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Intruder posted:You may be overthinking this internet comedian's scenario of Barry Bonds playing baseball without a bat Have you actually watched the video? Because there's no way Jon Bois is just making a joke. He says himself he's trying to be as accurate as possible.
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Rand alPaul posted:I like him pitching with a SNES stuck in his hair. My favorite is the cow who doesn't think Thoracic Outlet Syndrome is a real thing.
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May 17, 2017 05:43
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patonthebach posted:I think all of us have said something we regret, and most of us have used a slur that targets a group even if we aren't bigots. I know I said a ton of dumb stuff in high school I regret. Pillar is 28. This isn't a high school kid saying something because he doesn't know any better.
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May 18, 2017 17:39
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Intruder posted:I wonder who the NL catcher/pitcher duo was Jesus Flores and Stephen Strasburg, 5/20/2012, Nats at Orioles. There's also a game where Brooks Kieschnick and Eddie Perez went back to back for the Brewers against the Twins, but Kieschnick was DH'ing at the time.
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May 19, 2017 21:32
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Who is the most handsome player on your team? Travis d'Arnaud.
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May 20, 2017 18:40
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Waffles Inc. posted:I doubt he ever plays a meaningful game again. Huge huge bummer Yeah I think he's done. It's possible he could still DH for a team since his current issue appears to be throwing, but honestly I think he'd retire before asking for a trade.
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May 21, 2017 17:35
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Jerry Blevins: good at pitching, not good at looking human he's also 6'6" and 190 which makes him look even less human in person
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May 22, 2017 20:35
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This thread has taught me that YTM and I have very different taste in baseball dudes.
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May 23, 2017 00:34
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:https://twitter.com/rt_ohio/status/866845996881289216 "I remember when you used to be good" says the dumbass to the 5th-best 1B in the game.
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May 23, 2017 17:30
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Paul Zuvella posted:5th best is like, a huge understatement. He's #1 or #2. Going by WAR so far this year. In general, Votto/Goldschmidt/Freeman are the top 3 and there's an argument to be made for any of them, really.
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May 23, 2017 17:58
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Paul Zuvella posted:He is pretty meh defensivly at first base. Not compared to other first basemen he isn't - currently 2nd in dWAR behind Joe Mauer.
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May 23, 2017 18:22
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N: Michael Conforto leads all NL outfielders in wRC+. He isn't on the All-Star Game ballot. V: the ASG voting process is awful and needs to be updated ASAP.
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May 24, 2017 19:51
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:1.975 OPS tends to advance you to the next level pretty quickly. It was the last 5 games of the season. I'm gonna say they were going to move him up to AA the next year however well he hit.
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May 24, 2017 21:05
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Mets enter the bottom of the 9th 6-5 down. Load the bases with no outs. Fail to score. Mets.
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Before the season started no-one though Conforto was going to be an everyday player, let alone a top 5 OF in baseball. There were even some people (me included, my bad) who were calling for him to start this year at Triple A.
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May 25, 2017 21:37
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I'd read a Fat Black Superman comic.
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May 28, 2017 16:30
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Comptroll The Forums posted:N: In ten starts, Zimmerman has only recorded two quality starts. Sanchez and K-Rod both had (reasonably) effective seasons for the Tigers before falling off a cliff and Zimmermann was a highly valued FA when they signed him, so I'd say the problem is more likely to be in the coaching staff rather than the front office - someone's made an adjustment which has hosed them up and now they can't unfuck themselves. The Pelfrey signing is squarely on Avila though, he's always been terrible and I don't understand why any team would sign him unless they needed someone to get things off high shelves and couldn't find the stepladder.
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May 29, 2017 13:59
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If Harper had just run to first then Strickland wouldn't even have been ejected, and if pitchers can throw at people for bullshit reasons and face literally no punishment whatsoever then it's just going to keep happening.
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May 29, 2017 23:54
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Kyle Schwarber has over 300k All-Star votes 
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May 30, 2017 18:07
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Craptacular! posted:He's really super tryhard about being super-hyper-masculine that it sometimes borders on ridiculous, and it always amuses me. From the wild-rear end eyeblack, to the periodic outbursts on the field, to the time he broke a bat bashing it against a wall in a tunnel and a piece came back and hit his eye, to the ESPN body issue, to the time he was instigating arguments with a previous manager... Most of this stuff is small, some of it is not-so-small, and certainly not all of it is objectively bad, but all of it cumulatively is LOL. How dare a really good baseball player be intense and want to win games, how loving dare he. Not to mention that getting pissy about the amount of eyeblack he wears is as all hell.
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May 30, 2017 19:07
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NiceGuy posted:No see he says abrasive stuff about umpires and opposing players which just makes him so loving cool The only people I've seen call Bryce out for being immature are hot-take ESPN "analysts" and no-one should give the tiniest gently caress what any of them think.
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May 30, 2017 19:09
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NiceGuy posted:No, my post was literally 'There were a lot of tweets saying he had it coming, and a lot of it was from players and not just analysts like SAS likes to claim' but sure keep on swinging at that strawman Oh, sorry, I'll change "dumb ESPN assholes" to "dumb ESPN and Twitter assholes", that better for you? (since I can't find any player who went on record as saying Bryce deserved it)
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May 30, 2017 19:57
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Explosionface posted:Maybe I'm the dumbass here, but since when has the ASG been about performance in the first couple months of the given year instead of a mix of that and the second half/playoffs the year before? ASG voting means different things to different people, it's one of the reasons why selecting players by popular vote is incredibly dumb. You've got "best player so far this season", "best player in recent memory", "best player for their career", "player who deserves to be an All-Star at least once", "player who's on my team", etc etc.
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May 30, 2017 23:04
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Spoeank posted:Rizzo is literally 10th in the NL in wRC+... Jesus Christ, I didn't realize it was that bad He'd be 11th if Duda had 50 more PAs (and didn't go into a massive slump during that period).
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May 30, 2017 23:10
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exploded mummy posted:They were cowed by Bryce's uber alpha maleness. He wore too much eyeblack to the hearing so they were left with no choice.
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May 30, 2017 23:28
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STAC Goat posted:My only problem is that the 6 game suspension is presumably designed to make him miss 2 starts but since its being given out a day after he pitches probably means he only misses 1. Right? So wouldn't it be better to give him like 8 or 9 just to make sure you cover the rotation? efb
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RCarr posted:I don't disagree the suspension could be a few more games, but I don't see it as some unbelievable malicious act. That's all. He wasn't trying to injure the guy. Except Strickland doesn't have inch-perfect control of his fastball (as can be seen by the fact that he gave up two middle-middle fastballs to Harper to start this whole loving thing off) so he could easily have missed the hip and got Harper in, for example, the forearm, which is much more dangerous. He might not have been trying to injure him intentionally, but he didn't give a gently caress that it could have been an unintended consequence.
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It's a lot more reasonable than the NL, though Castro definitely shouldn't be starting over Altuve.
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Popete posted:Wrong Categories where Castro leads Altuve: RBI (by 1) Batting average (by 2 points) Singles (by 5) Strikeouts (by 3) e: I'll do the ones where Altuve leads Castro but it'll take a lot longer cause there's a lot more of them Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 17:38 on May 31, 2017 |
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Julio Cruz posted:e: I'll do the ones where Altuve leads Castro but it'll take a lot longer cause there's a lot more of them Games (by 3) AB (by 1) PA (by 10) Doubles (by 3) Triples (by 2) Steals (by 10) Caught stealing (by 2) Walks (by 8) GIDP (by 6) ISO (by 34 points) OBP (by 25 points) Slugging (by 33 points) OPS (by 57 points) OPS+ (by 10 points) wOBA (by 21 points) wRC+ (by 17 points) WAR (by 1 Fangraphs/0.5 B-R) oWAR (by 0.1) dWAR (by 0.3)
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Kirios posted:You cannot keep putting Kyle Schwarber out there. I understand it's fun to make fun of him and haha, look at that fat man play left field, but he is spiraling downward. Clearly the answer is to put him where he's most comfortable - behind the plate.
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Niwrad posted:I never understood why Schwarber was playing everyday a year from major knee surgery. And why he starts against lefties when he's never shown he can hit lefties. Or why he was leading off so that he came up with no one on and teams could shift on him. People fell in love with him after his rookie season because a) he hit some massive dingers b) he was really good in a very small number of postseason games c) it's funny watching a fat guy run around in LF. Maddon's kept putting him in hoping that he'll manage to get it going but at this point I think he needs some time in Triple-A to work on his swing and lose some of the weight. Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Blind Pineapple posted:I'd bet on Dallas Keuchel being the starting pitcher, but yeah. I'll be mad at ASG rules again if a bunch of non-Astros cost us home field in the WS*. Keuchel will go for sure but I'd be shocked if the AL starter wasn't Chris Sale.
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