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9/20 SOX @ Reds 6:40PM ET
jad replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
The game-winning triple and HR tonight don't count? -
Yeah, I don't know what is fueling the myth that Bogaerts' power has declined, unless the ONLY measure of 'power' is HR.
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Well, sort of. He hit .190 in 35 or so games. Casas is .115.
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Fantastic! Now if we can only persuade Ohtani to take a home-town discount to play in Boston, or maybe just play for vet's minimum, we'll be fine.
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9/14 Yankems @ SOX 7:10PM ET
jad replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
I can't remember his name, but WTF is he doing playing CF? -
Perhaps it puts a constraint on how much you can claim 'the ump sucks' that without appearing a jackass. Without the box, fans and announcers would have free rein to vent.
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I believe I did hear an announcer (was it Eck drifting off into Eck-land? -- don't think so )-- lamenting just that, the loss of the intricate hand-signal drama occurring on every pitch. (It was not a persuasive argument).
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Nice one! What about lining up on the line of scrimmage (illegal formation)? What about the way they eyeball ball placement or the first down marker?
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Then why not eliminate the chalk lines on a football field? There would be much more 'human element' involved if you just let a line judge call in-bounds or out-of-bounds based on where he believed that line should be. Same thing with the goal line. Get rid of it. When you're within ten yards of an imaginary line 10 yards from an imaginary line centered on the goal-posts, TOUCHDOWN!
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The problem, as everyone who has worked in or for a corporation knows, is that if you make it easy to fire workers, workers will be fired arbitrarily for reasons having nothing to do with job performance. Trying to root out 'deadwood' is pointless: you will ALWAYS have a percentage of "the worst" workers; and you will never actually root out the ones you should.
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Rules against sign stealing maybe?
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"MLB teams must designate every player on the active roster either as a pitcher or a position player ... Those designated as position players are unable to pitch unless it is extra innings or their team is ahead or trailing by more than six runs when they take the mound." I found it on the internet so it must be true. Another example of a stupid unnecessary rule.
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They have no rules about the set of defensive players.
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Did it somehow make you forget his great hitting before the break?
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You're right about that. I seem to remember there was an app or u-tube or whatever showing real time tennis shots by professionals near lines. It was impossible! Probably a similar one for balls/strikes.
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How is it simpler than baseball? (You have difficult line calls on nearly every point; time rules; distracting of opponent rules; Hawkeye solved the major issues almost overnight). Other than balls and strikes (which can be easily fixed by technology), the vast majority of baseball calls are obvious.
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Yes, judgment calls like holding, pass interference, or touch fouls in basketball. Same with any contact sport. But tennis has been helped immeasurably by Hawkeye (now the only meltdowns against officials are by pathological whiners and psychos like Kyrgios and other recent retirees). But if computers can do it quikly and efficiently, go for it. (How boring are hitters whining about every call that doesn't go their way). Also, arguing with officials should never be considered a traditional part of a sport. Recently had a AA game ruined for me by a belligerent a-hole yelling at an ump for 4 innings for a call he (of course) got right. Time to get that out of the sport.
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Except, Max, umpires are graded based on how their calls reflect what that invisible box is.
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I was talking about everything in life generally!
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The problem, as athletes in all sports point out constantly, is that after opening day, no one is ever 100%.
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I just can't wait for the thrilling replays used to determine if a fielder's toe was a millimeter onto the grass! Now THAT'S baseball!
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Everyone misses the way things were twenty or more years ago.
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That doesn't distinguish it from most other Fridays ... or any other day of the week. (I'm too old and nerdy to have seen the show that quote comes from.)
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It's hard to remember clearly, but I don't recall EVER thinking I was high enough.
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Agree completely, as would most rational people (which does not include .220 hitting lefties or MLB administrators).
