Padres-Cubs Wild Card Game One Thread, By The Numbers

[PeanutPunch33]

4 hours ago, Brian707 said:

Dude, you posted about 20 times when they were down 1-0 all negativity.  Between this and your bunting comments just admit you are a meatball 

I am a meatball 

[PeanutPunch33]

5 hours ago, Brian707 said:

Just because it was done for 100 years doesn't mean its the best move.

It can be useful in some situations though, I agree the game has evolved a bit but it's weird to me that a guy with 8 years of big league experience has never tried to lay down a bunt a single time in his life.  Even role players these days think they are Barry Bonds 

[Rcal10]

Just now, PeanutPunch33 said:

It can be useful in some situations though, I agree the game has evolved a bit but it's weird to me that a guy with 8 years of big league experience has never tried to lay down a bunt a single time in his life.  Even role players these days think they are Barry Bonds 

You really don’t know if he tried to bunt and couldn’t get it down. Or if he failed and they got a force out. I also have no idea why you attribute a guy not bunting to thinking he is above it. The manager makes the decision, not the player. If Counsell or any manager before him wanted Happ to bunt he would have tried. To me, that is the most ridiculous point of this discussion. We can agree to disagree on the use of the bunt. What I cannot get past is this silly idea of a player being arrogant, selfish and not a team player if he doesn’t bunt. To bunt or not is a manager decision, period. 

[I owned a Suzuki]

5 minutes ago, PeanutPunch33 said:

It can be useful in some situations though, I agree the game has evolved a bit but it's weird to me that a guy with 8 years of big league experience has never tried to lay down a bunt a single time in his life.  Even role players these days think they are Barry Bonds 

Why do you assume what Happ thinks or feels? Did he ignore a bunt sign? 

[Andy]

I don't know the stats on Happ's bunting but I'm almost certain I recall him trying to do so once (probably in an extra-inning fake baseball situation) and it going spectacularly poorly. Good hitters aren't practicing bunting all that much because a good hitter bunting is almost exclusively a stupid idea.

[We Got The Whole 9]

Who the horsefeathers wants a guy who's played 8 years without bunting to try to do one in a playoff game anyway? You're all alone on this one. The reason he doesn't bunt is because the organization realizes how idiotic it almost always is. From Maddon to Ross to Counsell, they dont want Ian Happ to try to bunt man.

[Brian707]

14 minutes ago, We Got The Whole 9 said:

Who the horsefeathers wants a guy who's played 8 years without bunting to try to do one in a playoff game anyway? You're all alone on this one. The reason he doesn't bunt is because the organization realizes how idiotic it almost always is. From Maddon to Ross to Counsell, they dont want Ian Happ to try to bunt man.

And If Happ hit that scorcher 4 feet to the left, it would have been a double. The Buntingstan wouldn't have made a peep