Mudville Crew Contact Us. H ey baseball,you reap what you sow. Eleven teams could not even muster one complete game in Try taking a look in the mirror. Mix all this together and you also have the lowest-rated World Series; but, more importantly than the not watching, is the not caring. The pure entertainment value of the game has been tossed into the big dumpster that is marked Manfred.
When the bar is lowered and a win team is knocked out by a wild card entry, the win team and their fans whine that playoff life is unfair. Play better. Spend the money like the Rangers did to rebuild their team to add starting pitching, and then add more starting pitching when the first set of starting pitchers, such as Jacob deGrom, come up injured.
Stop using trickery as a means to find success and get back to solid work, solid coaching, solid base-running techniques, and practice, practice, and more practice. But you must practice with people in charge who know that practice is important β and how to practice. Once upon a time, it used to be important to develop a No. Folks, this is the way they do business now β and one of my astute baseball friends who works in the game made this fantastic point about the Tuesday night pitching travesty in the desert.
Why be surprised that it happened on the last day in October when it happens all season long? Plus the Rangers have seen so much of the D-Backs relievers who appeared Tuesday night there was no mystery to the move.
On every level this was wrong. The answer is simple. The Nerds will not let them. Heaney and Jon Gray have come up big this postseason β and, of course, Jordan Montgomery.
