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Intruder posted:To be fair we've had players pitching without extras already a couple of times this week-old season shut the front door
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Its Rinaldo posted:shut the front door It resulted in my favorite stat to this point in this admittedly young season, that Ka'ai Tom gave up his first career hit as a pitcher before getting his first career hit. He's an outfielder
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Apr 8, 2021 08:41
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Unfortunately I'm pretty sure the runner on second rule is here to stay, by all accounts the players actually like it because it lets them end games and get home faster.
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Apr 8, 2021 08:43
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Yeah, it doesn't significantly increase home or road team's winning chance, what it does increase is the chance that the teams will score different amounts of runs in a given inning, which will end the game. I don't like it, but MLB and the players do so it's probably here to stay.
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Apr 8, 2021 08:54
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Intruder posted:Yeah and I don't care what anyone says but so is the three batter minimum rule They both are dumb and bad
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Apr 8, 2021 11:29
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I like both of the rules. The pitcher 3 batter minimum one is especially nice
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I thought I would hate the runner on second rule but it owns. Immediate pressure and excitement.
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Hand Row posted:I thought I would hate the runner on second rule but it owns. Immediate pressure and excitement. Sounds like every inning should start with a runner on second, then. Why not? More pressure and excitement, and a higher chance of more offense. Everyone loves offense!
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Sounds like every inning should start with a runner on second, then. Why not? More pressure and excitement, and a higher chance of more offense. Everyone loves offense! It's artificially creating offense when the problem is still that the way the game is played now sucks.
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Apr 8, 2021 14:02
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You don't like immobile fat men swinging out of their shoes at every pitch? Three true outcomes are all we need.
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Apr 8, 2021 14:06
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If one of those outcomes is pfc being less bitter and more fun I'm all for it.
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Apr 8, 2021 14:08
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Once Manfred outlaws the shift, every player will look like Willians Astudillo.
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Apr 8, 2021 14:10
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I hope not, I dont wanna be all horned up watching a ball game
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Apr 8, 2021 14:16
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On June 15th 1976, a Pirates - Astros game at the Astrodome was rained out because flooding filled the stairwells. The players couldn’t leave, so a buffet dinner was set up for them on the outfield. In Manfred’s future every game will start with the players eating a buffet dinner on the outfield.
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Apr 8, 2021 14:19
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A buffet dinner sounds nice
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Intruder posted:A buffet dinner sounds nice I think buffets are going to be one of the permanent casualties of COVID and that is for the best imo....
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Apr 8, 2021 14:27
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I might agree but drat if being able to roll up to a table and pluck infinite pork bun isn't my vision of heaven.
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Well I was thinking more of the type of buffet that MLB players might be served, not so much the Golden Corral type
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Apr 8, 2021 14:30
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Golden Corral doesn't share pork bun. I think their target audience wouldn't get it anyway. Honestly I've only ever been to one buffet ever that had them, some random chinese buffet in Philly, they also had a Mongolian grill and surprisingly good pastry, but the only reason I went there was to eat my own body weight in pork bun. Mmmmmmmmm...
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Apr 8, 2021 14:33
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I like the image of you pulling into any random buffet and asking about their pork bun before Charlie Browning your way back into the parking lot I've never had pork bun but now I absolutely have to try it
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Apr 8, 2021 14:40
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Even the best kind of buffets, asian buffets and Vegas casino buffets aren't THAT good.
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mcmagic posted:Even the best kind of buffets, asian buffets and Vegas casino buffets aren't THAT good. I am going to this buffet before I die https://www.caesars.com/ballys-las-vegas/restaurants/sterling-brunch Sorry but the Astros have lost my toxx willingness
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Intruder posted:I've never had pork bun but now I absolutely have to try it Here in Baltimore there's a place that's occasionally open called Wow Bao and it's dangerous for my wallet when they are.
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Apr 8, 2021 15:26
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Always tried to make it to Eddie Huang’s bao place when I was in NYC. Unfortunately it became a covid casualty.
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mcmagic posted:Even the best kind of buffets, asian buffets and Vegas casino buffets aren't THAT good. Someone has never been to Toronto and/or Mandarin, baby
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I mean we say that "most extra inning games end in 12 or less" but I was at an 18 inning game in 2007 that I stayed all the way through out of sheer bloody-minded stubbornness, and let me tell you, I never regretted the "we stop selling beer after the 7th" rule more in my entire life.
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Apr 8, 2021 15:51
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mcmagic posted:Even the best kind of buffets, asian buffets and Vegas casino buffets aren't THAT good. I dunno, I went to a buffet at the Bellagio that was absolutely stellar and had drat near any food you could ever want. I absolutely will not miss regular buffets though. I’ve seen enough kids sticking their grubby little plague rat hands straight into mashed potatoes and chocolate fountains for one lifetime.
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Apr 8, 2021 15:51
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I hate buffets because I don’t have enough self control to stop eating before I feel physically ill.
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more falafel please posted:is that the i hit dingers kid from the LLWS a few years ago Oh my God this was my immediate thought too. DurosKlav posted:Just end games in a tie after the 12th if you hate extra innings so much Manfred. Seriously, I loving hate the runner on rule, just let there be ties it's so loving dumb.
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Apr 8, 2021 16:03
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Japanese baseball allows ties and it works just fine. Starting to think this Manfred guy doesn't like baseball very much
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jng2058 posted:I mean we say that "most extra inning games end in 12 or less" but I was at an 18 inning game in 2007 that I stayed all the way through out of sheer bloody-minded stubbornness, and let me tell you, I never regretted the "we stop selling beer after the 7th" rule more in my entire life. Narrowly beaten by “rain delay after the 7th” in brutality. God help you if you end up experiencing both scenarios in a game, especially simultaneously.
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Apr 8, 2021 16:04
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Are they going to start games early for the entire season? I really hate not having baseball to watch past like 10:30PM.
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The best buffets in Vegas are at The Wynn and The Cosmopolitan. Planet Hollywood has a good one too because they kept it the same as when it was The Aladdin. The extra innings rule is the equivalent of my beer league hockey games where the refs won't ever call icing if the game started at 10pm or later.
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The Reds are on pace to score 1,539 runs this season.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:The Reds are on pace to score 1,539 runs this season. If only they could play the Pirates every game. What a garbage team.
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There is a good argument that the Yankees should've traded Gleyber Torres last season. It's as big of an open question as to what exactly he is as a player, as it's been in his career. It's getting more and more clear that the Yankees have stuck with this core for too long and the longer they wait to make really big changes, the more their assets are depreciating.
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Popete posted:Are they going to start games early for the entire season? I really hate not having baseball to watch past like 10:30PM. They were doing this last season so I'm pretty sure its the new standard. It actually seems like one of the most logical moves in the "try and attract people put off by the length" campaign. I assume they're also still doing reduced inning breaks? That probably contributes a tiny bit.
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Dr.Donkeypunch posted:If only they could play the Pirates every game. https://i.imgur.com/7aL1cQn.mp4
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mcmagic posted:There is a good argument that the Yankees should've traded Gleyber Torres last season. It's as big of an open question as to what exactly he is as a player, as it's been in his career. It's getting more and more clear that the Yankees have stuck with this core for too long and the longer they wait to make really big changes, the more their assets are depreciating. between this and Eloy's funeral, it's clear that Theo did nothing wrong
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