Owen Good's discussions
Under the principle of “What’s really bothering me isn’t the thing I’m talking about,” what’s actually bothering me is I want to hear these mound visits and interactions. Like Tommy Lasorda and Doug Rau going at it as the jaunty organ music plays.
I think you may be mistaken or conflating memories (1989 was ... fuck a duck, almost 30 years ago?) Clark hit like Superman but he didn’t have a grand slam in that NLCS. What you may be remembering was Chicago’s Les Lancaster forgetting the count and grooving what he thought was a 3-1 pitch to Robby Thompson, who hit… Read more
Seriously, though, what the fuck are they actually talking about? Baseball is a series of set pieces; it’s not like the baserunners at second and first are gonna run backwards and confuse the defense or someone’s gonna come out of the batter’s box and hit a sacrifice fly. Also, what strategy is there, really, in… Read more
I think pace-of-play is an issue mainly because of start time, which would be the easiest solution of all (and, because a simple problem requires the most bureaucratic solution, why they have a rule about mound visits instead of a policy on when nationally broadcast games should begin). Read more
This is, overall, a good thing, especially if it cuts down on the number of instances where baseball players are talking through their gloves as if the opposing team actually has a lip-reader in the dugout deciphering, in real time, the super-secret unorthodox strategy to pitch around a dangerous batter and check the… Read more
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect a multimillion dollar sports enterprise, which the NCAA and its five largest conferences are, to take greater responsibility for their officiating. This is not women’s tennis or something whose results you have to spend time on the Internet to go find. It’s a sport pushed… Read more
If the NBA had a game with this kind of disparity in free throws, there would be some asses in the till. That’s mainly because the NBA employs its officiating as a staff, has training and accountability, not “areas of emphasis” and a “coordinator of officials” hiring psychiatrists, bank branch managers and tire… Read more
Yes. If a state- or administrative-level penalty is to have any meaning or deterrent effect, then the whole fucking state or institution sits its ass at home. Your argument is no different from the “these kids didn’t do anything wrong” shit that shills like Dick Vitale huck whenever one of his coaching friends gets in… Read more