@dbub_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@GoldenGamingKM_PSN said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in SDS’s decision to nerf bunt cheese:
I submit that perhaps the underlying problem here is trying to turn the game of baseball into a grind fest, where instead of just trying to play and win baseball games, the goal is to earn stubs, points, rewards, perks, etc ...
The further away from the pure honesty of just playing and winning baseball games this title gets, the more trouble SDS finds itself in. Bunting isn't cheating. It's part of the game. And it is matter of opinion whether someone is bunting too much.
Moreover, in real baseball, any time a team perceives a weakness they will exploit it. During World War II Monty Stratton was a minor league pitcher when he shot himself in a hunting accident and endured the amputation of his right leg. After years of pitching using a prosthetic limb, he managed to resume pitching in the lower minor leagues. Teams constantly bunted for base hits because they believed he was slow trying to field them due to his injury.
In short, exploiting a weakness is part of the game of baseball and has been since the inception of the sport. SDS appears chasing ghosts because of complaints lodged by some that there is some perception of weakness in the game code. I think many of these complaints are just players frustrated because they don't win games as often as they feel they should.
Worse, it also seems SDS is motivated by their own belief that earning rewards is too easy and must be made more difficult. Again, that's a purely subjective conclusion, and ends up causing more complaints than it solved.
This was actually a pretty decent five-paragraph essay. Thesis (a bit choppy but understood), supporting material (particularly the historical approach), and a conclusion that almost ties back into the thesis. I enjoyed reading this.
Before I left education after 15 years, I taught high school English. I would have been thrilled had a student of mine written something like that during most of my days. Even if it really isn't an actual 5-paragraph essay, it had the potential to fly with more detail.
Now I just farm. And play this game when time allows.
Ha I used to teach five paragraph essays to 6th graders. There was a wide variety in quality.
Hell, I couldn't get a lot of my sophomores to even write a cohesive sentence.
One of the most horrendous things that occured in our district (and still does) is the extreme dumbing down of curriculum and the lack of accountability for simply pushing kids through. When, clearly, they come up to us without the necessary skill sets. Wasn't the case with all of them of course, but I'd say at least 60-70% of my high schoolers struggled mightily with critical reading and writing skills.
