I Def understand what you’re saying, but real talk watching a Wade Boggs or Tony Gwynn was so much more entertaining and the Batting average race was something that I looked for everyday in the box scores in the newspapers. I’m just stuck in the past. I feel like I’ve officially reached Boomer status
Yea it was easier to do that when guys were throwing 88 lolI Def understand what you’re saying, but real talk watching a Wade Boggs or Tony Gwynn was so much more entertaining and the Batting average race was something that I looked for everyday in the box scores in the newspapers. I’m just stuck in the past. I feel like I’ve officially reached Boomer status
Haha yea the game has changed. I do miss the action of older games but it's not all bc hitters just got worse or starting trying to hit HR. It was a result of pitchers getting too good to hit regularly so getting 3 hits to score a run was too hard so the stat guys said just swing hard in case you hit it and here we are. Same with stolen bases. Pitchers got better at holding runners, catchers got better at throwing to 2b, so the risk wasn't worth the reward when you still need to get a hit off a guy throwing 100mph to score. May as well stay on 1b and hope someone hits a bomb.i remember when guys struck out 100 plus times and were sick. some guys now have a buck around the All Star break
Also how athletic pitchers are now compared to the beer gut girl bods the guys had when i grew up
I think this was the best explanation
Yeah i read Gardy just turned down a deal to Toronto. That loyalty
