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How many of those subjects had been playing a grueling marathon of a season? Conditions matter
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May 17, 2017 15:25
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bewbies posted:I'm sure we all agree with this but I suspect, without having done any analysis of my own, that you can show at least a very strong correlation if not causation between power numbers and age during the roid era. Has anyone ever done a good analysis on this? Specifically maybe, something like comparing SLG, or better yet ISO, to age during the roid era? I would bet pretty strongly that ISO-by-age rose pretty sharply. Probably, but getting away with cheating is a time honored tradition in the game. They got away with it, kudos to them
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May 17, 2017 15:26
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I can't even get assed to get mad about the steroid era, it largely helped the sport after the backlash from the strike since America is so anti-labor I won't even deny that taking steroids is cheating EVEN THOUGH IT WASN'T AGAINST THE RULES AT THE TIME. I just think it's stupid to classify it after the fact as a more egregious form of cheating than all the other ways players have cheated pretty much since the invention of the sport
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May 17, 2017 15:34
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May 17, 2017 15:40
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Just convince the Giants this is a playoff game somehow The Rangers have won 7 straight and are still 8 back of the Astros, it owns Only the Nationals have a bigger lead in their division because lol NL East (granted the AL West is also pretty weak this season, but not "Second place is six games under .500" weak)
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May 17, 2017 15:43
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Speaking of which, I've seen a lot of speculation that balls are juiced this year to increase offense. Thoughts?
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May 17, 2017 15:47
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Baseball Simulator 1.000 damnit So underappreciated
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May 17, 2017 15:51
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Hand Knit posted:I am not sure where this line began, or where it is now, but I think it has reached its conclusion. The Houston Astros They good
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May 17, 2017 15:54
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Zigmidge posted:No robots allowed will become baseball's unspoken rule. They won't even let robots call balls and strikes
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May 17, 2017 16:00
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Beltran got off to a hot start but has cooled significantly lately and actually has a negative WAR Thanks a lot jerk But seriously, this The Ringer article goes into how this is one of the worst seasons for players over 35 ever and is the worst in wRC+ since 1965 https://theringer.com/mlb-veteran-player-statistical-decline-c431a2690c06
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May 17, 2017 16:17
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If the Astros win tonight they'll have the same record the Cubs had at this point last season When does Astros chat begin, when do the Astros posters come out of the woodwork instead of the same four or five of us 
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May 17, 2017 17:02
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Timby posted:Selig is easily in the upper tier of commissioners, possibly top two. (Not that it's a terribly high bar to meet, given most of the clowns who held that office.) But really, outside of the failed contraction scheme, the shell game to kill the Expos, the All-Star Game / home field advantage thing and the A-Rod witch hunt, he did a lot of good for the game. He forced the Astros to play with the roof open in the WS and forced them to play a "home" game in Milwaukee against the Cubs during Hurricane Ike, gently caress him (they got no-hit in said game in front of a huge crowd of Cubs fans) Inspector_666 posted:Too bad you couldn't have stayed in the NL, now I have to hate you. I never wanted them to leave the NL  Now I have to watch games that start at like 9 PM in my time zone
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May 17, 2017 17:30
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Speaking of the Astros playing with the roof open, I really think they should have told whoever maintains it to create a problem that would prevent the mechanism for opening it from working and then pretend they couldn't figure out what was wrong until after the series ended
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May 17, 2017 17:57
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e: nvm, was asked to drop, dropping ...how bout them 'Stros!
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May 17, 2017 18:11
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29-13  Didn't realize it was a day game earlier Keuchel has been great but I'm concerned by him having such a huge number of balls out of the zone swung at. If hitters start waiting him out it might get messy
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May 17, 2017 21:03
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Tony Phillips posted:Seems odd that he would get screwed out of a tiny bit of batting average like that. And an RBI
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May 17, 2017 22:50
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Popete posted:This all circles back to my complaint about Errors in the first place, they usually punish someone incorrectly. If that had been scored an error it would have taken away a game winning hit/sac from Pujols on what was a well hit ball. I'm shocked he even went for the ball, typically on a ball hit that deep that'll bring the run in anyway you see the outfielders just start jogging in e: Oh my, I thought the Astros were 29-13 but they're actually 29-12. Better still! 14-3 in their last 17 and they actually have a better road record than home, unlike 2015 where their road woes severely hosed them Intruder fucked around with this message at 23:03 on May 17, 2017 |
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May 17, 2017 22:57
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That's boring. We need some more Billy Martin style "Let's get em boys!" while hefting a baseball bat Also 'them' being the fans in that case but you know what I mean
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May 17, 2017 23:23
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Popete posted:Didn't hear anything about this before now, but apparently a fan died from a fall at Wrigley last night. Apparently it happened after the game as fans where exiting. When did Josh Hamilton get traded to the Cubs? In Curt Schilling news: quote:“If he wants to maintain the lie he made here, that’s fine. No one denies racism exists, but when people like him lie about an incident and others just take him at his word, it perpetuates a mythical level of racism,” Schilling explained. “And for some reason, it appears blacks believe only blacks can talk about racism and only whites can be racists. I promise you if some scumbag yelled the N-word at Adam Jones in Fenway, it would have been on Twitter, Facebook and every other social media site asap, like every other ‘incident.’ Not to mention the liberal Boston media would have broken its neck to identify the racist. But just taking him at his word means there are a bunch of white cowards and racists living here, because no one stood up to the guy. Adam has an agenda and one needs to only look at his past commentary on race and racism to see it. But see, when you question fake hate crimes in this day and age it somehow makes you a racist. If you use this use every word or none at all.”
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Curt's stance: It's unfair that only minorities can claim to be oppressed in America This is a real thing he believes
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May 18, 2017 07:27
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ComposerGuy posted:I feel like the Astros may lose the Cleveland series. It just feels like we eventually have to lose one after so many in a row. We've already lost one series to them (one of the two series losses we have this season, the other being to the Royals) No game today, looking forward to hopefully a strong weekend series Astros status: still flying high like Gurriel's hair
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May 18, 2017 16:00
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ComposerGuy posted:It's like a separate team member all on its own. As much as I love Gurriel's hair, OPSing .700ish at first base while being a butcher in the field isn't going to cut it Trade for Freddie Freeman immediately
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May 18, 2017 16:13
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kensei posted:He died Oh right
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May 18, 2017 16:24
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If he apologized and is sincere I see no reason to lambaste him. If anything, it draws attention to how using the word was wrong and how even he recognizes he made a mistake Hopefully the apology isn't "I'm sorry if anyone was offended" pee pee doo doo
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May 18, 2017 16:31
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Michael Sam's combine was historically bad it's not hard to see why teams passed on him
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May 18, 2017 16:38
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Jason Collins was 35 when he came out and also not very good He was 7 years removed from averaging more than 3 points a game or 3 rebounds a game as a center
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May 18, 2017 16:45
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Aaron Rodgers seems to be doing fine. Just saying
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May 18, 2017 17:06
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The_Hat posted:I love this quote lol patonthebach posted:Also this kinda weird and creepy. I hear this poo poo all the time of people trying to out sports stars and it just seems like you are implying being gay is a bad or shameful thing. Either the guy is gay but isn't public about it (which is ok) or he is straight and this is weird thing to say about him. It's a running gag that I guess doesn't play outside of TFF, sorry e: ER I SHOULD SAY I'M SORRY IF ANYONE WAS OFFENDED
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May 18, 2017 17:24
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FlamingLiberal posted:It sucks because it seems like the backlash against Sam probably kept a bunch of other pro athletes in the closet. I know a few activist players said that they had been in contact with gay NFL players who were considering coming out, but that never happened. The almighty "It's a distraction" that doesn't apply to domestic violence for some reason
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Actually watched the Batista homerun finally and  did the benches really clear after that good but not overly theatric bat flip?What a bunch of babies
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Ice Fist posted:Apparently bat flips make the game 'tough to watch' We have so much to learn from Korea
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Ice Fist posted:Honestly I think Bautista's batlfip was dumb because the Jays were losing, but a batflip is basically the football spike of baseball. It's so mundane it's not even worth mentioning. Fair, and it also doesn't help that Bats is slashing a healthy .208/.330/.376 and appears to be just about done, but it's still a stupid thing to get mad about elentar posted:Braves shouldn't have gotten up for that, bat flipping when you've brought your team within 4 of an excessively lovely team is already sufficient self-ownage. Also true
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It's always the best time to be dramatic about a bat flip when you hit a dong
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I can't begin to understand why people care so much about batflips. Batflip on everything I say. Foul balls. Singles. Popups.
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Just increase the extravagance of the flip based on the result
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May 18, 2017 18:08
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IcePhoenix posted:I'd actually be ok with bunting if people batflipped after them, especially when it's a good one. Bunting is probably the main reason I don't want the "runner starts on second" rule change in extras. Literally every inning: Bunt, attempt at sac fly
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*throws fastball at dude for perceived sleight* *loses poo poo over flipping the bat toward the dugout* Do people still wax poetic about how Bob Gibson would put one in your earhole if you so much as glanced up from the basepaths after hitting a homer off him? Intruder fucked around with this message at 19:04 on May 18, 2017 |
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