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  1. USAFChief
    Speaking of which... Why do elephants drink?
  2. USAFChief
    wow. just wow. THANK YOU!!!
  3. USAFChief
    That's five, btw, not four.
  4. USAFChief
    clever?
  5. USAFChief
    Berrios. Let's hope it's sustainable.
  6. USAFChief
    low hurdle. Even Sano would've scored on Sano's double.
  7. USAFChief
    you think this is some rook you're dealing with here?? Of course. It's easy in AZ. We don't play no "Savings Time" games.
  8. USAFChief
    that's the thing...I could tell both of em from my living room
  9. USAFChief
    Atta boy Mauer-zee!
  10. USAFChief
    Buxton 1, Chisox 0.
  11. USAFChief
    I don't understand how he was called out in the first place. Umpires are better than that, usually.
  12. USAFChief
    He should be just short of 2nd base. When the RFer turns to face the wall, you take off. When the ball gets past the RFer on the ricochet, you score easily.
  13. USAFChief
    False. I just rewound and watched it. It hit 15 ft up on the wall, off the "M" in U of M appreciation night. By then the RFer had turned his back to the IF, the signal to a baserunner to take off. Mauer should score on that.'
  14. USAFChief
    It was off the wall, the RFer turned his back to the IF because he wasn't going to catch it, and the ball got past him on the ricochet off the wall. Mauer has to score there. On the gb dp, you'd have to know if the contact play was on to know who made the blunder
  15. USAFChief
    "Golly gee WHIZ, Mister! I'm super DUper angry with you! You just better watch it!"
  16. USAFChief
    I hope spring training was enough to prepare the Twins to play in this kind of heat.
  17. USAFChief
    Mauer drinks beer??
  18. USAFChief
    And in the specific case of Morrison, those studies didn't include the recent Houston shifts of 4 OFers and not a soul on the left side of the IF.
  19. USAFChief
    but that's the thing, on the two of three ABs where he doesn't get a bunt down fair, he's still hitting. Down a strike, but still hitting. He's not out on a foul bunt. He's not out on a missed bunt. It's just a strike. Anything he does in those 2 of 3 ABs is added to the OPS he gets on the fair bunts, and his OPS on fair hunts will be much higher than .666 almost certainly. Again, we have studies (not recent, but still) showing fair hunts against a shift work somewhere north of half the time. One study said 2/3ds if the time.
  20. USAFChief
    We can argue the difficulty ... but I'll disagree with you. They're all used to seeing 95. It's more difficult to bunt for a hit against a normal defense, I agree. You not only have to bunt, you have to bunt into a good spot. But none of that applies here. It can be bunted hard, soft, it doesn't matter. It can be a popup, line drive. It doesn't matter. In any case, What ISN'T arguable is that bunting a ball poorly to the left side is orders of magnitude easier than hitting a line drive. Why do you think teams have their pitchers bunt whenever there's a runner on with less than 2 out? They do so because it's easier than hitting. Those same pitches that are so tough to bunt are the same ones he's trying to hit. And we already have studies done that show a fair bunt against a shift has a better than .500 chance of being a hit. He should bunt. Often. If teams want to play four outfielders, with nobody on the left side of the infield, if he can get one down once in every 3 ABs, the team comes out ahead. What's the worst that can happen? He misses and it's strike one? He bunts foul? Again, strike one. He gets it fair, he's on first.
  21. USAFChief
    A demoralizing loss becomes an energizing win. Nice.
  22. USAFChief
    It’s really not that hard. Every player in the big leagues has been playing baseball for years, if not decades. They’ve all had years and years of BP, and laid down bunts as part of that BP. It doesn’t have to be a good bunt. What’s hard is squaring up a pitch.
  23. USAFChief
    Giving up a run in a 0-0 game seems pretty critical to me.
  24. USAFChief
    ...against the top of the order...
  25. USAFChief
    I don't mean to speak for Van, but I think his point was, if Lynn didn't perform as well as Verlander, it wasn't because of the weather.
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