Monday’s opener of this week’s Jays-Yankees series wasn’t an especially fun one if you’re a Jays fan, but — hoo boy! — it generated some talking points. Fragile Yankees fans, fragile Jays fans, Boss Baby vibes. This one had it all! Funnily enough, the game took place on the seventh anniversary of Rougned Odor’s infamous punch of José Bautista — the “mighty” wallop that phased Joey Bats for about 1/8th of a second, and that is still celebrated by the Rangers and Rangers fans alike, who both always seem to omit the fact that the whole thing started because their chickenshit team waited until José’s last at-bat of the last scheduled game between the two teams that season to retaliate for the events of the previous October (in which Bautista had taken advantage of the Rangers utterly humiliating themselves out of the playoffs, and apparently enjoyed the moment too much for their liking), by intentionally hitting him with a pitch.
Anyone else not getting email notifications about these posts anymore? Anyway - nice summation of this. Unless they are using technology I can’t see where there’s a problem If a pitcher is tipping his pitches, good on the other team for figuring it out.
Suggestion for you and Nick - it’s beyond my stats skills, but I can’t help thinking that the balanced schedule, which I thought was a blessing, may be making it even more important that we win series against AL East teams. I know that’s always been the case, but is there something to this?
I guess we should talk about Judge and Manoah...
Classic stuff, Stoets
“I guess it takes a bigger man than that to knock me down”
Anyone else not getting email notifications about these posts anymore? Anyway - nice summation of this. Unless they are using technology I can’t see where there’s a problem If a pitcher is tipping his pitches, good on the other team for figuring it out.
Suggestion for you and Nick - it’s beyond my stats skills, but I can’t help thinking that the balanced schedule, which I thought was a blessing, may be making it even more important that we win series against AL East teams. I know that’s always been the case, but is there something to this?