Situations are extremely different. If Kershaw was at 100 pitches, I'd get it.
I'm not saying it's cut and dry to leave him in, I understand Roberts decision, but as a fan, it's annoying and it's part of the reason why some of the fun aspects of baseball are slowly being phased out. And I love baseball, I'm heavy into the analytics. I'm on fangraphs reading articles, listening to Effectively Wild podcast, on baseball savant every single day. One thing I noticed about the "super smart" baseball fans is they don't have a feel for what the average fan enjoys. They're too tunnel visioned on "what's the correct move" over what the general public wants to see, because most times they're anti-social nerds, which is why there's usually such a disconnect between the Saber heads and the regular fans who watch just to be entertained. Sound decisions are often times not the most entertaining ones, so they can't wrap their heads around the fact people are mad about someone being taken out of a perfect game on 80 pitches. They see it as "It was the most logical/safest route" and to them, that's all matters.
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