 Let's get right to it Fernando Tatis hits a home run earlier in the game It's great The Padres are up seven runs 10 to 7 the bases are loaded a thinning he gets a 3-0 count He swings away hits a grand slam solidifies the game 7 run lead becomes an 11 run lead Game is in hand he runs the bases. He's happy with himself that he did it He takes the leaderboard away from trout the best player in all of baseball home run race Let's glorify it. Let's amplify it shout out Roosevelt's race to 20. Let's celebrate this like McGuire and Sosa. Oh No wait. No Let's be mad at him because he swung 3-0 and everyone knows you're supposed to grant that pitcher a strike Because you know he's got feelings and clearly he's pitching poorly and can't find the zone so let him lay one in there You know after that he'll give you a fastball that you're allowed to hit. Oh Never mind after that. He's gonna try to get you out And then after that the other team is gonna try and score runs to cut the lead in half and try to win the game And have a major comeback But you're not allowed to hit runs yourself. That would just be rude The other team can still try to get you out But you have to give them easy strikes is what the manager of the ranger said is what the manager of the Padres said His own manager. It's what his teammate. Hasmar said and I'm sure it's what a bunch of old Angry white men said sitting on their favorite Comfy chair that they've sat in with a newspaper on one Hand rest and the remote on the other and that's where they sit and watch the games every night And it's the most frustrating storyline in baseball Trev was hot. I got hot Jake got hot a whole world is kind on our side Which is a good thing as a player man you tweeted out something really interesting. You said, yeah We are told to take 3-0 But it's stupid Yeah, that's kind of like a tweet for it like all walks of life Like if you're taught something growing up and then you learn that it's stupid You can change your thought process and you should change your thought process So when Woodward references, this is the way we got brought up or Bill Ripken goes on MLB whatever show on MLB network and says hey I was brought up in a baseball family and that's not how we were taught You get me the guy who is like the ultimate guy on that side I will I will rub his face in his wrong opinion like you do a puppy when he pees on the floor I would rub his little face in it because it's so stupid Fernando Tautis guess what grew up in a baseball household. He knows the rules of the game He understands how to play the game. It's just a dumb rule. I Could go on like I could seriously talk about this for Hours what if he did it on the 2-0 pitch? Is that okay? 2-0 pitch up seven runs. You probably know a heaters come in there, too. What's the difference? Oh pitch for to lead off the game. You're not supposed to swing at that one, too Like tell me what pitches I can swing at let me get behind and I really have I can get hot on this because in my career I was told to take Way too much We would get down by it was if we were down by three or more runs in like the seventh inning or on And you were leading off an inning or there were no outs We were told to take a strike Now I don't know if you know what the difference in batting average is from 0-0 to 0-1. It's drastic All the numbers fall off a freaking cliff dude So you're telling me the hardest thing in sports to do Hitting at the major league level you want to give a leg up to the pitcher because what he fell behind three strikes or you're down a few runs that makes Absolutely no sense and I had guys Former teammates of mine Texting me out last night saying like hey, come on man. You know how it is You can't be doing that. Would you steal would you do all this and and guess what? They're all pitchers You know like this is so dumb. It doesn't make any sense to me You had six outs left in the game. You're up seven runs How many times have we seen teams erupt for seven runs in one inning let alone two innings? It doesn't make any sense to me and like Jim you were talking about a Fernando Tautis. He's One of the biggest stars in baseball He's broken out this year. Like he was he really good last year. Yes, but people weren't Paying attention to him like they are this year. This guy is come on the baseball map He's added to the list of young stars that we have in this game And you're gonna try to put handcuffs on this guy Put a muzzle on this guy. No, dude. You let him go and the fact that Tingler Came out and didn't defend his player Publicly and like apologize get the fuck out of here Now I get it because he this is this is the whole thing. This is this is why Hosmer and Machado kind of talk to him It's that they know that a team like the Rangers For some fucking reason are gonna throw it the next guy up But that's the problem. It's not that he swung 3-0. That's not wrong. What's wrong is you? Retaliating for nothing. That's the problem not tahti So you have to like figure that side out of it and let's not forget. There's a couple things here I'm gonna keep going because I just so I'm pissed. Let's not forget last year What did the Rangers do when Mike Minor needed his 200 strikeout? They let a pop-up fall and fell ground Because they wanted to get this guy 200 strikeouts Don't talk to me about unwritten rules when you're letting pop flies fall and fell territory so your pitcher can hit a Mark for strikeouts get out of here if the best pitch you get in an event is a 3-0 pitch Go get it and there's too many stats and money that are now tied into this that if you keep going that you know What when tahti's is up for hits free agency? Do you think they care if he took that 3-0 fastball and then he grounded out to third base? Do you think tahti's can point back to his stats and say well? I took that 3-0 fastball I would have hit a homer. No, they're not gonna give you any love for that But if you have another home run in the tally book, they're gonna give you love for that So there's just too much to tide tied to it and as Trevor mentioned I mean we grow as a society You know Phil Hughes tried to do a football comparison friend of the pod Phil Hughes close actual real-life friend of Trevor Plouf and he tried to do a football comparison and it didn't work at all. Sorry Phil I love you because when teams try to run out the clock It's because they're trying to secure victory and there is no clock in baseball. You try to secure victory You don't run out the clock to You're trying to that increases your odds of winning. Yes, you're not looking after the other. Yes Yeah, so, you know if you're comparing it to passing and football games evolve man I mean look at the game of baseball look at the game of Football if you want to look at it like that like yes, there's there's more passing because passing can lead to more scoring There's more home runs because home run leads to more scoring and that's all they're trying to do and it's uh I think that's why I I'm not getting hot hot about it because I really haven't seen I Like I who's who's the guy on Twitter? Who's who's the baseball media person? That's that's really driving it home like that's a mistake. You can't do that. I haven't seen it So I think that's a good thing and there's still some old heads involved. Okay, so that's where Tingler and Woodward aren't old heads These are new young managers that are supposed to be part of the tingler supposed to be part of the shift of the game He was literally brought in to be a player's manager to take this young Padres team and mold them and be the boon and be Be the the Ross and the Cora and like the young new manager and he's so he's not an old head You know if this is Leland or garden hire I get it or even Madden like these are supposed to be the new so that's where I'm most so disappointed Tingler what the fuck are you doing man? How do you he's the biggest stud? He's your golden goose publicly Fucking wipe his ass for him and kiss his forehead if you want to talk to him behind closed doors and say dude You know hey if we give you that sign to not swing you can't swing That's a direct order if you want to swing 3.0. Let us know and maybe we'll allow it do that behind closed doors But publicly tingler your one fucking job is to babysit these young studs on the Padres and have their back publicly the good news is The good is really good right now and even some annoying storylines, which is the big topic of today I still think it's good for baseball overall. I am a believer I thought the astro stuff was good for baseball in the offseason same here It's frustrating and needs a change and we'll get into it but Everybody who likes sports woke up and what was the story and who did it involve a young? Stud that we've been screaming Everyone needs to know about this guy and he just put himself on the map because the dumb angry old people helped him out so Net net as Jake would say I think it's positive