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  1. Banedon
    I'm not worried about the offense, but I sure do miss when we took tons of pitches and walked a lot.
  2. Banedon

    Golf thread

    Banedon replied to UMFan83's topic in Other Sports

    https://streamable.com/iefo?t=8.6
  3. Banedon
    Yeah, I thought it was pretty clear it was gonna be a bit of time yet when they announced he wouldn't be ready in time for the ASG.
  4. Banedon
    Imaginary injury putting Cahill on the DL? Good thing about pushing Jake and Lester to next week is you can go 4 more games before having to make a roster decision with Ross coming off the concussion DL, although its almost certainly Kawasaki going back to Iowa. Ross already came off, and Kawasaki down. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=748
  5. Banedon
    Per Jesse Rogers
  6. Banedon
    If the ball hit the top of the fence and went over, it'd be a home run. If it hit your glove or head or other part of your body, and went over, it'd be a home run. So, imo, if it does both before going over, it should still be a home run. If it never hit the actual ground, I think it's a HR.
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    [tweet] [/tweet]
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    http://i.imgur.com/AP9yNaN.gif
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    [tweet]https://twitter.com/SInow/status/753646429974003712[/tweet]
  10. Banedon
    I loathe it. You shouldn't be able to time-warp the ball to halfcourt just because it's more exciting. See that's not the problem to me. If moving the ball to halfcourt makes the game more exciting, that's great! But the mechanism to do that is a timeout which is the exact opposite of the excitement that's is the goal.
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    [tweet]https://twitter.com/JennCourtReport/status/753589787618074624[/tweet] Not sure how legit that Twitter account is. EDIT: Account looks legit, but no other confirming reports out there.
  12. Banedon
    That sounds like an awful idea. Despite your well reasoned argument, I remain unconvinced.
  13. Banedon
    I think you underestimate how many people get turned off by the slowness of the end of an NBA game. My wife is definitely a sports fan...loves hockey, plays fantasty football, and is a huge Cubs fan...but can't stand watching the NBA most of the time because of the interminably long ending of games/halves. And I get that. I think it's a legit argument to discuss whether or not this rule change will make an actual impact in that regard, but presuming that it does, I think it will definitely lead to more people tuning in...at least to the end of games. This wouldn't really change the very end of games. The last 2 minutes already had this rule, and that's the time of game that fans complain takes forever. There are other solutions that could help that, but I don't think this one will make much if any difference to that particular issue. Good point. I think limiting timeouts in the final minutes somehow would be a good idea, personally.
  14. Banedon
    I think you're missing the point here. This rule change is purely about fan entertainment. The strategy is legit, it's just boring as hell, and makes the game less exciting to watch. Maybe you're right, and if they learned to shoot FT's, it would change. But they're not learning to do that, and the NBA feels the need to do something to take away a boring to watch aspect of the game. I don't find it boring at all, but yes I know the fan "outrage" over it being boring is what led to making a change. I doubt this leads to any more fans actually watching games when this strategy would normally be employed. But hey, angry twitter fans got their way. I think you underestimate how many people get turned off by the slowness of the end of an NBA game. My wife is definitely a sports fan...loves hockey, plays fantasty football, and is a huge Cubs fan...but can't stand watching the NBA most of the time because of the interminably long ending of games/halves. And I get that. I think it's a legit argument to discuss whether or not this rule change will make an actual impact in that regard, but presuming that it does, I think it will definitely lead to more people tuning in...at least to the end of games.
  15. Banedon
    I think you're missing the point here. This rule change is purely about fan entertainment. The strategy is legit, it's just boring as hell, and makes the game less exciting to watch. Maybe you're right, and if they learned to shoot FT's, it would change. But they're not learning to do that, and the NBA feels the need to do something to take away a boring to watch aspect of the game.
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    [tweet] [/tweet]
  17. Banedon
    NBA trying to get rid of the Hack-a-Shaq strategy...
  18. Banedon
    You can still turn off the footer note.
  19. Banedon
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/magazine/ct-mag-summer-2016-kris-bryant-20160506-story.html Mormons don't wear crosses as far as I know.
  20. Banedon
    "Kris doesn't drink" and "Kris has never had a drink" are pretty different statements.
  21. Banedon
    I just wonder what the reason is. Is it an "I don't want to poison my body" type situation? Or maybe a history of alcoholism in his family that makes him overly cautious? I mean, I don't drink much...but it's mostly a taste aversion...and I certainly can't say I've never had a drink...
  22. Banedon
    http://www.todaysknuckleball.com/nl/chicago-cubs/heyman-kris-bryant-not-traditional-las-vegas-type/
  23. Banedon
    https://gfycat.com/DeliriousGranularBigmouthbass
  24. Banedon
    Haha...there's 5 pages of new posts in this thread over the weekend?
  25. Banedon
    Bielsa seems like quite a headache right now.
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