2011 MLB Season Discussion: Joey Votto MVP Edition

[archibaldcrane]

NL gets HFA last two years out of the previous what? Twelve? And AL fans now up in arms

It's still terrible.

[Cephius]

Been saying it for years.

No strategy involved when you have a DH

Oh wow bunting every 9th hitter and occasionally replacing him with a guy off the bench, that's some serious strategy going on there. Just because you don't understand the double switch doesn't mean it's complicated!

[Headspace]

It's still terrible.

Wasn't arguing against that.

[Headspace]

Oh wow bunting every 9th hitter and occasionally replacing him with a guy off the bench, that's some serious strategy going on there. Just because you don't understand the double switch doesn't mean it's complicated!

Clearly

[pohibaba]

It's alot easier for an NL team to adjust to DH than vice versa imo.

Having your pitcher take at bats is just dumb, so many ways to get hurt. Whole league should just go DH.

Your opinion is wrong then. An AL pitcher is only going to be slightly worse than an NL pitcher at hitting, but pretty much every NL team is going to have no one who should be DHing. Usually it involves putting a pinch hitter in the starting lineup, and there's a reason they weren't in the starting lineup to begin with. Pretty much everyone in baseball will tell you that this is an advantage for the AL team.

[Cail]

oh you, man0warr

[Boyiee]

I haven't really been watching the WS, but late last night I heard a TV on in the other room with the game on. I was like, it's still on? So me and my sister watched from the 10th inning on. Then I saw today that Joe Buck's call was almost identical to his fathers in the 91' series, and I thought that was pretty cool.

[Moss]

It was so contrived and planned that it just made me angry.

Joe Buck is a scourge.

[Man0warr]

Your opinion is wrong then. An AL pitcher is only going to be slightly worse than an NL pitcher at hitting, but pretty much every NL team is going to have no one who should be DHing. Usually it involves putting a pinch hitter in the starting lineup, and there's a reason they weren't in the starting lineup to begin with. Pretty much everyone in baseball will tell you that this is an advantage for the AL team.

Cardinals lost nothing with a DH, ever heard of Allen Craig?

Plenty of NL teams have a good hitter on the bench.

[pohibaba]

Cardinals lost nothing with a DH, ever heard of Allen Craig?

Plenty of NL teams have a good hitter on the bench.

You're trying to prove your point by pointing out one instance? Please say you are so I can dick slap you with reality.

[Melena]

This is Manowar we are discussing here Pohibaba.

[archibaldcrane]

Is Manowarr the plow of the baseball thread, or vice-versa?

[Melena]

I haven't paid too much attention to plow, especially since i don't follow college FB so can't decide on that.

[Akiyama]

BASEBALL

[Moss]

about Carpenter on 3 days rest...

[Cephius]

David Freese. BASEBALL!

[Akiyama]

Rangers will regret not getting any runs in during the 2nd there

[Moss]

it might not matter. Carpenter looks terrible

[Shimbo]

They could intentionally walk young and he probably still swing at every pitch =[

[Tyche]

Something I thought was interesting. I live right in the middle of Cardinal Country. About 1/2 of my facebook feed is cardinal related. My local Fox station is airing a high school football game over the world series.