Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
102 days until pitchers and catchers report.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/11/offseason-outlook-detroit-tigers-10.html @kellaThe Tigers found their low point in 2019 … or so they hope.
102 days until pitchers and catchers report.
It's only important when it's 69 days until pitchers and catchers report.
You don’t have to wait 102 days to be bored to death. Just puruse nutopia noon eastern time and you can get a daily fix of nothing going on.
When do we get our next Mom Aunt update?
The Mets are going to hire Carlos Beltran as manager. That seems like a Mets thing to do, hire a guy with zero coaching experience. We'll have to see how this works out.
This seems like the new thing to do because of Aaron Boone I guess?The Mets are going to hire Carlos Beltran as manager. That seems like a Mets thing to do, hire a guy with zero coaching experience. We'll have to see how this works out.
This seems like the new thing to do because of Aaron Boone I guess?
The Mets are going to hire Carlos Beltran as manager. That seems like a Mets thing to do, hire a guy with zero coaching experience. We'll have to see how this works out.
Kind of an odd thing to do....sure, lets hire a coach that has no experience because one of the most talented teams with the largest payrolls hired a guy and its "kinda" worked out for them.
Kind of an odd thing to do....sure, lets hire a coach that has no experience because one of the most talented teams with the largest payrolls hired a guy and its "kinda" worked out for them.
I know a few people who went that are good people but I imagine it was a typical DC crowd for the most part.Woof... dealt with the dregs of the VORTEX Self Important Society today. What is it about crowds that encourages people to lose all civility?
This reminds me a bit of when Salt Lake won the 2002 Winter Olympics but got caught bribing the Olympic voters. Everyone was doing it. The Salt Lake people were better than everyone else at it and won the 2002 Games. Then they got caught and were treated like the only ones doing it.
Maybe the Astros should have tried NOT banging on garbage cans. It seems too easy to look back and confirm if it ever comes to light. Like when the Wet Bandits got caught and they were able to pin all those burglaries on them because they let the sinks overflow in every house they went to.
They had a guy kicked out at Fenway last year during the ALCSI never said that it was OK. I said it reminded me of the 2002 Olympic situation and that if they were going to do it they shouldn't have been so obvious and trackable. That's all I said.
And I agree that the use of cameras is where the problem really lies. If they found that they were banging garbage cans (that's what she said) without cameras, I don't know the MLB can do anything about it. Also, the guy who came forward said it was in the regular season. I'm not reading every article on this, but has there been any indication that it happened in the post season? Just curious.
There were some layers to the Nats’ plan for Houston. First, each pitcher had to have his own set of signs, and catchers Yan Gomes and Kurt Suzuki had to be familiar with each one. So the staff printed out cards with the codes and had them laminated. The catchers could have them in their wristbands, a la an NFL quarterback with play calls strapped to his forearm, and the pitchers would have them in their caps. Each pitcher had five sets of signs, and they could change them from game to game — or even batter to batter, if necessary. Using the set labeled No. 2, but worried the Astros were catching on? The pitcher could signal to the catcher to move to set No. 3.
The Nationals also decided that they would use multiple signs regardless of whether there was a runner on second base or not. No one on? Runner on first? Let’s make sure the catcher runs through a series of signs anyway, just in case.
“It was our best way to counteract anything that might have been going on,” Menhart said.
“We just had our guard up,” Doolittle said.
Next came the way the Nats employed their signs, which was nontraditional. Rather than just use, say, the second sign the catcher put down, the Nats might “chase the two.” That meant the pitcher would watch for the catcher to put two fingers down, and then throw the pitch that corresponded to the following sign. Or they could play “outs plus one.” So if there was one out, the pitch would be the second sign the catcher put down. If there were no outs, it would be the first sign. “Strikes plus one” worked the same way.