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  1. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I like that Clemson lefty. He's the kinda guy Omar would have drafted 1st and debuted the next week. Also digging Rowsdey's hot pants
  2. Johnny Lunchbucket
    God love him, but doncha wish Pete could somehow port this desperate hunger for victory he exhibits here into more regular season magic. I know it's not the same thing. Love the covers but I'm already prepping my argument that a home-run hitting contest isn't that newsworthy
  3. Johnny Lunchbucket
    They don't even have footage of him, that's a good sign!
  4. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Appreciative given the struggles of the offense and the schedule and the injuries but not like, overly jazzed. They reached a peak of 10 over then faltered. 10 over needs to be the floor not the ceiling
  5. Johnny Lunchbucket
    luv u Backpack Girl
  6. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I'm glad we got him and Kumar Disco
  7. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Even Conforto can hit this palooka
  8. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Books
  9. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Recker... talks. A lot
  10. Johnny Lunchbucket
    That may be true. But like your efficiency remark above, centralization is a thing that tends to stay. Now, a competing a big league is what you often describe
  11. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Rushin is an incredibly clever writer. I like to interpret how he pieces together his stuff. I'd guess it somehow started with that quote and then he built around it backwards and forwards, found a few more details (they both worked in casinos) and the parallels, expressed them with this inner singsong-y joke track that's embedded in everything he writes and imparts the message that you needn't take the comparison too seriously, but its something this one funny looking guy did. That is incredible skill.
  12. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Bryant could be a guy, for sure
  13. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Edgy MD wrote: Here you go. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/foul-balls-are-the-pace-of-play-problem-nobodys-talking-about/This 2019 study supports your thesis. I remember reading that now that you posted it. That's scary because the only way baseball can fix that specific development is to go to a three-ball walk. (Or, shudder, two-strike strikeout). Or another way to fix that, and I hope I'm not giving MLB any more crazy ideas, is to count the foul ball with two strikes as a strike. This would contribute to the defense advantages. Take away a ball!
  14. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I don't know this for sure but it's more than that. I'd bet more way foul balls are hit, and still more harmlessly go into the stands, than at any point in the history of the game, because the pitchers even if they take too long between pitches and the batters have more padding and gloves to adjust between every pitch, are throwing nastier, harder to hit stuff than ever. The game's skills are testing the limits of its rules on every delivery.
  15. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I agree with all that, and also, as been advanced here before, curtailing or eliminating on-mound warmups from entering relievers. But even then, is it enough? Is my 3 balls rule too radical? That's a weird change I'd like to see experiments with
  16. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Games ARE too long today, and it's not just sportswriters who think so. It's a baseball thing, but it's also a baseball's-place-in-society-over-the-longer-term thing. We have to stop debating that. Rob Manfred may be an asshole but I believe he is trying to act for the longer-term health of the sport by adjusting it to how the society consumes a crowded field of entertainment options within the context of how the game has evolved (players are so good at baseball today it's maxed-out it's gameplay). We wouldn't be talking about any of this if this wasn't the case.
  17. Johnny Lunchbucket
    3 Balls for a Walk: Positives: --saves a lot of time (theoretically?) --saves a lot of pitches (probably?) --"levels" the pitcher-hitter confrontation at the heart of the sport (a 2-2 pitch is no longer advantage pitcher) --likely heightens offense --better than increasing the number of strikes for same effect --can be positioned as a "fairness" initiative and accompany the introduction of robo-strike zones --can accompany reversal of other rules changes that aren't as effective and/or stupider Negs: --interferes with tradtition (but only since the 1890s) --likely to result in a shitload more walks which could increase game times --will fuck up every record --might require even more tinkering, for example, 2x "called" strikes
  18. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Pillar joins Mike Cameron in the elite club of guys with broken faces who also win monthly Schaefer recognition
  19. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Edgy MD wrote: I don't think that's likely so. I think giving people less for their buck is the sort of change that tends to stick. That's very true. I can in fact imagine a near-future in which all games are scheduled for 7 innings. People'll howl, but they could soften the blow by positioning it as, you play up to 9 innings of real baseball and the 10th begins the Magic Runner bullshit. That would preserve a modicum of heritage. As I've said I wouldn't recommend this but you could see it. The other radical rules compromise you might consider? 3 balls for a walk. This topic deserves a split
  20. Johnny Lunchbucket
    I'd prefer baseball like God intended but 7-inning DHs to me are a far smaller offense than magic runners. It's a big deal now because the Mets have been so unlucky when it comes to weather and covid. After all in theory any and every game is a 5-inning affair under existing rules and nobody popped a vein calling it an abomination. Also, games are way too long and 2 in one day is a lot. There's no arguing that
  21. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Yeah it's really coming down hard right now. Just momentarily lost power while typing that
  22. Johnny Lunchbucket
    You guys may have seen this but just nightmarish news for Howard Johnson, whose 2-year-old grandson was accidentally backed over by a riding mower driven by his son. He's raising funds on the Twitter, kid lost his foot. Can you imagine that hell as a dad or a dad of a dad? Jeez
  23. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Smith runs like he doesn't have toes
  24. Johnny Lunchbucket
    McCann avoided hitting into a double and triple play in the same turn!
  25. Johnny Lunchbucket
    Fortunately we'll get that run right back. I predict
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