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  1. USAFChief
    "straight over the top type breaking ball" drink
  2. USAFChief
    http://espn.go.com/media/high/2000/1023/photo/a_joe_i.jpg Seriously?
  3. USAFChief
    http://media.fakeposters.com/results/2013/03/16/u105j3g3t2.jpg
  4. USAFChief
    cold milk.
  5. USAFChief
    Molly Hatchet, in concert.
  6. USAFChief
    nice. might we even say...voluminous?
  7. USAFChief
    BRB, time for dinner. Meatloaf, fried potatoes, candied carrots. Cold glass of milk. Health food.
  8. USAFChief
    "Mauer squirts one down the left field line." ish.
  9. USAFChief
    drink
  10. USAFChief
    Buxton catches that.
  11. USAFChief
    I don't know about yourself or what you want to be, RB When we gamble with our time, We choose our destiny
  12. USAFChief
    Let's hope Berrios spends little time tonight flirtin' with disaster.
  13. USAFChief
    Tsuyoshi happens.
  14. USAFChief
    #1. It was a 2-0 pitch. In a late situation where a HR wins the game. This has nothing to do with a "bad at bat." What's the worst that could happen? He doesn't hit a HR? It's bad baseball NOT to sit on a pitch and try to pull it over the fence. #2. If Rosario walks in that situation, it's up to an obviously hurting Buxton, against a RH pitcher. If Rosario ends up walking, after never getting a pitch to hit or fouling off the ones he gets, I have no problem with that. But the Twins are NOT in a better position if Rosario walks. And that exact situation applies to Mauer ABs as well. Take a walk when it's the right thing to do? No problem. Take a walk when the next hitter(s) have a lesser chance of driving in a run? I don't think that's smart baseball. #3. Nobody is saying there's no abstract value in getting on base. I'm saying there are situations where it makes more sense to look for a pitch to hit. Don't get it? Fine. But if you do? You should be hacking, and hacking hard. #4 Mauer never takes a bad AB? C'mon. BTW, "never changing" doesn't make him a "consummate professional." It makes him someone who can't or won't adjust to the situation. Running the ball, down 10 with 2 minutes left in a football game, just because you're good at it doesn't make you a professional, either. It just means you don't understand the situation.
  15. USAFChief
    Indiana Twin: Thanks for putting these together. A lot of work and a good read!
  16. USAFChief
    Doesn't matter if Polanco can't learn to sac bunt better. Pitchers can do that.
  17. USAFChief
    http://aarongleeman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tsuyoshi-nishioka-twins.jpg http://stmedia.stimg.co/ctyp_6570047Tsuyoshi_Nishioka_pop_fly.jpg?w=800
  18. USAFChief
    That's not a strength of Mauer. It's a weakness.
  19. USAFChief
    I also like that when he got to 2-0, he was looking for a specific pitch to turn on and hit onto the plaza. He wasn't looking to take that pitch, or slice it to left for a single. Two outs, favorable count, chance to end the game with one swing, and he took that chance. It doesn't always work out, but that's exactly what a hitter should be looking to do in any similar situation.
  20. USAFChief
    Thanks for your service.
  21. USAFChief
    That's how you treat a 2-0 fastball in.
  22. USAFChief
    I'm watching the SD feed and they called it fair almost off the bat.
  23. USAFChief
    Winnah!!1!
  24. USAFChief
    In play, run(s) please
  25. USAFChief
    If you are going to use Belisle, why wouldn't you start the inning with him?
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