Quote Originally Posted by Commercecomet24 View Post
Yeah i agree. Always loved the first and third situation as a third base coach. Something I used to do a lot of that's been lost with all the exit velo, launch angle, hr craze, is hit and run with runners on first and third. Talk about creating some chaos. The defense has their first and third defend called and the runner takes off and they don't expect a swing and all of a sudden there's all kinds of home for the hitter to just tap a ground ball through. Learned that from Whitey Herzog.
I met Whitey a couple of years ago. He had this cane that looked like a baseball bat. I told him it looked cool.

He told me- "Well I couldn't hit shit with it so I figured I'd get some use out of it". LOL. And RIP.

But yeah I love home runs and I'm the biggest Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire fan out there. But small ball and chaos is fun too. I hope MLB gets back to some of that along with the home runs. That's why I liked Tony LaRussa so much and Cohen too- you had a little bit of everything.