MLB 2014 Season Thread
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
Go here to check out his podcast thread for info on topics and links!Go into the FoH discord and find the Happy Time Fun Hour channel and give it a listen!
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I dont understand how someone, who gets paid 10s of millions of dollars per year to do nothing but play a sport, isn't just ripped. I'm a lazy fatass, but I guarantee if someone told me I could have 10 million a year and personal trainers out the ass to be in the best shape humanly possible, I'd be doing it. Even a lot of lineman in the NFL aren't just flabby fatasses anymore, many are 300lbs of muscle, yet baseball still has a LOT of fatass players. Just think how much better someone like Sandoval, or Prince Fielder would be if they were 50 lbs lighter, a step faster in the field, 2 steps faster on the base paths, a split second faster with their bat swing. They could be incredible.
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His splits for the last 3 years says it depends what you are looking at. Power... no. On-Base... yes.
Pablo Sandoval Stats, Splits - Boston Red Sox - ESPN
Pablo Sandoval Stats, Splits - Boston Red Sox - ESPN
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Well his history with SF has been more like he shows up fat, gets chewed out and benched. Next offseason he shows up in shape (for him) does good and starts to think he is a god-gifted star and starts to get fat again. Rinse, repeat.
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Report: Jurickson Profar To Have Shoulder Surgery CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Quickly becoming the best that never was.
Quickly becoming the best that never was.
MLB will announce 3 pace-of-play rule changes
1. Managers must stay in the dugout during replay challenges
2. Hitters must keep at least one foot in the batter's box unless an exception occurs (this was tried out during the Arizona Fall League and exceptions there included foul balls, foul tips, wild pitches and time granted by the umpire)
3. Prompt return to play after commercial breaks
AFL games were 10 minutes shorter on average.
I haven't watched a lot of baseball in the past few years, mainly because the Astros were a) terrible and b) not available on TV to half of the city, but I didn't think the batters stepping out alot was really an epidemic. I remember Nomar used to do that annoying as fuck routine after every pitch, but I always thought that was more of an outlier than a general behavior around the league.
1. Managers must stay in the dugout during replay challenges
2. Hitters must keep at least one foot in the batter's box unless an exception occurs (this was tried out during the Arizona Fall League and exceptions there included foul balls, foul tips, wild pitches and time granted by the umpire)
3. Prompt return to play after commercial breaks
AFL games were 10 minutes shorter on average.
I haven't watched a lot of baseball in the past few years, mainly because the Astros were a) terrible and b) not available on TV to half of the city, but I didn't think the batters stepping out alot was really an epidemic. I remember Nomar used to do that annoying as fuck routine after every pitch, but I always thought that was more of an outlier than a general behavior around the league.
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Nomar might have started the trend but it feels like every Red Sox player since does the same. Watching a Yankees/Red Sox game is just brutal, they're always 3.5-4 hours long. SOOOOO slow.
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http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/...boston-red-sox
I can't believe the Yanks drew the line in the sand over 3 million. Let him fall right in the Sox lap. They have Steven Drew as their SS. This isn't George's Yankees anymore.
Edit. They also have DD Gregorrius.
I can't believe the Yanks drew the line in the sand over 3 million. Let him fall right in the Sox lap. They have Steven Drew as their SS. This isn't George's Yankees anymore.
Edit. They also have DD Gregorrius.
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That is amazing!!!!!
You know, because most of the time players just say "oh yeah, I quit" when asked that question and when they don't say that they usually say "no comment." Never has any athlete, when asked if they quit on their team, ever implied or explicitly said they thought the question was "bullshit."
You know, because most of the time players just say "oh yeah, I quit" when asked that question and when they don't say that they usually say "no comment." Never has any athlete, when asked if they quit on their team, ever implied or explicitly said they thought the question was "bullshit."