It's Called Strategy, And Anyone Who Doesn't Understand Bryce Harper's At-Bat From Wednesday Night Needs To Read A Book
Mitchell Leff. Getty Images.Bryce Harper is a pretty solid swinger of the baseball bat. Guy has spent his entire life perfecting the craft, and becoming one of the best sluggers on planet Earth. What do you do all day? Sit around with your dick in your hand and scroll through Twitter for a few hours while you're supposed to be working?
So in one corner we have a guy who is one of the best hitters in the world, and in the other corner we have a bunch of jabronis on the couch with a Twitter account. I wonder whose side you should take when it comes to this, admittedly bizarre, at-bat from Bryce Harper last night.
You think Bryce Harper doesn't know what he's doing? You think Bryce Harper just got Space Jam'd and had all of his abilities to swing a bat zapped out of his body? Or do you think that maybe, just maybe, Bryce Harper had a plan.
Now just because Bryce Harper is a tactician and strategical genius doesn't mean that he still can't fuck up sometimes. He had a plan to go out there and take every pitch. Make Hoby Milner actually earn the strikeout. Bryce Harper isn't in the business of free handouts. If anything, he's saving America by not allowing a guy like Hoby Milner to pick up some easy strikes while throwing pitches at Bryce's feet. Who could have possibly expected him to get 3 in the strikezone? Not Bryce Harper, that's for sure.
But he had a plan, and he stuck to it. None of this wishy-washy flip-flopping nonsense we see from other leaders in the world.
Or maybe he just had to shit really bad and couldn't trust himself if he swung too hard. Bryce Harper has had an illustrious career so far in the MLB. But the moment you literally shit your pants at the plate, that's all anybody will ever remember you for. So Bryce figured it's best to sacrifice one bad at-bat to avoid that fate. Regardless, the strategy is sound for whichever reasoning was behind it. Bryce Harper knows ball.