Ironically, he doesn't draw walks because of incredible eyesight or because he's trying to take...

Ironically, he doesn't draw walks because of incredible eyesight or because he's trying to take them — he gets them because he's looking for extra-base hits.

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How ironic!

by Trey Hillman's Chin on Jul 21, 2010 9:00 AM EDT reply actions

Now I get it

Kila would hurt the Royals chances of winning the team batting title because of his selfish walks and XBHs

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

by Royal Kingdom on Jul 21, 2010 9:08 AM EDT reply actions

exactly!

Are we the team to beat in 2010? I sure think so! Go Chiefs.

by jrcnc on Jul 21, 2010 9:15 AM EDT up reply actions

FTA

Some old-school baseball types believe that a cleanup hitter’s job is to drive in runs no matter what, and that he should be prepared to expand his strike zone in RBI situations. But that’s not the approach Ka’aihue takes — and he is driving in nearly one run per game

That’s a pretty good translation.

by Trey Hillman's Chin on Jul 21, 2010 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't want to hurt our chances

Of leading the league in batting average.

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by RoyalsRetro on Jul 21, 2010 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions

In what way is that ironic?

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by labbadabba on Jul 21, 2010 9:56 AM EDT reply actions

The same way rain on a wedding day is ironic

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by Matt Klaassen on Jul 21, 2010 10:01 AM EDT up reply actions

It's very possible that the author does understand irony but not baseball.

Or, maybe neither.

by Trey Hillman's Chin on Jul 21, 2010 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions

The preceeding sentence was

His reputation as a patient hitter — he’s well on his way to a third straight season of more than 100 walks — has long been established

He has a reputation for being patient, but ironically he doesn’t actually set out to be so, he tries to get XBH’s.

by kcbottom9th on Jul 21, 2010 10:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Yeah, but there is nothing unexpected

about walks arising from a patient approach. Just because it is a “side-effect” doesn’t make it ironic.

by Trey Hillman's Chin on Jul 21, 2010 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions

Ironically, it's not ironic at all

I once had hope...now I have Moore.

by Dubya on Jul 21, 2010 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions

At least he didn't say

That begs the question, why does he get so many walks when he’s trying for XBHs?

by Trey Hillman's Chin on Jul 21, 2010 10:31 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

I would cut him a little slack in the sense that the "old school" thinking would

expect that looking for XBH would lead to fewer walks, so having more walks is unexpected. I don’t agree with the usage, and he didn’t actually state the qualification I mentioned above, but it’s no “rain on your wedding day” (as d_f mentioned above, which, btw, makes that song unlistenable).

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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jul 21, 2010 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions

That particular phrase is what makes that song unlistenable?

“Man, if she just wouldn’t have included such an inappropriate use of irony in her lyrics, then this song would have been on my all-time top 10 list!!”

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by Sweep_the_Leg on Jul 21, 2010 12:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah

To me, the reason that song is unlistenable is “Alanis Morrissette is singing it.”

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by jonfmorse on Jul 21, 2010 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

I actually thought about expanding on the many unlistenable qualities of the song

when I was typing that. However, I will stand by my statement that the repeated misuse of the term “ironic”, by itself, makes the song unlistenable, regardless of by whom and how well/poorly it is sung.

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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jul 21, 2010 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions

She's A Bitch

I used to be an A's fan until they left town and got good.

by philofthenorth on Jul 21, 2010 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions

No, that's Meredith Brooks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch_(Meredith_Brooks_song)

by AxDxMx on Jul 21, 2010 11:56 PM EDT up reply actions

OT word usage: awful

A NY Times article I was reading had a parenthetical about the history of the word awful that I found interesting. It is used today in a derogatory sense, as in “Jason Kendall is awful at baseball right now”, but the original meaning was in a generally positive sense (sort of like the word “remarkable” now), which survives today in the word “awfully”, as in “Brayan Pena is awfully good at baseball compared to Jason Kendall”. Of course we’re all familiar with both uses, but I thought it was interesting how the word usage had changed from it’s 17th century meaning where awful = remarkable.

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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jul 21, 2010 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Similar To Awesome?

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by philofthenorth on Jul 21, 2010 8:17 PM EDT up reply actions

i think so

it’s odd that today’s meanings have “awesome” and “awful” as opposites.

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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Jul 21, 2010 9:00 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, come on

One is “some” “awe” and the other is “full of aw”. What the hell is “aw” anyway, HUH?

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by jonfmorse on Jul 22, 2010 1:13 AM EDT up reply actions

This ignores his true repeatable skill of course

His BA with RISP!!!!

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by RoyalsRetro on Jul 21, 2010 10:58 AM EDT reply actions

I think I'm missing something here...

Shouldn’t this be everybody’s approach at the plate?

You wait for a good pitch to hit, you don’t go up swinging at every strike.

by AxDxMx on Jul 21, 2010 11:19 AM EDT reply actions

You swing at the first pitch

regardless of location.

Signed Yuniesky Betancourt

by stlJeff on Jul 21, 2010 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions

honestly

that’s kinda bull anyways. it might be true, but he DOES have great eyesight. the guy spits on pitches outside the zone with two strikes that 80% of majors leagues would probably swing at.

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by doublestix on Jul 22, 2010 1:37 AM EDT reply actions