Goddamn it, I hate how right you are
Goddamn it, I hate how right you are
I am pretty much in love how your slow breakdown in civility to responses in trying to repeatedly defend/restate your point is analogous to your problem with Bomani's delivery in the first place.
I'm now a LeBron fan.
Putting on a performance in front of a live audience while executing complex routines the require years of physical and mental training, all the while knowing there is a 100 percent chance you will have to deal with severe pain while performing. Yeah, definitely not a sport.
While Deadspin's fixation on pro wrestling (not a sport) irks the shit out of me, I do have to say that Stone Cold knocked that shit out of the park. Bravo, sir.
Those last 14 paragraphs really snuck up on me.
"I apologize for using poor judgment in my last tweet. It was insensitive. But...talk about branding...GODDAMN!! Somewhere there's a rancher lookin for this one!"
Fair play says this kid deserves a bit of run for being a nice, funny, and composed individual who is scrutinized like a professional at the the age of 18. He seems like the kind of guy we should root for.
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Of course the highlighted reply is the one who agrees with the writer, and not the 10 other comments with more recommendations by people with common sense who know he was simply making an observation about the type of delivery that is commonly referred to as deceptive because the batter cannot see the ball or the…
Also Hawk didn't say "Asians" or "deceptive" so you shouldn't quote those to him. Even non-journalists know attributing false quotes is really bad. Christ, this article annoys me more every time I read it.
so we're just going to pretend that there aren't prominent Asian pitchers (Nomo, Dice K, darvish, okajima, fukadome, uerhara, wang ect) all don't share that a variation on that motion where they hide the ball as long as possible with that odd look away from the plate? Which seems to be a pretty good technique and is…
Right, this is stupid. Asian pitchers typically have pauses and other weird-ass shit happening with their deliveries, which we all know, and I'm sure is all he meant.
You're reaching here. The majority of Asian pitchers that come over have different motions than North American pitchers. What he said was not incorrect.
Asian pitchers are a little notorious for having very unorthodox deliveries and mechanics. Which can be deceptive. Hawk has never been racist before, and he's been in the booth a loooooong time. I know he's loathed because he's a homer, but he does deserve the benefit of the doubt here.
Just watched it again and he's calling the motion deceptive, not Asians. C'mon, you guys are better than this.
Ambiguous and racist don't really go together. I will agree he put the words too close together but I heard it more as"he used a technique that is widely used in Asia. This type of pitch is known for being deceptive". What's racist about that?
Let's be honest about a degree in communications not being a real degree, though.
Did you guys know Richard Sherman went to Stanford and did well on his SATs?
Since we are going to use one at bat to prove that an argument is definitively correct, I present you an other isolated at bat of the same pitcher.