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Ron Swanson said:
Anyone know the answer to this question…Since we’re an early afternoon game Thursday and winner gets the Mich/Co State winner (they play at 12:15 Thursday) does that mean if we win we’ll play around the same time Saturday (early) or is it random and we could just as likely play at 8pm?
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Lady Vols play it's first at 3:00 Saturday, and I wonder if TV will take that into consideration?
 
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feel like our offense is trending in the right direction to be the outlier here

edit: just read that the numbers for the previous winners are AFTER the tournament as well.

I really like where we're at going into this tournament.
 
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GregAmsler said:
Baseball was my sport. I know the game. This is like changing football rules to eliminate 2 high safeties because QBs are struggling to fit the ball in tight windows. The shift has been legal since the beginning of baseball. You don't change the rules because teams adapted their defenses. You adjust on offense. And the adjustments are actually pretty obvious.

And as for pitchers throwing 100 mph....great. Then it should be easier to go the other way instead of trying to pull the ball into a shift. Or do what some players did in the MLB post season last year...bunt down the 3rd base line for the easy single they're giving you until you get them out of the shift.

This isn't about the game being harder now. It's about hitters being too stubborn and prideful to adapt...even when that adaptation is something as simple and obvious like bunting. Not that bunting is a skill anyone learns anymore. But why make them, when we can just change the rules to accommodate their lack of skill? That's what sports are all about. I guess.
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Agree to disagree..But the MLB and guys who hit for a living agree with my side! They didn't shift like they do now 10 years ago. It's all part of the analytics, which have no place in baseball. It's not easier to go the other way to beat the shift when they are jamming 100 inside. The way they shift now has never been a part of baseball. Some shift yes, but not to the levels the damn analytics say to do now. It's taking the purity out of baseball and football too. I absolutely hate analytics in sports. It's basically telling Coach's and Managers what to do, instead of them making their own decisions.
 
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jasonvol18 said:
Agree to disagree..But the MLB and guys who hit for a living agree with my side! They didn't shift like they do now 10 years ago. It's all part of the analytics, which have no place in baseball. It's not easier to go the other way to beat the shift when they are jamming 100 inside. The way they shift now has never been a part of baseball. Some shift yes, but not to the levels the damn analytics say to do now. It's taking the purity out of baseball and football too. I absolutely hate analytics in sports. It's basically telling Coach's and Managers what to do, instead of them making their own decisions.
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Speaking of jamming inside...one of the things that frustrates me most about watching today's hitters against the shift is when pitchers will pitch them outside with the shift on (which is also stupid of those pitchers, but it happens all the time), and hitters STILL won't go the other way with it.

If you want the shift to go away, it can be done organically without changing the rules. Make them pay for it. But that would require hitters to stop being stubborn.

And yes, I'm sure those who hit for a living agree with banning the shift. Just like I'm sure pitchers would agree with doubling the size of the strike zone.
 
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