Home Runs = Rally-killers!

Via FJM.

"That's a good play," Cooper said of Berkman's decision to bunt with the third baseman playing him deep. "That's a baseball player's play. It's a nice job. We need baserunners. If you hit a ball out of a ballpark, I call them rally-killers when you get down like that. We need to keep a rally going, and that was a nice play to me."

I mean really. This is getting to be ridiculous. It's one thing to say a well-executed bunt when the 3rd baseman is giving it to you is a free base hit and thus a good play (even Big Papi's done this a couple times) but it is a world of difference to say that it was a better play than an MF home run! "When we are down by several runs the last thing we need is the single most effective run-producing play in the game!"

Also I like how said bunt was a "baseball player's play" as opposed to, say, a line drive, home run, fly out, or strikeout, which are basketball, bocce, jai alai, and curling player's plays, respectively.

There's been some great stuff over there recently. JoeChats etc. Check it out.

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Now I'm off to enjoy this gorgeous day. Trying to figure out what to take to the park...methinks The Great Shame is a bit heavy for this afternoon.