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I did in 2005 or 2006.  I wouldn't say it's chaotic but it can be a wait.  You line up out in the OF, on the ramp that goes underground below the centerfield concourse.  Then you walk out along the tunnel in RF to home plate.   I believe they run from 1st to home, that keeps things organized so you don't have collisions at the plate.  THen you walk back up to the concourse from an area by the dugout.  

I'm not opposed to that but it is a side effect and if the intent is to make them a democratic seat, under the guise of racial equality, rather than siply minority represented (which is a key difference to me) then the overall effect may be negated.  

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

The “second leadoff hitter” at #9 does make sense for some situations, maybe against good starters or anticipated pitching duels, although a team probably wouldn’t want to put a remarkably better hitter #9 behind the worst hitter at #8 every game, since that would result in about 18-20 more ABs for the worst hitter (or more likely collection of worst hitters) over the course of a whole season.

I was being sarcastic by the way

Some coaches and managers like doing this.  Leyland would sub a guy into the order slot of the guy they're replacing.   Trammell did his Sunday lineup.  

Yes, and that's also an unintended consequence to making districts comply with US Civil Rights/Voting Rights laws.  To "guarantee" a blue seat by making it bluer you make neighboring districts redder.  So instead of a generally reliable blue seat and a swing district you get a locked blue seat and a pink seat nearby.

13 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

I hate gerrymandering as well and would love for some national consensus to emerge on the subject. But absent that, it's not clear to me why it should be the expectation that one side shoulder the responsibility for shunning the practice while it is assumed that the other side is just gonna do whatever they want and gerrymandering like crazy. After all, that is how this started, an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting in Texas.

The other thing I would say... As a current resident of a Dem gerrymandered state (IL), the complaints from last night by VA Rs are nothing new. However, during the last redistricting cycle, the GOP in the state I used to live in (TX) took a meat axe to the only competitive State Senate district in the state (centered around Fort Worth and Arlington) and drew it to be about 25 points more Republican, with completely illogical borders. Essentially drew my State Senator at the time out of existence.

Until the party comes out in favor of some national consensus on how to draw lines, my assumption is that they're all fine with Texas doing it, or Florida or North Carolina, and only give a **** when it affects them. I'll have more sympathy when they start to shun the practice altogether

Yep.  play the game as it's played by the opposition not how you think it should be played.

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

i couldn’t watch this one, but looks like Kieder recovered after a bad innings and kept them in it. But 7 h 2 bb, for DeJesus to get 4 outs? What does a guy have to do get pulled around here? 

If DeJesus didn't throw the 3rd out away after having him picked off... it's a different game.  At that point AJ just said "Screw it...."

We left in that inning.  My younger son was with me and he typically goes to bed at 8 so he was already ready.

7 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

or second baseman.  The left fielder batted third.  He had the highest batting average and a lot of doubles.  The clean-up hitter was the big slow slugging first baseman.  

The #5 hitter is the same as the #4 hitter but the better one bats 4th.  And the #9 hitter is the 'secondary' leadoff hitter.  The same kind of player as the leadoff guy but maybe a 2nd year player or some other trait that knocks him down a notch.  He's gotta "set the table" once the game gets into the middle innings.  The 8 hitter is the worst guy... your Gerald Laird or Adam Everett's of the world.

and also a political stunt.  "oppose this?  Ok.  You hate christians and religion. Let's write the ad copy out of that"

Their purpose isn’t teaching or expression. It’s just to bully.  

2 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

I’m suppossing this is a Detroit area weather maven. 

Yes. From Fox 2. 

1 hour ago, IdahoBert said:

Two different weather apps I have are predicting different moderate possibilities of showers so I’m going to be depending upon driveway reports from those of you who live in the promised land. 

According to my girl Stephanie the system is breaking up and moving southwest so if Detroit gets anything it won’t be a big deal or last long.  Unless she was talking just to me?

It goes back to when they played Kokomo the day Brian Wilson died.

The Brewers are 12-9 and in last place.

half of htem had a pack of smokes on them and nobody cared

Rob Deer was better than conventional wisdom portrays him. 

59 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

The main races start at 9:37am for the men and 9:47am for the women.  They'll have finished long before the game ends. 

The general public waves start at 10 and continue 11:21.

FWIW, I typically leave the regent races blank on my ballot as I don't know them and I don't really care.

Maklid beat out Acker, who had his own issues to deal with....

10 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

What's the point of starting the game at 11am?  The marathon is going to interfere with any day game so why not just have the game at the normal 1pm start? 

Its not about interference, it's the opposite. It's so fans can experience both.  The idea is fans can leave the game and about a mile away to see people finish.

I picked up a couple of nosebleeds for my me and my son tonight.  Only game this round I could probably make. 

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Playing in front of 8000 people in Toledo is much different than playing in your ML debut in historic Fenway Park in front of 35,000 fans. That really can't be disputed.

McGonigle’s first ML game was in San Diego in front of 45,000 fans. He had 4 hits. 

52 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

And he wouldn't be nervous in his ML debut. Every game is the same, it's all just a baseball game.

I’m glad they didn’t have the attitude for Kevin McGonigle. 

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Yeah, sure. Fenway Park on a Friday Night on national TV is the same as a Wednesday night in Tampa or Cleveland. Sure thing.

Where the game is broadcast is irrelevant to their playing. The only consideration I’d give on a delay would be his travel situation 

saw a lot of references to the end of the show on how important it was to see two men talk and deal with mental health and trauma.