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bewbies posted:Someone make a realistic Tebow in OOTP and force start him in RF and see what happens. He slashes like .120/.130/.200 and plays bad defense. Sorry for the spoilers
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Sydin posted:Still better than Heyward. What would a Tebow rain delay speech even have been like?
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Mar 11, 2017 00:39
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Pancakes posted:What would a Tebow rain delay speech even have been like? Silent prayer
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Pancakes posted:What would a Tebow rain delay speech even have been like? "Let us pray", followed by the Cubs losing the game in explosive fashion, Tebow washing out of MLB, and lots of ESPN stories about him trying to break into the NHL.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:44
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Luigi Thirty posted:Remember Strike-O-Matic and his inexplicably good numbers? Didn't Someone made PDFs of both seasons/threads, right? I had them on an old computer and am bummed I can't find them anymore.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:52
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Inspector_666 posted:Jays pitcher TJ House took a liner to the head just a little bit ago, they aren't finishing the game. He's okay! https://twitter.com/THouse25/status/840348367616118784 https://twitter.com/THouse25/status/840348567101460480
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Paracaidas posted:Didn't Yeah, Strike-O-Matic finished one season with an SB.
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Spoeank posted:He's okay! Some sources were saying the ball went 30 feet in the air after hitting his head  The human body is really amazing sometimes. Get drilled in the head with a projectile going amazing speeds and come out of it relatively unharmed (not saying this is the case here, extent of the recovery is unknown, but it has happened before). Twist your knee or back slightly in the wrong way and be out for months.
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Your Taint posted:"That's Cub" reminds me of that scene in Mean Girls where the one girl tries to make "fetch" work. I can't get over how this is the best post about "That's Cub" Real glad that TJ House is okay, sounded dire...no one wants that. ChiTownEddie fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 02:42
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Some sources were saying the ball went 30 feet in the air after hitting his head Gameday says the catcher caught the ball, which....yikes.
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Mar 11, 2017 03:21
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I saw a quote from Gibbons that he managed to get his glove up so it didn't fly directly into his dome, thank goodness.
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Paul Zuvella posted:He slashes like .120/.130/.200 and plays bad defense. Sorry for the spoilers You could go in and mess around with his settings and at least give him a fighting chance of making the bigs.
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Inspector_666 posted:I saw a quote from Gibbons that he managed to get his glove up so it didn't fly directly into his dome, thank goodness. MLB really needs to be working on head protection. I know it's been said but I feel passionately about this. Guys like Brandon McCarthy essentially got lucky ("lucky" being a relative term). Under the wrong circumstances (you instinctively turn your head to protect your face and don't get the glove all the way up in time) and take one flush off the temple you're in big trouble. BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 03:33
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Your Taint posted:MLB really needs to be working on head protection. I know it's been said but I feel passionately about this. Guys like Brandon McCarthy essentially got lucky ("lucky" being a relative term). Under the wrong circumstances (you instinctively turn your head to protect your face and don't get the glove all the way up in time) and take one flush off the temple you're in big trouble. What can you do about that, though? They're not going to wear a full-on helmet, and a reinforced cap isn't going to help much there.
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Inspector_666 posted:What can you do about that, though? They're not going to wear a full-on helmet, and a reinforced cap isn't going to help much there. I would think a reinforced cap would give enough protection to at least lessen the blow from a direct hit on the temple. It still would be scary and the pitcher would probably still get hurt, but I'm thinking you could at least prevent death or serious injury. I don't think anything like a batting helmet would be feasible, plus guys wouldn't want to wear them. People much smarter than me would have to figure it out, but you'd think at least something could be done.
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Honestly I don't see anything changing unless somebody dies. Players don't want to wear anything but a cap and this isn't as serious a problem like the NFL with concussions, it just doesn't happen that often for there to be any serious push.
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Pitchers are against reinforced caps because they've spent large portions of their lives fine-tuning themselves to be as effective as possible and even a seemingly minor alteration to their cap design can throw them off. Personally I'd be in favour of mandating a reinforced cap starting in little league ASAP so the next generation of MLB pitchers can grow up with it.
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Mar 11, 2017 04:20
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Also they don't want to look like doofuses. Apparently they've never heard of pitch face.
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Mar 11, 2017 05:13
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Baseball should be played with tennis balls and metal bats because that's all I had when I was a kid and they go really far when you hit them and if you take a liner to the face it just stings pretty bad
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Mar 11, 2017 05:52
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If you wanna feel like the strongest person in the world toss golfballs to yourself with a metal bat. NOTE: Do not do this near any houses/cars/people that you value.
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Mar 11, 2017 05:57
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Popete posted:If you wanna feel like the strongest person in the world toss golfballs to yourself with a metal bat. I'm reasonably certain you could break my windows from your place like this. If you're doing this, please aim to the east. In WBC news, Yadi owns and Carlos Beltran's bleached facial hair makes it look like he was eating Cheetos out of a feedbag like a horse.
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Pancakes posted:Carlos Beltran's bleached facial hair makes it look like he was eating Cheetos out of a feedbag like a horse. 
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nmfree posted:...you mean he wasn't? "On the next episode of Fielder's Choice..."
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I'd watch Fielder's Choice if the only guests were enormous, beefy baseball players. Today on Fielder's Choice, Ray King makes his special Literally an Entire Pig with special guest Jumbo Diaz and "Cowboy" Joe West
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R.D. Mangles posted:I'd watch Fielder's Choice if the only guests were enormous, beefy baseball players. Today on Fielder's Choice, Ray King makes his special Literally an Entire Pig with special guest Jumbo Diaz and "Cowboy" Joe West 
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Mar 11, 2017 06:30
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Reactive armor baseball caps. When your cap senses an incoming baseball a small explosion launches a piece of your cap against the ball to blunt the force. Hire me MLB
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Some sources were saying the ball went 30 feet in the air after hitting his head I had a line drive hit the brim of my hat so directly that it split the brim and left me a goose egg from the indirect shock through the brim for several days, another guy in my league had to have his jaw wired shut for 6 weeks, so it can vary pretty widely
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I'm in favor of all fielders wearing John Olerud--style helmets, including pitchers man that guy owned
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Paracaidas posted:Didn't I feel like better PDFs were made at some point, but these are all I could find: Thread 1 Thread 2 holy poo poo these are nine years old
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Make pitchers wear helmets. In fact, have baseball players wear full football pads and make the game a contact sport. Catchers can block the plate again, get rid of neighborhood plays, and if a baserunner tackles a fielder and the fielder drops the ball then there's no out. Somebody call Vince McMahon, if he thought the XFL was a good idea then boy do I have a pitch for him. Tebow can bring back the He Hate Me jersey
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Reformed Pissboy posted:I feel like better PDFs were made at some point, but these are all I could find: You're amazing. If anyone hasn't read these, rectify that immediately.
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Inspector_666 posted:https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/840221440507035648 I realize that this is a bit late, but based on those photos Locks of Love can't actually use his hair unless they've seriously changed their donation standards. I donated twice back in the day and they had very specific guidelines about how the hair had to be donated. Doesn't look like they're complying with length or style requirements. I choose to believe that the Yankees are lying about donating to kids with cancer to give themselves cover for their stupid rule. Because that's Yankee.
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They're donating to Merkins Of Hope.
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Poque posted:They're donating to Merkins Of Hope. I hope that's where Espinoza's beard went
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Julio Cruz posted:Pitchers are against reinforced caps because they've spent large portions of their lives fine-tuning themselves to be as effective as possible and even a seemingly minor alteration to their cap design can throw them off. Personally I'd be in favour of mandating a reinforced cap starting in little league ASAP so the next generation of MLB pitchers can grow up with it. This would be how it has to be done. Start with the next generation, but then you'd have to get all the Babe Ruth and high school and college teams to do it for consistency and that just seems like a nightmare. I just don't want to see anyone die or be permanently disabled and I'm honestly kind of surprised it hasn't happened at the major league level yet. However several years ago I know a first base coach in the minors died after getting hit in the head with a line drive.
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Poque posted:They're donating to Merkins Of Hope. Some poor kid will finally get the fire crotch they deserve.
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Popete posted:If you wanna feel like the strongest person in the world toss golfballs to yourself with a metal bat. My best friend growing up had a huge communal backyard and always had these huge Superballs that were about the size of baseballs. It was fun as Hell to hit them until we had to go into people's backyards blocks away to try to retrieve them.
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