Baseball Miscellany

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What moriarty and Waldo said. It cannot be more stupid, and it puts tired or hurt starting pitchers on a plank to walk because of not wanting to lose an important hitter. The Grindr/Yordan example is a great one. I hope the union blows it up quickly.

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I mean, I’m not going to judge.

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Agreed. I can’t see this ever taking hold in MLB. The trend is towards more DH, not less…the players want it, the teams want it, the fans want it…No way they move back from from it. Unless this is some whacked plan to try to get teams to baby young pitchers less, it’s possibly the dumbest off all the proposed rule changes. If it IS that plan, then it’s definitely the dumbest.

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Ha! I should proofread. That is either a fat thumb or autocorrect does not follow the Astros.

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Let’s change something that has been canon since 1893 and change it. Neverminding that the entire pitching ecosystem of training and development has been built on 60’-6". Imagine the pitching injuries. Imagine the batters absolutely teeing off with the extra time to see the ball. Imagine the pounding the catchers nuts will take.

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Please! Won’t someone think of the catchers’ nuts!!

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Only catchers’ SOs do.

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The only possible rationale for that DH rule is “Hey lets try this, to make teams wanna have an old school, 9 inning, 200 pitch, workhorse who throw till they arms fall off like the good ole days!” when in reality all it would do is eliminate roster spots for pure DH. The Astros, for example, would have to put Alvarez on the field. It would lead to DH’s being the worst hitter in the lineup and just batting 9th in pitcher spot as a general roster building rule. Its one step above simply not having a DH

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The count is two balls and one strike

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I’ve spent my whole life trying not to.

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Has it been a struggle?

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Not so far, but I’ve never seen HH’s nuts.

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If you’d have, you’d never forget.

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HH has been behind the plate so much that they look like pennies after a train ran over them.

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Ding dong!

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Oh I have no doubt of that.

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Boston is wearing their yellow nikes today and it’s every bit as ridiculous as predicted.

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Better.

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What does that even mean?

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