HAHA So a guy trying to get to the world series misses a ball on purpose? 
You've obviously never played the game in your life. Every hitter is expecting a fastball and then reacts....If your expecting a changeup or curveball you will invariably miss the fast ball. how do you hit the changeup,curveball or slider in the first place? by not missing the fastball.
Stop talking like what you say is 100% of the players doing this as they go to bat. If what you say is true, no one would ever take a call 3rd strike fastball right down the fukcing middle. But it happens often. Why? Answer---They were sitting on something other than the fastball. How can that be if what you say is true?
Manny use to set up pitchers all the time. Curt Shilling confirmed this. Curt said he only knew of a half dozen hitters that would set up pitchers the way Manny did. Manny would sometimes almost fall down from a curve ball like he was totally fooled early in the count only to hit one 400 feet a couple pitches later. And guess what, Joe Maddon(Rays manager) also believes in setting up pitches the way Manny use too. So much so, he wanted Manny on his team a few years back when Manny was Kryptonite. Of course, most batters can't do this. But Longoria has the talent to do so. And some believe he did this with the OCD head case Clay Buchholtz...
