Red Sox 6, Twins 5: Down Five Runs, Twins Fight Back but Rally Falls Short

[h2oface]

Did you catch the way Watkins coached Gordon to slide into third. Pretty comical. Like him sliding too will help, or Gordon will even see it at that late juncture. Pretty funny. Best view at :14.

 

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/red-sox-vs-twins/2022/08/31/661649#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=661649

 

[Squirrel]

9 hours ago, miller761 said:

That is the big thing lacking with this team...baseball IQ

I hear this a lot ... 'so and so just doesn't have much of a baseball IQ' ... what exactly does that mean? That they lack knowledge of the game, or are just poor executers or are prone to mistakes? I think it fair to ask 'What was he thinking?' and being disappointed at decisions made in a split second and think you'd have done it differently for a better outcome, but I'm very doubtful that it's because a lack of knowledge of the game and how to play, i.e. IQ, but rather issues of inexperience. 

[h2oface]

If a someone is 23,24 years old, and has been playing baseball since a child..... and they still are making bad deisions as to the rules of the game and what to do from any base in any situation on the basepaths or in the field, then they just haven't been paying attention. They are not inexperienced just because they are now playing against the best players instead of not as good players at others levels. The rules and moves haven't changed. If they haven't learned the game by that age, they must have a low baseball IQ. They are doing the best they can, they just don't have the brain power to do what is needed in the split second without even more repetition. Some learn with one or two repetions. High IQ. Some it takes a lot more. Lower IQ. Some make the same mistake over and over, Low IQ. Same with learning music. Some can learn the piece and a lot quicker than others, and memorize it quicker and get it from the left side of the brain to the right side of the brain and free themselves to really play the music instead of read the music. High IQ. Some always just read instead of play. All can perhaps get there, but some get there with less repetition. Great jazz guitarist, John Abercrombie, said that the more he played, the quicker it was to learn a new piece and get it from the left to the right side of the brain, were he no longer needed to think and it was just there to add all the emotion and nuance to, or "play". 

[ashbury]

9 hours ago, Squirrel said:

I hear this a lot ... 'so and so just doesn't have much of a baseball IQ' ... what exactly does that mean? That they lack knowledge of the game, or are just poor executers or are prone to mistakes? I think it fair to ask 'What was he thinking?' and being disappointed at decisions made in a split second and think you'd have done it differently for a better outcome, but I'm very doubtful that it's because a lack of knowledge of the game and how to play, i.e. IQ, but rather issues of inexperience. 

Deserves its own thread, dontcha think?  I'll go ahead and steal your introduction and start one up.