Clem Fandango
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I might be able to recite that entire routine. ...why did comedy central play that thing on repeat on weekends? Because it was great
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You're a disgrace to this ZASTRYZNY SYSTEM.
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http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/05/GIF-Happy-Seal.gif?gs=a
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Those Charmin bears don't know what the hell they're doing. horsefeathering amateurs
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Samardzija* Zastryzny: Zas - Try - Zany, drop the a in zany. Now I'll never forget.
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[expletive] you! I'm at 48,221 I had to pass when my number came up last year! http://i.imgur.com/vLzjv3n.gif
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Other Games Week of 8/22
Clem Fandango replied to Liam Neeson's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
I disagree, he was a starter his whole career until halfway through his season in AAA this year, he can handle the workload. Plus since he's been a closer (the start of August), Servais has only used him once in a 1+ inning situation. Not to mention, the only other relievers he had at his disposal were Arquimedes Caminero who has a 5.68 ERA over his previous 6.1 innings in relief work and Pat Venditte who pitched 3 innings the previous night, so he probably wasn't available. In a one run game while you're in the middle of a playoff hunt against your division leader, I think putting Diaz in there for two innings with those limited options is the right call. His arm isn't going to fall off, and he's been the best strikeout reliever in all of baseball. He has a 16.3 K/9. That's better than Chapman, Kimbrel, Miller, and Betances. Servais only had one reliable option if he wanted to beat the Rangers, and it was using Edwin Diaz. -
That can't be a complete wipe. Well when you've had 30+ years to perfect it...
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Maybe I'm an anomaly among standing wipers, but my set up and motion is like I'm snapping a football. I understand, now, how weird that sounds, but again that was how I first did it as a small child and my parents never corrected me.
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If he's truly ambidextrous that's awesome. Though I grew up as a lefty writer and a righty thrower, and a righty in the batters box, but a switch handed person on a tennis/raquetball court, I always assumed I was ambidextrous, but I recently learned not long ago that apparently that's called mixed-handedness, or cross-dominance. You're only ambidextrous if you can truly do everything with either your left or right hand and that is apparently very rare ("some suggest about 1%, others a vanishingly small percentage"), but if you can only do some things with both hands and strictly one hand on others (or if you can do things with both hands but one of them is more dominant than the other), it's mixed-handedness/cross-dominance.
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horsefeathers Getty Images
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TMI, Carrie. TMI.
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It was done with eye black to make fun of Rougned Odor's haircut apparently
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We were the best team in baseball in 2008 and it sure as horsefeathers didn't feel like it when the playoffs were over.
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Jeff Sullivan wrote an article yesterday about Kris Bryant's very unclutch performance this year. Ha!
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Carlos Correa hit his 41st career home run last night, his 40th as a shortstop in an Astros uniform. He is the became the franchise record holder for most home runs hit by a shortstop in Astros history... when he hit 36. Former record holder Adam Everett hit 35 at the position. I know SS is historically a futile offensive position, but I never would've guessed 35 career home runs was a franchise record for the position on any team.
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I was referring to him saying "The 2000 First Year Player Draft"
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Bud really nailed that draft year
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Spoiler alert, but in the documentary they use the technology they used to measure the fastballs of Feller and Ryan back in the day and then an MIT professor (I think it was MIT) applied it to modern techniques using math and stuff to determine what the actual speeds they threw back then would've been calculated at using a radar scanner the way they use them today. Feller threw a pitch through some weird scanner device at home plate which clocked him at like 97 or 98 or something, pre radar technology, that they then said by todays standards would've been measured at 107mph. Nolan Ryan was scanned using a radar at about 100 or 101 (I forget the actual numbers), but the scanner they used was aimed at home plate. Scanners today measure speed within 5 feet of being released from the pitchers hand (which I did not know, I thought they scanned it at home plate, personally), so the ball traveled at that speed coming out of their hands. It's a fascinating documentary, I can't recommend it enough.
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http://37.media.tumblr.com/2cabd4dac014fb06e44ca84d5357eb2e/tumblr_moeo97AEIV1ryx23wo2_400.gif I would have liked this, were it not for the fact that the Peaches lose in painful fashion. I don't think Willson is gonna throw the World Series to make his sister happy, especially since they can't collide at the plate anymore.
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It's more interesting when you start at #15 instead of #1, haha. http://www.trendingtoplists.com/the-top-15-fastest-pitches-recorded-in-mlb-history/1 Also, its been mentioned before by myself and someone else I think, but the documentary "Fastball" is very good and worth watching because it goes in depth about a lot of the fastest throwers in history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybw2W2pXm6Y
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Like... a hat tip or something? What a boring thing to keep an eye out for. Dad: "Look son he tipped his cap to Vin Scully! That's what respect looks like!" Kid: *continues to Pokemon*
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Vin Scully could read Wuthering Heights on air and you'd never be able to tell the difference between that and an actual game.
