to his statement, but it was interesting that he said that.

[baltfan]

30 minutes ago, survivedc said:

You think he just forgot about pitchcom?

Yes, I think he was thinking about stealing signs. 

[scottbbfm]

The hacks they were taking seemed reminiscent of some of the Blue Jays swings from about 10yrs ago.   When we threw down multiple signs without men on base……..

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, scottbbfm said:

The hacks they were taking seemed reminiscent of some of the Blue Jays swings from about 10yrs ago.   When we threw down multiple signs without men on base……..

In Toronto...