Objective vs. Subjective
Whenever a statement can be debated, whenever the observations or assessments are laced with personal interpretations and not based on facts, then we can say that the statement is subjective in nature. Objective means making an unbiased, balanced observation based on facts that…
Whenever a statement can be debated, whenever the observations or assessments are laced with personal interpretations and not based on facts, then we can say that the statement is subjective in nature. Objective means making an unbiased, balanced observation based on facts that can be verified. A statement or assessment is said to be objective when it can be verified and it does not have any interpretations based on the emotions of a person.
If some of you recommended a stock, I would absolutely short it because your opinions are driven by emotion. On any given day, you have wanted to get rid of about every player on the Dodgers, not realizing that baseball is a long, strange, funny season. Instead, I hear this kind of stuff on an everyday basis:
- “Freddie is in decline.“
- “Mookie should go back to RF.”
- “Vesia should be gone.”
- “Ramirez should be DFA’ed.”
- “Grove is just trade bait.“
- “Rojas can’t hit.“
- “The Dodgers signed the wrong Japanese pitcher.“
- “Kike needs to be traded.”
- “Kershaw should not be on the playoff roster.”
- “Roberts can’t manage.“
- “Teoscar should platoon.”
- Yada, Yada, Yada…. as the BS spews out of your keyboards!
Do You Understand Why You are Called Morons on Other Boards?
Objective vs. Subjective:
When you criticize a player or a manager, or even a team president, what you say is generally clouded with emotion, which blinds you to the facts. However, the fact of the matter is that most baseball decisions are subjective. As an example, it took some balls for Dave Roberts to bring in Yohan Ramirez to save the game. Remember him? He’s the guy that someone said should never throw another pitch for the Dodgers after his first outing. Doc had to find out how he would react in such a situation. Pretty damn good, I would say. By the way, I said that I would have left Paxton in the last game to save the bullpen and last night. the Dodgers demonstrated why that is really a thing. They almost ran out of pitchers. Many of you have no clue. Did I hurt your feelings? Sorry, Then take your keyboard and go home or man up and quit acting like a dumbass. Can you just stop the knee-jerk reactions and act like you have a modicum of understanding? This is a long season. Baseball is a funny game. What makes you cry will make you laugh!
Every damn year we go through this, and just about everyone laments how bad the Dodgers are, and they still win 100 games. No, they have not won the World Series every year, and under the new format, no one will. Those days are over, and they are not coming back, and no matter how hard you wish for it, Rob Manfred and MLB will not change the playoffs so that the Dodgers can win easily!
Last year, Marcel Ozuna of the Braves batted .085 in April. This year, in the same month, he batted .327 with a .400 OB% and a 1.036 OPS. He’s the same age as CT3, but right about now, he is playing like an All-Star. Sometimes you have to wait for good things to happen.
Last Night’s Game Was Like a Prizefight
The Dodgers and Yankees pitchers were throwing darts, and the Dodgers prevailed in 11 on a TKO. What does it all mean? It’s one game. The Dodgers did not hit, and neither did the Yankees. The Yankees are off to a great start, but their new pitchers have been “otherworldly,” and that is not sustainable. Their bullpen has four Dodgers castoffs: Santana, Kahnle, Ferguson, and V-Gon. Stanton will go on the IL soon enough. Rizzo’s best days are in the rearview mirror. Grisham is a DFA waiting, and LeMahiru needs to retire. Do you think the Dodgers have a bad bench? Try Trammell, Jones, Grisham, and Smith.
The Dodgers have too much depth on both sides of the ball. AF will make changes that are warranted. Vargas will get a chance, Outman will be back, and I think Lipcius will also get a shot. Patience… and take a dose of objectivity – also try to look at the big picture.
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Disagree, not disagreeable
Oh no. Mark or Bluto thinks I’m a moron. I don’t think I can ever post again! Oh well. My point with Teoscar is that we need to get more AB’s for Vargas and see what we have with him. If it’s at the expense of Heyward or Hernandez right now, then so be it. We could win the West if I batted ninth. I have no idea what the Dodgers are doing with Vargas. They profess that he’s an elite hitter, then let him prove it. One out of three games isn’t giving him a shot. At least make the OF a four man rotation and play him regularly for a couple of months. Then you know by the deadline what you have and what you need.
Very nice competitive win last night.
Love over pitching and what we have on the IR coming back over the next few months.
After this series it’s time to clean up the bench.
Try a couple of the hardworking, overachievers eager to prove they are not just good AAAA players.
6-7 weeks before the trade deadline is just about enough time to get these guys enough at-bats to prove they belong or demonstrate enough to add value to a trade, or are just AAAA pieces.
Free up 2-4 (40 man) roster spots depending who you would like to bring up.
Lipcius/ Gauthier/ Owings/ Hoese or Feduccia (on 40)
Outman (another shot)
Barnes’s (IR) finger nail is acting up per an undisclosed report from Ladodgertalk .
Send down Lux and good by to Taylor and Kike
You can also easily replace (on 40 man)
Gus Varland and maybe J.P. Feyereisen if needed
I would keep AAA relief picture Ricky Vanasco if he can gain some control, I like his stuff.
Go Dodgers!!
Great performance by Yamamoto and big win by the Dodgers!
Yamamoto lived up to his reputation and was fantastic!
I questioned paying Yoshi more than any pitcher in MLB history, and I still question the money paid to him. If he can pitch like last night for the next 12 years, then I will be proven wrong. It won’t be the first time one of my opinions is wrong, but baseball blogs are about sharing thoughts and opinions.
The game last night was a classic baseball game between two of the best teams in baseball. Regular season baseball does not get much better than a tense 2-1 game over 11 innings. Every pitch and every play were meaningful until the last out. Yamamoto was the star for the Dodgers, but the bullpen was also fantastic.
After an epic ball game, Mark decided to write an arrogant column with an air of superiority. He spends a lot of time and money to run the blog and has every right to call us morons because our opinions differ from his. Mark has made some bad predictions in his time just like the rest of us. The 11 comments cited by Mark as BS may turn out to be wrong, but none of them were extremely crazy or moronic in my view. In fact, I made a few of them myself. My summary of the column is: your comment is objective if you agree with Mark, and it is subjective and moronic if you disagree with Mark.
You’re pretty close 90% of the time!!
I know Mark it just couldn’t be better. Everything is so rosy. Roberts is the greatest manager ever. Freidmen is a genius and how dare anyone second guess the brilliant way dodgers do things. I can’t comprehend how we haven’t won ten titles in a row other than them other teams must be getting really lucky
oh by the way Mark, a few weeks ago i said Luis Arraez would be hitting over .300 by the all star break. you wanted to bet me he wouldn’t!! He’s around .330 with 89 hits. no. power and not great defensively, but wouldn’t he look good batting 8th in dodgers lineup?? Even dumbasses are right. every blue moon!! lol
We’re duelin’
The comparison between Ozuna and CT3 is not a good one. CT3 is slumping for over 1.5 years now, Ozuna had a bad month a year ago.
And it is also a fact that we have a lot of weak bats on the roster who are collectively not hitting: Barnes, CT3, Kike, Lux. That is four guys out of 13 . The jury still out on Pages and Vargas with heyward just returning from the IL.
That is a lot of question marks. Objectively viewed.
Yamamoto was fantastic last night. True ace performance with ace stuff. I will call him Yoshi from now on.:-)
Ramirez has filthy stuff when he is on. IMHO that was among Docs best managerial moves when he hugged him in Cincy on the mound. LOoks like that turned Ramirez season around. Maybe his career. Got to give credit when credit is due.
I hate that they mic up players. That error on Kike was the final straw for me. And what was all that cable hanging off of Kike ? From Apple? Apple? Got to be kidding me.
Bobby Miller looked fine yesterday, not very good but fine. Velo is almost fully back. I can see the Dodgers go with a 6th men rotation when he comes back.
dePaula and Joendry Vargas have not played in a couple days with their teams. Anything wrong with them or just rest?
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From an objective standpoint our bottom of the lineup is one of the worst hitting in the league. This is a fact not subjective. Will that change? With Taylor trending the wrong way for 2 years, Kiké ave at best, lux no sign right now n platoon guy, Barnes no, Rojas hitting over his head, pages n Vargas who knows. Even if the bottom gets better is the upside enough? Except for pages and Vargas the rest have a track record so we shall c. I think we need another hitter (subjective) because the results are not in.
Any way great to c the Dodgers win last night. Yamamoto was super. Playoff type atmosphere where the Dodgers have pitching this year but the offense absent . Playoff pitching will slow the offense but it shouldn’t be dismal. Looking forward I would target offensive improvement based on the weakness at the bottom based on the stats.
But thank you for explaining what objective and subjective means. I thought u were Bluto for a minute. I just don’t understand why somebody posting a subjective or objective post sends some people into a condescending personal attack. Is there a rubric for posting?
ok mark i am one of the dumdasses you pointed out! I didn’t ever want to see Ramirez wearing blue again!! But as everyone says it’s EARLY!! (he looked filthy last night!). Yamamoto was outstanding!! Of course the yankees fans will scream no Soto!! Well we had no Muncey!!! Little different player but still a major part of the dodgers. Bullpen again was nails! if Barnes is going to catch a game in this series, shouldn’t it be today? Especially since Will caught 11 innings last night. Please Doc, No Taylor today !! It would be nice to get today’s game, but please not taylor and barnes, and kiki all playing together!!! Gavin Stone can tighten his grip on the number 3 spot. in the rotation with a strong performance. He continues to pitch like he has, no way he ever goes back to the bullpen!!