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If the Cubs signed someone with amazing pitch framing abilities, that would probably be the day MLB implements robo-umps. sometimes you have to sacrifice for the greater good

favorite non-2010 playoffs buff moment i love him so much http://i957.photobucket.com/albums/ae59/chiblackhawks/roflbotm5qw.jpg

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People who think of factual statements as trolling reveal their own character. people who think trolling is defined by statement's factual merit reveal their intellectual mediocrity

My guess: It depends on whether the Cubs fall behind in the series or not. The first time it's 0-1 or we come back down 0-2, we revert back to that. #wfib

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i just installed that ceiling on my floor!

a hot dog is not a sub lol wtf are you talking about again; the bread on the hot dog is evolved to hold the hot dog (or other sausage) in the hand while digesting. ergo, the form of the bread follows function. this is the opposite of how a sandwich is defined. people didn't have a bunch of sliced meat sitting around and were like oh i better make some bread to hold this It closer to the definition of a sub sandwich than it is a sandwich, given the greater difference in the set-up of the bread from a sandwich (separated) than a sub sandwich (not separated) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no

They didn't have sliced bread laying around either. but they did have loaves, which is why the "sub" was likely the first form of sandwich

You can only get so much fun out of a hot dog. Or any other sandwich, really. [restart thread] a hot dog isn't a sandwich[/restart thread] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Wrong, the only way it wouldn't be considered a sandwich would be if they separated sub sandwiches into it's own category and not called it a sandwich. They need to make up their mind on whether a sandwich only consists of bread and has to be separated, if they do that then a hot dog wouldn't be considered a sandwich. Until then... Sandwich. a hot dog is not a sub lol wtf are you talking about again; the bread on the hot dog is evolved to hold the hot dog (or other sausage) in the hand while digesting. ergo, the form of the bread follows function. this is the opposite of how a sandwich is defined. people didn't have a bunch of sliced meat sitting around and were like oh i better make some bread to hold this

Sandwiches and subs are very similar foods, but are ultimately their own things. If you promise a group of people subs and then present them with a bunch of sandwiches they will rightly be perplexed and frustrated as to why you are playing cruel food games with them. On the flipside, if you promise people sandwiches and bring them subs, they will be pleasantly surprised (because subs are inherently superior). Either way, people's perceptions are very, very different with these types of foods despite their many similarities. Maybe the answer is looking at something like linguine vs. udon. Both are noodles, yet both are not pasta. well, both are not italian noodles, which is the cultural definition of pasta. all pasta really means is paste, as in the original form of the noodle. using that definition, all members of the noodle family are paste first, and are therefore all pasta regardless of continent/culture of origin. we just don't consider that a meaningful working definition because of common usage but you're conflating common usage with our very academic food classification discussion. in common usage, you probably would never say "let's go get sandwiches" and drive straight towards your favorite sub shop. but in the academic sense a sub is very much a sandwich (using my definition which is clearly the best). my guess is that the sub predates the sliced-loaf sandwich by many years, if not ages. mapping the familial tree, however, whereby the purest form is the parent and all variations are branches from the main, a submarine is a child of the sliced-bread sandwich; defined by the bread, but different enough that it warrants its own branch. the same goes with the "burger" and its variations, open-faced things like the horseshoe and the hot brown, etc. wraps are not sandwiches, they are gringo burritos and deserve a fate not unlike kim jong un's uncle

if by coaching you mean manny standing behind javi while at-bat and guiding his movements like a dock worker trying to teach a teenage girl how to play pool, then yes write him a blank check for that

You ever tried to deny a 60-pound autistic kid his videos? I don't care if everything else in life falls apart, the internet is always there. derwood can watch whatever he wants i just lost it in my office

the bun distinction makes no sense to me because you have to slice the bun, therefore making it sliced bread i think ultimately one must drill down to the purpose of the bread in order to truly answer this question. on a sandwich, the bread is the main ingredient and the defining form of the finished product. you can bend, break, and smear the inner ingredients every which way in order to conform to the shape of the bread. contrast this with the sausage, to whom the bread's form is subservient. furthermore, in this example, the bread's primary purpose is to free the consumer from the tyranny of silverware without soiling their digits wraps, burritos, etc. are not sandwiches and only an insufferable person would think such things

I'm riding high on last offseason's "Kyle shut up, Junior Lake's not going to be that terrible, line drive percentage means everything!" success. with such low standards of success, it's a surprise you find happiness so elusive The only connection I was making between Lake and Baez was that Lake was a major point of contention last offseason, and Baez might be this offseason. I'm not really down on Baez. I honestly just don't know anymore what's going to happen with him. I said that *if* they think he's going to be this bad again early next year, I'd rather send him back to Iowa for awhile (only 22) than eat the extra loss or two. To which some people insanely replied "If we've got enough other good players, we can afford to take the extra loss or two," which completely flies in the face of years of talking about how wins are at their most valuable and least expendable for teams in the mid-to-high 80s. baez not being a win or two worse than the next available option was the whole point of bringing him up this season

direct subscription is an interesting idea, mostly because if the team wants to make any money, they have to be good and keep subscriptions up

Does authenticated mean subscribers to the channel that is locally broadcasting the game? If it doesn't mean that, I can't see it as anything but a bad thing for us. I really doubt MLBAM is broken up by 2020 It does mean subscribers to the channel. i'm not sure this assumption is correct. the context of the quote is that they would be skipping broadcast ota altogether and providing access to the games via streaming service exclusively authentication just means login access. in this case, gaining access to the streaming service

So then you have no problem with the fact that the NFL only waited until after the video was leaked to impose stiffer punishments? You have no problem that the Ravens waited until after the video leaked to terminate Ray Rice's contract? what? no, of course i'm not ok with their deplorable non-reaction to this. but i'm certainly not going to complain that public outcry forced them to get it right

because the video forces everyone to confront the reality of what it means to punch a woman out cold and drag her unconscious body like a bag of trash for someone else to deal with

Move out of the boonies and you will weep at how wrong you are. yeah, it sucks

i think i'm going to bring the fam up for that series as well, but i'm a hilton man myself

In 99 and 2000 there were 30+, other years in that range looks like around 15-20 a year. Yup it's because of the way the strike zone has changed. They put on the computers and trained the umps to call the lower strike it completely changed the game. The strike zone is larger now forcing hitters to swing at pitches they didn't before to protect the zone. citation needed

dunno, says 7-day dl on the kcc site

blackburn's highest gun reading i noticed was 92, of which there were a few. he was really effective at changing speeds and working the hitters. fb was working 90-92, there was a breaking ball that was mid-80's, and what i'd guess was a straight change that i saw a 78 reading on. i was behind the cougars dugout, so i couldn't pick out the nuances as to the direction of break, etc. he made a lot of guys look silly from the change of speeds, which i love jeimer candelario was easily the best hitter on the field. excellent discipline, which might be easy to say considering the results but he really controlled the zone well, fought off the right pitches, and didn't get fooled. on the flipside, shawon dunston probably had the worst at-bats of the game. he sucks also, the other baez is kind of beastly, which i wasn't really expecting. he stole third base which made all the meatballs go nuts, but it was pretty head's up. it paid off with an rbi single by chesny young, who i hate because his name reminds me of country music it was cool to get to see some of these guys in a high-stakes game, it was the most fun i've had at a baseball game in many moons. hopefully i'll get to see them again before the playoffs are over. would have been cool to see caratini but he broken. i'm going to get one of those candles with the virgin mary on it and light it every day as my constant vigil to gleybar torres breaking camp next spring with the cougars

going to the kcc game tonight