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Where it comes to reviewing tags on the bases, I was initially persuaded by the arguments that baseball has never nitpicked whether a guy's foot came off the bag by an inch, and why waste time by stopping the game to make a picayune call reversal. But you know what? I think the quality of slides has improved perceptibly during these past few seasons. If you enforce the rules, players adapt, sometimes for the better.

In addition to which, if the infielder puts a tag on 1/2 inch from the bag on the way in, nobody complains about that. Why complain if the runner comes 1/2 inch off the bag?

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In addition to which, if the infielder puts a tag on 1/2 inch from the bag on the way in, nobody complains about that. Why complain if the runner comes 1/2 inch off the bag?

It's a game of inches. Half an inch isn't plural, so it doesn't count.

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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

My sister had a dog who would jump up on the Counter and eat the King's Hawaiian. Chew right through the bag to get to it. 

 

My sister would admonish the dog and then put the replacement King's Hawaiian back on the counter and the dog would jump up on the counter and eat the bread. 

 

I suggested to my sister that maybe she should put the King's Hawaiian in a drawer where the dog couldn't reach it and it turns out that my sister enjoyed admonishing the dog. 

 

I'm starting to think Mitch Garver is your dog and the umps are the Kings Hawaiian on the counter. 

 

 

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At no point during this game did I expect Odorizzi would make it through six innings so huge kudos for him accomplishing that.

 

And yet Yarbrough "outpitched" him in terms of IP. :)

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