trythil wrote:Or, to put it another way: there's certain fundamentals in baseball in which one should try to establish a solid foundation before trying out crazy maneuvers. What seems to be happening here is people doing the latter without the former.
I should add "and offering advice based on those experiences". I don't think there's anything wrong with screwing around, but if you're going to teach someone else how to do X, I think you should be able to thoroughly explain X: the rationale behind the procedures, how things work, and so forth.






