2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

Now who's being confrontational?

Either way, your posts were out of line. To stubbornly post what you did over and over out of ignorance or for the sake of trolling. Either reasoning speaks badly about you. You went looking for a confrontation and now you are whining because you got one, albeit a very mild one. But yes, I'm sure being held accountable for your foolishness is exhausting for you.

 

Sorry, Mommy.

 

Shut the fuck up. Both of you.

 

Truly sad when a poster goes full-on troll.

 

Indeed. Now let's get back to more important matters, like avoiding the sno-cones at Minute Maid Park:

http://deadspin.com/an-astros-vendor-pooped-next-to-his-snow-cones-509479058

 

Curious as to why this Miguel Cabrera home run courtesy of Michael Bourn is scored a home run and not as a four-base error.

http://mlb.si.com/2013/05/23/watch-michael-bourn-turns-a-miguel-cabrera-fly-ball-into-a-home-run/

If the ball had popped out of the glove and hit the ground, and Cabrera got two bases out of it, it wouldn't have been scored a double. Or would it?

 

It's a good question. I know plays like that have always been scored as home runs, but I'm not sure what the reasoning is, either.

 

Has there ever been a play like that that should have been scored an error, though? Even the one that bonked off Canseco's head, he was on the run and that would have been a somewhat difficult catch. I can't recall another ball that bounced over the fence off an outfielder who was making "ordinary effort."

This is a very rare and possibly unique case.

 

Because he was trying to make a leaping-backwards-into-the-wall attempt on a fly ball that he just ran a mile for.

Never, ever is that an error.


Had he sprinted to the ball, established himself under it, had it hit his glove and bounce over, then yes - error.

 

He certainly wasn't leaping. And he had camped under it pretty well too -- feet still moving maybe, but he certainly wasn't sprinting.

Put it this way -- if Kozma's infield-fly catch last year was ordinary effort, this most certainly was ordinary effort.

 

Well, Kozma's play wasn't ordinary effort. The umpires fucked that up.

 

I know. But once upon a time, Justin was kind of hot and bothered that people were saying the umpires fucked up. Hence the reference.