The point is that a baseball fan who enjoys baseball is also thinking through what Bochy is thinking about... and enjoys it a lot more than watching a AAA player hit 9th. It’s like tension or dramatic irony in a film.

I’m sure you only watch basketball for the dunks, too.

Understood. My argument is directed at the pro-DH “it’s awful watching pitchers hit” argument that’s the predominant argument on this article.

See my response to Beard_of_Biff. In baseball because it is a, shall we say, deliberate sport, the value of the strategy is far higher and more important to the overall product. What you lose with the strategy element is far greater than what you gain with the 9 spot in the AL batting .235 versus .173 with the NL.

Let me offer you one more argument to bring you over to team NL.

NL fan here. The sole point of baseball isn’t about offense. You know what’s an interesting moment in a baseball game? When you’re watching a 3-2 close game, both pitchers look really good but it’s the 6th inning, the tying run is on second with one out and the pitcher’s spot is up.

“Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?”

From the Wall Street Journal in the Fall of 2014:

My favorite part about the original commentator’s comment is that it serves the reverse purpose they think it does. By knocking some peon IRS dude as indicative of some kind of American habit, such commenters think they are showing off their international bona fides. In fact, it just proves they have no awareness of…

I must have missed the parallel universe where Tom Hanks was in Mrs. Doubtfire...

My votes:

It would be nice to have non-politicians on money. People like Harriet Tubman, Jonas Salk, Mark Twain, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Carl Sagan, Sally Ride (and hundreds of other Americans) have contributed far more to American life than maybe 2 or 3 presidents. At the very least, there’s no reason Jefferson,…

I love Barca (and its history of anti-Franco politics) and Messi, and I do think they are the best club in the world. I will quibble with only one point and that’s the writers assertion that they’ve run the toughest gauntlet as backed up by their record in all competitions. The Spanish League has two great teams and…

What is your obsession with college? The analogy is pretty clear as being representative of a star player carrying a team on his back and that individual not being able to overcome the singular focus of the opposition (and his teammates not being able to pick up the slack.) The analogy holds just as well if you take…

Here is, btw, how much Germany gave a damn about everyone else on that Argentine team...

No, I didn’t compare pros to college. I suggested that knocking Messi for taking a mediocre team to within one goal of a Cup was as ridiculous as it would be to knock SC for similarly overachieving with a bunch of schmos at Davidson but not going all the way.

It’s a bit like knocking Steph Curry for not taking Davidson to a title...

It’s also a super circular argument when you consider Stephen A’s sources are almost all in Philadelphia. Who do you think Stephen A’s source was on the original story? Quoting a theory where you are the anonymous tip behind that theory is at quite clever, though.

Great articles. As an aside, it seems a bit odd to say “The network also denied credentials to Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan” in the same breath as Beadle and Nichols being denied credentials. Do events larger than Iowa State Fair Truck Rallies often give HamNo media credentials?

The point is your comment is objectively nonsense as demonstrated by his season last year. “Bumgarner can’t hit anything and is, rightfully, going to be the worst batter in the lineup anytime he pitches.” That you double down greatly informs how credibly a reasonable person would take your characterization of the…