Which, at approximately 6 months per season is 900 months, this current month will be the FIRST EVER that ends with more strikeouts than hits. And that’s certainly not because there’s great pitching. Think about that...This is how bad this game has become, littered with sub .200 hitters on every roster swinging for the fences. And yet, you people continue to throw your cash away on these, at best, Single-A players. 
Whether it is E-volution or De-volution is up to the individual. To many of us old timers the game is not nearly as tough or dramatic as in another age. To most of today’s (and tomorrows) fans, those of the 30 second attention span that want instant gratification, it is a better game. Amen. So be it. There will never be an argument that convinces either side to change its mindset.
It is however a crying shame that today’s ADHD fans will someday claim today’s players are much better than in the past, because of all the offensive records that will fall in this era. Nothing could be further from the truth. The offensive game has been built for and around the fans, not the players.
It is no longer a war between the pitcher and hitter because ownership does not want a Judge or Stanton threatened with injury. So, you have 10 lbs. of protective gear and no throwing inside. No brushing the hitter off the plate. God doom you to Hades if you don’t give the hitter every possible chance to crush the jackrabbit ball they are now using.
The four greatest players of my youth; Mickey, Willie, Stan and Ted would be unreal in today’s game. If you need the last names of those guys you are lacking in historical knowledge of the game and really have no business judging anything.
I wonder if Barry Baby now regrets the ‘roids that made his gonads disappear and excluded him from the HOF; now that he knows his records will also disappear, probably in his life time. Yeah, the owners figured it all out for you ADHD types; since they can’t juice the players anymore just juice up the ball!
Anyway, it is an argument without solution, LogCottage, and you may as well give it up.
Analytics is playing a bigger role than ever in the sport, and the analytics say that the higher on base percentage coupled with the higher slugging (that comes from hitting more homeruns even at the expense of strikeouts) is a superior method of scoring runs - which after all is the ultimate goal.
Just a one of several examples of a situation you'd rather have someone swinging for a double or homerun even if it comes with a higher probability of striking out: You have a below average speed runner on first and one out, and then you have a guy with decent power at the plate with another guy with pop on deck. You're trailing by one late in the 8th inning. Hitter is in a 2-1 count. Do you want him to try to swing for contact or hit the ball hard with some trajectory? How many times in the old days, hitting for contact would have resulted in an inning ending double play. Even if this guy strikes out, you have one more opportunity to take the lead or tie with the next guy up.
You attack hitter's counts, you try to hit the pitch you like hard with authority, if you don't get pitches you like you try to get on base. That to me is smart baseball.
So runs aren't down. Home runs are up but so are strike outs. And you chalk it up to all of a sudden, "after 149 years" players are just bad? And i'm the idiot? Do you even really watch and handicap baseball? Or are you some old fart that chalks up everything to "good/bad"? Are there more home runs because these "bad" players have gotten just gotten stronger? What, did you just read some stat about strike outs being at a record pace and all of a sudden your an analyst?
You sound like an old codger. With all this insight and analysis offered to you, you're sticking with, "Nope, the players are just bad and that's it and that's all." "Back in my day Ty Cobb batted for the cycle TWICE in one game! And he went in the stands and sold peanuts during the 7th inning stretch. Now THAT was a ball player."
I'm the idiot because i'm talking about swing trajectories but you've got it all figured out. Players are just all of a sudden bad and home runs are up because they get to use golf balls now.
Boohoo you lost a couple dollars gambling on a game you clearly know nothing about. Honestly, I'm pissed I wasted my time reading and commenting on this useless thread. The context in which you type makes me want to punch something...preferably that cock warmer you call a mouth.
Established in 1995,
Hot Forum Topics
