Yeah, let me hit you with this slider. Hopefully Faltine was just trying to convey to the LA Tech pitcher that plunking 3 dudes in two innings is pretty bush.
I imagine that you have to initially approach him like Lieutenant Dunbar approached Two Socks. Maybe get near him and then let him know you have a 12 pack of Natty. Place it on the ground and walk slowly backwards. Gain his trust.
Nixon has cost this team more games than any other pitcher. I agree that bringing him into unfamiliar situations isn't ideal. However, he has been bad even when he was called on to close a game. I get that his ERA may be low, but when I enter a game and then give up a base clearing double, those runs aren't charged to me. But it was my poor pitching that led to those runs. He is a complete shell of himself from last year and it is obvious to everyone. If it were up to me he would not appear in a game where there were more than 3 outs left.
He is a head case and needs to be shelved or he is hurt and needs to be shelved.
I would argue that this years bullpen is as physically talented as last years. It is something else.
Harrison is going to be an animal.
Stehle(sp) is just inexperienced and hasn't developed the mental reserve needed to compete at this level. There is no explanation for a dude throwing almost all strikes for 2 innings to throwing 0 strikes the next. Same for Stewart and Blair. They just need innings. I know I shit on Blair earlier in the season but he looked good yesterday when there was no pressure. So did Stewart.
I liked Cobb a lot better before we decided to change his slot. Those curveballs look impressive and frisbee like on TV but they are flat as shit and easy to pick up for the hitter.
Nixon's implosion is confounding. I think he may have real arm issues. He hasn't had a "live" arm any outing this year that I recall. He located well last year with FB up to 95. He is still hitting mid 90s but he cant locate it at all. I mean, when he does throw a mid-nineties strike, which is rare, its a cock-shot. In my opinion, rather than "pitching" he is throwing every pitch as hard as he is capable because his arm is fucked. Nixon hasn't "pitched" an inning this year. He is just throwing the baseball toward the plate. He misses a lot and gets his shit packed a lot.
I don't know about the arms but I can tell you that everyone on the team can tell you the benefits of a double wide v a single wide and how to clandestinely steal utilities from their neighbors.
He changed arm angle and lost about 5mph on his fastball. Really hard to get downward break on a sidearm curveball and it just scoots across the center of the plate belt high when you miss. It tends up in the bleachers.
Thats because she didn't really take a taser. Will someone please post a link to the treasure trove where she was auctioning off her discharge-soiled undies and begging to choke on Lance Armstrong's cock?
Yeah right, Alfred Einstein. Name one country that has mentally ill people and fewer mass shootings than the US? Oh, you can't use any country in Europe, the UK, Central America, South America, Canada or Mexico. Asia is off limits, too.
No one has said that. I will tell you that if you have ever taken a photo of yourself holding a firearm, without the animal you just killed with it, you are a broken, small-cocked piece of shit who needs to bow out of this thread. If I have misjudged, I apologized. I have shot a ton of animals and I have never taken a photo of me and just a gun because I am not a limp-dick piece of shit who loves guns. Guns are tool, like a shovel. I don't have a photo with me and a shovel, spade, ladder or sharp-shooter. Unless I just re-sodded the lawn or other home improvement project.
I don't even want that. But there is zero chance that kid appeared even remotely normal when he bought those guns. I could walk into any gun store in the state and act crazy as fuck, pretend to be perspiring, speaking in tongues and 99% of them would ignore that and sell me a long rifle if I was repeating a bible verse.