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Like you said, HBP should slowly start to creep up to the normal rate given regular season injuries. I'm pretty sure you're on point with that prediction given the large sample and piling up injuries, but I'll play the waiting game. I honestly think they should just juice the fucking balls again.

Yeah I think you're onto something with this as far as pitchers bullshitting the safety argument. I don't have a source because I heard it on the radio, but supposedly HBPs are at an all time high this year. It's crazy you mention Percival, and I believe it, but I thought this was a relatively...

I'm totally willing to be proven wrong, but I'm almost certain the rosin bag is still on the mound. From my understanding, the shit with the spider tack and whatnot started with the major velocity movement in pitching 10-15 years ago. Like you mentioned with injuries, pitchers were just...

The Angels clubhouse guy getting fired was terrible, and part of me hopes he sues the league. I've thought about it a bit over the last month or so, and I think MLB just needs to mass produce an acceptable grip substance for all teams, using the same chemists teams are employing. Idk how you...

Fuck I'm rewatching Magnolia right now. Frank TJ Mackey is by far my favorite Tom Cruise role. He's such a great actor and the action hero shit he's been doing lately really understates his range.

Been watching Generation Kill the last couple of nights. I'd love to hear an actual veteran's take on the accuracy, since it's the second gulf war. As far as the entertainment, I definitely recommend it for anyone into war fiction.

Dunno if any Americans follow this thread, but Konrad de la Fuente looks like he's going to transfer to Marseille. I think it's a good move for him as a pro since he doesn't rate for Barcelona and should get playing time with Thauvin going to Mexico. It sucks that he fits best on the wing as we...

12 makes sense under their proposal. Top 6 conference winners and six at large teams with byes for the top four. Notre Dame is totally FUCKED under this and any such expansion proposal where conference winners get spots. CAN'T STAY INDEPENDENT FOREVER DOMERS!

I'm gonna double post here real quick just to post the Steve Ballmer hype man video: This dude owns the Clippers and lost his fucking mind as a hype-man for Microsoft shareholders like two decades ago. He's probably my favorite owner because he still brings that little league dad energy.

I thiiink that Texas going Harden is more scorned Rockets fans than Mavs and Spurs fans, since Harden never beat either team in the playoffs iirc (lost to the Spurs one year). #13 is going in the rafters in Toyota Center once Harden retires though, so my fellow forlorn Rox fans better get the...

Lol I'm an Astros fan (so sorry) and Cole fucking went from a mediocre to above average starter in Pittsburgh to a Cy Young winner over fucking Verlander in a year (the year after we won the chip) with a sick four-seamer. Steinbrenny gave him the bag. Good for those guys. We used that cash to...

Supposedly they're going to destroy the foreign substances in the next couple of weeks (the pitcher puts the lotion and pine tar upon the fingers or else he gets the hook). I just dont see that fucking happening midseason.

Lol funny you mention Greinke. I totally misread @BSC's original comment and have this shit lined up.

I definitely get the timing thing, given that these dudes are trained to smoke 98+ MPH fastballs. Fucking BP is like 80+ MPH fastballs. Given that training, I think I might fucking whiff on a 40 MPH curve, but at least I'd swing the bat if it's center cut.

This is a position player pitching and the hitter didn't whiff totally on top of it, but it still cracks me up. I'm a dude in poor shape and I would absolutely lace a pitch like this into left field. I've fucking done it multiple times in beer league softball. Be better, MLB hitters.

Dude I'm going to blow my fucking brains out if the Rockets drop to 5th in the lottery and thus forfeit their pick to OKC and get stuck with Miami's pick at 18. 52.1% chance we keep the pick though, so I guess it was worth one year of shitty Westbrook in exchange for the ageless Chris Paul. At...

Contrary to my current username, I'll still contend that Mad Men was better, but it's 1A and 1B for me. After that, I probably rank Deadwood, The Wire, Breaking Bad and The Americans in no particular order. I've watched an absolute fuckload of serial dramas over the past decade and what really...

The thing about the play that sticks out to me is how nonchalant Pittsburgh's first baseman was initially when Baez reversed course. He knew he had the force play and Baez was dead to rights, tag or not. No idea how he lost the plot sometime after that, but not knowing the number of outs could...

This is going to be exactly the same as the other thread except with actual negrates and god willing, negrate spergouts. Fucking bravo, OP.

Went to my second AAA game this season Monday night. Cody Bellinger was doing a rehab assignment for the OKC Dodgers so that was cool even though he went 0-3. I also got to see an inside the park homerun for the first time ever live, but it was only because Steven Souza absolutely fucking ate...