Pete Alonso
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Non-asshole question - Is MLB (or the Mets specifically) the only sport/team you follow? Do you go to NBA, NFL, etc. games at the same pace you watch baseball?
Did you tell him thank you for running his mouth to the Braves ("throw it again")? Seems that sparked things for hotlanta.
Aside - Atlanta is a terrible city. I'm putting it in the Houston category of awful cities. Both have good ethnic food, but the traffic/concrete sprawling city...nah. I could never live there.
Aside - Atlanta is a terrible city. I'm putting it in the Houston category of awful cities. Both have good ethnic food, but the traffic/concrete sprawling city...nah. I could never live there.
I don't have a favorite NFL team. I have probably only gone to 10-15 NFL games in my life. When I lived in SLC, I watched many Jazz games, but that is because I lived two blocks from their arena and two of the guys became friends. I don't have a favorite NBA team.
The Mets and Marshall capture all of my fanaticism.
He is a good person, but he is a slow thinker. Things don't come fast for him. If not for sports, he would be a huge dork (he still is). When he was playing in AA-Binghamton, we had some words with each other over his current wife (she lived in Florida near me), and I called him an oger, because that is what he is mentally.
I really dislike how he never interacts with fans/kids. You can judge the quality of a person, many times, based on how they interact with fans and children.
Francisco Lindor is an unbelievable person (I can share many stories). Eduardo Escobar who was just traded is great. Brandon Nimmo is a good guy. Jeff McNeil? He is a whiney little arrogant bitch. Pete is an oger but not a bad guy. Daniel Vogelbach, who should be awesome to fans, is an arrogant prick. Marte is a pretty solid dude when it comes to fans (but had the PED incident). Mark Canha is a quality guy . . . I walked around Philadelphia with him one day hitting a few food spots (he is a big foodie). Francisco Alvarez has been cool to me but is still really young/new, so we don't know how he will be with fans.
Atlanta isn't in my top 10 worst cities. Atlanta is far, far superior to Houston. In fact, Blackland Road is one of my favorite wealthy roads in the U.S. Google "Blackland Road Atlanta" and check out some of the properties. It reminds me of another very similar road that connects DC to McLean, Virginia: Chain Bridge Road (a small portion of it).
Blackland Road is a densely green area of mansions in an otherwise urban area. I drive around it each time I am in Atlanta since I love that neighborhood.
yore almost like one of those groupies who follows a band from town to town. good on ya.
I had a family member (in-law) live in Virginia Highlands which was a really cool place. They lived in an old craftsman there I loved. But they left once they had kids because traffic (she worked downtown, but he worked on out skirt of city) and they ended up not liking Atlanta after a few years there.
I just always end up in traffic in Atlanta and don't care for their downtown much.
I'm not familiar with the Blackland Road area. I'll have to check it out, I usually go to Atlanta at least once a year.
While on deck last night, I told him that a particular pitcher would use his change-up as his out pitch. He’s the only regular starter (besides Bogelbach) who doesn’t engage with me. Sure enough, he struck out on a change-up. The Arizona fans next to me were impressed. His last at bat, I told him the same
Thing. He didn’t acknowledge me. He again struck out on a change up.
And rifle didn’t strike out. He was a high contact hitter. He had more career walks than strikeouts. In his last two years, he had a 1:1 ratio between extra base hits and strikeouts.
How would that equate to MLB? Marshall baseball in the 90s straight to MLB. Don't even worry about rookie league or AA or any of that stuff.
I’m the piece of sh!t, yet I bought her a $400 ticket and food and she didn’t thank me?
It wasn’t the 90s. It was this millennium and century.
Over the course of a season, right after my career at Marshall, I would have hit .180 - .225 in the big leagues. There are many starting big league catches hitting that average currently.
And that’s not far-fetched at all. When pitchers hit in the NL, even though they rarely practiced hitting and didn’t hit in college or in the minors, they’d hit in that segment.
Rick Reed would throw to us in the off-season. And he was extremely competitive. One time after one of us hit a shot off of him and showed him up, he yelled at the guy to get back in the box. Reed then threw a 90 mph fastball in the middle of his back. My junior season, Reed pitched to us the day before he went to spring training. He was only to throw the lower of 30 pitches to our hitters or two innings. He couldnt get out of the second inning. I think six straight people had hits off of him, and he was furious. One was a lined shot off the fence. He went well over his 30 pitch limit trying to finish the inning, then stormed off of the field pissed without finishing. Granted, it was aluminum bats instead of wood. Against a pitcher like Reed who relied on accuracy instead of over powering stuff, that difference can make a major impact.
We had a couple of other big leaguers, one who was a closer for the Marlins and consistently hit 98 mph, throw to us.
Back then, there wasn’t a huge difference in mph with big leaguers and many MAC pitchers. The MAC had three first round pitchers in three years including the #1 overall pick. We stood our ground against those guys.
As a pure contact hitter, I’d have the benefit of more balls in play that result in seeing-eye singles, bloops, etc.
My strikeout rate would climb but not by that much. I never had problems with hard throwers. I struggled with sliders. 20 years ago, sliders weren’t as prevalent as they are today in MLB. Now, they also have sweepers. My neighbor throws 90% sliders but only hits 88 mph. I would have struggled against him more than a 95 mph fastball pitcher.
I can't believe rifle left his cup at the game. Even worse, it's harder to believe he still wears a cup, especially with his infatuation with blow jobs.
You know this is online right? You had 41 walks and 43 Ks at Marshall.
You know there is more to a college career than sophomore through senior years, right? No? That's because you're a moron.
Go ahead and post my freshman stats.
Then, go ahead and post how many times I was intentionally walked since that doesn't show up in the stats that you're stalking.
As I said, I walked more times in my career than struck out.
I can't believe rifle had to shell out $400 for a ticket. Wonder what happened to the "comps."
Why don't you look at some current MLB catchers and look at their hitting in college. Compare their college stats to mine. Want me to start for you?
I am good. But go ahead if you want. Compare guys who played in the bigs to your stats in the MAC.
Here we go again. Everyone come and marvel at the Marshall catcher that had better stats than major league catchers. He stays at the fanciest hotels wears mesh tank tops and buys phones from guys named taz.
No, moron. Try reading better.
Compare the college stats of guys in the Big Leagues with my college stats at the same level (D1). And they all aren't SEC/ACC college stats.
You'll see that many had very similar college stats that I did.
Then, explain how pitchers who rarely practice hitting could have a batting average of .130 overall, yet you don't think I could get one more hit than them every 20 at bats.
You laughed about my statement that I would have hit .180 - .225 in the Bigs when I was 23. Defend how players who never hit are able to hit .130, but a person who hit at the D1 level couldn't get one more hit than them every 20 at bats.
Because they are big league caliber. Come sit down at the end of the dugout and we can talk candidly and openly.
Same stats but you’re watching in the stands. Get out of here with that weak bullshit. You werent that good. If you were you wouldnt have had ended up at Marshall
Hit 418 in jv ball. Made the all star team when I was 12. Probably would have hit 260 in the SEC and 190 to 210 in the bigs
Then I woke up and I am an old fat white guy playing golf once a week.
Then I woke up and I am an old fat white guy playing golf once a week.
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I'd agree with that, but it is still too fvcking big...and hot and humid.
That's awesome.
Good for you for sticking with your team. I'll be a Reds fan until the day I die....and usually it isn't easy being a Reds fan.
Off topic, but heading back to Madison on Monday. Don't see any brewpubs between Madison and Jefferson, unless you know of some. Otherwise, we're going to head over to Cincinnati and hit up Rheingist which should be fabulous. Stopping on the way down to eat and drink in Batesville at Lil' Charlie's which looks decent, especially for food.
I only struck out 3 times in 13 year olds.
"Wouldn't have had ended up . . . " How does somebody with your intelligence get a college degree? You're as clueless on this as you are with most other topics.
In last night's game, players who got on the field included a guy from Quinnipiac, Miami of Ohio (undrafted), and Fordham. And it's like that in every MLB game. Those guys must not have been that good, huh? When I played, the MAC had first round picks in the MLB every single year, including the #1 overall pick. They must not have been that good, huh?
What you don't understand, is that even at that level, coaches have to go to bat for kids. And if a college coach doesn't know how to do that, then it screws everyone.
Let's look at reality:
For 10 years, Marshall didn't have a player drafted under the same coach. Then, after a new coach comes in, he has multiple kids drafted for six years in a row after just his second season. Was this coach able to recruit more talented players? No. The guys he first got drafted were recruited by the former coach who didn't get anybody drafted. Was the new coach a miraculous player developer who could turn a bunch of kids who weren't very good into draftable players? Very unlikely. So we have established that just having a new coach could get the talented that the previous coach signed drafted, and he could continue that multiple times every year. We've also shown that it is highly unlikely that he was able to develop kids who "weren't that good" into draftable players in such a short amount of time.
That coach was able to get 30 kids signed by MLB teams in 12 years, including some of the kids the previous coach signed. The difference isn't that the new coach recruited better or was a better developer of kids "who weren't that good." The difference is that he went to bat for his guys, brought scouts in to their games, and didn't railroad his own players to scouts by saying bad things about them.
Use logic to defend your stance that I wouldn't have been able to hit .180 - .225 as a 23 year old.
Kids with similar stats at the same level (not SEC, but middle D1 conferences) who had similar stats were able to hit much higher than that in MLB.
Pitchers who didn't hit in college and spend very little time practicing it are able to hit .135 in the Big Leagues. How are pitchers able to do that yet an average D1 hitter wouldn't be able to do slightly better? The fact is that just putting the bat on the ball is going to result in a hit every 10 at bats. That's how pitchers can have .135 batting averages. Now, take somebody who is a more accomplished hitter than pitchers, and going from .135 to somewhere between .180 - .225 is completely reasonable.
Rifle
Check out christenharper on IG. She seems to be a fan on your team. She has a video with two of her friends throwing wearing some of the team gear you like ans on the field also. Some of her other videos and posts are even better.
Check out christenharper on IG. She seems to be a fan on your team. She has a video with two of her friends throwing wearing some of the team gear you like ans on the field also. Some of her other videos and posts are even better.
I think we all understand the difference between Marshall baseball and the major leagues. We all also grew up around the area and at times Marshall baseball back in the day was not great in terms of being a d1 college team. Now that doesn't mean Marshall didn't have some good players or even guys that made it to MLB.
Most reasonable people would say hey man played some college ball on the D1 level and had a good time doing it and did pretty well. But the guys at the MLB level are on a complete different level. Matter of fact the difference between MLB and what Marshall was doing at the time is like between the grand canyon and New river gorge. I've seen high level college guys who play in those summer leagues and many of them are never going to even sniff MLB or probably even AA ball.
Most people wouldn't go jnto what they think their batting average would be comparing their average to a low level D1 college team to a MLB average.
Most guys don't even get to play D1 ball. So be happy with that and move on.
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Let me rephrase it so you can understand it. YOU WERENT THAT GOOD.
Marshall has never been good at baseball it has nothing to do with the mac or quinnipiac or what ever small college you throw out. It’s about you and how YOU weren’t that good.
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Really, don't understand the difference between MLB and Marshall baseball in the 90's? Okkkkk
