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MLB 2018 regular season thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Steak Snabler, Mar 28, 2018.

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  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Make it 105.
     
    doctorquant, Apr 12, 2018
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  2. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Take my post with a grain of salt, because I am a Yankees homer. Austin went in hard, but it wasn't a dirty slide that crossed the line. His spikes were high, and I get being annoyed by that, but he was sliding for the base, didn't go out of his way to try to spike the fielder and he barely got him. He did NOT overslide, the way Alex Cora said after the game. 20 or 30 years ago, I don't think that would have gotten much of a response. That kind of hard slide was expected from a pro player.

    After the words, I thought for sure the Red Sox would throw at him the next at bat. They didn't. That was why the retaliation was particularly bush in my estimation. They wait until the 7th inning, and then even, if you are going to drill him, just drill him. Instead, he drilled him on the third pitch of the at bat. ... after they had pitched to him in the at bat before. If you are going to retaliate, retaliate. But don't go about it that way.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 12, 2018
    #638
  3. Sea Bass

    Sea Bass Well-Known Member

    There have been worse slides, sure, but this one was horseshit all the same. Just wasn’t necessary. It wasn’t to break up a double play, because they were never going to get two. And I disagree that he was sliding for the base and that he didn’t go out of his way.

    Also horseshit: suckering the third base coach who was being held back.
     
    Sea Bass, Apr 12, 2018
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  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Agree to disagree. He slid right into the base. His spikes were high, but he didn't slide past the base to where he didn't have contact with it, or in a way that it was clear he was just trying to take out the fielder. Which was why they didn't rule it a double play based on that Chase Utley slide rule.

    On the third base coach, I didn't see a sucker punch. I saw a lot of bodies and his fists flying and that coach having gotten himself into a place where an errant punch got him.
     
    The Big Ragu, Apr 12, 2018
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  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I got tickets to ohtani's projected start on the mound a week from Sunday. I hope that he has not been demoted to the minors by then. Scouts and baseball opinion-makers are talking.
     
    poindexter, Apr 12, 2018
    #641
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I’m surprised, legitimately, at how controversial it is here to say that 19 plate appearances are not determinative of someone’s ultimate success or failure in the major leagues.
     
    Dick Whitman, Apr 12, 2018
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  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    8 RBIs in 22 at-bats ... extrapolated into 500 at-bats ... means he'll have 181 RBIs.

    Fuck Hack Wilson!
     
    Songbird, Apr 12, 2018
    #643
  8. John B. Foster

    John B. Foster Well-Known Member

    Hack Wilson had 191
    Lou Gehrig had 184
    Hank Greenberg had 183

    ;)
     
    John B. Foster, Apr 12, 2018
    #644
  9. Sea Bass

    Sea Bass Well-Known Member

    OK, you might have a point with the punch on
    Febles.

    But on the slide, they were never going to call that a double play because a double play was never on the table there. And that’s my point and why I think it was a horseshit slide.
     
    Sea Bass, Apr 12, 2018
    #645
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Don’t let David Haugh hear you.
     
    Dick Whitman, Apr 12, 2018
    #646
  11. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    You are responding to an imaginary post.
     
    outofplace, Apr 12, 2018
    #647
  12. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    There is no controversy in you defending bad baseball takes by Passan and Bloom. That kind of thing has happened since the beginning of this board.

    Hell, somebody here probably defended the Mike Lombardi take on the coaching capabilities of Doug Pederson right up until the NFC title game.
     
    poindexter, Apr 12, 2018
    #648
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