Hamhock
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2 hours ago, Kyyle23 said:
They are sending him to them John Cena doctors"
Imagine Eloy making an impossible surprise return on Memorial Day Weekend, complete with Cena entrance theme music and the crowd shouting "APPLE JUICE!" or whatever.
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23 minutes ago, oldsox said:
I saw the replay of Mendick getting thrown out at third. Not very swift, and the slide was lousy.
He stumbled rounding second and staggered forward from there, and still nearly beat the throw.
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I think only once the Rays and A's are settled as to their stadium futures will we then see an expansion to 32.
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12 minutes ago, chetkincaid said:
Eaton will probably end up being as useful as Jon Jay was for us.
Don’t overlook Eaton’s other potential use, which is to passive-aggressively lecture the clubhouse about “what Skipper wants/says”, while shaking his head, folding his arms and staring at the floor.
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Missing the space between “La” and “Russa”, too...
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6 minutes ago, The Hawk said:
but a defense lawyer could say that it was not in character for him to drink and drive
It being his second DUI negates that defense; though it's past the threshhold of use in determining sentence, it's still relevant to display a pattern of negligence.
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2 minutes ago, SouthWallace said:
Do they dare cancel Abreu's media availability, or do they do the cowardly thing and let the above happen?
I'll assume neither, and go with "advisory at the beginning of the call, asking for scope of questions to be limited to Abreu's season".
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20 hours ago, Balta1701 said:
Not to tamp down the LOLz, but it’s Rawlings’ decision/fault, not MLB.
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11 minutes ago, bmags said:
The reality behind a mistake like this is far more benign. They make a bunch to be ready, they use the same template, they forget that that was even a signature and it starts blending into the background, they rush to get it out on announcement.
Yes - this is absolutely what happens; you prep a bunch of free agent possibilities Photoshopped into your uniform, or make graphics celebrating titles you don't win, players you might draft but don't, etc. Bad timing and fortune, but nothing nefarious.
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Rawlings announced the nominees for the 2020 Gold Gloves; amongst them were these:
Yasmani Grandal C
James McCann C
Danny Mendick 2B
Yoan Moncada 3B
Luis Robert CFWinners will be announced on Tuesday, November 3 at 6pm CT on ESPN.
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19 minutes ago, TheTruth05 said:
Joke prediction: La Russa gets hired; Stone then tweets: "As you may recall, Tony managed the Cardinals against the Astros during the 2005 NLCS."
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Nick is British slang for jail/prison.
Madrigal is a specific type of song.
Jailhouse Song.
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2 minutes ago, soulfly said:
A little, you can put it on the board talk from Steve. Man how I wish one of those guys would honor Hawk and start using that for home run calls again.
An easy half- measure would be to play an echoey Hawk recording over the stadium P.A. system when there’s a home run, like the Phillies do with a recording of Harry Kalas’s “Outta Here!”
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As long as he's not hitting anywhere above 8th in the batting order. In 2018 he hit 2nd 96 times, and led off 15 times. Fortunately in 2019, he most commonly batted 8th.
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My only concerns are more general in nature, and not necessarily specific to Yolmer:
- A tendency to return to what's familiar over trying something new/different;
- Carrying too many of these types of players on a roster;
- The person filling out the lineup card who reflexively keeps playing them, or worse, batting them high in the lineup
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1 hour ago, Leonard Zelig said:
Why would the Sox put a limit on the number of seats available? If more people are willing to pay, why tell them no?
Likeliest answer: there was a finite window of time to QA each photo, process the orders, have a print shop produce them, and install said cutouts during a timeframe that didn’t have them around the players (to conform with the league’s CoVID protocols).
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8 hours ago, skooch said:
My recollection is that he referred to the hitting background in CF at GRF as "shrubbery" when Robert deposited a pitch there during one of the intrasquad games. Though, I didn't actually see the entire game tonight, so maybe he did.
I'm presupposing that Benetti is also referencing "The Knights of Ni"/Monty Python and the Holy Grail when he says "another shrubbery".
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Kopech has opted out for the 2020 season.
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5 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:
Here's the tweet, if you want to see it.
Any Twitter username that goes Name12345678908755 is a troll.
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2 hours ago, BrianAnderson said:
You open all gates - 6,000 fans. Masks required in line to get in, temperature check, etc.
Would those fans be lined up 6 feet apart at the gates for entry, security and temperature checks? Assuming an even distribution of fans:gates, (6,000 fans / 5 gates x 6 ft) each entry line is 1.3 miles long.
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Let’s pretend that it’s a maximum of “only” 5,000 fans. Let’s further stipulate that they use 5 gates for entry, and assign 1,000 fans to a specific gate to even it out. 1,000 fans lining up for security x 6 ft. of space between them is a line over a mile long at each of the five gates.
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Here's how I look at it - it's a completely insane year, so go for broke! If your team wins the World Series, it's "look at all the hardship these guys battled through this year; this win is even more special". For the other 29 teams, it's "Hey, this year was absolutely nuts, ehhh, whaddaya gonna do, you know? *shrug*"
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My favorite random Alexei moment was from mid-2015 when he and Adam Eaton let a pop fly fall between them, then blamed each other.
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35th & Shields is the name.
Tigers @ Sox, 4/28/21
in Pale Hose Talk
Posted · Edited by Hamhock
Front offices need to fill the final pieces of their rosters in a worst-case scenario, based not on the ideal use of those players, but instead on avoiding the worst use of them by their managers. Is there a way to add a use clause in a player contract? “Player X may only be used as a pinch-hitter, defensive substitute in case of injury and for a total number of season games played not to exceed seventy. He may only bat eighth or ninth in the batting order.”