Adam Wainwright injures achilles, could be done for year

[ctcf]

Yeah, yeah, old guy in waiting over here. Why stop there? We should be able to DH for any crappy hitter in the lineup. After all, entertainment!

 

It's not that you're old, it's that your 10 minutes response was objectively stupid.

I think the DH is stupid. I think it's arcade [expletive]. So if my response to what I think is a stupid idea is stupid, so be it.

 

Your response isn't stupid because it's responding to another stupid thing. Your response is stupid because having pitchers practicing hitting a little bit more would not do anything and is an intrinsically stupid idea.

Thanks for explaining it to me Dad, I had no idea. Also, I don't know what sarcasm is and that was an earnest and very real effort.

 

I'm still laughing at "progress", as if this is the [expletive] Industrial Revolution and not a game.

 

With your posts in this thread it's kinda hard to tell the difference between sarcasm and just being stupid.

[Sammy Sofa]

I'm still laughing at "progress", as if this is the [expletive] Industrial Revolution and not a game.

 

This is a weird sentence.

 

Imagine if they did ridiculous things like changing how the ball is wound, or the height of the mound, or something REALLY outlandish like hitting home runs.

[Andy]

I will give it this, though, it would be classic St. Louis for this to be the tipping point that puts the DH in the NL. "A STL pitcher was hurt batting! This cannot stand!"

[Guest]

I hate the DH, but I understand why others want it in both leagues. I think it should be in both or none.

 

It fundamentally changes the game.

[Sammy Sofa]

It fundamentally changes the game.

 

Does it? People seem to talk about it like it's split down the middle, but most leagues either use it as the AL does or some version of it for a long, long time now. If anything, the NL is an outlier to how the game changed decades ago.

[imb]

They're gonna need to trade taveras for pitching now

[Guest]

I will give it this, though, it would be classic St. Louis for this to be the tipping point that puts the DH in the NL. "A STL pitcher was hurt batting! This cannot stand!"

 

yeahhh that's not gonna happen lol

[SouthSideRyan]

Here's hoping it isn't actually ruptured. He's a hell of a pitcher and if the Cubs manage to get the better of the Cards this year, I'd want them at their best.

 

This is stupid, I want the Cardinals at their worst.

[Sammy Sofa]

Here's hoping it isn't actually ruptured. He's a hell of a pitcher and if the Cubs manage to get the better of the Cards this year, I'd want them at their best.

 

This is stupid, I want the Cardinals at their worst.

 

It's like people who talk about the Cubs winning the WS dramatically in game 7. I'd much rather have a boring 4 game sweep.

[Rob]

They're gonna need to trade taveras for pitching now

 

I chuckled and then felt like a terrible person. Thanks.

[ConstableRabbit]

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[Sammy Sofa]

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[NonProfitCow]

Simple solution. Players have just gotta stop exercising!

 

These injuries are getting ridiculous. Molina's is the only "legit" injury; the others, including Wainwright's injury this spring, are clearly being caused by what Herzog called "too much exercise" - the guys are so tightly wound that they get hurt if they sneeze or make any sort of sudden move. It is significant that both Wainwright's injury in the spring and Grichuk's injury last week came when they were exercising.

[Guest]

Simple solution. Players have just gotta stop exercising!

 

These injuries are getting ridiculous. Molina's is the only "legit" injury; the others, including Wainwright's injury this spring, are clearly being caused by what Herzog called "too much exercise" - the guys are so tightly wound that they get hurt if they sneeze or make any sort of sudden move. It is significant that both Wainwright's injury in the spring and Grichuk's injury last week came when they were exercising.

 

I saw that lmao

[Sammy Sofa]

Just 10 minutes, guys. 10 minutes.

[XZero771679666304]

Simple solution. Players have just gotta stop exercising!

 

These injuries are getting ridiculous. Molina's is the only "legit" injury; the others, including Wainwright's injury this spring, are clearly being caused by what Herzog called "too much exercise" - the guys are so tightly wound that they get hurt if they sneeze or make any sort of sudden move. It is significant that both Wainwright's injury in the spring and Grichuk's injury last week came when they were exercising.

 

 

That's amazing.

[NonProfitCow]

Dude's a gold mine of ridiculously [expletive] stupid baseball posts and opinions, and he's 100% sincere about it. It's truly incredible.

[hawkeyecub]

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No, no, no. We need them to be as awesome as possible.

[Guest]

Andy, why don't you want the DH in the National League?

[Andy]

Andy, why don't you want the DH in the National League?

This probably better goes in the DH/NL thread, but mostly the same reasons other people don't (strategy, baseball is 9v9, not 9v9.5 or 9v10, not letting AL pitchers throw at batters with relative impunity because they don't have to hold the bat, etc). In general, I get tired of leagues changing rules to appeal to the masses (looking at you, NBA) rather than just playing the game.

 

I saw a graph the other day, intended to strengthen the case for the DH, that showed pitcher wRC+ has steadily declined since the DH was enacted. Gee, I wonder why that is.

 

As is the case with seemingly everything in sports (changing the PAT, allowing basketball teams to move the ball to half-court without taking up time as if they stepped through a time warp, JumboTrons), I am resigned to the fact that I am going to be outvoted.

[Guest]

Andy, why don't you want the DH in the National League?

This probably better goes in the DH/NL thread, but mostly the same reasons other people don't (strategy, baseball is 9v9, not 9v9.5 or 9v10, not letting AL pitchers throw at batters with relative impunity because they don't have to hold the bat, etc). In general, I get tired of leagues changing rules to appeal to the masses (looking at you, NBA) rather than just playing the game.

 

I saw a graph the other day, intended to strengthen the case for the DH, that showed pitcher wRC+ has steadily declined since the DH was enacted. Gee, I wonder why that is.

 

As is the case with seemingly everything in sports (changing the PAT, allowing basketball teams to move the ball to half-court without taking up time as if they stepped through a time warp, JumboTrons), I am resigned to the fact that I am going to be outvoted.

 

except baseball is 9.5v9.5 or whatever you want to call it in 50% of the major leagues and the majority of others

[Andy]

Andy, why don't you want the DH in the National League?

This probably better goes in the DH/NL thread, but mostly the same reasons other people don't (strategy, baseball is 9v9, not 9v9.5 or 9v10, not letting AL pitchers throw at batters with relative impunity because they don't have to hold the bat, etc). In general, I get tired of leagues changing rules to appeal to the masses (looking at you, NBA) rather than just playing the game.

 

I saw a graph the other day, intended to strengthen the case for the DH, that showed pitcher wRC+ has steadily declined since the DH was enacted. Gee, I wonder why that is.

 

As is the case with seemingly everything in sports (changing the PAT, allowing basketball teams to move the ball to half-court without taking up time as if they stepped through a time warp, JumboTrons), I am resigned to the fact that I am going to be outvoted.

 

except baseball is 9.5v9.5 or whatever you want to call it in 50% of the major leagues and the majority of others

And I don't like it there, either.

[Sammy Sofa]

Baseball isn't 9 vs. 9; even without the DH you have pinch hitters/fielders/runners and relief pitchers who only play certain parts of the game they enter. It's 25 vs. 25, and even then we're talking semantics since the team is filled with role players and specialists.

[Banedon]

I'm still laughing at "progress", as if this is the [expletive] Industrial Revolution and not a game.

 

All sports should progress. Basketball, hockey and football have all added rules, changed rules, adapted rules. Some for the better, some arguably for the worse, but they've all progressed.

 

Baseball is the slowest, and most reluctant to do so, but it too has progressed, and needs to continue to do so. The fact that it's a game doesn't mean that it shouldn't make positive change.

 

Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't make it the best way.

[Andy]

I'm still laughing at "progress", as if this is the [expletive] Industrial Revolution and not a game.

Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't make it the best way.

Obviously, but just because something is a change doesn't make it the best way either. One of the moves mentioned in the post I was referring to there was the lowering of the mound, which made sense because there were like two .300 hitters the year prior and offense was at crisis point. Not being sufficiently entertained by the 2 PA/game that pitchers take is hardly 'crisis point' to me.