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  1. Monkeypaws
    Whoah - Made my first visit last summer. While many rust-belt cities edge toward recovery, Pittsburgh shucked it off and went hi-tech. Beautiful city with lots of cool neighborhoods. Amazingly, there is almost no sprawl. You can be in total forest just a few miles from downtown.
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    BTW, if you have never seen a ball game in Pittburgh, it is well worth it.
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    Buxton's rip to LF in the big inning: make the substitution.... http://www.baseball-almanac.com/images/willie_mccovey_peanuts.jpg
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    Gotta say, every game this season has been worth watching, win or lose. Only 158 more
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    Who is the poster with the old Metrodome scoreboard ghost "Walks will haunt" as an avatar? They are the honorary poster of the day.
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    Buxton is almost too quick on the gassers - he has hit at least 6-7 fastballs foul down the 3rd baseline today, and smoked a few fair. Contact is good - bat control comes next.
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    Duke Deduno!
  8. Monkeypaws
    Sounds like something a travel agency would offer.
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    Interesting fact about Duke - he twice topped 200 innings as an MLB starter for Pittsburgh as a 23 and 26 year old. Led the NL in hits allowed in 2006 with 255.
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    Often when I watch a game, I check other teams players to see when and by whom they were drafted. Saw Taillon was a 2nd overall, and he looks like it today. Bell was another I was wondering about, and saw he was 1st pick of round 2 in 2011. The rabbit hole led me to the Twins 2nd rounder that year, Madison Boer, then the rest of the 2011 class. There may be a worse class overall, but this one is truly awful: Headed by just released Levi Michael, Travis Harrison, Travis Boyd, Boer...etc. 3innings pitched of Jason Wheeler were all the Twins got out of it. https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?team_ID=MIN&year_ID=2011&draft_type=junreg&query_type=franch_year 40th rounder Kyle Barraclough (pronounced Bear Claw)didn't sign, got taken by by St. Louis in the 7th in 2012, and has made a career in Miami.
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    Fortunately the Twins have their own 23 year old with pretty electric stuff.
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    It's always the best this time of year. My interest wanes by May-June, then picks up again in September. I hear ya though Kydoty, watched a bunch of Pirates-Tigers yesterday. Still watching 2 4 spots in the 9th, then Gardy getting tossed was fun. The next 3 scoreless innings, well, I turned it off.
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    Just an inning after Sanchez made the most perfect throw to nail Granderson at second. Betances has to be one of the worst I've ever seen at controlling the running game. He just gave up. Can't remember the last time I saw a clean steal of home either.
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    Won't show up in the boxscore, but Gardy just got tossed in his first game as Tigers' manager arguing a replay that overturned a 10th inning walkoff win. He was arguing with the guy that called him safe
  15. Monkeypaws
    Thanks Carole, Those signings were just an example - not worthy of a thread of its own, but of interest. The couple other sports forums I visit and post have such threads: a place to post general, non-team specific stuff not really thread-worthy but of temporary interest.
  16. Monkeypaws
    1 pitch - small sample size. Well if he fails, Reed steps right in, or even Hildenberger. Not worried about it ... at all.
  17. Monkeypaws
    Sorry I didn't wanna start a new thread, but I would like a general baseball thread, not just a forum. I wanted to post, watching MLB, that SF had signed Longoria AND McCutcheon. Missed that. Not thread worthy, but would like a low-impact thread to post such tidbits. Perhaps it exists already, but didn't see one in my initial look.
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    I actually though PH Grossman for Buxton was a good call. Was looking for the walk, but he even surpassed that. Don't want that play in August, but today, I thought it made sense with a wild pitcher on the mound.
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    Surprising for a guy from the Netherlands - those folks speak better English than we do.
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    Just heard the news - kinda liked the folksy cult element of it. Oh well. Corporate must not like it. Gotta say, I was worried Bert had gone down the Keillor Franken Gilliam route, so relieved to see it wasn't that.
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    That will be the next test of the current management; they have proven adept at addressing roster needs and the draft, in the current sample size. Extending and managing young potential stars will be their next challenge.
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    Long-term win-now mode.
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    If he could learn to bunt and take walks, 100 would be within reach.
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    Except he came off a decent season and was dropped for chump change monetary reasons for LeCroy. Ouch!
  25. Monkeypaws
    Hehe, here is Kennys' profile pic on MLB.com. Short lived. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/images/players/head_shot/573627.jpg probably photoshopped. Reminds of of collecting baseball cards as a kid, and sometimes players would change teams too late to get a pic, so they would paint them:
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