Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?
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I changed my TV mode to "game" about two days ago and I've been having much better hitting results, likely better pitching results as well, but I haven't personally been able to notice the benefits of game mode on pitching. I'm wondering if using contact swing with select hitters when down 0-2 or 1-2 in the count would lead to more manufactured offense, instead of relying on home runs. When your lineup is filled with power hitters, using contact swing is probably the last thing on most players' minds. One idea I just had: make a separate squad just for experimenting with contact swing against the CPU.
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@MaxHarvest said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
In higher divisions there is a lot of small ball, I scored 6 last game with only one hr. Under 700 is a homerun feat non stop and that’s why it took me so long to get out of the 600’s
I played a RS game on HoF last night. I lost 5-3 and 7 out of the 8 runs were scored via HR including my opponent hitting an "early" swing HR in the 10th to tie the game
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Lol yeah I literally just play hr derby half the time I lost to an all bronze squad and if I'm really that bad I should just stay off
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@dbarmonstar said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@allmustfall16 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Hitting seems fine. I’m scoring a bunch on HOF.
Gallo is impossible to pitch to, even on HOF.
No he is not, Pitch Fast balls just outside middle or top of zone, and low outside off speed. I Have had a lot of success getting Gallo out. Hits alot of ground outs against me especially when I need a double play, I have only made it up to PR. I struggle against guys That can hit like Freeman I do not seem to be able to get him.
I seriously mean no offense by this, but while that may work in PR, it won't work in the higher levels. Guys aren't going to chase pitches out of the zone and get themselves out, especially with how tight the strike zone is this year. And on top of that, I've lost count of the number of times I've thrown low-outside offspeed pitches to high power guys and just given up early swing HRs
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@yankblan said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
I’ll agree about the lack of hit variety, but you still need to put a good swing to get a HR; bad players don’t hit them much.
I have up a HR on a very early/ok swing the other day. I don't think that's a good swing lol
I've also hit HRs on swings where the ball wasn't even in the inner PCI and I'll he the first to admit that it shouldn't have been a HR
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Sounds like some people need to center swing more often and stop slamming their pci.
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@A_PerfectGame said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@yankblan said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
I’ll agree about the lack of hit variety, but you still need to put a good swing to get a HR; bad players don’t hit them much.
They hit them all the time. Because the WORST players that literally swing at every single pitch ALWAYS and I mean Always get at least 1-3 meat balls directly down the middle and if you are swing Center at every pitch guess where that is going?
Yep. Pitching by far the worst thing in this game. Still can't play RS because of it. Events are difficult but don't give a $h!+ about my record in that. Pitchers have some lofty era's though.
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I have a 2.45 era, and it would be less than that if it wasn’t for one game I gave up 8 runs and another I rage quit in the second down 6-0 ( errors and bloops combined with a p/p warning track with Reggie) the problem with the HR is that there seems to be very little other way to score. Games seems to be 5-2 with most runs from bombs. I don’t mind the bombs but I’d like to see doubles and contact singles more often ( not bloops) the hr/9 does not need to be put back in unless the hits go for doubles instead. I want to see games where runs are scored in a variety of ways. If the games are 10-7 then so be it. I just want a variety of hits. It feels like whatever year it was where the games were low scoring but all homeruns ( 18?)
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@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
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@Some_Schmuck_22 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
People complained about 19 being bad. Then they found themselves playing 18 all over again.
we just need quickpitch dave to solve all our problems. he knows all
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@yankblan said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
I’ll agree about the lack of hit variety, but you still need to put a good swing to get a HR; bad players don’t hit them much.
This is true I am not good and I do not hit that many when I do it is the Majority is with McCovey
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@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@dbarmonstar said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@allmustfall16 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Hitting seems fine. I’m scoring a bunch on HOF.
Gallo is impossible to pitch to, even on HOF.
No he is not, Pitch Fast balls just outside middle or top of zone, and low outside off speed. I Have had a lot of success getting Gallo out. Hits alot of ground outs against me especially when I need a double play, I have only made it up to PR. I struggle against guys That can hit like Freeman I do not seem to be able to get him.
I seriously mean no offense by this, but while that may work in PR, it won't work in the higher levels. Guys aren't going to chase pitches out of the zone and get themselves out, especially with how tight the strike zone is this year. And on top of that, I've lost count of the number of times I've thrown low-outside offspeed pitches to high power guys and just given up early swing HRs
No Offense Taken, We all play different, I am not sure if I will ever get to the higher levels, I try to find a way to get those hitters out, but as I said I so struggle against other hitters.
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@Some_Schmuck_22 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
People complained about 19 being bad. Then they found themselves playing 18 all over again.
I actually thought 19 was pretty good I could locate pitches really nicely so I would rarely give up the home runs this 20 though it is a slug fest. I should not be able to hit no doubters with a common catcher that has 40 power against righties.
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@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
Let's break down this argument:
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doesn't address the actual point I made in the original post which was about the number of HRs and NOT about winning and losing.
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Says pitch speeds create skill gap but doesn't address if/how that affects the PERCENTAGE of runs being scored via HRs (fewer HRs can be hit but not change the percentage of runs scored via them).
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uses personal anecdotal evidence and tries to apply it generally to an entire base of people (his personal record and "success")
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thinks casually dropping his record and division somehow makes his opinion more valid
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Finishes by claiming, without evidence, that I am bad at the game and implies that it makes my original points invalid
I swear you people stopped paying attention in school after 6th grade. I'm sorry you don't understand how debate works.
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@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
Let's break down this argument:
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doesn't address the actual point I made in the original post which was about the number of HRs and NOT about winning and losing.
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Says pitch speeds create skill gap but doesn't address if/how that affects the PERCENTAGE of runs being scored via HRs (fewer HRs can be hit but not change the percentage of runs scored via them).
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uses personal anecdotal evidence and tries to apply it generally to an entire base of people (his personal record and "success")
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thinks casually dropping his record and division somehow makes his opinion more valid
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Finishes by claiming, without evidence, that I am bad at the game and implies that it makes my original points invalid
I swear you people stopped paying attention in school after 6th grade. I'm sorry you don't understand how debate works.
All that dude does is argue and troll. He offers nothing to this forum. Nothing
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@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
Let's break down this argument:
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doesn't address the actual point I made in the original post which was about the number of HRs and NOT about winning and losing.
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Says pitch speeds create skill gap but doesn't address if/how that affects the PERCENTAGE of runs being scored via HRs (fewer HRs can be hit but not change the percentage of runs scored via them).
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uses personal anecdotal evidence and tries to apply it generally to an entire base of people (his personal record and "success")
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thinks casually dropping his record and division somehow makes his opinion more valid
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Finishes by claiming, without evidence, that I am bad at the game and implies that it makes my original points invalid
I swear you people stopped paying attention in school after 6th grade. I'm sorry you don't understand how debate works.
One of your points was there is no skill gap hahahahahahah.
Pitch speeds do create a skill gap.
You suck. I dont
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@boduke82 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
Let's break down this argument:
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doesn't address the actual point I made in the original post which was about the number of HRs and NOT about winning and losing.
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Says pitch speeds create skill gap but doesn't address if/how that affects the PERCENTAGE of runs being scored via HRs (fewer HRs can be hit but not change the percentage of runs scored via them).
-
uses personal anecdotal evidence and tries to apply it generally to an entire base of people (his personal record and "success")
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thinks casually dropping his record and division somehow makes his opinion more valid
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Finishes by claiming, without evidence, that I am bad at the game and implies that it makes my original points invalid
I swear you people stopped paying attention in school after 6th grade. I'm sorry you don't understand how debate works.
All that dude does is argue and troll. He offers nothing to this forum. Nothing
You obsessed with me lol.
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@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@boduke82 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
Let's break down this argument:
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doesn't address the actual point I made in the original post which was about the number of HRs and NOT about winning and losing.
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Says pitch speeds create skill gap but doesn't address if/how that affects the PERCENTAGE of runs being scored via HRs (fewer HRs can be hit but not change the percentage of runs scored via them).
-
uses personal anecdotal evidence and tries to apply it generally to an entire base of people (his personal record and "success")
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thinks casually dropping his record and division somehow makes his opinion more valid
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Finishes by claiming, without evidence, that I am bad at the game and implies that it makes my original points invalid
I swear you people stopped paying attention in school after 6th grade. I'm sorry you don't understand how debate works.
All that dude does is argue and troll. He offers nothing to this forum. Nothing
You obsessed with me lol.
Because your existence is garbage
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@boduke82 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@boduke82 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
Let's break down this argument:
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doesn't address the actual point I made in the original post which was about the number of HRs and NOT about winning and losing.
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Says pitch speeds create skill gap but doesn't address if/how that affects the PERCENTAGE of runs being scored via HRs (fewer HRs can be hit but not change the percentage of runs scored via them).
-
uses personal anecdotal evidence and tries to apply it generally to an entire base of people (his personal record and "success")
-
thinks casually dropping his record and division somehow makes his opinion more valid
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Finishes by claiming, without evidence, that I am bad at the game and implies that it makes my original points invalid
I swear you people stopped paying attention in school after 6th grade. I'm sorry you don't understand how debate works.
All that dude does is argue and troll. He offers nothing to this forum. Nothing
You obsessed with me lol.
Because your existence is garbage
Why? Should I start complaining about the game? Will it not be garbage anymore?
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@boduke82 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@boduke82 said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@GrandpaShaft said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
@xIAmJumpMan23x said in Are we just playing HR Derby at this point?:
Honestly what percentage of runs are via the HR? 90%? It's gotta be close.
At this point everyone has already stacked their lineup with all power hitters. Combine that with the fact we have no control over pitches and that it seems swinging early or only making "ok" contact isn't deterring the HRs and basically you've got a game where anybody can hit a HR on any pitch with any decent swing.
People are saying there's a skill gap? I don't see it as much. As long as you've got a good enough internet connection or are playing on a screen with a good enough response time that you can catch up to fastballs, the game just becomes who gets the RNG to give them the most solo HRs
The pitch speeds make the skill gap. Bad players cant time 98 Fastballs no matter what they are set up on. I just went 26-2 to make WS. I deserved to lose the 2 games and deserved to win the 26. It wasnt like that last year. That game actually let [censored] players compete at higher levels because of the line-outs. I swear you people cry just to cry. Im sorry you are bad at the game.
Let's break down this argument:
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doesn't address the actual point I made in the original post which was about the number of HRs and NOT about winning and losing.
-
Says pitch speeds create skill gap but doesn't address if/how that affects the PERCENTAGE of runs being scored via HRs (fewer HRs can be hit but not change the percentage of runs scored via them).
-
uses personal anecdotal evidence and tries to apply it generally to an entire base of people (his personal record and "success")
-
thinks casually dropping his record and division somehow makes his opinion more valid
-
Finishes by claiming, without evidence, that I am bad at the game and implies that it makes my original points invalid
I swear you people stopped paying attention in school after 6th grade. I'm sorry you don't understand how debate works.
All that dude does is argue and troll. He offers nothing to this forum. Nothing
You obsessed with me lol.
Because your existence is garbage
I didn't realize he was a troll. That's my bad for feeding him
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