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  1. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Couple points: When Tim Tschida was on KFAN recently, he said he thought it was suspicious when the catcher used a complicated sign sequence with no one on base. That is something someone could easily go back and look at, too, for patterns. Puckett said he didn’t want to know what pitch was coming, since he was probably swinging anyway, he said it was a distraction to him. The broadcasters in the Game 7 video were pretty open about the possibility the Twins were stealing signs illegally (or, by what we think of as illegal as of this Astros scandal. Broadcasters seemed like they were interested in intelligent discussion back then. At 19:28: “the ring finger is used for rings, not for throwing”
  2. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Seriously though, I am liking this signing more and more
  3. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The first postponement of 2020!
  4. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Maybe Pohlad just found out about this signing today, and isn’t happy about it?
  5. Hosken Bombo Disco
    From the point of view of the pitcher, I don’t mind the other pitcher batting. I like having that easy out at the bottom of the order. Doing some fact checking though, I was surprised to find out NL games weren’t necessarily finished sooner or lower scoring because of it. I guess the pitcher usually bats 2-3 times at most.
  6. Hosken Bombo Disco
    So it’s settled. NL Rules stay in place.
  7. Hosken Bombo Disco
    The Strib article is paywalled I assume, but the MLBTR synopsis here has plenty of juicy nuggets.
  8. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Also, some would say Garver was thrust into full time duty in 2018 before he was ready, after Castro stopped playing on his injured knee.
  9. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Couple of highlights from a KFAN interview with Tim Tschida this afternoon: 1) Sign stealing—beyond just the runner on second base watching for the catcher to put down ones or twos—goes back a long time; 2) Teams policed this themselves without outside help, and sign stealing was the cause of lots of the beanballs, brushback pitches, and onfield brawls that occurred when it wasn’t otherwise apparent what was going on; 3) Tschida thinks MLB should indeed take back those Astros World Series rings. Another poster somewhere alluded to those rings as being the most important possession those players have, and Tschida kind of confirmed that. Even removing the Astros as 2017 champions should be up for discussion. 4) the technology is so good and so pervasive that a sign steal scandal like this is bound to happen again.
  10. Hosken Bombo Disco
    There might not be a device attached there, but I am not sold on your reasons for that. Like I said, don’t underestimate an athlete’s ability to be absent-minded and overly confident of himself. There are academic studies that show that cheaters and fibbers in any walk of life only embolden themselves the more they fib and cheat.
  11. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yeah but that gold tape is cool and shiny! I don’t know Reddick, but let’s not overestimate the intelligence of professional athletes.
  12. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Answer: to steal signs?
  13. Hosken Bombo Disco
    On second look, the tape bends funny depending on his movements, the light, and maybe the clothes shifting. However I'm not ready to say there's nothing under there.
  14. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I saw people saying that. I don’t think it’s a piece of confetti at all. There looks like a small rod sticking up from it at :24 and :39
  15. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Interview of Josh Reddick with something taped to his skin.
  16. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Yep, I will now expect that if the Twins fall out of contention in any given year (or mistakenly think they are out of contention like in 2017 or 2018), there will be a sell-off of major league players.
  17. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Here’s a tweet of Altuve’s statement:
  18. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Replacing emergency catcher CJ Cron was not going to be cheap!
  19. Hosken Bombo Disco
    or... Jim Pohlad went to the new Star Wars movie tonight, and doesn’t know about this yet...
  20. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Thanks, dbminn! Discussion here: http://twinsdaily.com/topic/36138-front-page-feinsand-twins-to-sign-josh-donaldson/
  21. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Donaldson improves the team, but they badly need pitching.
  22. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I went back and looked at the thread Vanimal linked to in November when this came out. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/35518-astros-being-investigated-for-using-tech-to-steal-pitching-signs/?p=935074 I will backtrack my earlier statements. The banging was almost instantaneous after the catcher put the sign down. I would still like to know how common this was, and what signals they used in what games. Anyway here was that tweet (warning: language) https://twitter.com/Jomboy_/status/1194348775965437952?s=19
  23. Hosken Bombo Disco
    I know there are one or two video clips floating around of banging on trash can lids. I’ve got to think there was more to it than that, or we would have dozens of clips. That particular sound would be pretty obvious and I think people would catch on pretty quickly. But you are right, it could still be an audio signal that hasn’t been revealed yet.
  24. Hosken Bombo Disco
    While agreeing with all of the above, I also can’t help thinking that if pitchers weren’t taking so much time to deliver the pitch, this type of cheating would be minimal. I don’t know, let’s see what turns up. Knowing what pitch is coming is huge, but I doubt batters would have much time to look away from the pitcher, decode the signal, and then bring their eyes back to the pitcher’s delivery slot before the pitch comes. And that’s the last step in the process. Illegal sign stealing like this... I think it would work only under the right conditions.
  25. Hosken Bombo Disco
    Personally, I’ve always hated that sort of penalty. That’s really a dig at the fans, in my opinion, who don’t deserve it.
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