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[A Boy Named Seo]

The last couple of nights, position players have taken the mound to do some mop-up work like they do sometimes. Two evenings ago it was Brett Phillips (who also made a killer sliding catch) and last night, Dee Strange-Gordon.



The thing lately seems to be for our entertaining fake pitchers to just lob 42-mile per hour meatballs up there. Why not try and cook that 76-mile per hour heater past 'em? Seems the eephus would lose effect if they're all eephuses (eephi?).



If it pleases the forum, I'd like to enter into the evidence the eminently enjoyable Brett Philips:



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And I'd also like to submit a video of Dee Strange-Gordon nearly killing our poor Travis d'Arnaud:



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[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I agree that I'd like to see emergency pitchers more willing to let it rip, but I otherwise applaud the spirit Phillips brought to the mound.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Yeah, agreed on Phillips. If the point is to lighten the mood for the team that's getting their arses kicked, then I bet this routine absolutely works. It probably works (a little) for the fans of that team, too. I just wonder if it's any better than trying to get dudes out with a little smoke.

[Edgy MD]

I just think the first time a guy who walks away with a little tendonitis, the manager will get fired for allowing him to wing it in there semi-hard.



But guys throw harder than those pitches in their defensive warmups before each inning, so if a non-pitcher hurt himself on the mound, it really just seem to be bad luck to me.



I mean, the one case I can think of when it went down like that is José Canseco, and I think we can agree that that guy had karma coming at him no matter where he was 24-7.