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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
The shift is an embarrassment. Why even bother with athletes. Buncha fat guys could stand where you tell them and catch line drives hit directly at them.
It’s the equivalent to hockey letting a guy stand in front of the other team’s goalie when the puck is in his defensive zone. (In terms of ridiculous and obviously illegal positioning).
Sorry, you can’t do that. It’s illegal. Stand somewhere else.
You can shade guys left or right. That’s it. Make a goddamn play.
It isn’t going to do anything for the pace of play or offense.
It is going to make the game much more watchable.
Orlando Hudson made some horrific Jays teams fun because he’d do something interesting in the field every game.
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If a batter can only hit it to one spot, then that batter is an automatic out. It's not the defence's fault that some batters are predictable. Batters need to get good if they don't want to be automatic outs. Spread it around, make them work for the out. If there's a big gaping hole in the infield, learn to hit it there! Shorten/lengthen your swing or just bunt it and leg it out. The defence is going to put their fielders where they're most likely to get the out, and they would be stupid not to.
It's not like your goalie analogy. It's more like, if a goalie knows that a shooter ONLY shoots for the left top corner, and the goalie cheats to the left and stops the shot. That's on the shooter for being predictable, and the goalie would be stupid not to cheat left. If the shooter is physically incapable of shooting to the right then he's probably not going to have an NHL job for long.