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  1. SPLENDIDSPLINTER
    Sosa was really something. PED's weren't enough; he also had to employ tennis balls in his bat. That none of the above should ever be inducted into the HOF is, at least, some kind of punishment.
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    My question is was Rose any bigger a cheater than A-rod, McGuire, Clemens, Canseco, Sosa and Bonds? I say no.
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    Although Id rather see Iggy playing 2nd, I understand that Arroyo has to get at bats if the SOX make the PO's. It's a tough call.
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    I agree. The strike zone should be in direct relationship to the natural height of the batter. Crouching is not the natural height of the batter.
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    That wasn't the point of my post.
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    I agree. The catcher blocks the plate at his own risk. What makes Rose an A-hole was that, I'm guessing, Fosse wasn't expecting to be run over in a meaningless game. He probably would have expected it in a meaningful game.
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    The main criticism bestowed on Rose for his running over Fosse was that he did it in a meaningless All-Star game. If that had happened, let's say, in a WS game, should Rose have been criticized? I'm pretty much convinced that the way Rose played the game he would run over his own mother to score, even if it was a spring training game.
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    I know of one such person, but I'm not a snitch.
  9. SPLENDIDSPLINTER
    A Joe West Robo vacuum has a habit of just staying in one spot.
  10. SPLENDIDSPLINTER
    Speaking of sainthood, please check out the new limited series on Netflix called MIDNIGHT MASS. It also includes some pretty decent songs by Neil Diamond. It's directed and created by Michael Flannigan, who did some very good work on a few Stephen King novels made into movies.
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    Angel is the poster boy for how the chUMPS' union couldn't care less about the performance of its members.
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    Who was the 'replay guy?' Stevie Wonder? Cora isn't god; he screwed up and if he was god, I would have already been struck by lightning.
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    I agree 100%. However, even hitting the batter in the backside, if the chUMP deems it was intentional, a warning is given to both pitchers, which pretty much removes the inside pitch from both's repertoire.
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    Not if I'm posting a direction.
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    VAZ did catch that foul tip off of Judge. That Cora stayed in the dugout and did nothing is inexcusable. Although that bad call cannot be reviewed, at least he could have had the chUMPS talk to each other about it.
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    Go West, ol' man, while you can still move.
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    There's nothing in what the SOX did over the weekend to warrant that confidence. 'Due' has nothing to do with it. IMHO.
  18. SPLENDIDSPLINTER
    Well, they're doing their best to ruin the 'grand old game' as it is, so let them continue.
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    It's ironic that the '75 World Series ended an era when one year contracts were the norm and players had to perform to get a raise. And was the popularity of that WS the momentum that changed everything?
  20. SPLENDIDSPLINTER
    Has NESN or anyone shown the baseball used in 2020 and the one being used this season for a comparison? Or has the league forbidden that?
  21. SPLENDIDSPLINTER
    Speaking of great pitchers, for much of Whitey Ford's career Stengel wouldn't allow him to pitch at Fenway.
  22. SPLENDIDSPLINTER
    If the ball is truly 'dead,' then, yes, that would favor the pitcher. I have seen some majestic HR's this season that makes me think the ball isn't that dead.
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    Btw, because Sal had a propensity to throw high and inside, he was nicknamed 'the barber.'
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    Starting with lowering the mound, I can't think of any changes in MLB that has favored the pitcher.
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    Two other 'mean' pitchers that come to mind are Don Drysdale and Sal Maglie. The way the rules are set up today, if pitchers get too'mean', they get removed by the chUMPS. Gibson couldn't do today what he did in the 60's and 70's, because of the rules.
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