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  1. USAFChief
    I think it does work. Or we'd see much more. The unwritten rules PREVENT jerks from acting like jerks. Just like in most any other endeavor. However, it'll only continue to work if, when transgressions occur, corrective behavior happens. To beat a dead horse...what people are missing here is, there's a difference between celebrating my own success, which nobody in MLB objects to, and celebrating your failure, which most object to.
  2. USAFChief
    Actually, they don't get pissy about walk-offs, provided the emotion of the walk-off is genuine, and not directed at the other team. The players, and coaches, can recognize the difference. Again...the Twins have given up over a hundred homers this season, and didn't have an issue with them. That this one did--and even the opposing manager didn't like it--should perhaps cause a more nuanced examination of what actually happened, and why. Still don't like the explanation? Fine. I disagree, but fine. But don't ignore the explanation.
  3. USAFChief
    The "unwritten rules" prevent more harm than they cause, Mike. Again...the reason the Twins were upset wasn't because the player flipped his bat, had his bat flip been an honest reaction to something good, or something bad. But it wasn't. I guarantee everyone in both dugouts knew it, and understood the reaction and likely consequences. They were upset because he taunted. By having a set of "unwritten rules" that discourages that kind of action, that kind of action is rare, Teams can play highly competitive 162 game schedules without much rancor. Baseball is a zero sum game. In order to win, someone has to lose. These are highly skilled, highly competitive people, operating at the far edge of performance, over six months, with jobs, money, reputation, respect, and self satisfaction on the line. Of course there are going to be "norms." That's how they're able to function without tearing each other's eyes out. The Twins have given up, what...150 HRs this year? They had no problem with 149 of them. That they had a problem with this one should tell you something was amiss.
  4. USAFChief
    If the lack of a DH is such a big disadvantage to the NL, the solution seems pretty obvious to me.
  5. USAFChief
    Nobody got upset when Puckett showed some emotion rounding the bases after ending game six. Nobody gets upset about teams and players celebrating a walk off win. Nobody gets upset about a pitcher fist pumping after a huge K to end a threat. They get upset when actions AREN'T borne from emotion. Which was the case in this instance.
  6. USAFChief
    That's just it...he wasn't showing joy. He was showing up the other team. Deliberately. Now, maybe you still don't think that's a valid reason to take exception. But that's the reason. And lest anyone mistake anything about this, both teams knew it instantly, so for those teams at least, it was valid.
  7. USAFChief
    The reason the Twins were upset about the bat flip was because it was calculated and deliberate. He showed them up. If he had simply been excited, and reacted out of emotion, nobody would have been upset.
  8. USAFChief
    Angels lose 8-7 minutes after the Twins drop the second game of the DHer.
  9. USAFChief
    Central time?? I'm in Arizona. We don't do daylight savings time, and we don't do time zones.
  10. USAFChief
    8-7 A's. Angels hit five HRs and lose.
  11. USAFChief
    Is it yesterday yet in Hong Kong?
  12. USAFChief
    nine more of those in a row and we're back in this thing.
  13. USAFChief
    winner.
  14. USAFChief
    I always liked bat flips on fly balls that sneak into the first row.
  15. USAFChief
    more like too much RUM.
  16. USAFChief
    Five. While Cinnamon creates a diversion by wearing a dress that was shockingly skimpy for the times, Jim uses a tiny narcotic dart to knock out the fascist, vaguely Latino dictator and remove his body. Rollin, wearing the coolest plastic mask ever, masquerades as the dictator long enough for Barney to sneak up the elevator shaft to the next floor, drill a tiny hole down to the light fixture, insert a suction cup thingy, remove the burned-out bulb while almost dropping it!!!, and replace it with a new super-high-wattage model that also contains a tiny remote control camera, all of original design. Meanwhile, Willie has driven up to the loading dock in a "laundry truck". Just before Rollin's real identity can be detected, all five escape in the truck, giving each other knowing looks on the way to the secret airport.
  17. USAFChief
    boom. see, I told you what we needed was for Sano to come up twice that other inning, whenever it was.
  18. USAFChief
    Perhaps you missed my intent. I was intimating (poorly, I admit) that I'm old, and it was news to me that Barack Obama is President.
  19. USAFChief
    How many members of the Impossible Missions Force does it take to change a lightbulb?
  20. USAFChief
    Whaaa??? Well, I'll be a son of a ...
  21. USAFChief
    Two actually. One to screw it in, and one to observe how the bulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness.
  22. USAFChief
    Been a long season. Probably should rest him. A week should do.
  23. USAFChief
    How many philosophy majors does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
  24. USAFChief
    Dunno...when Hillary becomes president, what will they call Bill?
  25. USAFChief
    What we need here is, we need Sano to bat again this inning. That's what we need.
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