Posted by: Jeff M () on Thu Mar 23 13:05:47 2006

I leave the site for a year, tired of watching or listening or reading as BHL pontificates his PFO theory to all who would listen, and then I return in 06 only to find the same point-less, unsubstantiated rhetoric, but this time with absence of quality debate. To make matters worse or better as viewed from either right or left field, the “Hole” now espouses terminologies such as “geometric”, but interestingly enough, he concludes it as field measurement as opposed to a geometric analysis of the modern swing. Let me begin by once again stating there is nothing wrong at all in pulling or trying to pull an inside or middle-in fastball or breaking ball. Furthermore, and speaking in general terms as a former hitter who crowded the plate more often than perhaps I should, I would also advocate an attempt to pull anything over the plate. All that said, and the purpose of my first response in two years…is that the outside fastball and/or outside sinker should be with little question or debate sent to the opposite side of the field. If a hitter, or in this case BHL, postulates that ALL BALLS SHOULD BE PULLED, then it should be qualified that they, unless a top-ten producer, will probably see more bench than bat.

Here’s my advice…attack the pitch and do your best to get into scoring position. It’s a team game, and you will be better received by your coaches and team-mates if you get on base and score as opposed to reaching O/S and trying to pull a pitch…and end up casting a 10-hopper to the short-stop. Oh by the way, most of the respondents to BHLex actually made some sense in their rebuttal.

Jeff M