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I watched the Braves feed. You guys should be psyched you got to see Lee's Toyota commercials.

Hi, I'm Michael Pineda, and I just pitched my New York Yankees to big 4-1 win over the rival Red Sox, and I... HEY! Why's that camera pointing at my hand?! Get that guy out of here!! [fimg=650]http://gamedayr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/michael-pineda-pine-tar-hand.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=650]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1752921.1397181795!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/yankees.jpg[/fimg]

The reason we won this game was in the title of this thread. Or more specifically, what wasn't in the title of this thread.

What I've got, you've got to give it to Ione! Saw her in the movie and her dad was John Mahoney! What I've got here is a swingin' eighties actress! You front a band in Hollywood, it gives you special access!

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Friggin sweet. If I'm Fredi Gonzalez, I'm flipping over the buffet table tonight. have you seen his gut?, he ain't flipping that spread. "Get the Hell away from that table! You sucky sucks don't deser... OOOH! Mini-pizzas!"

He's just dropping her off at the Early Burnout Young Actresses of the Eighties Poker Game. He was probably there to make a play for Jamie Gertz.

Valverde sure makes me feel better about my gut.

I can't haven't even figured out what kind of pitches Grandy even likes yet. Unless "balls" count. He seems to be real confused up there.

Careful. You don't want to get too affectionate with the Farn. [youtube:2h9fku1m]9mt0_0k40t4[/youtube:2h9fku1m]

Murphy sure likes to park one between the outfielders, doesn't he?

Not a great game for Mejia, but he's shown some heart hanging in there. d'Arnaud's hit the ball hard more often than that. I'm not tossing him back.

It's 2014. Isn't it time you consign that war chant into the realm of "things I used to do that mortify me when I think about it now"?

Wright's hit was the first with RiSP Hale has allowed in his four start career? How do the Braves find/make these guys?

Heck, wouldn't it be something if Lagares is for real and actually spends a nice swatch of time hitting like a middle-of-the-order-hitter?

batmagadanleadoff wrote: You're a jackass. He's a deep and thoughtful man. Strong of character, moderate of appetite. Generous in his relationships and reasoned in his positions.

My issues weren't technical. They remain, as usual with these thingies, writing that's both incoherent and uninspired. I don't get how this is missed. It's one thing when these films are composed on a storyboard. It's another when they are composed in the editing room. I find myself watching a scene, understanding where they are trying to get to, and re-writing the dialogue in my head as it happens. Technically, these things tend to be brilliant, even when flawed, but all so meaningless.

Yeah, and now 4-9 with three walks: .444 / .583 / .778 // 1.361. You know the Japanese teams must be clamoring for him. A Bondsonian start.

Silver was responding to this blog by Joe Posnanski, the nut graff being: Henry Aaron was not a great home run hitter. To call him that diminishes him. Frank Howard was a great home run hitter. Harmon Killebrew was a great home run hitter. Reggie Jackson and Ralph Kiner were great home run hitters. Henry Aaron was a great HITTER � any qualifier put before that word cheapens his genius. Henry Aaron�s singular achievement is that he was great EVERY SINGLE YEAR from 1955 to 1973. That�s 19 consecutive seasons without anything resembling a down season. There really isn�t a record quite like it in baseball history.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Down by 4, on the road, 2 outs, bases empty, 8th inning isn't an ideal situation for any pinch hitter. Sounds like a great "Let's get Q an AB" situation.

Nate Silver does some number crunching and suggests that Hank Aaron would be a Hall of Fame player if he never hit a home run. Amazingly, he starts from the assumption that all his career homers would fall for singles. If all of his homers had been singles, Aaron would still have his 3,771 hits. Instead of being the second-best home-run hitter of all time, he�d be the third-best singles hitter of all time, after Ty Cobb and Pete Rose. His RBI total would have gone way down; based on the number of runs that Aaron knocked in on home runs and singles throughout his career, I estimate that he�d have 1,232 of them rather than 2,297. But 1,232 isn�t a shabby total; it would rank Aaron 141st all time, in the general vicinity of Derek Jeter, Edgar Martinez and George Sisler. He�d still be a lifetime .305 hitter and have a .374 on-base average. Silver's a genius and all, and I enjoy the alternative history, but there would be some unaccounted-for consequences to him not hitting any homers (while gaining no bump in doubles and triples). His career playing time would likely drop somewhat precipitously, and his walks would be harder to come by.

Shea, on the other hand...

Gave proof through the night! That our flag was still... OH, CRAP!

Done as in, "I'm winding down my tenure with this team."

I think he's more or less said he's done. He's said he expects to do about two more seasons, hopefully to enjoy some of the fruit of what he's planted. Here's hoping his team stays mostly in place to carry on his work.

It was fun to watch them go through a search and interview process when everybody and his sister knew that if Alderson was in the application pool, Anderson was going to get the job. Does anybody even remember who the other candidates were? It was like "Get me three other candidates, none of them with experience in the big chair PLEASE, and make sure, you know, one of them is a minority." I was just focused on them getting the process over with quickly so they could get started on cleaning up the mess.