Banedon
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6/23 Cubs (Farrell) at Reds (Desclafani) 3:10, ABC7
Banedon replied to Banedon's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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First start for Farrell today. The Cubs have lost 2 in a row to the freaking Reds. Facing someone named Desclafani. I'm ready for a damn win.
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Hanley, are you okay, you okay, you okay, Hanley?
Banedon replied to cl smooth's topic in General Baseball Talk
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That's as bad as his slippery slope argument. Relegating any pitcher batting to some kind of exhibition is as bad as saying that the adoption of the DH will lead to a DH at other positions? Gonna disagree there.
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But...they don't let the amateurs play in majors... If you wanna see pitchers hit dingers, let them have a some kind of hitting competition during the all star break or something.
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Am I the only one that likes the pitchers hitting? If only because pitchers juicing home runs is really, really, extra cool. Wood, Z, Lester, and Arrieta hitting dingers are very fond memories in my brain. Here is my lame slippery slope argument: How long would it take after the DH is instituted league-wide until people are clamoring for shortstops to have their ABs covered by guys with Dadbods who can't field? 1) Pitchers occasionally hitting a homer doesn't make up for all the thousands of terrible AB's that we have to watch. 2) That is a very lame slippery slope argument.
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If you're scrapping AL/NL, just pick a ruleset and go with it. DH or not. Consistency across the league is more important to me than whether we have the DH or we don't.
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Dunno how old this is but lol.... https://gfycat.com/ConcreteGloomyFowl
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Cubs show Dodgers -- and everyone else -- they're the team to beat in NL
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Apparently there was flooding at PNC last night, where the Brewers and Pirates got rained out...
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Yuuuup...for me off the top of my head... -Getting in the car -Leaning over the windshield to clean snow/ice off of it -Picking up a bedsheet off the floor I know I've had more. I will say, that working out and getting in shape has helped a lot with it. My back doesn't ache nearly as much as it used to from normal, every day activities...but I'm sure this will happen to me again at some point.
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I guess it's good we got one, but still...
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Ha, were they afraid to run on Schwarber?
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That Cishek signing is looking pretty solid.
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Thank you. From gameday I couldn't tell if Cishek was getting hit uncharacteristically hard or what.
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Can someone describe the triple and double?
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Reporter Kelly Cohen finding out live on tv.... https://streamable.com/fdi40
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Yeah it's tough to compare it to another sports situation because it's 1) deliberately taking advantage of a rules loophole and 2) Golf specifically is self policing so nobody really looks for these kinds of loopholes, or at the very least, doesn't deliberately exploit them. What sport does not have people deliberately take advantage of rules loopholes? That's pretty much my point. Golf is unique in major pro sports in that, until now, it's not something we've seen. Unless you know of another instance that I'm not thinking of.
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[tweet] [/tweet] Forfeit narrowly averted.
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But usually power companies are so good at giving updates on outages!
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http://mlb.mlb.com/images/7/9/6/281840796/061818_gif_ump_mimick_med.gif
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He asked that question because he disgraced the game. I'm trying to think of a baseball parallel, and the best I can come up with is a pitcher starting his delivery to the plate without having his foot on the rubber, and then pretending like he just felt like dancing to try and avoid a balk...but its worse than that because golf likes to pretend its a gentleman's game. Phil pretended that he did this ON PURPOSE to take a 2 shot penalty. He's lying about that, but that is actually worse than just completely losing his cool and keeping his ball from rolling off the green. This is Happy Gilmore level of non sense. He really should have withdrawn from the tourney. Yeah it's tough to compare it to another sports situation because it's 1) deliberately taking advantage of a rules loophole and 2) Golf specifically is self policing so nobody really looks for these kinds of loopholes, or at the very least, doesn't deliberately exploit them.
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Nope, they got it exactly right. The rule people wanted them to use to DQ him explicitly states that if any other rule covers the violation, it takes precedence. In this case, hitting a moving ball is the violation, not attempting to stop a ball in motion. The real travesty is the idiot announcing crew having their panties in a wad over the whole thing and saying Mickelson will have to rebuild his reputation or whatever. just over the top nonsense. Regardless, they have a clear loophole that they need to fix. Because Lee Westwood is dead on right about this. [tweet] [/tweet]
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This Phil Mickelson controversy is quite something. The USGA really dropped the ball from what it appears.
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