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  1. buddha
    about 30% unmasked in the grocery stores this weekend.
  2. buddha
    if we were required to have knowledge of the stuff we say on this site, the political board would cease to exist.
  3. buddha
    sent veleno down...
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    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33438241/sources-mlb-eyes-pitch-clocks-14-seconds-empty-bases-19-seconds-runners-on mlb wants 14 second pitch clock with bases empty and 19 seconds with a runner on base.
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    the real injustice in all this is that they want to cancel the rule v/5 draft. manfred hears about the parties and wanted to stop those type of shenanigans immediately.
  6. buddha
    otoh, the lions could really use a run stuffing dt...
  7. buddha
    he's a run stuffing dt. he's a more athletic ted washington. he cant stay on the field because he's so big and, as you say, he hardly ever got any pass rush against college olines surrounded by great defensive players. those guys dont usually go in the top half of round one.
  8. buddha
    marvin bagley having a game.
  9. buddha
    seider driving the play more and more.
  10. buddha
    i dont think there are enough great pitchers but plenty of average to slightly above average ones. and you maximize the value of those guys by only having them go through the lineup once or maybe twice.
  11. buddha
    i think if you deadened the ball you will kill the offense. the pitchers are too good now. they throw too hard with too much spin. i know the argument will be that you think they wont throw as hard becsuse they wont need to strike people out as much and that they wont get tired and will be able to go into games longer, but i dont think that will happen. i think baseball is figuring out that the real key is preventing hitters from seeing pitchers too many times. they'll still throw hard and strike you out and managers will still pull them quickly and use the bullpen a lot. i think that's just the way the league is going. but i could be wrong!
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    i understand. im ambivalent about it. i do get a little annoyed by people saying "what do you expect a hitter to do?" ummmm...adapt? hit the ball the other way? bunt? this comment used to elicit a lot of "do you know how hard it is to hit the ball the other way" posts but i think most of those people didnt make it to the new site.
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    in the games ive watched it is definitely more than 20 seconds from when the catcher gets the ball to when the next pitch is thrown. at least it is when i count. i know i always bring this up (not that anyone pays attention) but if you go back and watch games from the 70s it is remarkable how fast they move.
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    im sort of ambivalent on the shift. i dont like it, but i can see thats its all part of modern strategy. i think the theory if the elimination of the shift is that if you do it, more balls hit will result in more base hits.
  15. buddha
    as expected, the supremes vote to uphold tsarnaev's death sentence. thomas gets the opinion because he's a big death penalty guy. always seems to write them. libs as usual in dissent with breyer writing it because he always seems to write dissents in death penalty cases. breyer writes to support the government in preventing its people from testifying in a torture case based on "state secrets." gorsuch writes a pretty good dissent joined by sotomayor. gorsuch and sotomayor???? together????? somebody tell nina totenburg.
  16. buddha
    well, i want it at 15 seconds...that's an extra 10-12 minutes a game. lol. and the point of getting rid of the shift, large bases, etc, is to get the ball in play more which would hopefully reduce the number of walks and foul balls. when teams came to the conclusion that the most effecient way to win was to take pitches, walk, and hit home runs, the game became immesurably slower. if they can make it easier to win another way thst involves speed, putting the ball in play, and running, then maybe it will change.
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    honestly, i dont care either. except the pitch clock. i want to be able to watch a 2-230 hour game again.
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    they can "believe" it all they want, i dont think theyre correct. and it doesnt do anything to create a floor where teams like the pirates or rays have to pay salaries. look, this current system is a great deal for the owners now that they've finally figured out how to manipulate it properly. the players seem to have this visceral reaction to a "salary cap" of any kind. as long as it comes with a revenue split % and forces more revenue sharing with the owners they should take it. and i hate salary caps in principal but it would solve a lot of this nonsense.
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    i dont know how you address it in baseball because the revenues between teams are so different because of the media deals. the only way to really address it and make all teams pay salary money is to have a real cap and floor, but the players will never accept that. then have more revenue sharing and a guaranteed amount of revenue going to the players every year, but the owners wont accept that.
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    the red wings should issue an apology for having the Russian Five on their team.
  21. buddha
    the goal was to get more action back in the game and to incentivize teams to do more running and less station to station three true outcome baseball. the theory being if they make the bases just a little bit bigger, it will incentivize teams to steal bases as well as putting the ball in play more becsuse it will be easier to get things like infield singles, etc (because the bases will be a little closer to each other).
  22. buddha
    they already cut that from 2 45 to 2 15. and that's not the real delay. the real delay is the delay in between pitches.
  23. buddha
    maybe you should start a gofundme page for poor schoop, considering he's only made more money in one year than 99% of the people on earth will earn in a lifetime? how does one live on $31 million in career earnings? i just dont understand the heartlessness of the american public in their disdain for the troubles of the working man.
  24. buddha
    https://www.sny.tv/articles/sources-four-mlb-owners-against-leagueproposal-complicates-compromise
  25. buddha
    wishful thinking. that said, when the bears traded up from 3 to 2 to get mitchell "biscuit" trubisky, they gave up #3, #67, #111, and a future third. so a first, a third, a fourth, and a future third. that may be too rich, but that would be around the expectation for a move up to #2.
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