Sports Radio thread

Either this is the worst Sports Radio Thread ever, or we are convinced Sports Radio sucks and would rather talk about dropping balls.

 

Listen asshole, I read the damn thread and I read the fucking reasons. He should have dropped the fucking ball. Don't tell me how to think.

Yes it has. I don't just make shit up like most of the clowns on here.

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Is this what Colin Cowherd has you thinking?

 

GO GET 'EM, HOSS!

 

We could talk about the commercials.

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In the 55 or so years that I've followed baseball, I've NEVER seen an intentional miss in a situation like that. NEVER. So, baseball has been doing it wrong just about my entire life. Go ahead, Doc, rewrite the baseball book.

 

Not for anything, but that Rockies coach didn't know that Syndergaard and Familia would be unhittable for three innings? Really? There may be valid reasons to take the out instead of the run, but not foreseeing that Syndergaard and Familia could be unhittable for three innings ain't one of them.

Hell, Mike Francesa said on Sports Radio (tying it back into the thread!) earlier that day that the Mets needed the game to go Harvey-Syndergaard-Familia and if anybody else pitches, they're going to lose.

 

Matt Holliday let a catchable foul ball go a long time ago ... just last year.
Was tied 3-3 in the 12th with one out and a runner on third.

 

There's some real innumeracy going on here. Of *course* you don't see intentionally dropped foul balls to prevent a runner from scoring all that often. The situation in which it is a good idea is exceedingly rare.

There were only 16 total sacrifice fly foulballs in in 183,628 plate appearances in 2015. 15 in 2014. 13 in 2013. A situation in which a foul ball scores a runner happens less often than once in 10,000 plate appearances.

So only 15 times a year that this could even possibly come up. Now how many of those are on 0-1/0-2/1-1/1-2 counts in tie games against a Cy Young candidate? I don't have foul ball data for postseasons, but I would not be the least bit surprised if this situation has *never* come up in a postseason game before. So that you haven't seen it before, well that's a big duh.

If we're going to play argument on an appeal to authority -- one of my most hated argumentative fallacies -- I wager I'd win that one too.

 

12th inning, a game-losing situation: drop it. 4th inning, game-tying situation: catch it.

 

How deep an analysis.

 

ChrisLong said: ↑
12th inning, a game-losing situation: drop it. 4th inning, game-tying situation: catch it.

DSzymborski,
How deep an analysis.

Well, some of these things need simple explanations for people who just don't get it.