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The baseball kid movie boom is (guessing) due to Hollywood producers being 40ish baby boomers who felt big nostalgia after watching Field of Dreams and wanted movies for their kids to watch to better understand why anyone could be nostalgic for basesball, especially during the 90s.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:09
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All it really did was drive home that baseball is loving boring
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Apr 18, 2023 21:19
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I see people all the time who pay tickets to see the padres and im just smdh. Wtf even are baseball tickets nowadays
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Apr 18, 2023 21:23
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They can be really cheap if your team sucks. Like less than 10bux. Of course then fees get you.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:24
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Does anyone else think it is really weird that in the movie "Rookie of the Year" that the National Baseball League is allowed to hire a 13-year old and cripple him? honestly? no
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Apr 18, 2023 21:28
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Zachack posted:They can be really cheap if your team sucks. I guess if your going with friends its sonething to do/organize around but drat its boring as gently caress lol. Only ever went once with ppl and was in those poo poo tier 2nd floor/top seats. Baseball is a mystery.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:33
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Prayer is probably required because every other team is either forsaken by God or is capable of winning on their own devices. You can give the Angels an entire roster of generational talent and still get 4th in the division, clearly something else is going to be required.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:41
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I love the poo poo out of baseball and have for almost 30 years but I’m never, ever going to try to convince anybody it’s not boring because it clearly is.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:42
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Mellow Seas posted:I love the poo poo out of baseball and have for almost 30 years but I’m never, ever going to try to convince anybody it’s not boring because it clearly is. Being boring is a feature, not a bug. It's for chilling out, not winding up.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:43
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WoodrowSkillson posted:gently caress it whatever Whew
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Apr 18, 2023 21:45
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Mellow Seas posted:I love the poo poo out of baseball and have for almost 30 years but I’m never, ever going to try to convince anybody it’s not boring because it clearly is. There's a pitch clock now, it's actually pretty zippy compared to before though the games are still about as long as it may be entirely psychological. Also batters can only leave the box once per at bat and not twice per pitch as was the previous custom.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:46
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It's boring tho, like most sports you really have to grow up following it to really give a poo poo about it.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:47
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Yeah the pitch clock seems like a big improvement, not just for speeding up the game but reviving base stealing. I haven’t been able to psychologically alter my evening routine enough to actually watch any games this year besides the WBC final (which, wow) but I’m looking forward to it.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:52
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Mellow Seas posted:Well, that was an accident, a kid can slip on a baseball anywhere, the fact that it was on the infield at Wrigley doesn’t change that. And that incident UNcrippled him; it didn’t just take away his powers but also gave him back full motor control over his right arm. Going from a World Series winning professional pitcher to a regular 13-year old whose dad doesn't love him counts as crippling.
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Apr 18, 2023 21:55
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Advertisers and sports clubs triangulating to find a way to speed up baseball so more people watch and slow down soccer so that they can start jamming ads in there. j/k about the second half of that, VAR has been great for exposing divers and denying them penalties
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Apr 18, 2023 22:03
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Growing up my old man was a yankees fan (from nyc) so whenever baseball came up id be like yeah the yankees baby to go with the flow, not realizing i was aligning myself with baseball al qaeda
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Apr 18, 2023 22:06
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once you get past the boringness of baseball, you get to enjoy how every team is run like it's owned by a hedge fund looking for an exit
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Apr 18, 2023 22:08
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Cease to Hope posted:once you get past the boringness of baseball, you get to enjoy how every team is run like it's owned by a hedge fund looking for an exit Except for the Mets, whose owner is willing to set any quantity of money on fire for a shot at a World Series, and who is, ironically, literally a hedge fund manager. Much preferable to my Yankees who are run by relatively cheap failsons.
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Apr 18, 2023 22:20
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Judgy Fucker posted:Don;t knock grudge probing until you've tried it if i didn't hate the very concept of moderation i'd take your advice and try it out Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Does anyone else think it is really weird that in the movie "Rookie of the Year" that the National Baseball League is allowed to hire a 13-year old and cripple him? i have bad news about caribbean mlb feeder teams
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Apr 19, 2023 00:09
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Homeless Friend posted:I see people all the time who pay tickets to see the padres and im just smdh. Wtf even are baseball tickets nowadays cubs at dodgers tickets this weekend were $125-175 for field level seats between third base and home plate. factor in the price of beer and parking and you get some eye popping numbers
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Apr 19, 2023 00:12
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in conclusion, crimea belongs to me
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Apr 19, 2023 02:30
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i made a sourdough starter over passover and now centrelink is making me clean toilets lol
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Apr 19, 2023 03:42
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i'm not saying the two events are connected or that i brought any kind of divine misfortune on myself. but
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Apr 19, 2023 03:44
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it beats boils and locusts. i don't know about water turning to blood
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Apr 19, 2023 03:49
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the flies are just par for the course
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Apr 19, 2023 03:50
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i think they're starting to just make up mods for d&d, soon the only name i'll recognize will be vilerat
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Apr 19, 2023 04:42
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i think they're starting to just make up mods for d&d, soon the only name i'll recognize will be vilerat Leon bit the dust for unexplained reasons. SAD is quite the bloodbath. I could make a fortune selling pitchforks and torches there.
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Apr 19, 2023 04:48
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Deteriorata posted:Leon bit the dust for unexplained reasons. SAD is quite the bloodbath. I could make a fortune selling pitchforks and torches there. i'm sure glad that fluff posted that somewhere public and relevant to d&d posters, like page 15 of a thread about how everyone who posts in d&d is some kind of freak
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Apr 19, 2023 04:53
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Wait what the gently caress, they got Leon?
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Apr 19, 2023 05:45
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The relevant postFluffdaddy posted:I have demodded Leon at this time for not respecting the privacy of users. For PI sake I won't go into details, but we have zero tolerance for not respecting the privacy of all users, no matter what our personal feelings are about them.
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Apr 19, 2023 05:51
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Come for the queen you'd best not miss. Sorry, boys. 
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Apr 19, 2023 05:51
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(jk, he wasn't demodded on my behalf)
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Apr 19, 2023 05:54
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Willa Rogers posted:Come for the queen you'd best not miss. Sorry, boys.
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Apr 19, 2023 06:00
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this story must be really embarrassing for the admins, otherwise fluff would absolutely be bragging about every little detail
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Apr 19, 2023 06:28
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Main Paineframe posted:this story must be really embarrassing for the admins, otherwise fluff would absolutely be bragging about every little detail well, glad to be wrong about this one, everyone just made fun of him for posting badly instead
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Apr 19, 2023 06:50
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Cease to Hope posted:i'm sure glad that fluff posted that somewhere public and relevant to d&d posters, like page 15 of a thread about how everyone who posts in d&d is some kind of freak Good chance whatever it is is made up and the admins are doing whatever the mob is asking for to shut them up vOv
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Apr 19, 2023 06:54
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Somaen posted:Good chance whatever it is is made up and the admins are doing whatever the mob is asking for to shut them up vOv that does not seem like a likely thing to me, no. in fact, that seems like a bizarre and paranoid thing to believe
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Apr 19, 2023 07:02
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It's quite likely indeed, for example, pointing out that the moronic extremely hostile poster, posting in the exact same voice and the exact same things, is the same guy on a different account (as opposed to a rename), was lyingly misconstrued as "doxxing", which is of course a different thing, but it gets the admins reacting, so it'll continue to be used
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Apr 19, 2023 07:17
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is there any taste of power with as bitter an aftertaste as moderating something awful
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Apr 19, 2023 07:17
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Cease to Hope posted:that does not seem like a likely thing to me, no. in fact, that seems like a bizarre and paranoid thing to believe You're right. Everyone is clearly behaving very calmly and rationally at the moment.
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