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  1. Andy
    Szczur hasn't been down 10 days yet and isn't eligible to return unless there is an injury
  2. Andy
    I actually like Tapatalk quite a bit. The only things I wish it would change would be carrying over foes from the site and not making it so I have to exit and re enter NSBB for it to refresh the unread threads.
  3. Andy
    The Minnesota Tidal Wave
  4. Andy
    I was around him for a short while when he came to speak at BSU and took the student newspaper staff out. Nothing in there even remotely surprised me.
  5. Andy
    He's long overdue. If he doesn't dong tonight I'm going to have to go find out if he ever went this long without one at USD.
  6. Andy
    I'm not sure about the latter. He's got some mysterious leg injury and I bet it affects him until he allows himself to be DL'd or the end of the season. He probably won't hit .160 or whatever all year but I'm not sure he's going to catch fire in the usual McCutchen sense. He was driving the ball yesterday, although limping around the outfield a bit on defense. I officially became worried about him on a double in our last series with you (I forget who hit it) that went into the RCF gap and Cutch was (or appeared to be due to injury) making basically 0 effort to get to the ball. It was sad.
  7. Andy
    I'm not sure about the latter. He's got some mysterious leg injury and I bet it affects him until he allows himself to be DL'd or the end of the season. He probably won't hit .160 or whatever all year but I'm not sure he's going to catch fire in the usual McCutchen sense.
  8. Andy
    Even in Tweets, it's incredible how concisely and politely Len can make his points.
  9. Andy
    Just because something has always been done a certain way doesn't make it the best way. Obviously, but just because something is a change doesn't make it the best way either. One of the moves mentioned in the post I was referring to there was the lowering of the mound, which made sense because there were like two .300 hitters the year prior and offense was at crisis point. Not being sufficiently entertained by the 2 PA/game that pitchers take is hardly 'crisis point' to me.
  10. Andy
    This probably better goes in the DH/NL thread, but mostly the same reasons other people don't (strategy, baseball is 9v9, not 9v9.5 or 9v10, not letting AL pitchers throw at batters with relative impunity because they don't have to hold the bat, etc). In general, I get tired of leagues changing rules to appeal to the masses (looking at you, NBA) rather than just playing the game. I saw a graph the other day, intended to strengthen the case for the DH, that showed pitcher wRC+ has steadily declined since the DH was enacted. Gee, I wonder why that is. As is the case with seemingly everything in sports (changing the PAT, allowing basketball teams to move the ball to half-court without taking up time as if they stepped through a time warp, JumboTrons), I am resigned to the fact that I am going to be outvoted. except baseball is 9.5v9.5 or whatever you want to call it in 50% of the major leagues and the majority of others And I don't like it there, either.
  11. Andy
    This probably better goes in the DH/NL thread, but mostly the same reasons other people don't (strategy, baseball is 9v9, not 9v9.5 or 9v10, not letting AL pitchers throw at batters with relative impunity because they don't have to hold the bat, etc). In general, I get tired of leagues changing rules to appeal to the masses (looking at you, NBA) rather than just playing the game. I saw a graph the other day, intended to strengthen the case for the DH, that showed pitcher wRC+ has steadily declined since the DH was enacted. Gee, I wonder why that is. As is the case with seemingly everything in sports (changing the PAT, allowing basketball teams to move the ball to half-court without taking up time as if they stepped through a time warp, JumboTrons), I am resigned to the fact that I am going to be outvoted.
  12. Andy
    Drop Lucroy, add Matt Adams Should've done this a while ago
  13. Andy
    No, all audio streams are blackout-free
  14. Andy
    There is nothing unpatriotic about disliking that terrible, terrible song.
  15. Andy
    Great rebound inning Jake.
  16. Andy
    No chance the way he looked most of that inning
  17. Andy
    Great pitch, Frazier just better that time
  18. Andy
    NOT CONCERNED WITH RUSSELL ANYMORE GUYS
  19. Andy
    I will give it this, though, it would be classic St. Louis for this to be the tipping point that puts the DH in the NL. "A STL pitcher was hurt batting! This cannot stand!"
  20. Andy
    If somebody could tell me it's too early to be alarmed by Russell striking out in 11/19 AB's, that would be swell. It's too early to be alarmed by Russel striking out in 11/19 AB's. It's too early to be alarmed by pretty much anything that happens in 19 at-bats besides injury, though I too would like to see better work at the plate
  21. Andy
    It's not that you're old, it's that your 10 minutes response was objectively stupid. I think the DH is stupid. I think it's arcade [expletive]. So if my response to what I think is a stupid idea is stupid, so be it. Your response isn't stupid because it's responding to another stupid thing. Your response is stupid because having pitchers practicing hitting a little bit more would not do anything and is an intrinsically stupid idea. Thanks for explaining it to me Dad, I had no idea. Also, I don't know what sarcasm is and that was an earnest and very real effort. I'm still laughing at "progress", as if this is the [expletive] Industrial Revolution and not a game.
  22. Andy
    Lol "progress". We've fixed baseball, guys! Bad hitters don't have to hit anymore!
  23. Andy
    Sun rose in the East today, etc
  24. Andy
    It's not that you're old, it's that your 10 minutes response was objectively stupid. I think the DH is stupid. I think it's arcade [expletive]. So if my response to what I think is a stupid idea is stupid, so be it.
  25. Andy
    Yeah, yeah, old guy in waiting over here. Why stop there? We should be able to DH for any crappy hitter in the lineup. After all, entertainment!
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