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Ah yes. We too often forget the kids! Replay is great, bec. it teaches them the valuable lesson that unseen authorities are ALWAYS right.
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Now there's a thought! Of course! Since perfect contact cannot exist, right? If you check the runner with an electron microscope, he will never actually make contact with the base at all, since "contact", "safe," ... and hell, even "base-hood" are philosophical constructs that have no counterparts in the real world. Runner is OUT! That's it.
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The easiest way to fix that absurd safe/out call on a slide where the runner loses contact is simply to make a rule that on a slide, once the runner makes contact with the base, he is considered "in contact" with it as long as he is over the base during the slide (i.e., doesn't slide past it). That's essentially the way it's been called for 150 years, and to change it because of some idiotic replay review is ridiculous.
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Why not Eric Thames after we Dump Price ?
jad replied to Swiharts Ghost's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
No they cannot, blessedly. As a friend has repeatedly pointed out to me, owning a franchise does not mean you own the players or those who work for you. -
My parents never raised their voices. Ever. And I never had a problem handling conflict. (And as for those a-hole coaches, I'm sick of seeing fat, loser coaches yell at kids to the point of abuse, something they seem to do at all levels, from college down to sub-PeeWee leagues. What I find stunning is watching a group of parents sit passively on the sidelines while one of these pompous, unathletic a-holes abuses their kids in public. Not much you can do in these situations, since calling them out will mean you will have kids, coaches, and parents all ganging up against you. But I do report it to the AD or the rec league, and occasionally, mirabile dictu, that will get results.)
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Yup. Works in football. If you're worried the hitter might hear the call, all the dugout has to do is tell P/C which sign will be valid. Catcher still calls the game. (That could probably be done w/o technology as well). For MLB, the best part will be that this scandal goes away.
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Who is the greatest under-the-radar player in Sox history?
jad replied to Northern Star's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Oh my God, I'm having a flash-back! -
I must have made a mistake. I thought I was on the RedSox board. Not the Yankee board peopled exclusively by adolescent trolls.
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(I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like for me as a kid in the 50s, listening to Curt Gowdy, to turn to the last part of this thread and be assured it concerned baseball!)
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A musical, although a movie version was also made: "Damn Yankees."
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Ah. Well that makes complete sense, since it comes from MLB's own description of the luxury tax. Thus: "an effort to get below the LT and thus 'reset' the clock on penalties." That would thus have no necessary relation to how you choose to do that--small adjustments in personnel or completely blowing up the team--an entirely different question. (I wonder whether everyone is using it in this sense.)
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I think I have completely lost the distinction between "reset" and "rebuild," since they can mean entirely different things, depending on the basis of the metaphor.
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Just out of curiosity, why do you think T.Perkins was miscast? He actually was pretty good at playing crazy people: Psycho (obviously), but also Kafka's Trial. I'm sure there are others. The psychology behind FStOut seems pretty dated, but I don't know of any sports books/films of the time that were comparable.
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I know. I was watching tthat play, and thought it was fantastic, in part because I knew it would lead to months and years of hysteria on the part of sports fans. (The USC call was also the right one. All you had to do for a national championship was to keep your opponent from marching down the field 60 yards with two minutes to go [actually, I'm just making that up, but it was roughly the case], or stopping Vince Young on 4th and goal from the 6 yard line when all 100,000 humans in the stadium knew he was going to try to run it in. ...) But ... I'm over it. Completely. I mean it. Seriously. Just like I'm over 1986 ... Never give it a moment's thought ...
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I spent many decades working for USC. And since the Pats didn't exist when I was a kid growing up in Maine, I have never really rooted for them.
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You are thinking, of course, of choosing to run Lendale White over right tackle on 4th down, while Heisman-winning Reggie Bush watched from he bench.
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I think the fact that we are still arguing about this proves absolutely that we have NEVER gotten over it, despite four WS wins!
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Ha ha! Not for me!
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I would have squirmed through a worm-hole in the time-space continuum, seen the future, and acted accordingly, of course. It's really quite simple.
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Exactly. If Pedro had made a bad pitch and Posada had actually made decent contact, it would have been a routine fly ball and Grady Little would have been hailed as a genius. (Or if Schiraldi had served up a screaming line drive at someone instead of ... If Bob Stanley's palm ball had flattened out a bit ... Had Buckner stumbled and the ball hit his glove ... Had Bucky Dent overswung and ... That's baseball, I guess.)
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Oh yes. Only in 86 did I follow the whole awful series; but I can tell you exactly where I was during all of them. The worst was walking down Broadway in 78, looking into a window with a tv screen, and watching "the" pop-up. I was blessedly in a movie theatre for Stanley's palm-ball heard round the world.
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Same to you.
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Being cleared by mods does not mean you're not a juvenile, puberty-stricken a-hole. Ted is not the one cluttering up the board.
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Every sports board has the middle-school troll who thinks it's attention-getting posting on other teams boards. Is it worse here? Because of the rivalry? Or just because there are greater numbers of puberty-stricken boys in NYC than in other cities?
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It's actually quite simple: ownership is trying to screw an employee. I vote for the employee.
