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  1. Nine of twelve
    That's what Jeffers looks like with all the baby blue behind home plate.
  2. Nine of twelve
    Is it Pittsburg or is it Pittsburgh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Pittsburgh
  3. Nine of twelve
    2:17. Nice.
  4. Nine of twelve
    Hope Happ gets the same calls as Brubaker did on that strike 3 to Garver.
  5. Nine of twelve
    Haven't seen the whole game, but it Dicknroy are talking about Happ having allowed no hits in spite of not pitching that great. I think that the fact that the opposition is the Pirates has something to do with that.
  6. Nine of twelve
    Sorry, a little slow on the draw tonight.
  7. Nine of twelve
    He was correctly ruled out. The batter-runner's instinct to run straight for the base is against the rules, and for good reason.
  8. Nine of twelve
    Swing hard in case it hits your bat.
  9. Nine of twelve
    I always respect a cogent, thoughtful analysis.
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    I'm not going to say whether I agree or disagree with this post, which is why I erased all but one word. But I wish to offer my compliments for excellent verbiage!
  11. Nine of twelve
    And replaced with whom? Firing a manager is easy. Choosing a superior replacement is far more difficult and far more important.
  12. Nine of twelve
    I only saw the last 1 1/2 innings. But even if the Twins lose 100 games this is the most pathetic loss of the entire season.
  13. Nine of twelve
    Based on today's weather, this logic says that the Twins should not have any home games the first 30 games.
  14. Nine of twelve
    This thought is expressed almost every April. Here's the problem: the same thought applies to Boston, the Yankees, the Mets, Baltimore, Washington, Philadephia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, the Cubs, the White Sox, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Colorado. That's more than half the teams. They can't all open on the road. And even if you eliminate one of those teams to make it 15, it's unfair in more than one way to have all those teams play two weeks worth of road games to start the season every year.
  15. Nine of twelve
    He is never sitting in my barcalounger.
  16. Nine of twelve
    Not necessarily. If the mound is lowered and/or the pitching rubber is moved farther from home plate that would counter (and hopefully more than counter) any advantage to the pitcher that a larger zone would confer, because pitches would be easier to hit. The main benefit, though, would be fewer bases on balls.
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    As spycake said way back in the OP, what some refer to as excessive shifting is a symptom, not the disease. First, I think it's widely accepted that shifting is effective at reducing runs scored by the batting team. Because of this I am at a loss to explain why it wasn't widely implemented years ago. I certainly understand the motivation behind wanting to make the game more fun to watch by tinkering with the rules, and I share that desire. However, I am against any rule that would prevent defensive players from playing wherever it is felt they are most effective. Rather, as I have said more than once in previous threads, rule changes should have the goal of making it easier for batters to put balls in play but making it more difficult to hit home runs. I would support lowering the mound and/or moving the pitching rubber farther from home plate. I would support a larger strike zone (to reduce bases on balls). I would also support changing the baseball. The ball in use this year is supposed to have more air resistance than the balls from recent previous years, thereby reducing the number of home runs. However, changes that are significant enough to accomplish that objective will also increase the amount of break on pitches, thereby increasing the number of strikeouts. I don't think this is the best approach. Rather, I think the ball needs to be softer, thereby lowering exit velocity of batted balls.
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    I sit corrected. S can be abbreviated as S.
  20. Nine of twelve
    Warning, nit-pick alert. This is incorrect. His name was Harry S Truman. He had only a middle initial, not a middle name. A period after an initial denotes an abbreviation of a name and is not used in a case like this.
  21. Nine of twelve
    On Sunday Baldelli was roundly criticized on this board (including by me) for leaving Shoemaker in too long even though he had sailed through five innings. Today he's being roundly criticized for yanking Pineda even though he had sailed through seven. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's a no-win situation.
  22. Nine of twelve
    Him and Arraez.
  23. Nine of twelve
    Chris Atteberry said on the post-game radio show that Thorpe is starting tomorrow.
  24. Nine of twelve
    While I haven't been inside Canterbury for over 30 years I remember hearing recordings of him calling races there. I thought his vocal skills worked well in that setting.
  25. Nine of twelve
    Mine too.
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