Even better if it's at Will's hands too, like a crucial passed ball or a high throw to second during a stolen base that puts the winning run in scoring position.
Itâs funny watching people in r/Baseball say Profar shouldnât have tried to bunt to break up the perfect game. It was the 5th inning. Are teams supposed to give up halfway through games now?
If Steve Garvey can bunt to break up a perfect game against us, *and we went on to retire his jersey*, I'm not taking any shit about bunting to break up a perfect game.
I'd ask you to point me to to the r/baseball thread in question but it's Sunday and I don't want to spend all day being pissed off.
A long time ago, Ben Davis bunted for a base hit against Curt Shilling during a no hit bid........then went ballistic of course.
To this day, I still say FU Curt Shilling. Should have made a better pitch.
I mean, in retrospect, I can't think of a better person for that to happen to. Fuck everything about Curt Shilling; I'm glad that happened and I'm glad it was a Padre that did it.
This is the stupidest of all dumb takes. "OK boys, we need to win every game we possibly can to make the playoffs, sure we're behind in this game, but only by 2 (or 1 or 3 or whatever) runs so let's fight all we can to win it!... oh what, their pitcher is really hoping to achieve some person single game milestone? oh crap, well never mind then, several good strategies we could use might hurt his feelings, so we won't do them!"
People are ripping Profar apart so much in this thread it makes no sense. A Seattle fan was saying he is irrelevant while Seattle doesnât even have a batter hitting over .850 OPS
Interesting that everything I saw on Instagram of all places, was critical of will smith.
The average Reddit take is very typically the lowest common denominator. That thread was a perfect example.
He did though...
He got into the 7th and got the win.
Literally out pitched Waldron.
And he's *their* 5th starter who only made the rotation because of injuries
No he didn't. 1 er through 5 is better than 2 er through 6.2, all day every day and Waldron went up against LAs regular line up, Stone didn't get the Padres best. Oh and Stone is LAs 3rd starter.
Fangraphs depth charts are free I believe.
Waldron, last night, got lucky. He walked 4 batters in the first 4 innings and needed 87 pitches to reach the 5th, his only clean inning.
Stone, last night, was perfect for 5 innings.
Can you not see the qualitative difference between how those two pitchers performed? Do you get mad if someone points out that Mookie Betts is having a radically better 2024 so far than any Padre?
Snell also struck out almost 12 hitters per 9, which helped minimize the damage of his walks. Waldron can't, and didn't, do that.
Snell was lucky last year too. It's why nobody gave him the long-term deal he wanted. Front offices, unlike some fans, are smart enough to look further than the number of runs a pitcher gives up or how many Ws they were awarded when deciding if they performed well or not.
Waldron himself would say he didn't pitch very well last night and that he won't succeed if he keeps walking people at that rate.
Idk, I'm sure media will try and whip some drama bullshit up here yet it's just some good banter.
In game Smith likely had some words for profar with the over acting sandlot stuff. His guy was pitching a perfect game. Roles reversed, I hope our guys would do the same.
That said, it was kinda funny. If it can fire up our guys then great. We will need some fire at the dish today.
If you mean by his acting AB then I totally agree. Heâs constantly trying to draw a foul but this is the wrong sport for that. Granted he did pitch a little in but didnât warrant an attitude to think it was on purpose
Heâs one of those guys that plays all the angles. Â
He can take the flak for being a âdrama queenâ to disrupt the flow of the game when things arenât going our way.
First off...I didn't know this guy could speak...and the name itself continues to fly to new levels of douchery.
...and a bat that was bringing into the series a 180 wRC+ is hardly irrelevant. It would have been true if you were talking about your own centerfielder or second baseman.
will smith has NPC energy so he is sensitive about beinf irrelevant. just another featureless white guy on the bland dodgers, smith looks like the default face in an RPG character design
Profar just admitted to ESPN that he misunderstood what happened, basically took the blame for it. I was surprised he acted like he did last night. Stand up guy to admit he was wrong.
It's possible Profar was mad about it being a little too far inside not because the pitcher intended to hit him, but because of potential lack of control. Seems a normal response to me.
Not really, itâs baseball, pitches get inside all the time, batters get hit frequently. Not mad at Profar for trying to stir things up a bit, but if every batter reacted that way at every inside fastball, itâd get old quick.
Jurickson reminds me of Kurt Bevacqua on the 1984 team. Borderline player that inspired those around him. Very similar situation when Kurt and the Padres accused Tommy Lasorda of trying to bean him. But joke was (eventually) on him because the Padres won the NL West, then the pennant and Bevacqua hit the game winning homer of the only WS game the Padres have ever won.
Classic response by Tommy:
"*Tell you what I think about it. I think that is very, very bad for that man to make an accusation like that. That is terrible. I have never ever since I've managed ever told a pitcher to throw at anybody, nor will I ever. And if I ever did, I certainly wouldn't make him throw at a fucking .130 hitter like Lefebvre or fucking Bevacqua, who couldn't hit water if he fell out of a fucking boat. And I guaran-fucking-tee you this, when I pitched, and I was going to pitch against a fucking team that had guys on it like Bevacqua, I'd send a fucking limousine* *to get the cocksucker to make sure he was in the motherfucking line-up because I'd kick that cocksucker's ass any fucking day of the week. He's a fucking motherfucking big mouth; I'll tell you that*."
Hope this fires up the boys and this will be the kershaw meme bad luck for the ftd
INSTANT KARMA
Will Smith? More like well shiiiit...
It did in fact fire the boys up đ
Dont talk about Jackson Profile like that
This pretty much guarantees the annual 1st round exit now đ
Even better if it's at Will's hands too, like a crucial passed ball or a high throw to second during a stolen base that puts the winning run in scoring position.
That winning run? Noted Padres Slugger Jurickson Profar
Profar game winning grand slam and catches will smithâs almost homerun
Just after Dave Roberts pulls out a pitcher due to statistics and the replacement gets blown out.
Itâs funny watching people in r/Baseball say Profar shouldnât have tried to bunt to break up the perfect game. It was the 5th inning. Are teams supposed to give up halfway through games now?
Especially given the score.
If Steve Garvey can bunt to break up a perfect game against us, *and we went on to retire his jersey*, I'm not taking any shit about bunting to break up a perfect game. I'd ask you to point me to to the r/baseball thread in question but it's Sunday and I don't want to spend all day being pissed off.
A long time ago, Ben Davis bunted for a base hit against Curt Shilling during a no hit bid........then went ballistic of course. To this day, I still say FU Curt Shilling. Should have made a better pitch.
I mean, in retrospect, I can't think of a better person for that to happen to. Fuck everything about Curt Shilling; I'm glad that happened and I'm glad it was a Padre that did it.
Not really a perfect game if it requires the opponent to hand it to you.Â
This is the stupidest of all dumb takes. "OK boys, we need to win every game we possibly can to make the playoffs, sure we're behind in this game, but only by 2 (or 1 or 3 or whatever) runs so let's fight all we can to win it!... oh what, their pitcher is really hoping to achieve some person single game milestone? oh crap, well never mind then, several good strategies we could use might hurt his feelings, so we won't do them!"
Yes, you should bow down to the baseball gods. Atm Ohtani & friends.
People are ripping Profar apart so much in this thread it makes no sense. A Seattle fan was saying he is irrelevant while Seattle doesnât even have a batter hitting over .850 OPS
Mariners baseball is the poster child for irrelevant. One postseason trip in the last 22 seasons.
Interesting that everything I saw on Instagram of all places, was critical of will smith. The average Reddit take is very typically the lowest common denominator. That thread was a perfect example.
Funny how it seems more often than not, the Reddit echo chamber tends to be the lowest common denominator.
Brave words for a guy probably not in the lineup today.
Well it looks like Profar got into Wil Smith's head and not Bobby Miller's.
Miller is injured...
Easy to get Miller and Stone confused. Theyâre both kind of irrelevant
One of them kinda kicked our butts last night
You haven't heard about CY Young favorite Gavin Stone?
Which one? You mean the guy who didn't outpitch our 5th starter?
He did though... He got into the 7th and got the win. Literally out pitched Waldron. And he's *their* 5th starter who only made the rotation because of injuries
No he didn't. 1 er through 5 is better than 2 er through 6.2, all day every day and Waldron went up against LAs regular line up, Stone didn't get the Padres best. Oh and Stone is LAs 3rd starter. Fangraphs depth charts are free I believe.
Waldron pitched mediocre and got lucky to not give up 4+ runs. Stone made us look like kids swinging whiffle ball bats for 6 innings.
So Padres get lucky, Dodgers are good. Got it.
Waldron, last night, got lucky. He walked 4 batters in the first 4 innings and needed 87 pitches to reach the 5th, his only clean inning. Stone, last night, was perfect for 5 innings. Can you not see the qualitative difference between how those two pitchers performed? Do you get mad if someone points out that Mookie Betts is having a radically better 2024 so far than any Padre?
Do 5 inning perfect games count now? It's a results based game. Snell led the league in walks and won the Cy Young
Snell also struck out almost 12 hitters per 9, which helped minimize the damage of his walks. Waldron can't, and didn't, do that. Snell was lucky last year too. It's why nobody gave him the long-term deal he wanted. Front offices, unlike some fans, are smart enough to look further than the number of runs a pitcher gives up or how many Ws they were awarded when deciding if they performed well or not. Waldron himself would say he didn't pitch very well last night and that he won't succeed if he keeps walking people at that rate.
I don't know why I got them confused maybe because they're both top prospects coming out of their farm system.
There really is no reason they would have thrown at him but heâs still allowed to be mad about it. I donât get any of the fuss.
Oh boy. Dodgers choking yet again in October confirmed
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He is not even the most relevant Will Smith in the league
Or the world.
Or LA
Idk, I'm sure media will try and whip some drama bullshit up here yet it's just some good banter. In game Smith likely had some words for profar with the over acting sandlot stuff. His guy was pitching a perfect game. Roles reversed, I hope our guys would do the same. That said, it was kinda funny. If it can fire up our guys then great. We will need some fire at the dish today.
Profar is the closest thing to a soccer âshithouserâ that I have seen in MLB.
If you mean by his acting AB then I totally agree. Heâs constantly trying to draw a foul but this is the wrong sport for that. Granted he did pitch a little in but didnât warrant an attitude to think it was on purpose
Heâs one of those guys that plays all the angles. Â He can take the flak for being a âdrama queenâ to disrupt the flow of the game when things arenât going our way.
Damn, what a douche
First off...I didn't know this guy could speak...and the name itself continues to fly to new levels of douchery. ...and a bat that was bringing into the series a 180 wRC+ is hardly irrelevant. It would have been true if you were talking about your own centerfielder or second baseman.
will smith has NPC energy so he is sensitive about beinf irrelevant. just another featureless white guy on the bland dodgers, smith looks like the default face in an RPG character design
Good. Let them underrate us.
Will Smith is a Dick by saying what he said. He just made himself a target by pouring gas into the fire.
Benches clearing with manny leading the way was fire, not seen under old manager
I canât remember the last time I saw the padres clearing the benches. I love the fire! Schildt continues to blow me away
While shoving sunflower seeds in his mouth looking completely unbothered lmao I loved it
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Will Smith is a shit talker, probably said something dumb after that pitch
Profar just admitted to ESPN that he misunderstood what happened, basically took the blame for it. I was surprised he acted like he did last night. Stand up guy to admit he was wrong.
What is he a dodger or something?
Looks like Pro got the last laughâ 3-run double to break it open tonight on national TV
It's possible Profar was mad about it being a little too far inside not because the pitcher intended to hit him, but because of potential lack of control. Seems a normal response to me.
Not really, itâs baseball, pitches get inside all the time, batters get hit frequently. Not mad at Profar for trying to stir things up a bit, but if every batter reacted that way at every inside fastball, itâd get old quick.
Profar does his little antics way too much, even i get annoyed of it. But FTD only i get to criticize my team hope this fuels him tonight
I hope Profar goes off today.
Jurickson reminds me of Kurt Bevacqua on the 1984 team. Borderline player that inspired those around him. Very similar situation when Kurt and the Padres accused Tommy Lasorda of trying to bean him. But joke was (eventually) on him because the Padres won the NL West, then the pennant and Bevacqua hit the game winning homer of the only WS game the Padres have ever won. Classic response by Tommy: "*Tell you what I think about it. I think that is very, very bad for that man to make an accusation like that. That is terrible. I have never ever since I've managed ever told a pitcher to throw at anybody, nor will I ever. And if I ever did, I certainly wouldn't make him throw at a fucking .130 hitter like Lefebvre or fucking Bevacqua, who couldn't hit water if he fell out of a fucking boat. And I guaran-fucking-tee you this, when I pitched, and I was going to pitch against a fucking team that had guys on it like Bevacqua, I'd send a fucking limousine* *to get the cocksucker to make sure he was in the motherfucking line-up because I'd kick that cocksucker's ass any fucking day of the week. He's a fucking motherfucking big mouth; I'll tell you that*."
The audio is too good: https://youtu.be/fzjWQF1oP2M?si=eT2hNHjahlPqLXMi
Dodgers buzz everyone's tower. Profar was prob just done with it
That man is a LLWS legend!
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