I have a hard time with it, because I know that Seattle wouldn't even have a team if it wasn't for Yamauchi. Would I have a signed Ichiro to the massive contract he got? No. Mainly because of the reasons you mentioned above about the nature of the game of baseball. Should I hate the player or hate the game, I guess that's the question here. I guess I just don't like the signing. Hell I don't know, you caught me on a bad night. Beavs lose, M's lose after starting a former Beaver.
Many argued throughout his career that he sacrificed having a better OBP by solely attempting to use his speed to beat out slapped infield singles rather than extending at bats and working for walks. Looking at his career, he only broke 50 walks twice in 17 years, and was only top10 in the league in OBP 3 times, despite constantly being near the top in average. The comparison to Westbrook isn't completely outlandish if one contends that he was pursuing hits at the expense of working pitchers and reaching base more often, as an elite leadoff hitter is supposed to.
Very disappointing ending to a great season. The good news is that we will most likely be ranked #1 at the start of next season.
Pitchers hog the ball when they pitch a shutout...Hitters put away games with huge leads and hold em...baseball is a team sport...bunting is about as unselfish as a guy could get in a sport
Very true, unless you don't know how to bunt and you pop it up like a couple of LSU players had. Wish that would have come back to haunt them. Alas, we couldn't get the hits when we needed them. Or pretty much any of the hits for that matter. Tip of my cap to LSU's Gilbert, with a middle finger towards the ump. Still a great season for Beaver Baseball!
Good read about the Luck Heimlich situation. https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/05/16/luke-heimlich-oregon-state
The kid is a helluva a pitcher as he shut down Stanford last weekend. Pat Casey has had an amazing career as he was a couple years behind me at U of P as my playing days were over in 1976 and I believe he started in 1977 or 78.
I have a hard time believing him. Pedophilia and child abuse is an unforgivable sin for me. Of course now he's going to come out and say nothing ever happened.
this is simply not true...he's already addressed it last season and had to sit out the playoffs in Omaha because of it...he's not covering up anything..he has not been a repeat offender either...he's done pretty much everything required of him around this...serial pedophiles are repeat offenders...his hasn't been that case and he's shown remorse without asking for sympathy. He's also really young. I give him the benefit of the doubt and in my view...he has learned a serious lesson early in life. This doesn't mean he shouldn't be able to pursue a career and have a successful life.
Heck I'm not even convinced he did it. He has denied it since the beginning and stated he only agreed to plead guilty to save the family of pain. He makes a very plausible argument. Also, the only reason this got publicized was because of a clerical error in the state of Oregon.
In fact he's said nothing ever happened from the very beginning - and has passed polygraph tests to that effect.
I know a kid that I have known pretty much since he was 7 years old and coached him in baseball that got caught up in an ugly situation. He had a girlfriend that was about a year and half younger than him, but when he turned 18 she was still 16 (about a month away from turning 17). Her parents were complete assholes and they pressed charges against the kid and he was declared a sex offender even though it was consensual but by law he was an adult and she was a minor. Knowing the kid as well as I did he is one of the quietest and nicest kids you could meet but these parents set out to ruin his life. It definitely woke my son up and several of his friends as to how easy it is to get caught up in something that seems rather innocent.
Not everything is as black and white as it may appear. I relayed a story in my post to riverman showing how young kids can get caught up in bad situations.
That's terrible. I was in the same situation, but it's fairly common. When I was a senior, I dated a younger girl and we continued to date when I turned 18. Luckily her parents loved me, even after we broke up.
