Age-old adages. Bromides. Things we’ve heard over and over again as history continues to repeat itself.
Walks Will Haunt is a pretty straightforward, simple one. Give an opponent a free pass to 1B, and it’s going to come back to bite you in the form of a run. At least, it sure appears like a simple one on paper, though it’s again occurring to me that many of the same generation of Cincinnati Reds fans that grew up with the ghostly image on the Riverfront jumbotron also disliked Joey Votto for walking too much for some reason.