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  1. Frayed Knot
    It's Patriots Day/Marathon Monday in Boston which of course means morning baseball at Fenway. Rain had other ideas however and after several interruptions they're only in the 7th inning some five hours after scheduled first pitch. Ohtani started but went only two on account of the rain. Still hitting though on account of the rule made specifically for him where he simply morphed into a DH. He's 2/4 with a run scored. 5-3 Angels in bottom 7
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    I don't think it could have to this degree. I was long on the record here with saying that my preferred road was to require minor leaguers to learn under clock rules and eventually those who came up without constant stepping-out and other time-wasting tics would eventually become the norm so that dead time could be excised without a clock. But MLB simply pretended this wasn't problem for far too long until suddenly deciding that drastic action was their only choice. And all this is still without my two favorite targets: a further reduction of permitted dugout-to-mound visits plus an elimination of additional warmup pitches for quicker in-inning pitching changes, both of which could have at least partially reduced the dependency on a pitch timer. But the results so far have been beyond anything I expected -- games 2:40 and under have gone from 12% of all 9-inning games played to 60% -- and it's entirely due to taking a handful of seconds out of something that happens 250 or more times per game.
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    So there have been 215 nine-inning games played to date this season. Six (2.8%) have run longer than 3:10 In 2017 that percentage was just shy of 40% meaning that, on days with a full schedule on tap, MLB averaged six games >3:10 per day.
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    Must have been tempting to take there on 3-1 but much tougher to hit w/two strikes.
  5. Frayed Knot
    We need VogelBBach to come through here.
  6. Frayed Knot
    Give Yaca a bonus for getting out of that mess.
  7. Frayed Knot
    Can't start this inning by walking Kemp ... but he does anyway.
  8. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: I like to think a foul back to the screen can be a sac fly here. Especially if no one remembers to cover the plate.
  9. Frayed Knot
    Frayed Knot wrote: Well, preventing the insurance run was a thing. Now we'll find out how big a thing. REALLY big as it turns out.
  10. Frayed Knot
    Well, preventing the insurance run was a thing. Now we'll find out how big a thing.
  11. Frayed Knot
    Today for Curtiss the extra S is for Suck.
  12. Frayed Knot
    Is there a particular reason why Marte hasn't been running hard today? Once earlier and then again on the GiDP ball.
  13. Frayed Knot
    =metirish post_id=122493 time=1681675450 user_id=72] Game delayed according to an ESPN notification, didn't say why
  14. Frayed Knot
    "STRIKE FOUR AND THE GAME IS OVER!!
  15. Frayed Knot
    I'm with Gary in thanking the A's for the Sac Bunt strategy.
  16. Frayed Knot
    Robertson in to try and make the skinny little run stand up.
  17. Frayed Knot
    NYY announcer botches a HR call... and it's not John Sterling! Instead it was Michael Kay earlier today crediting Giancarlo Stanton with a "long home run" on a shot that went off the wall for a double.
  18. Frayed Knot
    Frayed Knot wrote: I know that Francisco is Venezuelan rather than Puerto Rican, but I wonder if his choice of #4 (assuming it was his) is a nod to Yadier. Acc to a story told in the booth a few days ago, Alvarez and Molina did have more than a few lessons/sessions over this past winter so my above speculation might be more true than I realized when making it.
  19. Frayed Knot
    1) Sigmund Freud 2) Don & Phil - one can start the other can close. It doesn't matter in which order, they're interchangable [media=youtube]tbU3zdAgiX8[/media] 3) John Lennon [media=youtube]K8poht52GAs[/media] 4) Debbie Harry [media=youtube]F2U2BmJ9m-Q[/media] 5) Mama Cass [media=youtube]wtTVsfBnyRE[/media]
  20. Frayed Knot
    Senga had the good sense to pick a good night to have his worst stateside outing to date.
  21. Frayed Knot
    I think the game took over three hours even in 'Fast Forward' mode.
  22. Frayed Knot
    The bad news is that, despite all the baserunners, we've notched just two hits w/RiSP The good is that those two have resulted in 7 runs
  23. Frayed Knot
    This is not exactly a scintillating game.
  24. Frayed Knot
    I would be SHOCKED!! if MLB was completely devoid of cigarette smokers. Fewer than in the past? Shit yeah. But none ... out of 800 some players? No way.
  25. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: ... Center Field appears to be where the fun is, because that's the province Esteury Ruíz. Esteury is a swift and slender young Dominican with a lot of Mickey Rivers in his game. It would be even better if the two were combined and he became named Esteury Rivers.
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