This is my favorite part of Nick's latest dumbass article:
"Sunday’s lineup was particularly curious because even though Rays starter Jake Faria is a righthander, he’s been able to eat up lefthanded hitters, holding them to a .179 average and a .559 OPS last season. Lefties hit .135 against his virtually unhittable changeup. Only Max Scherzer (.110), Stephen Strasburg (.128) and Carlos Carrasco (.130) were nastier.
Cora decided to sit Andrew Beinintendi, who has started the season 0 for 11. Faria exited after allowing a J.D. Martinez RBI single in the fifth inning, but he held lefthanded hitters to 1 for 8 with three walks. The only lefthanded hit off him was an opposite-field hit by Swihart in the fourth inning."
Does Cafardo think Benintendi is a right-handed hitter? Benintendi's name being spelled wrong may be a clue that he does. (Though to be fair, if there was a copy editor, they would have caught the misspelling, and it's a tough name to spell.)
If Cafardo knows that Benintendi is a LHH, then the whole two paragraphs makes even less sense.
Then there's this bit of terrible writing:
"Don’t know about you, but these games with Tampa Bay were awfully close, much closer than they should have been..."
Well, are you awfully close? Closer than you should have been?
The article as a whole is so pointless. If the Sox had started 1-3 or even 2-2, then maybe you'd expect this ridiculously premature "everything lasts forever!" type of article from a dunce like Cafardo. But they're 3-1 and in first place and the only game they lost was directly the fault of the bullpen, not the offense. What is even the point here?
Then he finishes with some classic passive-aggressive nonsense:
"Then again, the pitchers are ahead of the hitters. Tampa Bay’s pitchers were really good. We’ve heard it all before, but it’s too early to complain, right?"
"Wah, nobody likes my stupid take! But I am going to give it anyway! If this slow offensive start continues, then get ready to hear about how I Told You So!"
Everyone who reads Cafardo is dumber for it, so my lost brain cells are my own fault. Guess that's the price I have to pay for hate-reading his awfulness.
"Sunday’s lineup was particularly curious because even though Rays starter Jake Faria is a righthander, he’s been able to eat up lefthanded hitters, holding them to a .179 average and a .559 OPS last season. Lefties hit .135 against his virtually unhittable changeup. Only Max Scherzer (.110), Stephen Strasburg (.128) and Carlos Carrasco (.130) were nastier.
Cora decided to sit Andrew Beinintendi, who has started the season 0 for 11. Faria exited after allowing a J.D. Martinez RBI single in the fifth inning, but he held lefthanded hitters to 1 for 8 with three walks. The only lefthanded hit off him was an opposite-field hit by Swihart in the fourth inning."
Does Cafardo think Benintendi is a right-handed hitter? Benintendi's name being spelled wrong may be a clue that he does. (Though to be fair, if there was a copy editor, they would have caught the misspelling, and it's a tough name to spell.)
If Cafardo knows that Benintendi is a LHH, then the whole two paragraphs makes even less sense.
Then there's this bit of terrible writing:
"Don’t know about you, but these games with Tampa Bay were awfully close, much closer than they should have been..."
Well, are you awfully close? Closer than you should have been?
The article as a whole is so pointless. If the Sox had started 1-3 or even 2-2, then maybe you'd expect this ridiculously premature "everything lasts forever!" type of article from a dunce like Cafardo. But they're 3-1 and in first place and the only game they lost was directly the fault of the bullpen, not the offense. What is even the point here?
Then he finishes with some classic passive-aggressive nonsense:
"Then again, the pitchers are ahead of the hitters. Tampa Bay’s pitchers were really good. We’ve heard it all before, but it’s too early to complain, right?"
"Wah, nobody likes my stupid take! But I am going to give it anyway! If this slow offensive start continues, then get ready to hear about how I Told You So!"
Everyone who reads Cafardo is dumber for it, so my lost brain cells are my own fault. Guess that's the price I have to pay for hate-reading his awfulness.
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