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  1. Nine of twelve
    He had a serious knee injury caused by Hal McRae. McRae had a reputation as a hothead and a dirty player and he also had several situations when he managed which were consistent with that. I don't remember the year, but I know it was very near the end of the season, when McRae was trying to score and Borgmann was fielding the throw to make the tag. McRae came in "sliding", more or less. His foot was planted squarely on the side of Borgmann's knee, and there is no doubt in my mind that it was intent to injure first, and intent to score second. I know this is off topic but this memory is triggered by any mention of Borgmann.
  2. Nine of twelve
    Definitely not a cheap home run, but aided by low air resistance of the ball and low air resistance of the Denver atmosphere.
  3. Nine of twelve
    First post of the game for me: Garver is the man. Mic drop.
  4. Nine of twelve
    See Molitor, Paul.
  5. Nine of twelve
    No, he's banned because he took a banned substance. I don't think anyone has stated that he knew he was taking hydrochlorothiazide or that he intentionally took any substance that he knew was banned.
  6. Nine of twelve
    Very often legal agreements include terms to keep parts of the agreement confidential. This is not something like government in which the public is entitled to certain information. While professional sports are very much in the public eye they are still private businesses and as such players and management are not legally required to release any information not specified in the CAB.
  7. Nine of twelve
    While this is true it is over-simplification. Knowing that you are taking a substance that you know is banned is trying to cheat. Not knowing that you are taking a substance that you know is banned is not trying to cheat. Knowing that you are taking a substance that you don't know is banned is not trying to cheat. Knowing that you are not taking a banned substance is trying not to cheat.
  8. Nine of twelve
    As I said in my previous comment, only Pineda himself knows. Our comments are just guesses. I don't know enough about Pineda to cast aspersions, but over the years there have been many very good baseball players who would not win intelligence competitions.
  9. Nine of twelve
    My guess (and ALL of our comments are guesses because only Pineda himself knows for sure) is that he did not know that what he was taking was banned. This reinforces a related point I've made previously in at least one other thread. The player and his team have a shared strong interest in having the player perform at his highest level as often as possible. The player should take no substances--none--without team knowledge and approval. (And, IMHO, that includes food.) And when it comes to any drugs or supplements, they should come only through team channels. And the higher-profile the player, the more that extreme caution needs to be used. A disaster waiting to happen would be for some unscrupulous individual to arrange to put some stanazolol into the food at the favorite restaurant of, say, Mike Trout. Maybe we're getting to the point where we have to have food-tasters, just like royalty in medieval times.
  10. Nine of twelve
    LEN III's piece in the Strib says that the team is not informed until near the final announcement. The Twins apparently found out late Friday, just before Pineda's last start. The article doesn't state when Baldelli was informed.
  11. Nine of twelve
    Counting tonight's game, an 8-game winning streak for us and an 8-game losing streak for Cleveland means we can clinch the division at Progressive Field next Sunday. That would be fun.
  12. Nine of twelve
    Anybody miss Blake Parker? Me neither.
  13. Nine of twelve
    Love the 1U putout!
  14. Nine of twelve
    Oh FFS, what is going on here? A pitcher getting injured on an inning-ending K?
  15. Nine of twelve
    That call proves that a pitch called a strike is sometimes actually in the strike zone.
  16. Nine of twelve
    Five.
  17. Nine of twelve
    I think Cruz getting himself tossed on the worst umpiring call of the season was a good veteran move. He wasn't going to get in the game anyway and someone needed to call out Diaz.
  18. Nine of twelve
    I don't care if quoting myself is bad form.
  19. Nine of twelve
    An 8-2 road trip.
  20. Nine of twelve
    Littell should throw a pitch 6 inches outside to see if Diaz will do a make-up call.
  21. Nine of twelve
    More like 13.
  22. Nine of twelve
    One of the worst strike calls by any umpire at any level.
  23. Nine of twelve
    And by the way, the blue jerseys are better than the red ones except they have the b. ugly 1960's script on the front.
  24. Nine of twelve
    It has happened this way more times than anyone can count.
  25. Nine of twelve
    The most likely explanation for this, by far, is not poor batting. It's good opposing pitching.
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