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3 GR doubles tonight?
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stay hot, alf (ignoring earlier in the week)
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2 career rbis, eh? al pitchers :roll:
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that was the right idea, at least
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by the way, coming home today with the air conditioning off for the past 2 weeks was really fun. One of the toilets had its water totally evaporated. coming home after 18 hours of driving to this heat=no fun
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well, that's nice
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that 1b ump needs to be slapped until he agrees to make calls in a timely fashion
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some nice cheap hits here
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was jacque running when he hit that? there's no way, is there?
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punch the ump, jacque. go on
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So the fact that every other case has been a nobody/has-been didn't tip you off?
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what a ridiculous swing for a hit
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that ball-girl is terrible
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hope it hurt, fick
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I think people are ignoring the single biggest factor in all of this. To be kind, I'll say it's "familiarity." . That wouldn't explain both a drop off after marriage if you dated for a long time beforehand and a dropoff after marriage if you didn't date for long (you and bob). I'm going to have to say there's something about nailing a guy down that changes things. On the male side, familiarity definitely lowers your drive. It can be documented in things like sperm counts. want to get her pregnant? don't see your wife (literally, don't be in the same room at all) for a few days before she ovulates. (as for me, 7 years dating, 1.5 married, no real decrease yet. Too early for a call, but looks good for me.
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He doesn't reeally deserve it and snubbed Zambrano has some revenge potential.+rest
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88% of the people who responded to this poll believe clutch exists, interesting. And yes, if you believe position in the batting order makes a difference in production, you believe clutch exists. You've conceded that mental state affects production. There's no way that all baseball players have exactly the same mentality in all situations, and if they don't and they don't perform the same given all mentalities, then clutch exists. remember: it doesn't have to be big (larger than STD or even close) pitchers can be clutch too (I know many "there is no clutch" people on this board believed in "closer mentality" after latroy) it doesn't have to be widespread: ballplayers don't progress through amateur and minors by being clutch, they do it through consistent production. again, if a player's mental state can ever affect his production, then clutch exists. What remains to be determined is the FAR more substantial task of figuring out how big a deal it is, or if it's even significantly bigger than background effects.
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Longest you've had a song stuck in your head
Careless replied to Careless's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
ok, so I seem slightly more insane It was a song by a very minor band that I heard on the radio twice (and that never made most stations). I had to wait for the internet to grow up to 2002 to find it. I won't even mention the one from 1997 that I still can't name... (I bet the lyric finders can get it in the next 2 years...) I'm too good at remembering music and too bad at forgetting. And that's not even to bring up "break and enter" and "on & on" which were merely half-stuck in my head from 96 to 04 (guy across the hall in the dorm kept playing them when I was trying to sleep fora bout 10 days) hijcacked vacation internet connections are beating the crap out of my posts! -
Why is baseball truly the greatest of all games?
Careless replied to Brendan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Baseball takes just about the least talent (golf?), but the most skill. Football (at some positions) takes the most intelligence. Not anyone can be trained to run fast -
29 foul balls off rich in the first 2 innings
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prince fielder with an infield single that would have been a REALLY easy out if not for the infield shift.
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The ball came right at his back and was coming at about 62 mph tops. There's no reason he should move. except for the umpire isn't supposed to award a batter the base if he makes no effort to avoid the pitch. What are you talking about? He turned away from the pitch and it hit him square in the back. To avoid it he would have had to have jumped on the plate. he could have walked. he could have ducked. he could have leaned forward or back. He had a ton of options because that pitch was so slow. He instead chose the part of his body it struck. He could have caught that thing bare handed True, he probably could have gotten out of the way, but anytime a pitch is that far inside, the batter is always awarded the base. I've never seen it not happen. If he leaned into a pitch that wasn't heading straight into the batter's box, maybe he isn't given the base...but that pitch was heading into the batter's box. I doubt any hitter in the league does what you're thinking. the hitter might not, but it's not up to the hitter to award the base. When was the last time you saw an umpire not give the base on a HBP? We've seen guys like biggio stick their armored elbows into balls that are almost strikes and get bases. This is a problem with the umpires failing to follow the rules.
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The ball came right at his back and was coming at about 62 mph tops. There's no reason he should move. except for the umpire isn't supposed to award a batter the base if he makes no effort to avoid the pitch. What are you talking about? He turned away from the pitch and it hit him square in the back. To avoid it he would have had to have jumped on the plate. he could have walked. he could have ducked. he could have leaned forward or back. He had a ton of options because that pitch was so slow. He instead chose the part of his body it struck. He could have caught that thing bare handed
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The ball came right at his back and was coming at about 62 mph tops. There's no reason he should move. yeah, besides the fact the rules say you have to. you don't have to, you just don't get a base if you don't try to
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how many fouls have there been this inning? 25?