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imagine spiegel in shorts

 

You can see it right up there.

 

ha you're right

 

at least he spared us by wearing knee high black socks (this is how you know he gives no [expletive]...nobody on earth thinks that is a good look)

kankle high?

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weis21 Myrtle Beach Pelicans

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imagine spiegel in shorts

 

You can see it right up there.

 

ha you're right

 

at least he spared us by wearing knee high black socks (this is how you know he gives no [expletive]...nobody on earth thinks that is a good look)

Stop by a college campus. Probably more of these 18-20 y/o guys than not think it's a good look. It was a running joke we had during orienation check-in this summer.

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So I'm listening to the Score this morning to try to get as much no-hitter talk as I can today. And I know, I know...talk radio is the worst....but in the last hour, they've had two Bears related segments and one Bulls(!) segment. The only Cubs discussion was a replay of a Len interview from earlier this morning. But Jesus, keep your eye on the ball here guys. Talk about the freaking no-hitter!

 

/meatball radio rant

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John Kruk is the worst. I realize that statement needs little if any elaboration but he said two things that were amazingly dumb. He said the error on Castro should have been a hit. It seemed to me that Castro was pretty much square to the ball and it ate him up. Since when is that a hit. The second thing was in the eighth inning he said he wouldn't have a problem if Rollins had laid down a bunt. I'm not big on the unwritten rules of baseball but if Rollins had actually done it, I really doubt that Kruk would be ok with it afterwards.
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Oh jesus. Joe Cowley filling in for the next 3 days on the midday show. Guess sports radio wasn't in the cards for me today.
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John Kruk is the worst. I realize that statement needs little if any elaboration but he said two things that were amazingly dumb. He said the error on Castro should have been a hit. It seemed to me that Castro was pretty much square to the ball and it ate him up. Since when is that a hit. The second thing was in the eighth inning he said he wouldn't have a problem if Rollins had laid down a bunt. I'm not big on the unwritten rules of baseball but if Rollins had actually done it, I really doubt that Kruk would be ok with it afterwards.

 

During his postgame interview, even Arrieta basically implied that he was surprised they did not score that as a hit. I didn't see it live, but after watching the replay, it could have been scored a hit. In fact, had this not been a no-hitter, I wouldn't have been surprised to see that changed to a hit following the game.

 

As for the bunt, in a 2-0 game where a successful bunt hit puts brings the tying run to the plate, it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world to do. (Someone did this against Arizona I believe when Brenly was managing them, and he flipped the [expletive] out. It was the same situation though, where it was 2-0 with a no-hitter on the line in the 9th.) I'm not saying I would have been cool with them bunting to wreck the no-hitter, but if you're a first place team trying to put more distance between you and the Giants...strategically, it wouldn't have been the worst idea to get the potential tying run to the plate.

 

Kruk says a lot of stupid [expletive], but I'm not sure he was that off the mark on those two comments.

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John Kruk is the worst. I realize that statement needs little if any elaboration but he said two things that were amazingly dumb. He said the error on Castro should have been a hit. It seemed to me that Castro was pretty much square to the ball and it ate him up. Since when is that a hit. The second thing was in the eighth inning he said he wouldn't have a problem if Rollins had laid down a bunt. I'm not big on the unwritten rules of baseball but if Rollins had actually done it, I really doubt that Kruk would be ok with it afterwards.

 

During his postgame interview, even Arrieta basically implied that he was surprised they did not score that as a hit. I didn't see it live, but after watching the replay, it could have been scored a hit. In fact, had this not been a no-hitter, I wouldn't have been surprised to see that changed to a hit following the game.

 

As for the bunt, in a 2-0 game where a successful bunt hit puts brings the tying run to the plate, it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world to do. (Someone did this against Arizona I believe when Brenly was managing them, and he flipped the [expletive] out. It was the same situation though, where it was 2-0 with a no-hitter on the line in the 9th.) I'm not saying I would have been cool with them bunting to wreck the no-hitter, but if you're a first place team trying to put more distance between you and the Giants...strategically, it wouldn't have been the worst idea to get the potential tying run to the plate.

 

Kruk says a lot of stupid [expletive], but I'm not sure he was that off the mark on those two comments.

 

Agreed; I was surprised when watching it that it was scored as an error and not a hit; Castro was set to grab it and it took a big bounce and basically fired right at his gut. I doubt anyone else would have been able to do much besides just stop it like he did.

 

And with the bunt he was just posing it as a "what if?" as opposed to saying that they should do it, and like you (and he) said, they were just down 2 and they're fighting for the division. It wasn't likely to happen, but it wouldn't have been the end of the world if they had tried.

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Agreed; I was surprised when watching it that it was scored as an error and not a hit; Castro was set to grab it and it took a big bounce and basically fired right at his gut. I doubt anyone else would have been able to do much besides just stop it like he did.

 

See, that's how I saw it too, but the official scorer didn't...

 

White gave Castro an error after he tried to make the play on an in-between hop. The ball bounced off him and rolled away, allowing Hernandez to reach first.

 

"If he stays down on the ball, he makes the play," White said. "He came up thinking the ball was coming up. The ball was hit right at him and he didn't have to move to make the play."

 

White saw the play four times — live, on a TV replay in the press box and twice in slow motion in the television video room.

 

"I had no thought even at the time to change it," he said.

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I didn't see the play live. In the replay it looked like it took a bad hop and ate him up but that gets scored an error all the time.

 

I wouldn't have minded them trying to lay down a bunt either but I think Kruk knew full well they wouldn't. I can't say that I know this to be true but Don Mattingly seems like the type that wouldn't want his players breaking that unwritten rule. Also, they said the Cubs were taking the bunt away from Rollins but they still had the shift on. Why isn't Rollins trying to just put one in play in the gaping hole on the left side of the infield? That seems like a higher percentage play than bunting for a hit.

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Agreed; I was surprised when watching it that it was scored as an error and not a hit; Castro was set to grab it and it took a big bounce and basically fired right at his gut. I doubt anyone else would have been able to do much besides just stop it like he did.

 

See, that's how I saw it too, but the official scorer didn't...

 

White gave Castro an error after he tried to make the play on an in-between hop. The ball bounced off him and rolled away, allowing Hernandez to reach first.

 

"If he stays down on the ball, he makes the play," White said. "He came up thinking the ball was coming up. The ball was hit right at him and he didn't have to move to make the play."

 

White saw the play four times — live, on a TV replay in the press box and twice in slow motion in the television video room.

 

"I had no thought even at the time to change it," he said.

 

Looking at the replays I still think ball came up; oh well, worked out for the Cubs.

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So I'm listening to the Score this morning to try to get as much no-hitter talk as I can today. And I know, I know...talk radio is the worst....but in the last hour, they've had two Bears related segments and one Bulls(!) segment. The only Cubs discussion was a replay of a Len interview from earlier this morning. But Jesus, keep your eye on the ball here guys. Talk about the freaking no-hitter!

 

/meatball radio rant

 

 

Yeah I listened from 745-9am today and that was all they talked about. Usually though this time of year the 8am hour is nothing but football. I thought they would have deviated from that today but nope.

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Oh man, Schilling's in "[expletive] it" mode. He sent a huge accusatory email to Awful Announcing's Dan Levy, getting mad at him for pointing out all the things that Schilling has done lately, and after a really awesome reply back from Dan, Schilling fired off another one. He's not only a racist, but he's too much of an idiot to understand that he's a racist.

 

Original email from Schilling: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/curt-schilling-is-now-sending-e-mails-to-writers-to-question-our-integrity.html

 

Follow-up emails: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/an-open-letter-to-curt-schilling-and-another-reply-from-him.html

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Oh man, Schilling's in "[expletive] it" mode. He sent a huge accusatory email to Awful Announcing's Dan Levy, getting mad at him for pointing out all the things that Schilling has done lately, and after a really awesome reply back from Dan, Schilling fired off another one. He's not only a racist, but he's too much of an idiot to understand that he's a racist.

 

Original email from Schilling: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/curt-schilling-is-now-sending-e-mails-to-writers-to-question-our-integrity.html

 

Follow-up emails: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/an-open-letter-to-curt-schilling-and-another-reply-from-him.html

 

The comments section is gross

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Yeah, the kids and dogs ones are unbeatable.

 

My brother had to do foreign service for the better part of a year and left his dog under my parents' care. She ended up with me in Chicago when he finally got back stateside and my dad and I took her out for a walk out the back door while he came in the front after we picked him up from the airport. When we came back in she just froze when she saw him before absolutely losing her [expletive] mind and knocking him to the floor and just spinning around on top of him and doing this weird yelp-whine and licking him nonstop for a good 10 minutes. Dogs are the besssssssssssssssst.

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It's the ones where kids are surprised by a returning military parent that I'm a sucker for...

As neat as those are, I have to imagine the surprise has to be negated a bit when they're dragged onto the field beforehand.

 

Kids are stupid.

 

But really, I'm talking mostly about the ones where the parents surprises the kid at school...excusing the cameras as being for a local news story on the class or something.

 

Some bad quality gifs here but...

 

 

http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/veteterans-day-homecoming-gif-03.gif

 

http://www.heraldextra.com/app/news/110713_soldierhome_01.gif

 

http://i.imgur.com/l2VTNeW.gif

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vtDV6BIL-Xg/U6plK9OOYiI/AAAAAAAAkkc/pNMK0-Zb3Zw/s1600/DadReunion_0yn5yuud_ts35dlpk.gif

 

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