Baseball Miscellany

I suspect Lo Duca doesn’t have $500,000. I read he might have gambling problem.

Lefty, one of my best friends from Flight School also grew up in El Cajon (went to El Cajon HS) and is a big Friars fan.

Mighty happy for Joe Musgrove.

A judgment lien will attach to any non-exempt property he owns or acquires including proceeds of anything he sells.

His bank account can be garnished. Depending on where he lives, his wages can be garnished.

If New York has an analog to federal rule 12(b)(6), Lo Duca could have gotten a judgment on the pleadings. West’s complaint failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. His reputation is so bad that it is impossible to defame him.

mraup would have been my chief witness.

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My rates are surprisingly reasonable!

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Ha.

Isn’t that illegal?

Sort of. If his glove makes contact with the ball, all runners, including the batter, are awarded three bases. But in this case his glove never touched the ball, so there is no penalty.

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Experimental rules for the Atlantic League this season

Edit: for you who don’t have twitter

The “double-hook” rule makes it so that once you take the starting pitcher out of the game, you lose the DH for the rest of that game.

The other rule is that for the second half of the season the rubber will be moved back by a foot to 61’6"

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The Dykstra Rule

WHAT THE FUCK???

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I actually kind of like this, it encourages keeping your SP in longer and keels the PH strategy in the game

I’ll politely disagree.

These rule changes seem like the product of focus groups composed of millennial hipsters.

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BS. The two things are completely unrelated. My disagreement will not be so polite.

This stupid shit will drive me away from baseball.

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My reaction also. Seems entirely out of the blue, and so stupid.

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It also heavily penalizes ineffective starting pitching, as if that isn’t enough of a penalty in its own right. Odorizzi or Greinke just doesn’t have it that night? McCullers gassed after 4-5 innings? Congrats, either Yordan loses a minimum of two AB that game or you get to make a suboptimal defensive sub to keep him in the lineup. It’s candyass.

This rule is also capitalizing on MLB’s continued indecision re: standardizing the DH. Either they should or they shouldn’t. No more half-measures.

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I don’t like the double hook rule and I don’t think it will fly in MLB. The union isn’t going to accept something that devalues the DH position. It also incentivizes leaving pitchers in the game when they’re hurt. Cannot imagine this will ever happen.

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