Japan

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J.A. Happ has many ways to do one thing.

Some of you good buddies wouldn'a seen the little sequence on TV.  They showed a split frame of J.A. Happ's two different changeup grips -- one a classic circle change, the other a splitfinger change.  The two pitches aren't meant to result in different pitches, not meant to fool the hitter in any way.  You know, like a two-seam fastball would run armside to give a different look.  He just does it to dink around.

Blowers and Krueger were kinda like, "that's different."  Hardly ever saw a pitcher do that before.

In Japan you call something "different" when:

• A guy puts the peanut butter and jelly on the outside of the bread
• Somebody decides to see what happens if you plant the shrub with the roots up
• You decide to post a 1,500 article in all caps
• The pitcher throws an eephus pitch with a 35-foot arc
• A golfer decides to see what happens if he holds the club by the blade and swing harder

Different is fine, but you've also got to be aware when something has been done for a long time and --- > there is a good reason for doing it that way.  "Different" sometimes means that you are oblivious to what has gone on before you.  Most cultures in the Eastern Hemisphere value their seniors, much less their ancestors.  The state of American society is unusual, where all people 30 years older than you are assumed to be stupid until proven otherwise.