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  1. abuck1220
    to protect your kids? no, I usually don't take the kids. a 5 and 2 year old tend to get bored after about 1/2 an inning so why do you bring it? i'm not making fun of you (in this thread, at least), i just don't understand the psyche of a gloved baseball fan. I used to have season tickets for the local Short-A minor league team. My seats were 3 rows behind the 3rd base dugout, so a lot of foul balls (both liners and pop ups) headed our way. Again, I hardly bring one anymore, I just don't understand why someone shouldn't. The only reason I've heard is "it's not impressive to catch a ball with a glove" and "because it's dumb" i guess my reason would be because it's not a very...i don't know, "grown up" thing to do? i mean, if you want you can put a quarter in those rides outside of the grocery store and ride them when you're 33 years old you can, and i guess my reasoning for why you shouldn't would be something along the lines of "because it's dumb." so if you're looking for something beyond that, i don't know what to tell you. it just seems like an odd thing for a grown up to do simply because i find it strange that a grown up would care about getting a foul ball.
  2. abuck1220
    to protect your kids? no, I usually don't take the kids. a 5 and 2 year old tend to get bored after about 1/2 an inning so why do you bring it? i'm not making fun of you (in this thread, at least), i just don't understand the psyche of a gloved baseball fan.
  3. abuck1220
    to protect your kids?
  4. abuck1220
    yeah, and your argument comparing fans with gloves to players with gloves was air tight. about as airtight as "every adult with a glove is a mouth-breather who just wants autographs and will steal balls from kids" i just can't imagine going through the hassle of lugging around a glove to catch a foul ball because a) who wants to carry a glove around a ballpark all day? and b) who wants a foul ball? since you're defending glove wearers, i'm guessing you bring your glove to the ballpark...so why do you do it? To protect young kids from getting hit in the head with a line drive and suffering a fractured skull? Actually, I've never brought one with me just because it's a hassle. Now that I have a kid though, I'm brining one with me every time once he's old enough to go with me. where the hell are you people sitting??? and wherever it is, sit someplace else if you have kids that can't protect themselves.
  5. abuck1220
    i don't buy that people bring gloves to games as protection.
  6. abuck1220
    man, you are like 0 for the week. surely you have something better to do than keep score well, i'm still at 0, so it hasn't been too much work.
  7. abuck1220
    man, you are like 0 for the week. obviously the cubs had no intention of drafting/keeping hamilton. but that doesn't change the fact that the cubs could have drafted/kept hamilton. so imagining the cubs with hamilton is not as crazy as you people are making it out to be.
  8. abuck1220
    yeah, and your argument comparing fans with gloves to players with gloves was air tight. about as airtight as "every adult with a glove is a mouth-breather who just wants autographs and will steal balls from kids" i just can't imagine going through the hassle of lugging around a glove to catch a foul ball because a) who wants to carry a glove around a ballpark all day? and b) who wants a foul ball? since you're defending glove wearers, i'm guessing you bring your glove to the ballpark...so why do you do it?
  9. abuck1220
    yeah, and your argument comparing fans with gloves to players with gloves was air tight.
  10. abuck1220
    You can't just look at the runs scored to determine a bottom line. i wasn't. i was looking at the baserunners he allowed, and that number was actually pretty good in 3 out of his 5 starts.
  11. abuck1220
    at this point, who cares about how quick he is to the plate? he was very slow to the plate last year and he did just fine. tinkering with his motion to speed up his delivery was probably what started this whole mess.
  12. abuck1220
    Right. Because nothing was in the strike zone. It's encouraging that he's throwing more strikes, but it's against a really low level of competition. the level of competition is really irrelevant. whether it was albert pujols or a cardboard cutout standing at home plate, his problem was throwing strikes. it'd be one thing if he couldn't throw strikes AND he was getting hit all over the place, but that clearly wasn't the case.
  13. abuck1220
    looking back at hill's game log, it is kind of surprising how short his leash was. 6 ip, 4 h, 3 bb, 2 er (good) 3 ip, 3 h, 4 bb, 3 er (bad) 5 ip, 3 h, 3 bb, 1 er (good) 5 ip, 3 h, 4 bb, 2 er (decent) 2/3 ip, 0 h, 4 bb, 1 er (terrible) now obviously things fell apart once he went down to AAA and maybe he was heading toward a collapse the whole time, but other than failing to get out of the first inning once, he certainly never killed the cubs in any of his starts. and even in that start, he only allowed one run. certainly his walk rate was unacceptable, but when you consider how few hits he gave up, it wasn't a disaster or anything.
  14. abuck1220
    opponents were hitting .191 against hill this year, fyi.
  15. abuck1220
    i like "headcase" as hill's new nickname. "one pitch" was getting old.
  16. abuck1220
    Until they have Gallardo back, they're not completely healthy. well, they're not getting him back this year, so they're as healthy as they're going to get this season.
  17. abuck1220
    i'm game.
  18. abuck1220
    yeah, i never got the excitement over having 15 really good exempt players.
  19. abuck1220
    i'm going to be pissed if anyone trades anything of value for the 16 year old.
  20. abuck1220
    well, then you misfired.
  21. abuck1220
    six straight w's for the hand sanitizers, who should get a boost from soriano's return and liriano's inevitable call up (20 ip, 10 h, 0 er, 24 k's in his last three starts). only one game out of first!
  22. abuck1220
    terrible rant.
  23. abuck1220
    eugenio velez bats 3rd for the giants?
  24. abuck1220
    damn, that was going to be my afternoon entertainment.
  25. abuck1220
    gotta love having a game worth following that starts at 10:30 am.
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