Small ball is alive and well :) - Operation Sports Forums

Small ball is alive and well :)

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
  • countryboy
    Baseball is back! 3/14/25
    • Sep 2003
    • 52627
    #1

    Small ball is alive and well :)

    Small ball still has a place in today's game.


    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q38RFdFl6Tw?si=aq1a4Gak0VlCVUs-" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    I can't shave with my eyes closed, meaning each day I have to look at myself in the mirror and respect who I see.

    I miss the old days of Operation Sports :(


    Louisville Cardinals/St.Louis Cardinals
    Tags: None
    • NYJin2011tm
      MVP
      • Oct 2011
      • 2752
      #2
      Re: Small ball is alive and well

      I still suicide squeeze!

        Comment

        • mattynokes
          Pro
          • Mar 2004
          • 977
          #3
          Re: Small ball is alive and well

          I probably should have recorded the video, but I had a walkoff suicide squeeze in a game that I had no business winning. I kept getting out of jams or doing just enough to match my opponent's extra inning score. Finally, in the 14th (I believe), I got the ghost runner over the third and with one out decided, "Screw it, let's go for it," and for once my guy didn't line drive the bunt!

          I do small ball quite often. Have a good contact/vision guy at the plate and decent to good speed on the bases and I'm certainly trying to execute a Hit & Run. Have a burner on base and I'm sending him on my best Vince Coleman impression nearly Every. Single. Time. Having a tough time scoring runs out getting good contact to drop in for a hit and I'm eventually going to lay down a sac bunt or try for a sac fly to get something on the board.

            Comment

            • NYJin2011tm
              MVP
              • Oct 2011
              • 2752
              #4
              Re: Small ball is alive and well

              Originally posted by Ghost Of The Year
              The most exciting play in baseball. The last suicide squeeze I tried, my batter missed the ball because it was too far off the plate. My heart dropped, I knew I was dead to rights. Then I see the pitch is so far off the plate, the catcher couldn't catch it any better than I could bunt it. Safe!
              For the most part over the years I've been pretty successful but yea it's backfired a few times too because of missing the bunt or popup/lineout bunts.

                Comment

                • Madden08PCgmr
                  MVP
                  • Feb 2017
                  • 2386
                  #5
                  Re: Small ball is alive and well

                  Scott Servais finds your concepts disturbing
                  You want free speech?
                  Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.

                    Comment

                    • catfish9-5
                      Rookie
                      • Dec 2007
                      • 302
                      #6
                      Re: Small ball is alive and well

                      Originally posted by countryboy
                      Small ball still has a place in today's game.


                      <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q38RFdFl6Tw?si=aq1a4Gak0VlCVUs-" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
                      I call it fastbreak baseball. IRL, I'll bunt any of my players at any given time. Lay it down and watch the buttholes pucker

                        Comment

                        Previous template Next
                        Working...