Yankees 10, Twins 9: Byron Buxton's Career Year Continues in Thriller of a... Well, Loss, But Still

[Nshore]

I think Matthews will be a good pitcher, but right now he's going through the gauntlet that some (most) of them do.  And once he figures it out, we trade him over to the Yankees or Red Sox!

[terrydactyls]

5 hours ago, USAFChief said:

It's been a common description of the difference for about 150 years

 

Sorry if I wasn't aware and needed to ask.  I've been around for about 150 years and was always told that control is throwing the ball where you wanted it to go.

[terrydactyls]

3 hours ago, Doctor Gast said:

Control is the ability to throw his stuff for strikes & not be wild. Command is not only the ability to throw strikes but also locating the pitch where you want it for a strike that's not down the middle.

That's semantics.

[Blyleven2011]

3 hours ago, Doctor Gast said:

Twins fired their remaining scouting department! OMG! What a complete idiot! Trusting completely in his weird analytics! Heaven save us! Pohlads completely trusting Falvey is a terrible combination! 

It is hardly a laughing matter , but then it is ...

What next  ...

Sell the team please  , the value of the team will be less than 1.6 billion Forbes quoted  back in January  , this January the pohlads will awaken with a team worth 1.2 to 1.4 billion  ....

[RpR]

22 minutes ago, terrydactyls said:

That's semantics.

Actually, it is poor grammar.

com·mand

/kəˈmand/

verb

verb: command; 3rd person present: commands; past tense: commanded; past participle: commanded; gerund or present participle: commanding

1. 1.

   give an authoritative order.

   "a gruff voice commanded us to enter"

• Military

  have authority over; be in charge of (a unit).

  "he commanded a battalion at Normandy"
• archaic

  control or restrain (oneself or one's feelings).

  "he commanded himself with an effort"

• 2.

  dominate (a strategic position) from a superior height.

  "the two castles commanded the harbor"

[ashbury]

1 hour ago, terrydactyls said:

That's semantics.

 

56 minutes ago, RpR said:

Actually, it is poor grammar.

 

[Craig Arko]

9 minutes ago, ashbury said:

 

 

I’d call it the difference between accuracy and precision. What you learn when you don’t sleep through math class, :)

[Major League Ready]

9 hours ago, Whitey333 said:

Interesting game.  Nice comeback but almost a win is not a win.  I knew we would be in trouble right away when you look at the lineup Baldelli threw out there.  Both Lee and Keaschall not in lineup when they clearly could have helped.  Not even used as pinch hitters or defensive replacements.  Then to leave Matthew's in so long while he was getting hammered is disgraceful.  It signaled to a nice crowd and the players that he had little intention on winning.  The fact tup that hey came back proves all the runs Matthew's gave up mattered.  What does it do for his confidence to let him hang out there to dry?  Save the bullpen?  What for there's only a week and a half left.  Just another example of Baldelli having a huge part in the loss.  Twins also just fired their entire remaining scouting department to save money.  Baldelli may or may not survive the continued purge.  Problem is they are keeping Falvey so even if Baldelli goes we will just get a clone of him.  

Interesting you knew the lineup that scored 9 runs would cause us to lose.  

[terrydactyls]

7 hours ago, RpR said:

Actually, it is poor grammar.

com·mand

/kəˈmand/

verb

verb: command; 3rd person present: commands; past tense: commanded; past participle: commanded; gerund or present participle: commanding

1. 1.

   give an authoritative order.

   "a gruff voice commanded us to enter"

• Military

  have authority over; be in charge of (a unit).

  "he commanded a battalion at Normandy"
• archaic

  control or restrain (oneself or one's feelings).

  "he commanded himself with an effort"

• 2.

  dominate (a strategic position) from a superior height.

  "the two castles commanded the harbor"

And Dictionary.com states that a similar word to "command" is "control".  So baseball uses two words to say something when only one is needed.  There's an old tale I was told when I was a young kid about Lefty Grove telling a group of young players about the importance of "Control".  To demonstrate, he had a catcher crouch behind the plate, put his catching hand on his thigh, and hold up his glove on his knee.  He then told him to relax, close his eyes, and don't move.  Lefty went out to the mound and proceeded to throw 20 straight pitches in the pocket of the catcher's mitt.  And he called that having great control of his pitches.  So for this old fart, the word "command" will be disregarded.

 

P.S. I have no proof that this occurred but I did hear it from several people - one of whom was my father who had the opportunity to pitch against him when an MLB barnstorming team came to his hometown.