Players who are fighting or struggling to stay in the majors are not going to volunteer that anything hurts. They’re gonna play through it and hope it works out all right.
Thoughts and prayers and focusing on Backing the Blue is how they distract themselves from the cognitive dissonance that occurs when their claim that more guns keeps everyone safer butts up against the reality that more guns means more gun deaths.
Wow, that dropped pop up was pretty unbelievable. And how about the pitcher Pilkington looking at the catcher Leon like, what the hell, buddy? I guess he didn’t learn in PFP that everyone else on the field has a right to the ball over him.
First of all, it would not have taken even a good throw to get Miggy at third. Only a terrible throw allowed him to advance. It was a bad decision.
Secondly, what the hell is Eric Haase doing waiting long enough to advance to second on the throw to be easily thrown out himself?
Just … bad. All around. Winning teams don’t engage in that kind of nonsense.
I’m starting to think that they layer on multiple innings of interviews with players and fans because they recognize that Shep and Player du Jour can’t reliably carry the action and keep viewers engaged all by themselves. They need the help of having someone else do the heavy lifting of talking into microphones while they, I don’t know, catch their breath or something.
I vote luck. If Avila knew enough of what he was doing to earn credit for it, he wouldn’t have gotten pantsed on so many drafts, trades, and free agent signings.
That said, getting anything of value from a 26th-rounder is probably always luck.