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Everything posted by notin
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That’s the basic strategy before high school...
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I was trying to find some players who played both sports. While Bogaerts is an avid soccer player and Derek Jeter was apparently a high school soccer star, I’m actually very surprised not many players played both sports at college level or higher. (There’s probably a glut of people who played both and went professional in neither.) Preliminary research shows the only two MLB players who were also notable soccer players were Damaso Garcia and former Sox outfielder Curtis Pride. Also noteworthy, Ryan Braun has claimed he could have played professional soccer...
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And crazy good eyesight
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Actually, they probably can for some activities. I bet most soccer players cannot throw a baseball their hardest (or, 90% of their hardest) 100+ times without having problems. Even swinging a bat your hardest 50 times is surprisingly grueling, but players do it in BP all the time...
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It might have been a bad deal, but the owners would all be billionaires with or without baseball. I do side with the players more often than not, but at some point that fact does become inevitable...
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I actually find myself siding with the players over the owners on this issue, but at some point the players really do need to acknowledge that they need the owners more than the owners need them...
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The big hold up is over 10 games...
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I was a strong runner then. I did over 1.25 miles in 6 minutes. And honestly, no one was pushing me...
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Our soccer coach made us do a 6 minute run one year. Most of the team did get at least one mile in that time...
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“Only four guys made the team that year...”
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Soccer can be physical, but it is sometimes a surpringly slow-paced game in other countries. A big part of the reason is it’s like baseball in that any player taken out of the game cannot go back in. I played high school soccer, and we did not have that rule. So as a result, the game was much faster paced. (Also our skill level was such that a European-style controlled attack was above our level by a few miles..)
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Oh yeah. I guess they are free agents and not draft picks. This small draft class has confused me a bit...
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Worth mentioning, only Van Belle and Andrew are seniors, so the Sox might struggle to sign the majority as I believe this means they nearly all have options to return for next year's draft (barring those who hired agents)...
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I think everyone gets the point; the 2020 MLB season is in serious jeopardy...
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People who own MLB franchises do NOT deal in Replacement Level Mistresses, as measured in years under 30...
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And I’m sure the 6 dissenters can make some deal to convince at least two more somehow. “If you vote to cancel, I’ll give you $25million in my stock options, my Persian red Lamborghini, the Tuscan villa, and two mistresses to be named later.”
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I so do not get this logic. These owners have potentially a billlion dollars tied up in these teams, and they’d prefer a season with no financial recoup that throws the very future of the sport and their investment into question over a single season of potentially losing money?
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How can you possibly forget a name like Brian Van Belle? It’s like some sort of Irish Franco-Dutch thing going on here...
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Outside of one bunt by Gary Allenson some 38 years ago, how many bunt hits have been exciting? The only exciting bunt hit I have seen since then was by Tom Berenger in the movie “Major League”...
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In general, fans prefer offense in any sport....
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The top one appears to be RHP Brian Van Belle out of Miami, whom BA had at #16 on the undrafted senior list...
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Not so sure viewers would flock to see BuntFest 2020...
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Back-to-back no hitters is the pipe dream. First you have to hope any pitcher throws even one. And then every time someone does, that comes up and the excitement lasts a couple innings. .400 would be exciting, although it’s really not a record. The hitting streak is another interesting one. How about someone breaking Johnny Gochnauer’s record of 98 errors in a single season?
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Oh I agree. All MLB Commissioners seem to struggle. Goodell stands out in the NFL as an idiot...
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Goodell over Manfred?
