All these pitchers are dropping like flies, guys!

[Hy Feiber]

It’s an epidemic, the season just started.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/04/ ... eness.html

How did Randy Johnson, all 6-10 of him, with that windup and delivery, go 20 years with nary an arm problem?

At this rate, more teams will have to rush their AA and AAA guys into the starting rotation, but their arms are hurting too.

[D-train]

Love it. More offense. There is always some collateral damage with any good development.

[Hy Feiber]

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/ ... -the-elbow

Ulnar collateral damage, you’re Right!

[Donn Beach]

Passan on the topic, guess the pitch clock is an issue

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/399 ... eury-perez

[D-train]

Passan on the topic, guess the pitch clock is an issue

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/399 ... eury-perez

Ball players thinking they are scientists is always a good laugh. How DARE YOU!

[Hy Feiber]

The pitch clock rule was dumb.

So the pitcher has to keep counting to what, 15, in his head?

The baseball fathers are like leftists, obsessed with micro-managing everything.

God forbid the game lasts another 10-15 minutes?

[Sports Hernia]

One can argue that it’s very rightest and fascist to take “the pitchers right” to lollygag through a 45 second routine before every pitch. Example the guy in Cleveland that had to touch his hair then juggle the rosin bag for 10 more seconds, then kick at the rubber for another 10 seconds.

I like the pitch clock even though I think it’s a bit extreme. I not a fan of Manfred but it was needed because these idiot pitchers and their useless routines were making it unbearable to watch.

[GL_Storm]

Passan on the topic, guess the pitch clock is an issue

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/399 ... eury-perez

That wasn't really the point of the article. Passan actually knows what he's talking about here. He wrote a book called "The Arm" a few years ago that documents the whole system of overuse that's been built around youth baseball.

[Hy Feiber]

One can argue that it’s very rightest and fascist to take “the pitchers right” to lollygag through a 45 second routine before every pitch. Example the guy in Cleveland that had to touch his hair then juggle the rosin bag for 10 more seconds, then kick at the rubber for another 10 seconds.

I like the pitch clock even though I think it’s a bit extreme. I not a fan of Manfred but it was needed because these idiot pitchers and their useless routines were making it unbearable to watch.

Ok ok, somehow all of us 1950s geezers actually endured sitting through 9 innings of old fashioned baseball, sometimes even doubleheaders, on a clear sunny 4th of July?

And how bout those 15 inning games?

With no micromanaging.

Awful.

[Hy Feiber]

The big difference between being a fan back then and being one now, is short attention span, fostered by high-speed Internet.

Another difference is that before the advent of free agency, we knew that our players were committed to our city, so there was this mutual kinship, regardless of whether or not they won or lost.

They were Our Guys, truly.

So the time we spent at the ballpark was all just pure fun.

Unlike today, we were never in a hurry to go home, on the contrary, after nine innings, in a tie game, we were excited for it to go on as long as it had to.